SSL Jobs in the South East

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 312 358
Rank change year-on-year +42 +46 +69
Permanent jobs citing SSL 24 82 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.26% 0.49% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.86% 2.97% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 20 66 24
10th Percentile £27,500 £36,250 £21,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £31,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +23.53% -32.00%
75th Percentile £67,188 £62,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £82,250 £63,750 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%

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 1,292 2,757 2,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.86% 16.40% 17.35%
Number of salaries quoted 773 1,884 1,480
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £76,025
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the South East

SSL
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SSL in the South East.

Salary trend for SSL in the South East

SSL
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in the South East over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SSL in the South East

SSL
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 10 May 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
Hampshire +64 11 £62,500 - 1
Thames Valley +22 8 £63,750 +21.43% 5
Berkshire +18 6 £80,000 +88.24% 3
West Sussex +41 4 £30,000 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £47,500 - 1
Home Counties - 1 £70,000 -
SSL
England

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (16.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) AWS
2 8 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (20.83%) Azure
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 4 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (16.67%) SaaS
4 4 (16.67%) Serverless
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (8.33%) Cloudflare
5 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) BGP
1 9 (37.50%) IPsec
1 9 (37.50%) OSPF
1 9 (37.50%) TCP/IP
1 9 (37.50%) VPN
2 8 (33.33%) Firewall
3 5 (20.83%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (20.83%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (20.83%) EIGRP
3 5 (20.83%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (20.83%) RIP
3 5 (20.83%) VXLAN
4 4 (16.67%) VoIP
5 2 (8.33%) DNS
5 2 (8.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Health Technology
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Technical Support
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Integration Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) JSON
1 4 (16.67%) YAML
2 2 (8.33%) FHIR
2 2 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (8.33%) NHS
2 2 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 4 (16.67%) Unix
3 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
3 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 6 (25.00%) Key Management
4 4 (16.67%) Capacity Management
4 4 (16.67%) Change Management
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (16.67%) Server Migrations
5 2 (8.33%) Analytics
5 2 (8.33%) API Integration
5 2 (8.33%) Cryptography
5 2 (8.33%) ITIL
5 2 (8.33%) Open Source
5 2 (8.33%) Security Operations
5 2 (8.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) C#
3 2 (8.33%) Go
3 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (70.83%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) CCNP
2 7 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (29.17%) DV Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) CCNA
3 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) HL7
1 2 (8.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Ansible
1 4 (16.67%) Nessus
1 4 (16.67%) Proxmox
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Graylog
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Cisco
2 6 (25.00%) Juniper
3 2 (8.33%) Apple
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Thales
4 1 (4.17%) VMware