SSL Job Trends in the East of England

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring SSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 145 214
Rank change year-on-year -32 +69 +20
Permanent jobs citing SSL 8 2 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.14% 0.078% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.03% 0.60% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £32,625 £37,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -10.53% +35.71%
75th Percentile £65,938 £46,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £47,750 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 requiring communications or computer networking skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 777 336 999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.12% 13.07% 17.06%
Number of salaries quoted 277 265 770
10th Percentile £27,100 £28,125 £24,984
25th Percentile £30,500 £34,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -17.48% +8.42% -5.00%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SSL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

SSL job vacancy trend in the East of England

SSL
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SSL

SSL
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for SSL in the East of England

SSL
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex - 5 £67,500 - 3
Hertfordshire -19 3 £37,500 -21.05% 3
SSL
England

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Advertising
4 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (25.00%) Retail
5 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) IT Support
1 2 (25.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Graduate
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Graduate
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) JSON
1 3 (37.50%) OAuth
1 3 (37.50%) REST
1 3 (37.50%) SOAP
1 3 (37.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) API Integration
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
1 3 (37.50%) Fintech
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ticket Management
2 2 (25.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 2 (25.00%) Canary Deployment
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Key Management
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Argo
1 2 (25.00%) Istio
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Blue Coat
3 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Darktrace
3 1 (12.50%) F5
3 1 (12.50%) LogRhythm
3 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto