SSH Contracts in the City of London

Secure Shell (SSH)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 115 123 173
Rank change year-on-year +8 +50 +8
Contract jobs citing SSH 4 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.37% 1.90% 1.38%
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
Central London median daily rate £640 £850 £575
% change year-on-year -24.68% +47.83% -20.69%

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 169 211 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.62% 9.60% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 141 249
10th Percentile £258 £213 £246
25th Percentile £475 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £744 £775 £759
Central London median daily rate £538 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 - £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SSH in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSH in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SSH in the City of London

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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