SSH Contracts with Work from Home Options

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SSH skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SSH over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 428 576
Rank change year-on-year +96 +148 -100
Contract jobs citing SSH 11 17 53
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.074% 0.071% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.72% 0.61% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 29
10th Percentile £511 £470 £228
25th Percentile £524 £508 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £571 - £575
90th Percentile £638 £559 £628
UK median daily rate £535 £500 £610
% change year-on-year +7.00% -18.03% +22.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £18.24 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -76.84% +50.00%
UK median hourly rate - £32.99 £78.75
% change year-on-year - -58.11% +55.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

SSH falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,537 2,786 4,431
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.41% 11.67% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,006 1,856 3,040
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £495 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 98 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.20 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.16 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.61% +19.26% +23.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.19 £63.06
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +113.73% -28.02% +4.00%

SSH
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SSH trend for jobs with a WFH option

SSH
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SSH.

SSH daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SSH over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

SSH daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SSH.

SSH hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (45.45%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (9.09%) Jetty
2 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
1 5 (45.45%) SaaS
2 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
2 2 (18.18%) SSL
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) FTP
3 1 (9.09%) HTTP
3 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MySQL
1 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Electronics
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) CyberArk Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Management Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Applications Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Deployment Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Applications Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) SailPoint
2 4 (36.36%) OpenID
2 4 (36.36%) SAML
3 2 (18.18%) LDAP
4 1 (9.09%) J2EE
4 1 (9.09%) JSON
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) SOAP
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
1 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Blockchain
3 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (45.45%) Use Case
1 5 (45.45%) User Experience
2 4 (36.36%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (27.27%) Server Hardening
4 2 (18.18%) API Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (18.18%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (18.18%) Runbook
4 2 (18.18%) Secrets Management
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (9.09%) Fintech
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (18.18%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Argo
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) CyberArk
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
3 3 (27.27%) BeyondTrust
3 3 (27.27%) CheckPoint
4 1 (9.09%) SAP