SSH Contract Job Trends in England

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SSH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 447 478
Rank change year-on-year -140 +31 +65
Contract jobs citing SSH 55 72 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.26% 2.19% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 49 28
10th Percentile £391 £285 £388
25th Percentile £438 £380 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.05% -9.52% +25.37%
75th Percentile £622 £569 £563
90th Percentile £710 £643 £611
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £49.68 - -
25th Percentile £50.69 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.75 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,350 3,291 3,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.35% 11.83% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,576 2,064 2,323
10th Percentile £254 £227 £242
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -3.94% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £610
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 165 215
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.28 £14.82
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.00 £23.45
Median hourly rate £43.50 £41.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -27.64% +1.52%
75th Percentile £69.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.63 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £51.00
% change year-on-year -23.53% -16.67% -9.72%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SSH job vacancy trend in England

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SSH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SSH

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in England

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SSH.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SSH

SSH
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SSH in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SSH in England

SSH
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the England region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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
London -88 32 £538 +13.16% 20
South East -50 10 £615 +60.15% 3
North West -52 7 £364 -22.59% 4
North of England -75 7 £364 -24.72% 5
East of England - 4 £425 -
South West - 1 - - 5
SSH
UK

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 13 (23.64%) Confluence
2 10 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 6 (10.91%) nginx
3 6 (10.91%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 25 (45.45%) Azure
2 22 (40.00%) AWS
3 12 (21.82%) Entra ID
4 8 (14.55%) SaaS
5 7 (12.73%) GCP
6 6 (10.91%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (10.91%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (10.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (9.09%) GitHub
8 4 (7.27%) AWS KMS
8 4 (7.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (3.64%) Route 53
10 2 (3.64%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 19 (34.55%) DNS
1 19 (34.55%) TCP/IP
2 11 (20.00%) Firewall
3 10 (18.18%) HTTPS
4 9 (16.36%) HTTP
5 8 (14.55%) DHCP
5 8 (14.55%) VPN
6 6 (10.91%) 5G
6 6 (10.91%) Network Security
7 5 (9.09%) 4G
8 4 (7.27%) OpenVPN
9 3 (5.45%) SSL
9 3 (5.45%) X.509
10 2 (3.64%) FTP
10 2 (3.64%) IMAP
10 2 (3.64%) Kerberos
10 2 (3.64%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (3.64%) SMTP
11 1 (1.82%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (1.82%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (16.36%) SQL Server
3 7 (12.73%) MySQL
4 6 (10.91%) MongoDB
4 6 (10.91%) NoSQL
4 6 (10.91%) Redis
5 2 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.64%) Metadata
6 1 (1.82%) Power BI
6 1 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (29.09%) Git
2 10 (18.18%) JIRA
3 8 (14.55%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.91%) GitLab
5 5 (9.09%) Selenium
6 2 (3.64%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (21.82%) Finance
2 10 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.91%) Banking
4 6 (10.91%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Telecoms
5 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.09%) Military
6 4 (7.27%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.64%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.64%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (18.18%) CyberArk Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Developer
4 6 (10.91%) Python Developer
4 6 (10.91%) Senior
5 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Consultant
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 1 (1.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (45.45%) Terraform
2 10 (18.18%) REST
3 6 (10.91%) ARM Templates
3 6 (10.91%) CSS
3 6 (10.91%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (10.91%) FastAPI
3 6 (10.91%) Flask
3 6 (10.91%) HTML
3 6 (10.91%) Jinja
3 6 (10.91%) Kafka
3 6 (10.91%) Pandas
3 6 (10.91%) RESTful
4 5 (9.09%) LDAP
4 5 (9.09%) Playwright
4 5 (9.09%) pytest
4 5 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (7.27%) boto
5 4 (7.27%) JSON
5 4 (7.27%) OpenTofu
6 3 (5.45%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 25 (45.45%) Onboarding
2 13 (23.64%) PKI
3 10 (18.18%) Management Information System
4 8 (14.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (12.73%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (7.27%) ARM Cortex
7 4 (7.27%) Tandem
8 3 (5.45%) Client/Server
8 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
8 3 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (5.45%) Public Cloud
8 3 (5.45%) Replication
9 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (1.82%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 36 (65.45%) Linux
2 25 (45.45%) Windows
3 14 (25.45%) Windows Server
4 12 (21.82%) Unix
5 7 (12.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (7.27%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (3.64%) CentOS
7 2 (3.64%) VMS
8 1 (1.82%) Rocky
8 1 (1.82%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) DevOps
2 18 (32.73%) CI/CD
2 18 (32.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (29.09%) Computer Science
4 14 (25.45%) Validation
5 13 (23.64%) Privileged Access Management
6 12 (21.82%) Change Management
6 12 (21.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (20.00%) ITIL
7 11 (20.00%) Key Management
8 9 (16.36%) Cryptography
8 9 (16.36%) Information Security
8 9 (16.36%) RBAC
8 9 (16.36%) Runbook
8 9 (16.36%) Security Operations
8 9 (16.36%) Service Management
8 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (14.55%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (58.18%) Python
2 22 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 17 (30.91%) Bash
4 12 (21.82%) SQL
5 6 (10.91%) Bicep
6 5 (9.09%) Java
6 5 (9.09%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.45%) Go
8 2 (3.64%) Groovy
9 1 (1.82%) C++
9 1 (1.82%) Korn
Qualifications
1 19 (34.55%) Degree
2 17 (30.91%) Security Cleared
3 10 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
5 7 (12.73%) DV Cleared
6 5 (9.09%) Azure Certification
7 4 (7.27%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.64%) CISSP
8 2 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.82%) CCNA
9 1 (1.82%) CCNP
9 1 (1.82%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.82%) CISM
9 1 (1.82%) CRISC
9 1 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.82%) LFCS
9 1 (1.82%) RHCE
9 1 (1.82%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) NIST
2 7 (12.73%) QA
3 4 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.64%) SLA
5 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 11 (20.00%) Docker
3 5 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.64%) DFS Replication
5 2 (3.64%) Dovecot
5 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.64%) OpenSSH
5 2 (3.64%) Postfix
5 2 (3.64%) Squid
6 1 (1.82%) Ceph
6 1 (1.82%) KVM
6 1 (1.82%) NFS
Systems Management
1 17 (30.91%) Ansible
2 8 (14.55%) Grafana
2 8 (14.55%) Prometheus
3 6 (10.91%) Kubernetes
3 6 (10.91%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (7.27%) SCCM
6 3 (5.45%) SELinux
7 2 (3.64%) Nessus
7 2 (3.64%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.82%) Nagios
8 1 (1.82%) Puppet
8 1 (1.82%) WMI
8 1 (1.82%) WSUS
8 1 (1.82%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (32.73%) Microsoft
1 18 (32.73%) ServiceNow
2 16 (29.09%) CyberArk
3 10 (18.18%) Oracle
4 7 (12.73%) Thales
5 6 (10.91%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (10.91%) IBM
6 5 (9.09%) Gemalto
6 5 (9.09%) Red Hat
7 4 (7.27%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (5.45%) Splunk
8 3 (5.45%) VMware
9 2 (3.64%) Cisco
9 2 (3.64%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (3.64%) Okta
10 1 (1.82%) Arista
10 1 (1.82%) Confluent
10 1 (1.82%) Juniper
10 1 (1.82%) Ping Identity
10 1 (1.82%) Snow