SSH Contracts in Central London

Secure Shell (SSH)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 129 166
Rank change year-on-year +4 +37 +22
Contract jobs citing SSH 4 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.20% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.86% 1.65% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £550 - £533
25th Percentile £608 £775 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £850 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +47.83% -20.69%
75th Percentile £651 £925 £594
90th Percentile £668 - £598
London median daily rate £538 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -0.46% +8.00% -23.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 215 243 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.77% 9.93% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 169 269
10th Percentile £263 £211 £208
25th Percentile £448 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £600 £675
90th Percentile £711 £739 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £560
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £16.59 £24.64
90th Percentile - £17.99 £30.86
London median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SSH in Central London

SSH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for SSH in Central London

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in Central London

SSH
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +8 4 £640 -24.68% 4
SSH
London

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (100.00%) Apache
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 4 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) RStudio
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) pydantic
1 4 (100.00%) PySpark
1 4 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (100.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Data Security
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Scala
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks