SSL Job Trends in the South West

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring SSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 147 270
Rank change year-on-year -60 +123 -38
Permanent jobs citing SSL 4 11 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.052% 0.39% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.68% 2.68% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile - £37,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -4.76% +33.63%
75th Percentile £42,500 £51,875 £56,250
90th Percentile - £55,250 -
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 588 410 1,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.70% 14.70% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 350 289 941
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,575 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

SSL job vacancy trend in the South West

SSL
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SSL

SSL
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 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
Devon - 3 £40,000 -
Cornwall -10 1 - -
SSL
England

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DMZ
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
1 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (25.00%) Broadband
2 1 (25.00%) SSH
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) IT Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) BCP
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Key Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCNA
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) CrowdStrike
1 3 (75.00%) Dell
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Thales