SSH Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Secure Shell (SSH)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SSH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 117 121
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +42
Contract jobs citing SSH 5 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.33% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.72% 3.23% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile £474 £324 £534
25th Percentile £492 £385 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £466 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.10% -19.04% -
75th Percentile £538 £641 £609
90th Percentile £665 £664 £626
Central London median daily rate £513 £466 £575
% change year-on-year +10.10% -19.04% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 184 186 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.92% 10.14% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 128 115
10th Percentile £304 £263 £261
25th Percentile £413 £406 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +4.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £625
90th Percentile £715 £758 £756
Central London median daily rate £525 £543 £518
% change year-on-year -3.23% +4.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £19.39 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £19.46 £33.28 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £44.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.19% - -
75th Percentile £39.50 £55.49 -
90th Percentile £54.80 £61.54 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 -
% change year-on-year +2.02% - -

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SSH job vacancy trend in the City of London

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SSH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SSH

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in the City of London

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) nginx
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) OpenVPN
2 1 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) CyberArk Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) boto
2 1 (20.00%) OpenTofu
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (40.00%) PKI
3 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Security
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (20.00%) Server Management
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Korn
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) SELinux
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat