SSH Contracts in England

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 509 613
Rank change year-on-year +46 +104 +31
Contract jobs citing SSH 35 43 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.12% 0.056%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.04% 0.89% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 24 12
10th Percentile £285 £263 -
25th Percentile £363 £451 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £413
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% +29.21% -31.25%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £561
90th Percentile £582 £626 £574
UK median daily rate £475 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -10.88% -3.09% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.30
Median hourly rate - - £18.24
75th Percentile - - £19.18
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £32.99
% change year-on-year - - -58.11%

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 3,368 4,819 6,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 12.95% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,079 2,868 3,973
10th Percentile £235 £214 £232
25th Percentile £363 £359 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 390 368
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.44 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.47% +101.96% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.55
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.10 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% +100.00% -22.41%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SSH in England

SSH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSH in England.

Daily rate trend for SSH in England

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in England

SSH
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSH in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 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
London +25 26 £488 -8.54% 29
Midlands +19 6 £475 - 7
West Midlands +13 6 £475 - 6
North of England +3 2 £309 +37.33% 5
North West +7 1 £268 +19.11% 3
Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 2
SSH
UK

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (20.00%) Confluence
2 4 (11.43%) Apache
2 4 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 4 (11.43%) Jupyter
3 2 (5.71%) nginx
4 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) AutoCAD
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) AWS
2 9 (25.71%) Azure
3 8 (22.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (22.86%) Amazon S3
4 7 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (17.14%) Amazon ELB
5 6 (17.14%) Amazon Glacier
5 6 (17.14%) AWS KMS
5 6 (17.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.71%) GCP
7 2 (5.71%) GitHub
7 2 (5.71%) Route 53
7 2 (5.71%) Serverless
8 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.86%) OCI
8 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (31.43%) HTTP
1 11 (31.43%) SMTP
2 9 (25.71%) DNS
2 9 (25.71%) Firewall
3 8 (22.86%) TCP/IP
4 7 (20.00%) HTTPS
5 6 (17.14%) FTP
5 6 (17.14%) Internet
6 5 (14.29%) SSL
7 4 (11.43%) Network Security
7 4 (11.43%) SNMP
7 4 (11.43%) Telnet
8 3 (8.57%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (8.57%) Wireshark
9 2 (5.71%) DHCP
10 1 (2.86%) DMZ
10 1 (2.86%) DSLAM
10 1 (2.86%) NAS
10 1 (2.86%) SAN
10 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (11.43%) Apache Hive
2 4 (11.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (11.43%) Delta Lake
2 4 (11.43%) Power BI
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.57%) RDBMS
3 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.71%) MariaDB
4 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (40.00%) JIRA
2 13 (37.14%) Git
3 12 (34.29%) Jenkins
4 6 (17.14%) Vagrant
5 4 (11.43%) RStudio
6 3 (8.57%) GitLab
6 3 (8.57%) Gradle
6 3 (8.57%) JMeter
6 3 (8.57%) Selenium
7 1 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 16 (45.71%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
3 9 (25.71%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.71%) Finance
5 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Network Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Audio Visual Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Commissioning Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Automation Tester
6 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Java Automation Tester
6 2 (5.71%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Network Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) JSON
2 5 (14.29%) LDAP
3 4 (11.43%) pydantic
3 4 (11.43%) PySpark
3 4 (11.43%) YAML
4 3 (8.57%) Kafka
4 3 (8.57%) WireMock
4 3 (8.57%) XML
5 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Replication
2 7 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (11.43%) Data Structures
3 4 (11.43%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (11.43%) Reference Data
4 3 (8.57%) Digital Signage
4 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) PKI
6 1 (2.86%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (57.14%) Linux
2 13 (37.14%) Windows
3 9 (25.71%) Unix
4 8 (22.86%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (17.14%) VMS
6 2 (5.71%) CentOS
6 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.71%) SUSE
6 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.86%) AIX
7 1 (2.86%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Configuration Management
1 12 (34.29%) DevOps
2 10 (28.57%) Agile
3 9 (25.71%) Data Security
4 8 (22.86%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (20.00%) Change Management
5 7 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 7 (20.00%) Key Management
6 6 (17.14%) Cryptography
6 6 (17.14%) Data Ingestion
6 6 (17.14%) Patch Management
6 6 (17.14%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (14.29%) Problem Management
7 5 (14.29%) Service Management
7 5 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 4 (11.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) Java
3 9 (25.71%) Perl
4 8 (22.86%) Bash
5 7 (20.00%) SQL
6 6 (17.14%) ActionScript
6 6 (17.14%) ActionScript 2.0
6 6 (17.14%) Groovy
6 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
7 4 (11.43%) Scala
8 3 (8.57%) C
9 1 (2.86%) Korn
9 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 14 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) GDPR
2 3 (8.57%) SLA
3 1 (2.86%) GRC
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Docker
2 6 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 6 (17.14%) DFS Replication
3 3 (8.57%) FreeRADIUS
3 3 (8.57%) iptables
4 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Terraform
2 9 (25.71%) Grafana
3 7 (20.00%) Ansible
3 7 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 6 (17.14%) Puppet
5 4 (11.43%) Nagios
6 3 (8.57%) Cacti
6 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
6 3 (8.57%) Netcool
6 3 (8.57%) Packer
6 3 (8.57%) Progress Chef
6 3 (8.57%) Proxmox
6 3 (8.57%) ZABBIX
7 2 (5.71%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (5.71%) FortiGate
7 2 (5.71%) Kibana
7 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (2.86%) Graylog
8 1 (2.86%) logstash
8 1 (2.86%) yum
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) IBM
2 6 (17.14%) IBM Sterling
2 6 (17.14%) ServiceNow
3 5 (14.29%) VMware
4 4 (11.43%) Databricks
4 4 (11.43%) Splunk
5 3 (8.57%) Nokia
5 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco
6 1 (2.86%) Huawei
6 1 (2.86%) Juniper
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.86%) Qualys
6 1 (2.86%) Tenable