SSH Contracts in London

Secure Shell (SSH)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SSH skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SSH over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 472 537
Rank change year-on-year +106 +65 -96
Contract jobs citing SSH 30 24 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.089% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.75% 0.90% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 45
10th Percentile £273 £419 £459
25th Percentile £398 £425 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £450 £654
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -31.15% +30.72%
75th Percentile £597 £568 £700
90th Percentile £925 £623 £748
England median daily rate £540 £446 £614
% change year-on-year +21.08% -27.33% +29.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
England median hourly rate - - £78.75

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,715 2,678 3,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.63% 9.93% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 1,884 2,551
10th Percentile £213 £256 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +2.05% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 53 83
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.22 £20.91
25th Percentile £18.36 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £46.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +31.43% -22.22%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £48.52
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.66 £23.91
% change year-on-year +114.36% -21.96% -4.36%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SSH in London

SSH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSH in London.

Daily rate trend for SSH in London

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in London

SSH
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSH in London.

Hourly rate trend for SSH in London

SSH
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +38 4 £850 +47.83%
SSH
England

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (6.67%) Apache
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (3.33%) Drupal
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) InVision
1 1 (3.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (13.33%) PaaS
4 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.33%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.33%) Figma
6 1 (3.33%) Route 53
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) HTTP
1 11 (36.67%) TCP/IP
2 7 (23.33%) Firewall
2 7 (23.33%) VPN
3 6 (20.00%) DNS
3 6 (20.00%) FTP
3 6 (20.00%) SMTP
3 6 (20.00%) Telnet
4 5 (16.67%) SSL
5 4 (13.33%) ICMP
5 4 (13.33%) Internet
5 4 (13.33%) POP3
6 3 (10.00%) DHCP
7 2 (6.67%) SNMP
8 1 (3.33%) InfiniBand
8 1 (3.33%) iSCSI
8 1 (3.33%) Kerberos
8 1 (3.33%) LAN
8 1 (3.33%) VLAN
8 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (13.33%) MySQL
1 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
1 6 (20.00%) JUnit
2 5 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.33%) Git
4 1 (3.33%) Gradle
4 1 (3.33%) IntelliJ
4 1 (3.33%) Selenium
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (43.33%) Finance
3 8 (26.67%) Banking
4 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Marketing
5 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.67%) Electronics
6 2 (6.67%) Front Office
6 2 (6.67%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.33%) Advertising
7 1 (3.33%) Automotive
7 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Consultant
2 5 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.33%) ArcSight Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Data Centre Technician
3 4 (13.33%) Data Technician
3 4 (13.33%) SIEM Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Citrix Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Citrix Support
4 2 (6.67%) Citrix Support Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Linux Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Management Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (3.33%) Deployment Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Operations Support Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) JSON
2 5 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 5 (16.67%) J2EE
2 5 (16.67%) JPA
2 5 (16.67%) LDAP
2 5 (16.67%) REST
2 5 (16.67%) SOAP
2 5 (16.67%) Spring
2 5 (16.67%) Web Services
2 5 (16.67%) XML
3 4 (13.33%) .NET
3 4 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (6.67%) LAMP
4 2 (6.67%) LAPP Stack
4 2 (6.67%) OpenID
4 2 (6.67%) SailPoint
4 2 (6.67%) SAML
5 1 (3.33%) jQuery
5 1 (3.33%) Node.js
5 1 (3.33%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) Animation
5 1 (3.33%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (56.67%) Linux
2 11 (36.67%) Unix
3 6 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (3.33%) CentOS
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (26.67%) Workflow
3 7 (23.33%) Agile
3 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
3 7 (23.33%) Migration
4 5 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 5 (16.67%) BDD
4 5 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 5 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (16.67%) DevOps
4 5 (16.67%) OOP
4 5 (16.67%) Pair Programming
4 5 (16.67%) Release Management
4 5 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (16.67%) Scrum
4 5 (16.67%) Software Architecture
4 5 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
4 5 (16.67%) TDD
4 5 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) Python
2 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (23.33%) Perl
3 7 (23.33%) SQL
4 6 (20.00%) Java
5 4 (13.33%) Bash
5 4 (13.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
1 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) SLA
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) NFS
2 4 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (10.00%) Terminal Services
4 2 (6.67%) Docker
4 2 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (6.67%) XenApp
5 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.33%) Ceph
5 1 (3.33%) Firmware
5 1 (3.33%) iptables
5 1 (3.33%) KVM
5 1 (3.33%) Lustre
5 1 (3.33%) Samba
5 1 (3.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Kibana
2 4 (13.33%) logstash
2 4 (13.33%) QRadar
2 4 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.33%) HAProxy
4 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.33%) SELinux
4 1 (3.33%) Terraform
4 1 (3.33%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) ArcSight
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle
1 4 (13.33%) Splunk
2 3 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (6.67%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (6.67%) CheckPoint
3 2 (6.67%) Citrix
3 2 (6.67%) SAP
3 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco