Hybrid/Remote SSL Job Trends

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring SSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 380 442
Rank change year-on-year +16 +62 +74
Permanent jobs citing SSL 38 19 114
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.22% 0.15% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.01% 1.18% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 30 17 107
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £39,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +1.85% -16.92%
75th Percentile £77,424 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

SSL falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,892 1,612 4,436
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.13% 12.53% 14.10%
Number of salaries quoted 961 1,194 3,473
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -7.77%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SSL and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SSL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SSL

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SSL over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

SSL salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.53%) Tomcat
1 4 (10.53%) WebSphere
1 4 (10.53%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.63%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 20 (52.63%) AWS
2 12 (31.58%) Azure
3 10 (26.32%) SaaS
4 7 (18.42%) GCP
5 3 (7.89%) Google Workspace
6 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.63%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.63%) Serverless
7 1 (2.63%) Slack
7 1 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (44.74%) DNS
2 9 (23.68%) HTTP
2 9 (23.68%) VPN
3 8 (21.05%) Firewall
4 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
5 4 (10.53%) SMTP
5 4 (10.53%) VLAN
6 3 (7.89%) DHCP
6 3 (7.89%) FTP
6 3 (7.89%) Internet
6 3 (7.89%) LAN
6 3 (7.89%) SNMP
6 3 (7.89%) SSH
6 3 (7.89%) Telnet
6 3 (7.89%) WAN
6 3 (7.89%) Wireless
7 2 (5.26%) HTTPS
7 2 (5.26%) IPsec
7 2 (5.26%) SD-WAN
7 2 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) DB2
1 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) Git
3 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (44.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.53%) Banking
4 4 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.89%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.26%) Retail
7 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (13.16%) Junior
1 5 (13.16%) Site Engineer
1 5 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (10.53%) Applications Support
2 4 (10.53%) Architect
2 4 (10.53%) Developer
2 4 (10.53%) Head of Cybersecurity
2 4 (10.53%) Head of IT
2 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (10.53%) IT Support
2 4 (10.53%) Linux Support
3 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (7.89%) Senior
3 3 (7.89%) Senior Architect
3 3 (7.89%) Senior Technical Architect
3 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow Developer
3 3 (7.89%) Support Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Technical Architect
3 3 (7.89%) Unix Support
4 2 (5.26%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) LDAP
1 7 (18.42%) REST
2 4 (10.53%) JSON
2 4 (10.53%) LAPP Stack
2 4 (10.53%) OAuth
2 4 (10.53%) SOAP
2 4 (10.53%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (10.53%) XML
3 3 (7.89%) JDBC
3 3 (7.89%) SAML
3 3 (7.89%) Web Services
4 2 (5.26%) Kafka
5 1 (2.63%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Onboarding
2 5 (13.16%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.53%) Digital Media
3 4 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (10.53%) PKI
4 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
4 3 (7.89%) Security Posture
5 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.26%) iPad
5 2 (5.26%) iPhone
6 1 (2.63%) Anti-Piracy
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.63%) CMDB
6 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (42.11%) Windows
2 10 (26.32%) Linux
3 4 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (10.53%) Unix
3 4 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.26%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.26%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.63%) FreeBSD
5 1 (2.63%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) ITIL
2 9 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (18.42%) Computer Science
3 7 (18.42%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (15.79%) Agile
4 6 (15.79%) Incident Response
5 5 (13.16%) Change Management
5 5 (13.16%) Cloud Security
5 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (13.16%) Migration
5 5 (13.16%) Roadmaps
5 5 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (10.53%) Identity Management
6 4 (10.53%) IT Strategy
6 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
6 4 (10.53%) Network Architecture
6 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.53%) SIEM
6 4 (10.53%) Tech Ops
6 4 (10.53%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) SQL
3 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) CISSP
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 4 (10.53%) CEH
3 4 (10.53%) CISM
3 4 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.63%) CCIE
5 1 (2.63%) CCNP
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) SLA
2 5 (13.16%) GDPR
2 5 (13.16%) SOC 2
3 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (10.53%) NIST
4 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.63%) KVM
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (13.16%) Grafana
2 5 (13.16%) Prometheus
3 4 (10.53%) Terraform
4 3 (7.89%) Ansible
5 2 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.26%) Puppet
6 1 (2.63%) CASB
6 1 (2.63%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Splunk
2 6 (15.79%) IBM
2 6 (15.79%) ServiceNow
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.16%) SolarWinds
4 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
5 3 (7.89%) Google
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco
6 1 (2.63%) Meraki
6 1 (2.63%) Netskope
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle
6 1 (2.63%) SonicWALL
6 1 (2.63%) VMware