SSH Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Secure Shell (SSH)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring SSH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing SSH 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.29% 0.21% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.50% 1.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £299 - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £685 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.24% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £491 - -
North West median daily rate £452 £455 £413
% change year-on-year -0.78% +10.32% -25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 120 77 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.17% 15.81% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 38 77
10th Percentile £314 £291 £140
25th Percentile £370 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £569 £606 £586
90th Percentile £688 £750 £613
North West median daily rate £458 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.06 - -
90th Percentile £67.25 - -
North West median hourly rate £23.50 £48.56 £17.72
% change year-on-year -51.61% +174.04% -10.87%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

SSH job vacancy trend in Cheshire

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SSH

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH in Cheshire over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in Cheshire

SSH
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 18 November 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
Knutsford -12 8 £423 -38.33% 1
SSH
North West

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) Confluence
1 9 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Tandem
2 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Unix
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 9 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 9 (100.00%) Information Security
1 9 (100.00%) ITIL
1 9 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (88.89%) Incident Response
3 7 (77.78%) Change Management
3 7 (77.78%) Release Management
4 6 (66.67%) Key Management
5 5 (55.56%) Data Protection
5 5 (55.56%) Project Management
6 4 (44.44%) Attestation
6 4 (44.44%) Customer Experience
6 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
6 4 (44.44%) Project Delivery
6 4 (44.44%) Service Management
7 3 (33.33%) Problem Management
8 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
9 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (100.00%) Degree
2 5 (55.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) CISM
4 1 (11.11%) CISSP
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
2 6 (66.67%) Gemalto
2 6 (66.67%) Thales
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft