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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 481 509
Rank change year-on-year +34 +28 +147
Contract jobs citing SSH 85 29 68
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.093% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.48% 0.76% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 15 49
10th Percentile £284 £369 £285
25th Percentile £375 £401 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -16.67%
75th Percentile £542 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £438 £463
% change year-on-year +2.86% -5.41% -15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate - - £78.00

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 3,422 3,815 5,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.13% 12.25% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,205 3,419
10th Percentile £206 £234 £210
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £608
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 136 328
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.83 £18.82
25th Percentile £20.56 £23.47 £23.07
Median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +27.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £56.40
% change year-on-year -20.00% -24.65% +35.90%

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 28 November 2025.

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
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 28 November 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 +35 35 £466 -39.55% 5
Midlands +9 33 £475 +11.76% 1
West Midlands -7 30 £475 +11.76% 1
North of England -28 25 £475 +16.56% 3
North West -8 13 £430 -5.51% 3
Yorkshire -38 12 £675 +65.64%
East Midlands - 3 £134 -
South East -1 1 £384 -25.07% 8
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 39 (45.88%) Confluence
2 13 (15.29%) SharePoint
3 11 (12.94%) nginx
4 6 (7.06%) TPMS
5 3 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (3.53%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.18%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (14.12%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (11.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (2.35%) AutoCAD
3 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.18%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.76%) AWS
2 25 (29.41%) Amazon S3
3 22 (25.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 21 (24.71%) Amazon EC2
4 21 (24.71%) Amazon ELB
4 21 (24.71%) AWS KMS
4 21 (24.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 14 (16.47%) Azure
6 11 (12.94%) Amazon Glacier
6 11 (12.94%) Route 53
7 10 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (7.06%) GCP
9 5 (5.88%) GitHub
10 3 (3.53%) SaaS
11 2 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
12 1 (1.18%) OCI
12 1 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (29.41%) FTP
1 25 (29.41%) HTTP
1 25 (29.41%) SMTP
2 24 (28.24%) DNS
2 24 (28.24%) Firewall
3 12 (14.12%) SNMP
4 11 (12.94%) SSL
5 10 (11.76%) IMAP
5 10 (11.76%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (9.41%) TCP/IP
7 7 (8.24%) Kerberos
8 5 (5.88%) SD-WAN
8 5 (5.88%) Telnet
9 4 (4.71%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (4.71%) Spanning Tree
9 4 (4.71%) WAN
10 3 (3.53%) Ethernet
10 3 (3.53%) Internet
10 3 (3.53%) TACACS
10 3 (3.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (24.71%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (5.88%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.53%) Big Data
5 3 (3.53%) Delta Lake
5 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.53%) Parquet
6 2 (2.35%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.35%) Impala
6 2 (2.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 39 (45.88%) JIRA
2 27 (31.76%) Jenkins
3 26 (30.59%) Git
4 21 (24.71%) Vagrant
5 5 (5.88%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.53%) MLflow
7 2 (2.35%) Poetry
7 2 (2.35%) PyCharm
7 2 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.35%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
General
1 33 (38.82%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.71%) Public Sector
3 19 (22.35%) Finance
4 15 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
5 14 (16.47%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.53%) Banking
7 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (25.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (21.18%) Platform Engineer
3 17 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 15 (17.65%) Analyst
4 15 (17.65%) AWS DevOps
4 15 (17.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 10 (11.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 10 (11.76%) Consultant
6 9 (10.59%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 8 (9.41%) Cryptography Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Management Consultant
8 6 (7.06%) Network Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Audio Visual Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Technical Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Test Engineer
11 2 (2.35%) Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (24.71%) LDAP
2 5 (5.88%) OAuth
2 5 (5.88%) SAML
3 3 (3.53%) Apache Avro
3 3 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.53%) Flask
3 3 (3.53%) NumPy
3 3 (3.53%) Pandas
4 2 (2.35%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.18%) Kafka
5 1 (1.18%) LAMP
5 1 (1.18%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (1.18%) libvirt
5 1 (1.18%) Middleware
5 1 (1.18%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.06%) Replication
2 13 (15.29%) Tandem
3 5 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.88%) PKI
4 3 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.35%) Digital Signage
5 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.35%) Machine to Machine
5 2 (2.35%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.18%) BYOD
6 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.18%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 56 (65.88%) Windows
2 49 (57.65%) Linux
3 22 (25.88%) Amazon Linux
4 21 (24.71%) VMS
5 17 (20.00%) Unix
6 10 (11.76%) Ubuntu
7 7 (8.24%) AIX
7 7 (8.24%) Solaris
8 3 (3.53%) Windows 10
8 3 (3.53%) Windows 7
8 3 (3.53%) Windows 8
8 3 (3.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (38.82%) Change Management
2 31 (36.47%) DevOps
3 30 (35.29%) Key Management
4 29 (34.12%) Cryptography
5 23 (27.06%) Configuration Management
5 23 (27.06%) Patch Management
6 22 (25.88%) Platform Engineering
7 21 (24.71%) Cloud Security
7 21 (24.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (20.00%) Information Security
9 16 (18.82%) Incident Response
10 15 (17.65%) Computer Science
10 15 (17.65%) ITIL
11 14 (16.47%) CI/CD
11 14 (16.47%) Data Protection
12 13 (15.29%) Roadmaps
13 11 (12.94%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (12.94%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (12.94%) Privileged Access Management
13 11 (12.94%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (50.59%) Python
2 28 (32.94%) PowerShell
3 24 (28.24%) Groovy
4 17 (20.00%) SQL
5 12 (14.12%) Java
5 12 (14.12%) Perl
6 11 (12.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (29.41%) Degree
2 23 (27.06%) Security Cleared
3 21 (24.71%) SC Cleared
4 13 (15.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 10 (11.76%) Azure Certification
6 6 (7.06%) CISSP
6 6 (7.06%) FFIEC
7 5 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.53%) CEH
9 3 (3.53%) CISM
10 2 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.18%) CCNP
11 1 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.29%) NIST
1 13 (15.29%) PCI DSS
2 6 (7.06%) GDPR
2 6 (7.06%) GLBA
3 5 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.71%) SOC 2
5 3 (3.53%) FIPS 140-2
6 2 (2.35%) GRC
6 2 (2.35%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (30.59%) Docker
2 25 (29.41%) Active Directory
3 21 (24.71%) DFS Replication
4 10 (11.76%) Dovecot
4 10 (11.76%) Postfix
4 10 (11.76%) Squid
5 5 (5.88%) Firmware
6 3 (3.53%) BitLocker
7 2 (2.35%) HDFS
8 1 (1.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (1.18%) Ceph
8 1 (1.18%) iptables
8 1 (1.18%) KVM
8 1 (1.18%) Lustre
8 1 (1.18%) NFS
8 1 (1.18%) Samba
8 1 (1.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (28.24%) Terraform
2 21 (24.71%) Grafana
2 21 (24.71%) Prometheus
3 10 (11.76%) Nessus
3 10 (11.76%) Proxmox
4 6 (7.06%) Ansible
5 4 (4.71%) Kubernetes
6 3 (3.53%) Argo
6 3 (3.53%) Istio
6 3 (3.53%) Kibana
6 3 (3.53%) SCCM
7 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.18%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.18%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.18%) Packer
8 1 (1.18%) SELinux
Vendors
1 23 (27.06%) ServiceNow
2 15 (17.65%) Thales
3 13 (15.29%) IBM
3 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
4 11 (12.94%) CyberArk
5 10 (11.76%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (9.41%) Gemalto
6 8 (9.41%) Splunk
7 7 (8.24%) BeyondTrust
7 7 (8.24%) Cisco
8 3 (3.53%) Cloudera
8 3 (3.53%) Dell
8 3 (3.53%) Draytek
8 3 (3.53%) McAfee
8 3 (3.53%) Meraki
9 2 (2.35%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (2.35%) Ciena
9 2 (2.35%) Qualys
9 2 (2.35%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.35%) Tenable