SSH Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Secure Shell (SSH)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring SSH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SSH 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.78% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £607 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £615 £384 £650
% change year-on-year +60.15% -40.92% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 71 36 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 9.27% 11.04% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 12 42
10th Percentile £381 £273 £406
25th Percentile £554 £331 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £629 £539 £540
90th Percentile £769 £558 £585
South East median daily rate £519 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +8.07% -4.00% +7.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £16.80 - -
25th Percentile £17.50 - -
Median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 -
Median % change year-on-year +172.68% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile £155.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.68% -8.33% -

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SSH relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

SSH job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SSH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SSH

SSH
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 October 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 6 £615 - 1
SSH
South East

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
2 4 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 2 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (66.67%) ARM Cortex
3 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
1 6 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 6 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 6 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) Observability
2 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) RBAC
2 5 (83.33%) Resource Management
2 5 (83.33%) Security Hardening
2 5 (83.33%) Server Patching
2 5 (83.33%) Task Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) ITIL
3 4 (66.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Bicep
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) CrowdStrike