SSL Job Trends in the South East

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 243 313
Rank change year-on-year -27 +70 +46
Permanent jobs citing SSL 26 27 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.18% 0.35% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.16% 2.22% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 25 23 74
10th Percentile £37,900 £27,500 £36,625
25th Percentile £38,500 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +19.05% +41.89%
75th Percentile £49,000 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £98,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -8.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,206 1,218 2,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.28% 15.63% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 919 738 1,901
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £30,850 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,375 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

SSL job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SSL

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SSL in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Thames Valley +25 22 £42,500 -43.33% 3
Oxfordshire - 9 £72,500 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 7 £42,500 - 1
Berkshire +7 6 £39,000 -48.00%
Hampshire -41 3 £48,000 -23.20% 3
Surrey - 1 - - 1
SSL
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
2 3 (11.54%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) Entra ID
3 7 (26.92%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (19.23%) Cloudflare
5 4 (15.38%) AWS
5 4 (15.38%) Google Workspace
6 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.85%) IaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 19 (73.08%) DNS
2 14 (53.85%) VLAN
2 14 (53.85%) VPN
3 11 (42.31%) DHCP
4 9 (34.62%) BGP
4 9 (34.62%) Firewall
4 9 (34.62%) IPsec
4 9 (34.62%) SD-WAN
4 9 (34.62%) WAN
5 7 (26.92%) HTTP
5 7 (26.92%) SSH
6 6 (23.08%) FTP
6 6 (23.08%) ICMP
6 6 (23.08%) MPLS
6 6 (23.08%) Network Security
6 6 (23.08%) SNMP
7 4 (15.38%) VoIP
7 4 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (11.54%) Internet
9 1 (3.85%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.69%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Support Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) IT Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) IT Support
2 7 (26.92%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Security Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) SOC Analyst
3 6 (23.08%) Architect
3 6 (23.08%) Incident Analyst
3 6 (23.08%) Network Architect
3 6 (23.08%) Network Security Architect
3 6 (23.08%) Security Architect
3 6 (23.08%) Security Incident Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Senior IT Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior IT Support
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Support Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) OAuth
1 6 (23.08%) SAML
2 2 (7.69%) Web Services
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 5 (19.23%) Cyber Defence
2 5 (19.23%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (15.38%) Driving Licence
3 4 (15.38%) Onboarding
4 3 (11.54%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.85%) Cyberattack
6 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.85%) PKI
6 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Windows
2 8 (30.77%) Linux
3 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
4 4 (15.38%) Mac OS
4 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (11.54%) AIX
6 1 (3.85%) FreeBSD
6 1 (3.85%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (38.46%) ITIL
2 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (30.77%) Project Delivery
4 7 (26.92%) Analytics
4 7 (26.92%) Kalman Filter
4 7 (26.92%) Security Operations
5 6 (23.08%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 6 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
6 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (19.23%) Service Management
6 5 (19.23%) SIEM
7 4 (15.38%) Customer Service
7 4 (15.38%) Data Privacy
7 4 (15.38%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (11.54%) Client Onboarding
8 3 (11.54%) High Availability
8 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) PowerShell
2 8 (30.77%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) Go
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) CompTIA Security+
2 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
2 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (15.38%) DBS Check
4 4 (15.38%) Degree
4 4 (15.38%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (26.92%) NIST
3 5 (19.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (19.23%) SLA
4 4 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (7.69%) ISO 22301
5 2 (7.69%) ISO 9001
6 1 (3.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) Hyper-V
2 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) KVM
3 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) CASB
1 6 (23.08%) FortiGate
2 5 (19.23%) Graylog
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (15.38%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (11.54%) Netcool
5 1 (3.85%) Ansible
5 1 (3.85%) Proxmox
5 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) Cisco
3 6 (23.08%) Palo Alto
4 5 (19.23%) VMware
5 4 (15.38%) Apple
5 4 (15.38%) Datto
5 4 (15.38%) Google
5 4 (15.38%) SonicWALL
5 4 (15.38%) Veeam
6 3 (11.54%) Oracle
6 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
6 3 (11.54%) Snow
6 3 (11.54%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.85%) Thales