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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 127 138
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +56
Contract jobs citing SSH 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.047% 0.076%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.99% 0.46% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £300 - -
25th Percentile £326 - £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £850
Median % change year-on-year - - +325.00%
75th Percentile £427 - £925
90th Percentile £455 - -
Central London median daily rate £375 - £850
% change year-on-year - - +325.00%

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 151 217 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.40% 10.16% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 137 165
10th Percentile £325 £275 £313
25th Percentile £415 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £527 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +0.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £652 £638 £625
90th Percentile £738 £738 £708
Central London median daily rate £510 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -2.86% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £24.64 - £19.39
25th Percentile £31.34 £31.25 £20.09
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +44.44% +9.76%
75th Percentile £56.54 £33.75 £50.63
90th Percentile £61.96 - £66.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £20.72
% change year-on-year -21.63% +56.89% +1.05%

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 13 December 2025.

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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) OCI
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) Impala
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Attestation
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) IBM