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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 122 169
Rank change year-on-year +2 +47 +21
Contract jobs citing SSH 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.22% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.30% 1.38% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £436 £543 -
25th Percentile £513 £569 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% +4.17% -5.88%
75th Percentile £660 £781 -
90th Percentile £672 £868 -
Central London median daily rate £641 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +2.48% +4.17% -5.88%

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 174 218 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.60% 10.21% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 137 239
10th Percentile £259 £240 £213
25th Percentile £418 £350 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -15.56% +4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £619 £675
90th Percentile £744 £768 £790
Central London median daily rate £544 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +17.57% -15.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £27.56 - £20.43
25th Percentile £33.28 £12.75 £20.74
Median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £55.49 £14.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £61.54 - £32.75
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.78%

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
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

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (50.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) RStudio
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) pydantic
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (50.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Server Management
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Packer
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
1 1 (25.00%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks