SSL Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring SSL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 83 82
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +56
Permanent jobs citing SSL 5 11 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.61% 0.72% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.76% 4.72% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,225 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £39,188 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £43,750 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £64,500 £47,813 £38,750
90th Percentile £67,950 £48,750 -
East of England median annual salary £27,500 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -38.89% +20.00% +15.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 181 233 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 22.07% 15.26% 24.61%
Number of salaries quoted 85 123 111
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £22,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £47,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +26.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £73,750
East of England median annual salary £42,085 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.83% +17.65% -10.53%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in Hertfordshire

SSL
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SSL

SSL
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SSL in Hertfordshire

SSL
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. 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
Hemel Hempstead +11 2 - - 1
Stevenage - 1 £57,500 - 7
SSL
East of England

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) FTP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) Network Security
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) HTTP
3 2 (40.00%) IPsec
3 2 (40.00%) SMTP
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) VLAN
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Support
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) EDI
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (20.00%) CSOC
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (40.00%) CRM
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (40.00%) ERP
1 2 (40.00%) Logistics
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Deep Packet Inspection
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Network Packet Capture
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Blue Coat
1 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) F5
1 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Darktrace
2 1 (20.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk