SSL Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring SSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SSL over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 407 429 509
Rank change year-on-year +22 +80 +106
Permanent jobs citing SSL 25 155 153
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.46% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.80% 2.94% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 21 100 105
10th Percentile £26,250 £38,850 £39,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -13.60% +19.05%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,476 £88,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,875 -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £58,950
% change year-on-year +14.29% -10.94% +7.18%

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 3,109 5,274 4,765
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.95% 15.58% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,624 3,414 3,541
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,569
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SSL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SSL.

SSL salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SSL over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

SSL salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) IIS
1 6 (24.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (12.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.00%) CMS
3 1 (4.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) AWS
3 10 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (28.00%) Entra ID
5 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (20.00%) Power Automate
5 5 (20.00%) SaaS
5 5 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub
7 1 (4.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (4.00%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) VPN
3 7 (28.00%) BGP
3 7 (28.00%) OSPF
4 6 (24.00%) DNS
4 6 (24.00%) HTTP
4 6 (24.00%) IPsec
4 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
5 5 (20.00%) DMARC
5 5 (20.00%) LAN
5 5 (20.00%) SD-WAN
5 5 (20.00%) WAN
6 4 (16.00%) VoIP
7 3 (12.00%) EIGRP
7 3 (12.00%) FTP
7 3 (12.00%) Network Security
7 3 (12.00%) SSH
7 3 (12.00%) VLAN
7 3 (12.00%) Wireless
8 2 (8.00%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.00%) MySQL
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (4.00%) MariaDB
4 1 (4.00%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Log4Net
2 1 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Czech Language
2 5 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) IT Support
2 6 (24.00%) Administrator
2 6 (24.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) IT Administrator
3 5 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (8.00%) Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Network Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Network Operations Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) JSON
2 9 (36.00%) XML
3 7 (28.00%) SOAP
4 6 (24.00%) REST
5 4 (16.00%) YAML
6 2 (8.00%) 802.1X
6 2 (8.00%) Ajax
6 2 (8.00%) EDI
6 2 (8.00%) HTML
6 2 (8.00%) LAMP
6 2 (8.00%) LDAP
6 2 (8.00%) Loki
6 2 (8.00%) Middleware
7 1 (4.00%) .NET
7 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
7 1 (4.00%) CSS
7 1 (4.00%) EJB
7 1 (4.00%) JDBC
7 1 (4.00%) SAML
7 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (24.00%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (12.00%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (8.00%) Life Science
5 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (8.00%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (8.00%) Replication
6 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (4.00%) CMDB
6 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (4.00%) PKI
6 1 (4.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
2 7 (28.00%) Unix
2 7 (28.00%) Windows
3 2 (8.00%) AIX
3 2 (8.00%) CentOS
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.00%) Debian
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (32.00%) Project Management
3 7 (28.00%) CRM
3 7 (28.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (24.00%) Agile
4 6 (24.00%) Change Management
4 6 (24.00%) Customer Service
5 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.00%) Data Privacy
5 5 (20.00%) ITIL
5 5 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
5 5 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (16.00%) DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) Business Continuity Planning
7 2 (8.00%) Converged Infrastructure
7 2 (8.00%) Performance Monitoring
7 2 (8.00%) Presales
7 2 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (8.00%) Threat Detection
7 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) Java
3 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (20.00%) VBA
4 3 (12.00%) Python
5 2 (8.00%) AWK
5 2 (8.00%) C
5 2 (8.00%) C++
5 2 (8.00%) Korn
5 2 (8.00%) Perl
5 2 (8.00%) PHP
6 1 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) CCNP
2 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
4 2 (8.00%) CCNA
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) CCA
5 1 (4.00%) CISM
5 1 (4.00%) CISSP
5 1 (4.00%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) KVM
2 2 (8.00%) Postfix
2 2 (8.00%) Sendmail
3 1 (4.00%) Docker
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (8.00%) Ansible
3 2 (8.00%) Grafana
3 2 (8.00%) Nagios
3 2 (8.00%) Nessus
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (4.00%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) Cisco
2 7 (28.00%) Oracle
3 3 (12.00%) Citrix
3 3 (12.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (12.00%) SAP
3 3 (12.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.00%) Aruba
4 2 (8.00%) Avaya
4 2 (8.00%) F5
4 2 (8.00%) ForeScout
4 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (8.00%) IBM
4 2 (8.00%) Juniper
4 2 (8.00%) Okta
4 2 (8.00%) SevOne
4 2 (8.00%) Tenable
5 1 (4.00%) BMC
5 1 (4.00%) Salesforce