SSL Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 191 163 178
Rank change year-on-year -28 +15 -4
Permanent jobs citing SSL 10 28 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.25% 0.58% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.76% 4.55% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9 28 10
10th Percentile £43,000 £38,875 £25,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £41,700
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +19.90% -24.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile - £54,125 £53,875
South East median annual salary £80,000 £53,750 £48,000
% change year-on-year +48.84% +11.98% -14.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 567 616 683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.40% 12.78% 18.08%
Number of salaries quoted 262 337 485
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £74,900
South East median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% - +5.26%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the Thames Valley

SSL
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SSL

SSL
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for SSL in the Thames Valley

SSL
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -29 7 £75,000 +42.86% 3
Buckinghamshire -9 3 £45,000 +20.00%
SSL
South East

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (10.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (10.00%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Integration Specialist
1 6 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) AS400 Operator
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) AS400 Support
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) FHIR
2 3 (30.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) NHS
2 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (30.00%) IBM Storwize
3 2 (20.00%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) API Integration
2 4 (40.00%) Key Management
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Management
3 3 (30.00%) Proactive Management
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) HL7
1 6 (60.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Nessus
2 1 (10.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Juniper