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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 175 192
Rank change year-on-year +13 +17 +45
Permanent jobs citing SSL 12 9 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.21% 0.26% 0.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.78% 1.68% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 46
10th Percentile £37,500 £53,750 £37,750
25th Percentile £38,250 £65,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £80,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -46.88% +52.38% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £62,500
90th Percentile £48,475 - -
South East median annual salary £42,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -32.00% +19.05% +41.89%

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 431 536 921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.58% 15.77% 14.13%
Number of salaries quoted 276 227 678
10th Percentile £27,875 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% +5.56%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

SSL job vacancy trend 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 21 May 2026.

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 21 May 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
Buckinghamshire +3 6 £41,250 -13.16%
Oxfordshire - 4 £42,500 - 2
Berkshire +9 2 £42,500 -46.88% 3
SSL
South East

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
4 4 (33.33%) Cloudflare
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (8.33%) AWS
6 1 (8.33%) Google Workspace
6 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) VLAN
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) DHCP
3 2 (16.67%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) HTTP
4 1 (8.33%) BGP
4 1 (8.33%) FTP
4 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
4 1 (8.33%) ICMP
4 1 (8.33%) IPsec
4 1 (8.33%) MPLS
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security
4 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (8.33%) SMTP
4 1 (8.33%) SNMP
4 1 (8.33%) SSH
4 1 (8.33%) VoIP
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
4 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Incident Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Security Incident Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) IT Support
2 4 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior IT Support
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 4 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) FreeBSD
4 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
4 1 (8.33%) OpenBSD
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (50.00%) Analytics
3 6 (50.00%) ITIL
3 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 4 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 4 (33.33%) Service Management
4 4 (33.33%) SIEM
5 2 (16.67%) High Availability
6 1 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Operations
6 1 (8.33%) Data Privacy
6 1 (8.33%) Innovative Thinking
6 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (8.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 1 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
6 1 (8.33%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (16.67%) ISO 22301
2 2 (16.67%) ISO 9001
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (8.33%) NIST
3 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) KVM
3 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Graylog
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) CASB
2 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Proxmox
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Apple
3 1 (8.33%) Datto
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) SonicWALL
3 1 (8.33%) Veeam