SSH Contracts in Birmingham

Secure Shell (SSH)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SSH 16 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.85% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 90 78 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.01% 11.42% 21.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 44 92
10th Percentile £243 £183 £254
25th Percentile £319 £263 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £350 £386
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% -9.39% -6.70%
75th Percentile £497 £500 £681
90th Percentile £575 £657 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £44.35 £13.40 £13.08
25th Percentile £44.88 £13.63 £13.94
Median hourly rate £47.00 £14.00 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year +235.71% -11.11% -21.25%
75th Percentile £50.38 £18.88 £17.44
90th Percentile £51.65 £21.80 £18.23
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +114.29% -48.15% +54.29%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for SSH in Birmingham

SSH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for SSH in Birmingham

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 14 (87.50%) Confluence
2 4 (25.00%) nginx
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Amazon S3
2 14 (87.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 14 (87.50%) Amazon EC2
2 14 (87.50%) Amazon ELB
2 14 (87.50%) AWS
2 14 (87.50%) AWS KMS
2 14 (87.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 10 (62.50%) Amazon Glacier
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (25.00%) Azure
4 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (25.00%) Route 53
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) DNS
2 14 (87.50%) Firewall
2 14 (87.50%) FTP
2 14 (87.50%) HTTP
2 14 (87.50%) SMTP
3 4 (25.00%) IMAP
3 4 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (12.50%) Big Data
4 2 (12.50%) Delta Lake
4 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
4 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 2 (12.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 16 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (93.75%) Git
3 14 (87.50%) JIRA
3 14 (87.50%) Vagrant
4 2 (12.50%) MLflow
4 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
4 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (6.25%) Poetry
5 1 (6.25%) PyCharm
5 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (87.50%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (56.25%) AWS DevOps
2 9 (56.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 9 (56.25%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (56.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 9 (56.25%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) LDAP
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Avro
2 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (12.50%) Flask
2 2 (12.50%) NumPy
2 2 (12.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 14 (87.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (87.50%) Amazon Linux
2 14 (87.50%) VMS
2 14 (87.50%) Windows
3 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (87.50%) Change Management
2 14 (87.50%) Cloud Security
2 14 (87.50%) Configuration Management
2 14 (87.50%) Patch Management
2 14 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) ETL
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Secrets Management
6 1 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (6.25%) DataOps
6 1 (6.25%) Dependency Management
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (6.25%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Groovy
1 16 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (87.50%) PowerShell
3 10 (62.50%) Java
3 10 (62.50%) Perl
4 6 (37.50%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) Docker
2 14 (87.50%) DFS Replication
3 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
4 4 (25.00%) Dovecot
4 4 (25.00%) Postfix
4 4 (25.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 14 (87.50%) Grafana
1 14 (87.50%) Prometheus
1 14 (87.50%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Nessus
2 4 (25.00%) Proxmox
3 2 (12.50%) Argo
3 2 (12.50%) Istio
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) ServiceNow
2 4 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (12.50%) Cloudera
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat