The first table below looks at the demand for SSL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SSL over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Kent region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Rank 90 69 96
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +27
Permanent jobs citing SSL 1 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.087% 0.422% 0.279%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.386% 1.754% 1.422%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 3
Average salary £27,500 £29,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.17% -22.66%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
All Communications & Networking
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
259 171 211
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 22.60% 24.05% 19.63%
Number of salaries quoted 219 160 178
Average salary £40,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.71% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £24,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £51,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SSL
South East

SSL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SSL across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Kent SSL Jobs Demand Trend

SSL
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SSL across the Kent region.

Kent SSL Salary Trend

SSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing SSL also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited SSL.

1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Internet
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) PHP
2 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) CentOS
3 2 (40.00%) nginx
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Memcached
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Apache
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) SLA
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (40.00%) FreeBSD
3 2 (40.00%) SMTP
3 2 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) HTTP
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) IPsec
3 2 (40.00%) Debian
3 2 (40.00%) OpenBSD

SSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing SSL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited SSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) Memcached
2 1 (20.00%) Ajax
2 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (20.00%) XHTML
2 1 (20.00%) DHTML
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Flash
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) XSL
2 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) nginx
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) WordPress
2 1 (20.00%) Joomla!
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (20.00%) DotNetNuke
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) Internet
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 2 (40.00%) SMTP
3 2 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) HTTP
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) IPsec
3 2 (40.00%) VRRP
3 2 (40.00%) VLAN
3 2 (40.00%) iSCSI
4 1 (20.00%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) CentOS
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) FreeBSD
1 2 (40.00%) Debian
1 2 (40.00%) OpenBSD
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (20.00%) Web Development
2 1 (20.00%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) VBScript
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (40.00%) Squid
3 1 (20.00%) Terminal Services
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
1 1 (20.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) SonicWALL
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix