Secure Shell (SSH)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SSH skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SSH over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 867 896 989
Rank change year-on-year +29 +93 -201
Permanent jobs citing SSH 47 56 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.058% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.35% 0.36% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 42 27 112
10th Percentile £26,438 £30,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £30,438 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £67,250 £75,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £41,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year +30.91% -2.94% +6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SSH is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,526 15,491 22,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 15.91% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,761 11,859
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,900 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SSH in the UK

SSH
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SSH.

Salary trend for SSH in the UK

SSH
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSH over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SSH in the UK

SSH
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
England +65 47 £54,000 +13.68% 14
UK excluding London -17 33 £54,000 +30.91% 6
South East +9 16 £60,000 -9.43% 2
London +135 14 £51,250 -10.87% 7
Work from Home +65 13 £54,000 -1.82% 9
Midlands 0 9 £54,000 +13.68% 2
West Midlands +14 8 £54,000 +13.68% 1
East of England -2 5 £29,000 - 1
Yorkshire +74 3 £27,500 -11.29% 1
North of England +40 3 £27,500 -31.25% 1
East Midlands - 1 £34,000 - 1

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.26%) nginx
3 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.04%) AWS
2 14 (29.79%) Azure
3 9 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (14.89%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.26%) GCP
5 2 (4.26%) npm
5 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.26%) Yarn
6 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.13%) PaaS
6 1 (2.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 29 (61.70%) TCP/IP
2 22 (46.81%) SNMP
3 18 (38.30%) DNS
4 15 (31.91%) DHCP
5 11 (23.40%) HTTP
5 11 (23.40%) SMTP
6 10 (21.28%) FTP
6 10 (21.28%) SSL
6 10 (21.28%) Telnet
7 5 (10.64%) Internet
8 4 (8.51%) HTTPS
8 4 (8.51%) VLAN
8 4 (8.51%) VPN
9 3 (6.38%) 4G
9 3 (6.38%) 5G
9 3 (6.38%) LAN
9 3 (6.38%) WAN
9 3 (6.38%) Wireless
10 2 (4.26%) IPsec
10 2 (4.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (42.55%) MySQL
2 19 (40.43%) Relational Database
3 6 (12.77%) MariaDB
4 5 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.26%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.26%) Power BI
5 2 (4.26%) Redis
5 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (27.66%) Eclipse
2 6 (12.77%) Git
3 3 (6.38%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.38%) JIRA
3 3 (6.38%) JUnit
4 2 (4.26%) GitLab
4 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.51%) Marketing
5 2 (4.26%) Billing
5 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Electronics
6 1 (2.13%) Front Office
6 1 (2.13%) Games
6 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (40.43%) Senior
2 15 (31.91%) Support Engineer
3 13 (27.66%) Senior Support Engineer
3 13 (27.66%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 13 (27.66%) Senior Technical Support
3 13 (27.66%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
3 13 (27.66%) Technical Engineer
3 13 (27.66%) Technical Support
3 13 (27.66%) Technical Support Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Network Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) PHP Developer
7 4 (8.51%) IT Support
7 4 (8.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Data Centre Technician
8 3 (6.38%) Data Technician
8 3 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (38.30%) CSS
1 18 (38.30%) HTML
1 18 (38.30%) REST
1 18 (38.30%) SOAP
2 16 (34.04%) Web Services
2 16 (34.04%) XML
3 13 (27.66%) Ajax
3 13 (27.66%) AngularJS
3 13 (27.66%) JDBC
3 13 (27.66%) ODBC
3 13 (27.66%) XHTML
4 5 (10.64%) CSS3
4 5 (10.64%) HTML5
4 5 (10.64%) Laravel
4 5 (10.64%) Sass
4 5 (10.64%) Tailwind CSS
4 5 (10.64%) Vue
5 4 (8.51%) JSON
6 3 (6.38%) J2EE
6 3 (6.38%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.66%) CMDB
2 12 (25.53%) Data Centre
3 7 (14.89%) EFT
4 6 (12.77%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.13%) iPhone
7 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (59.57%) Linux
1 28 (59.57%) Windows
2 17 (36.17%) Unix
3 8 (17.02%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.38%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.13%) Android
5 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (46.81%) ITIL
2 18 (38.30%) OO
3 16 (34.04%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (34.04%) ITSM
3 16 (34.04%) OOP
4 15 (31.91%) Network Management
5 14 (29.79%) Mentoring
6 13 (27.66%) Data Extraction
6 13 (27.66%) Database Tuning
7 11 (23.40%) Agile
8 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (14.89%) Server Patching
9 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
9 7 (14.89%) Time Management
10 5 (10.64%) DevOps
10 5 (10.64%) Kanban
10 5 (10.64%) OO PHP
10 5 (10.64%) User Experience
10 5 (10.64%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 24 (51.06%) PowerShell
2 19 (40.43%) Python
3 18 (38.30%) JavaScript
4 17 (36.17%) Java
4 17 (36.17%) Perl
5 7 (14.89%) SQL
6 6 (12.77%) PHP
7 3 (6.38%) Bash
8 2 (4.26%) C
9 1 (2.13%) ActionScript
9 1 (2.13%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (2.13%) C#
9 1 (2.13%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) Degree
2 3 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.26%) CCNP
4 1 (2.13%) CCNA
4 1 (2.13%) MCSA
4 1 (2.13%) MCSE
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.89%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.26%) Docker
4 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.26%) NFS
4 2 (4.26%) Varnish
4 2 (4.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (27.66%) WMI
2 7 (14.89%) SCCM
2 7 (14.89%) vCenter Server
3 2 (4.26%) Ansible
3 2 (4.26%) FortiGate
3 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.26%) Packer
3 2 (4.26%) Puppet
3 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds Orion
3 2 (4.26%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) Grafana
4 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.13%) systemd
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
1 13 (27.66%) Oracle
1 13 (27.66%) Splunk
2 10 (21.28%) VMware
3 7 (14.89%) Citrix
3 7 (14.89%) Globalscape
4 3 (6.38%) Cisco
4 3 (6.38%) SAP
5 2 (4.26%) Alteryx
5 2 (4.26%) Blue Prism
5 2 (4.26%) Google
5 2 (4.26%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.13%) Freshdesk
6 1 (2.13%) IBM
6 1 (2.13%) IBM Sterling