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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 461 502
Rank change year-on-year -76 +41 +116
Contract jobs citing SSH 46 18 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.070% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.25% 0.52% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 12 31
10th Percentile £313 £379 £275
25th Percentile £406 £459 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £536 £405
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +32.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £649 £594
90th Percentile £700 £684 £925
UK median daily rate £413 £536 £409
% change year-on-year -23.08% +31.19% -8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £21.94 - -
25th Percentile £24.37 - -
Median hourly rate £27.16 - £78.00
75th Percentile £39.05 - -
90th Percentile £59.14 - -
UK median hourly rate £27.16 - £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 3,667 3,446 5,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.07% 13.41% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,362 2,078 3,231
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £366 £370 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 111 373
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £20.13 £21.46 £19.99
Median hourly rate £36.75 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -12.50% +110.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.78 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% -12.50% +110.53%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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
North of England -47 23 £650 +25.59% 1
Yorkshire -50 13 £675 +92.86%
North West -27 10 £423 -38.33% 1
London -42 9 £488 -11.36% 2
West Midlands -48 7 £375 -11.76% 2
Midlands -58 7 £375 -11.76% 3
South East -30 6 £450 -12.20% 3
South West -25 1 - - 3
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%) TPMS
2 7 (15.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.17%) Apache
4 1 (2.17%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.04%) Entra ID
2 2 (4.35%) AWS
2 2 (4.35%) SaaS
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.17%) AWS KMS
3 1 (2.17%) Azure
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.17%) Route 53
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (36.96%) SNMP
2 13 (28.26%) SSL
3 6 (13.04%) FTP
4 5 (10.87%) DNS
4 5 (10.87%) Kerberos
4 5 (10.87%) Spanning Tree
5 4 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (8.70%) DHCP
5 4 (8.70%) TACACS
5 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
6 3 (6.52%) Ethernet
6 3 (6.52%) Firewall
6 3 (6.52%) HTTP
6 3 (6.52%) SD-WAN
6 3 (6.52%) SMTP
6 3 (6.52%) WAN
6 3 (6.52%) Wireshark
7 2 (4.35%) IOS XR
7 2 (4.35%) Telnet
7 2 (4.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Git
2 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.17%) Vagrant
General
1 19 (41.30%) Documentation Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
3 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.35%) Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Analyst
1 10 (21.74%) Cryptography Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Consultant
4 4 (8.70%) Management Consultant
4 4 (8.70%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Active Directory Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Designer
7 1 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Voice Network Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 1 (2.17%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) LDAP
2 4 (8.70%) OAuth
2 4 (8.70%) SAML
3 2 (4.35%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.17%) LAMP
4 1 (2.17%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (2.17%) libvirt
4 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Onboarding
1 7 (15.22%) Tandem
2 6 (13.04%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.52%) PKI
5 2 (4.35%) Replication
5 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (69.57%) Windows
2 24 (52.17%) Linux
3 15 (32.61%) Unix
4 7 (15.22%) Windows Server
5 4 (8.70%) AIX
5 4 (8.70%) Solaris
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Cryptography
2 19 (41.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (34.78%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (34.78%) Roadmaps
4 13 (28.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (26.09%) Computer Science
5 12 (26.09%) Information Security
6 11 (23.91%) ITIL
6 11 (23.91%) Key Management
7 10 (21.74%) Data Security
7 10 (21.74%) Observability
7 10 (21.74%) OWASP
7 10 (21.74%) Privileged Access Management
8 7 (15.22%) Change Management
8 7 (15.22%) Data Protection
8 7 (15.22%) Incident Response
8 7 (15.22%) Security Operations
9 6 (13.04%) SIEM
10 5 (10.87%) ITSM
10 5 (10.87%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) Python
2 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 6 (13.04%) Bash
4 3 (6.52%) SQL
5 1 (2.17%) Groovy
5 1 (2.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (32.61%) Degree
2 12 (26.09%) Security Cleared
3 10 (21.74%) FFIEC
4 7 (15.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
5 5 (10.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (10.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (6.52%) CISM
6 3 (6.52%) CISSP
7 2 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (34.78%) NIST
2 12 (26.09%) PCI DSS
3 10 (21.74%) GDPR
3 10 (21.74%) GLBA
4 6 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (4.35%) SOC 2
6 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (34.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.35%) KVM
3 1 (2.17%) Ceph
3 1 (2.17%) DFS Replication
3 1 (2.17%) Docker
3 1 (2.17%) Dovecot
3 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.17%) IAG
3 1 (2.17%) iptables
3 1 (2.17%) Lustre
3 1 (2.17%) NFS
3 1 (2.17%) Postfix
3 1 (2.17%) Samba
3 1 (2.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (2.17%) Squid
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Ansible
1 2 (4.35%) Terraform
2 1 (2.17%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.17%) Grafana
2 1 (2.17%) HAProxy
2 1 (2.17%) Nessus
2 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.17%) Proxmox
2 1 (2.17%) SELinux
Vendors
1 18 (39.13%) Thales
2 10 (21.74%) BeyondTrust
2 10 (21.74%) Splunk
3 9 (19.57%) CyberArk
4 8 (17.39%) Gemalto
5 7 (15.22%) IBM
6 5 (10.87%) Cisco
6 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
7 3 (6.52%) Meraki
8 2 (4.35%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (4.35%) Ciena
8 2 (4.35%) Oracle
8 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.17%) Arista
9 1 (2.17%) F5
9 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.17%) Infoblox
9 1 (2.17%) Juniper
9 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.17%) Tenable