SSL Jobs in the Thames Valley

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 193 252
Rank change year-on-year +22 +59 0
Permanent jobs citing SSL 8 50 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.24% 0.74% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.48% 5.21% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4 43 6
10th Percentile - £37,600 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £21,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £52,500 £22,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +133.33% -65.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £25,125
90th Percentile - - £29,750
South East median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +19.05% +23.53% -32.00%

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 540 960 946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.92% 14.28% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 216 676 532
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,375 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,688 £34,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,000 £57,813
90th Percentile £75,625 £69,750 £73,875
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SSL in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for SSL in the Thames Valley

SSL
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 May 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 12 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
Berkshire +9 6 £80,000 +88.24% 3
Buckinghamshire - 2 £47,500 - 1
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 4 (50.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (50.00%) Serverless
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (25.00%) Cloudflare
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Key Management
1 4 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) API Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Open Source
2 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (25.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) Go
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) HL7
1 2 (25.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Nessus
1 4 (50.00%) Proxmox
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Graylog
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (25.00%) Apple
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft