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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 124 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing SSH 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.14% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.55% 1.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £324 £534 -
25th Percentile £385 £547 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.04% - -
75th Percentile £641 £609 -
90th Percentile £664 £626 -
Central London median daily rate £466 £575 -
% change year-on-year -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 169 193 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.61% 9.33% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 112 183
10th Percentile £263 £350 £212
25th Percentile £365 £424 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £531 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -1.71% +0.93%
75th Percentile £672 £638 £638
90th Percentile £737 £757 £700
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.10% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - +87.50%

SSH
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

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 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in the City of London

SSH
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
SSH
Central London

SSH
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 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (33.33%) Jupyter
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) OCI
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) Impala
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) RStudio
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) pydantic
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (33.33%) Reference Data
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Market Risk
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) Data Security
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Key Management
2 2 (33.33%) Open Source
2 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kibana
2 1 (16.67%) Packer
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) IBM