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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 176 197
Rank change year-on-year +23 +21 +39
Permanent jobs citing SSL 18 10 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.32% 0.30% 0.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.09% 1.85% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 18 6 48
10th Percentile £37,500 - £37,850
25th Percentile £38,500 £65,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £75,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +42.86% +105.88%
75th Percentile £48,625 £80,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 - -
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 440 541 935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.78% 16.11% 13.55%
Number of salaries quoted 294 235 680
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £28,475
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,000 £70,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +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 4 June 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 4 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
Oxfordshire - 7 £72,500 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 6 £41,250 - 4
Berkshire +3 5 £39,000 -48.00% 2
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 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) Entra ID
3 6 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (22.22%) Cloudflare
5 3 (16.67%) Google Workspace
6 1 (5.56%) AWS
6 1 (5.56%) IaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (83.33%) DNS
2 8 (44.44%) DHCP
2 8 (44.44%) VLAN
2 8 (44.44%) VPN
3 5 (27.78%) Firewall
3 5 (27.78%) HTTP
4 4 (22.22%) BGP
4 4 (22.22%) FTP
4 4 (22.22%) ICMP
4 4 (22.22%) IPsec
4 4 (22.22%) MPLS
4 4 (22.22%) Network Security
4 4 (22.22%) SD-WAN
4 4 (22.22%) SNMP
4 4 (22.22%) SSH
4 4 (22.22%) WAN
5 3 (16.67%) VoIP
5 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
6 1 (5.56%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Analyst
1 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 6 (33.33%) Incident Analyst
1 6 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) IT Support
1 6 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 6 (33.33%) Security Incident Analyst
1 6 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
1 6 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Network Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Network Security Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior IT Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior IT Support
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) OAuth
1 4 (22.22%) SAML
2 2 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cyber Defence
1 4 (22.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (22.22%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Driving Licence
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Linux
3 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (16.67%) Mac OS
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.56%) FreeBSD
5 1 (5.56%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (38.89%) Project Delivery
4 6 (33.33%) Analytics
4 6 (33.33%) ITIL
4 6 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 4 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
5 4 (22.22%) Service Management
5 4 (22.22%) SIEM
6 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
6 3 (16.67%) Data Privacy
6 3 (16.67%) High Availability
6 3 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (5.56%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (5.56%) Open Source
7 1 (5.56%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 7 (38.89%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
4 3 (16.67%) Degree
4 3 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (22.22%) NIST
3 3 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (11.11%) ISO 22301
4 2 (11.11%) ISO 9001
5 1 (5.56%) NCSC
5 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) KVM
3 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) CASB
1 4 (22.22%) FortiGate
1 4 (22.22%) Graylog
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Proxmox
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) Cisco
3 4 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 4 (22.22%) VMware
4 3 (16.67%) Apple
4 3 (16.67%) Datto
4 3 (16.67%) Google
4 3 (16.67%) SonicWALL
4 3 (16.67%) Veeam