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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 478 543
Rank change year-on-year +31 +65 +101
Contract jobs citing SSH 72 48 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.19% 1.21% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 28 36
10th Percentile £285 £388 £316
25th Percentile £380 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £419
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +25.37% -23.86%
75th Percentile £569 £563 £600
90th Percentile £643 £611 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £29.44
25th Percentile - - £47.65
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £62.87

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 3,291 3,974 5,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.83% 12.06% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,064 2,323 3,600
10th Percentile £227 £242 £225
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £618
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 215 285
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.82 £16.76
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.45 £24.34
Median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.00 £76.06
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £51.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -16.67% -9.72% +36.12%

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
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 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 19 September 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 +15 40 £475 -11.63% 2
Midlands - 30 £475 - 17
West Midlands - 27 £475 - 10
North of England -28 10 £484 +18.65% 15
Yorkshire -20 6 £625 +53.37% 5
North West -6 4 £470 +109.00% 9
East Midlands - 3 £134 - 6
South East +19 1 £384 -40.92% 10
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 33 (45.83%) Confluence
2 12 (16.67%) nginx
3 7 (9.72%) Apache Spark
4 6 (8.33%) SharePoint
5 4 (5.56%) Apache
5 4 (5.56%) Jupyter
6 3 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (1.39%) TPMS
Applications
1 10 (13.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.17%) AutoCAD
4 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.39%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 30 (41.67%) AWS
2 27 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 24 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 23 (31.94%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (30.56%) Amazon ELB
5 22 (30.56%) AWS KMS
5 22 (30.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (25.00%) Azure
7 12 (16.67%) Amazon Glacier
7 12 (16.67%) Route 53
8 10 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (8.33%) GCP
10 5 (6.94%) GitHub
11 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
12 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.78%) Serverless
13 1 (1.39%) Entra ID
13 1 (1.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 28 (38.89%) HTTP
1 28 (38.89%) SMTP
2 25 (34.72%) DNS
3 24 (33.33%) Firewall
4 23 (31.94%) FTP
5 10 (13.89%) IMAP
5 10 (13.89%) OpenLDAP
5 10 (13.89%) TCP/IP
6 7 (9.72%) SSL
7 6 (8.33%) Internet
8 5 (6.94%) Telnet
9 4 (5.56%) SNMP
10 3 (4.17%) HTTPS
10 3 (4.17%) PuTTY
11 2 (2.78%) DMZ
11 2 (2.78%) Kerberos
11 2 (2.78%) Network Security
11 2 (2.78%) SD-WAN
11 2 (2.78%) VLAN
11 2 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (30.56%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (13.89%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (9.72%) Delta Lake
5 6 (8.33%) Apache Hive
6 5 (6.94%) Hadoop
7 4 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (5.56%) Power BI
7 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
8 3 (4.17%) Big Data
8 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
8 3 (4.17%) Parquet
9 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.78%) Impala
10 1 (1.39%) MySQL
10 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (55.56%) JIRA
2 33 (45.83%) Jenkins
3 32 (44.44%) Git
4 22 (30.56%) Vagrant
5 5 (6.94%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.56%) RStudio
7 3 (4.17%) Gradle
7 3 (4.17%) JMeter
7 3 (4.17%) MLflow
7 3 (4.17%) Selenium
8 2 (2.78%) Poetry
8 2 (2.78%) PyCharm
8 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.78%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
General
1 31 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 24 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 13 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (15.28%) Finance
4 11 (15.28%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (26.39%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (23.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 16 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
5 16 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (13.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 9 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Analyst
8 7 (9.72%) Data Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Audio Visual Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Network Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Consultant
11 3 (4.17%) Commissioning Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) Cryptography Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) Support Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) Technical Engineer
12 2 (2.78%) Automation Specialist
12 2 (2.78%) Java Automation Tester
12 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.00%) LDAP
2 4 (5.56%) JSON
2 4 (5.56%) Kafka
2 4 (5.56%) pydantic
2 4 (5.56%) PySpark
2 4 (5.56%) YAML
3 3 (4.17%) Apache Avro
3 3 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.17%) Flask
3 3 (4.17%) NumPy
3 3 (4.17%) Pandas
3 3 (4.17%) WireMock
4 1 (1.39%) Middleware
4 1 (1.39%) OAuth
4 1 (1.39%) SAML
4 1 (1.39%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (31.94%) Replication
2 7 (9.72%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (8.33%) Tandem
4 4 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.56%) PKI
4 4 (5.56%) Reference Data
5 3 (4.17%) Digital Signage
5 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.78%) Machine to Machine
6 2 (2.78%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.39%) BYOD
7 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.39%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 45 (62.50%) Linux
2 41 (56.94%) Windows
3 24 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
4 22 (30.56%) VMS
5 10 (13.89%) Ubuntu
5 10 (13.89%) Unix
6 3 (4.17%) AIX
6 3 (4.17%) Solaris
6 3 (4.17%) Windows 10
6 3 (4.17%) Windows 7
6 3 (4.17%) Windows 8
6 3 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (48.61%) DevOps
2 29 (40.28%) Change Management
3 24 (33.33%) Patch Management
4 23 (31.94%) Configuration Management
4 23 (31.94%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (30.56%) Cloud Security
6 21 (29.17%) Key Management
7 16 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 16 (22.22%) Cryptography
8 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (15.28%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (13.89%) Incident Response
11 8 (11.11%) Agile
11 8 (11.11%) Computer Science
11 8 (11.11%) Information Security
12 7 (9.72%) Data Protection
12 7 (9.72%) Identity Access Management
12 7 (9.72%) Privileged Access Management
12 7 (9.72%) Service Management
12 7 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (48.61%) Python
2 25 (34.72%) Groovy
2 25 (34.72%) PowerShell
3 19 (26.39%) SQL
4 16 (22.22%) Java
5 12 (16.67%) Perl
6 10 (13.89%) Bash
7 4 (5.56%) Scala
8 1 (1.39%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.39%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.39%) C
Qualifications
1 30 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 29 (40.28%) SC Cleared
3 18 (25.00%) Degree
4 10 (13.89%) AWS Certification
4 10 (13.89%) Azure Certification
5 6 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (6.94%) CISSP
7 3 (4.17%) CEH
8 2 (2.78%) CISM
9 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.39%) CCNP
9 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.39%) FFIEC
9 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) NIST
1 6 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 5 (6.94%) GDPR
3 3 (4.17%) FIPS 140-2
3 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.78%) GRC
4 2 (2.78%) SLA
4 2 (2.78%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.39%) GLBA
5 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 27 (37.50%) Docker
2 22 (30.56%) DFS Replication
3 18 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 10 (13.89%) Dovecot
4 10 (13.89%) Postfix
4 10 (13.89%) Squid
5 5 (6.94%) Firmware
6 3 (4.17%) BitLocker
7 2 (2.78%) HDFS
8 1 (1.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (36.11%) Terraform
2 22 (30.56%) Grafana
2 22 (30.56%) Prometheus
3 10 (13.89%) Nessus
3 10 (13.89%) Proxmox
4 6 (8.33%) Ansible
5 4 (5.56%) Kibana
5 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
6 3 (4.17%) Argo
6 3 (4.17%) Istio
6 3 (4.17%) Packer
6 3 (4.17%) SCCM
7 2 (2.78%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.39%) yum
Vendors
1 24 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
3 10 (13.89%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (9.72%) IBM
5 5 (6.94%) CyberArk
6 4 (5.56%) Cisco
6 4 (5.56%) Databricks
7 3 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
7 3 (4.17%) Cloudera
7 3 (4.17%) Dell
7 3 (4.17%) Draytek
7 3 (4.17%) McAfee
7 3 (4.17%) Splunk
8 2 (2.78%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (2.78%) Qualys
8 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.78%) Tenable
8 2 (2.78%) Thales
9 1 (1.39%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (1.39%) VMware