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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 449 499
Rank change year-on-year -124 +50 +94
Contract jobs citing SSH 46 55 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.08% 1.60% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 42 23
10th Percentile £367 £294 £275
25th Percentile £443 £367 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -10.88% +37.55%
75th Percentile £584 £498 £566
90th Percentile £737 £649 £599
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +5.26% -10.88% +18.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £23.56 - -
25th Percentile £26.80 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £75.02 - -
90th Percentile £77.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 4,270 3,440 4,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.38% 12.46% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,587 2,139 2,621
10th Percentile £263 £235 £225
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 162 299
10th Percentile £16.02 £14.99 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £18.39
Median hourly rate £28.00 £45.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% -12.62% +3.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.16 £87.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.69 £50.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -46.62% +5.26% -5.00%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -80 22 £537 +13.11% 5
South East -50 15 £615 +60.15% 3
North West -50 6 £358 -23.82% 2
North of England -72 6 £358 -23.82% 3
South West - 2 - - 1
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 10 (21.74%) Confluence
1 10 (21.74%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.70%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (41.30%) Azure
2 17 (36.96%) AWS
3 15 (32.61%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.87%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (10.87%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (10.87%) SaaS
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) GitHub
5 4 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (6.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.35%) AWS KMS
7 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (4.35%) Sentry
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.91%) TCP/IP
2 8 (17.39%) DNS
3 7 (15.22%) HTTPS
4 6 (13.04%) DHCP
4 6 (13.04%) Firewall
4 6 (13.04%) VPN
5 4 (8.70%) Network Security
5 4 (8.70%) OpenVPN
6 2 (4.35%) SNMP
6 2 (4.35%) SSL
6 2 (4.35%) X.509
7 1 (2.17%) EIGRP
7 1 (2.17%) HTTP
7 1 (2.17%) ICMP
7 1 (2.17%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.17%) L2TP
7 1 (2.17%) OSPF
7 1 (2.17%) RIP
7 1 (2.17%) SAN
7 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 10 (21.74%) Public Sector
2 9 (19.57%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (13.04%) Military
4 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.52%) Banking
7 2 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.35%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) CyberArk Engineer
1 8 (17.39%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Senior
3 5 (10.87%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) ARM Templates
2 4 (8.70%) boto
2 4 (8.70%) JSON
3 3 (6.52%) LDAP
3 3 (6.52%) SPIFFE
4 2 (4.35%) REST
5 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.17%) OAuth
5 1 (2.17%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.17%) OpenID
5 1 (2.17%) RESTful
5 1 (2.17%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.17%) SAML
5 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (52.17%) Onboarding
2 14 (30.43%) Management Information System
3 11 (23.91%) PKI
4 7 (15.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (15.22%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (8.70%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (6.52%) Client/Server
6 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
6 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (6.52%) Public Cloud
6 3 (6.52%) Tandem
7 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (2.17%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 28 (60.87%) Linux
2 25 (54.35%) Windows
3 15 (32.61%) Windows Server
4 14 (30.43%) Unix
5 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.35%) CentOS
6 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.17%) Rocky
7 1 (2.17%) SUSE
7 1 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.78%) Privileged Access Management
2 14 (30.43%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (30.43%) DevOps
2 14 (30.43%) Runbook
3 12 (26.09%) Computer Science
3 12 (26.09%) Information Security
3 12 (26.09%) Security Operations
4 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (21.74%) SIEM
5 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (19.57%) ITIL
5 9 (19.57%) Key Management
5 9 (19.57%) Security Monitoring
6 8 (17.39%) Change Management
6 8 (17.39%) Service Management
7 7 (15.22%) Cryptography
7 7 (15.22%) Secrets Management
7 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (15.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) Python
2 19 (41.30%) PowerShell
3 8 (17.39%) Bash
4 5 (10.87%) Bicep
5 4 (8.70%) Java
6 2 (4.35%) Go
7 1 (2.17%) Korn
7 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (32.61%) Degree
3 14 (30.43%) SC Cleared
4 6 (13.04%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.17%) CCNA
7 1 (2.17%) CCNP
7 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.17%) CISM
7 1 (2.17%) CISSP
7 1 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.17%) CRISC
7 1 (2.17%) LFCS
7 1 (2.17%) RHCE
7 1 (2.17%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.74%) NIST
2 8 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.17%) SLA
3 1 (2.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (39.13%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.52%) Docker
3 3 (6.52%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.35%) KVM
4 2 (4.35%) OpenSSH
4 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.17%) Ceph
5 1 (2.17%) IAG
5 1 (2.17%) NFS
Systems Management
1 21 (45.65%) Terraform
2 16 (34.78%) Ansible
3 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
4 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (8.70%) SCCM
5 4 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (6.52%) SELinux
7 1 (2.17%) Grafana
7 1 (2.17%) Nagios
7 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Microsoft
2 16 (34.78%) CyberArk
3 15 (32.61%) ServiceNow
4 11 (23.91%) Oracle
5 10 (21.74%) BeyondTrust
6 6 (13.04%) CrowdStrike
6 6 (13.04%) Thales
7 5 (10.87%) Red Hat
8 4 (8.70%) Gemalto
9 3 (6.52%) IBM
9 3 (6.52%) Splunk
10 2 (4.35%) Cisco
10 2 (4.35%) VMware
11 1 (2.17%) Arista
11 1 (2.17%) F5
11 1 (2.17%) Google
11 1 (2.17%) Infoblox
11 1 (2.17%) Juniper
11 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
11 1 (2.17%) Ping Identity