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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 433 484
Rank change year-on-year -138 +51 +42
Contract jobs citing SSH 59 79 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.28% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.37% 2.42% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 55 24
10th Percentile £398 £287 £374
25th Percentile £460 £371 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -9.52% +20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £562 £545
90th Percentile £721 £646 £618
UK median daily rate £538 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +13.16% -9.52% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £53.70 - -
25th Percentile £60.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 4,303 3,259 3,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.30% 11.61% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,537 2,076 2,255
10th Percentile £261 £216 £237
25th Percentile £400 £357 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 169 155
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £21.33 £20.18 £26.25
Median hourly rate £38.62 £34.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.60% -40.87% +1.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £94.75 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -7.14% -27.92% -14.04%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -91 32 £538 +13.16% 26
South East -53 13 £615 +60.15% 9
North of England -85 8 £364 -23.37% 7
North West -53 7 £364 -19.38% 7
East of England - 4 £425 -
Yorkshire -35 1 - -
South West - 1 - - 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 13 (22.03%) Confluence
2 10 (16.95%) SharePoint
3 6 (10.17%) nginx
3 6 (10.17%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.69%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 28 (47.46%) Azure
2 22 (37.29%) AWS
3 17 (28.81%) Entra ID
4 10 (16.95%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (15.25%) SaaS
6 8 (13.56%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (13.56%) GCP
7 6 (10.17%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (10.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 6 (10.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (8.47%) GitHub
9 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.39%) AWS KMS
10 2 (3.39%) Route 53
10 2 (3.39%) Sentry
11 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (35.59%) DNS
1 21 (35.59%) TCP/IP
2 13 (22.03%) Firewall
3 10 (16.95%) DHCP
3 10 (16.95%) HTTPS
4 9 (15.25%) HTTP
4 9 (15.25%) VPN
5 8 (13.56%) Network Security
6 6 (10.17%) 5G
7 5 (8.47%) 4G
8 4 (6.78%) OpenVPN
8 4 (6.78%) SSL
9 3 (5.08%) Kerberos
10 2 (3.39%) FTP
10 2 (3.39%) IMAP
10 2 (3.39%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (3.39%) SMTP
11 1 (1.69%) Broadband
11 1 (1.69%) NAS
11 1 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.42%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
3 7 (11.86%) MySQL
4 6 (10.17%) MongoDB
4 6 (10.17%) NoSQL
4 6 (10.17%) Redis
5 3 (5.08%) Metadata
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.69%) Power BI
7 1 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (27.12%) Git
2 10 (16.95%) JIRA
3 8 (13.56%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.17%) GitLab
5 5 (8.47%) Selenium
6 2 (3.39%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (23.73%) Finance
1 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Banking
3 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.17%) Telecoms
4 5 (8.47%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (8.47%) Investment Banking
4 5 (8.47%) Military
5 2 (3.39%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.39%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) CyberArk Engineer
1 11 (18.64%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Senior
3 7 (11.86%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Developer
4 6 (10.17%) Python Developer
4 6 (10.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (3.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Implementation Engineer
8 1 (1.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (1.69%) Workflow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (45.76%) Terraform
2 14 (23.73%) REST
3 9 (15.25%) LDAP
4 8 (13.56%) ARM Templates
5 7 (11.86%) RESTful
6 6 (10.17%) CSS
6 6 (10.17%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (10.17%) FastAPI
6 6 (10.17%) Flask
6 6 (10.17%) HTML
6 6 (10.17%) Jinja
6 6 (10.17%) Kafka
6 6 (10.17%) Pandas
7 5 (8.47%) Playwright
7 5 (8.47%) pytest
7 5 (8.47%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (6.78%) boto
8 4 (6.78%) OpenTofu
9 2 (3.39%) OAuth
9 2 (3.39%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (52.54%) Onboarding
2 12 (20.34%) PKI
3 11 (18.64%) Management Information System
4 9 (15.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (11.86%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (10.17%) ARM Cortex
7 5 (8.47%) Cloud Native
7 5 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (6.78%) Replication
8 4 (6.78%) Tandem
9 3 (5.08%) Client/Server
9 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (5.08%) Public Cloud
10 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (1.69%) CMDB
11 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (1.69%) Cyberattack
11 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (71.19%) Linux
2 30 (50.85%) Windows
3 16 (27.12%) Windows Server
4 15 (25.42%) Unix
5 8 (13.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (6.78%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (3.39%) CentOS
7 2 (3.39%) VMS
8 1 (1.69%) Rocky
8 1 (1.69%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.76%) DevOps
2 23 (38.98%) CI/CD
3 18 (30.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (27.12%) Computer Science
5 15 (25.42%) Privileged Access Management
5 15 (25.42%) Validation
6 14 (23.73%) Change Management
6 14 (23.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (23.73%) RBAC
7 13 (22.03%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (22.03%) ITIL
8 11 (18.64%) Key Management
8 11 (18.64%) Service Management
8 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (16.95%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (16.95%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (16.95%) Secrets Management
9 10 (16.95%) Security Operations
10 9 (15.25%) Cryptography
10 9 (15.25%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 34 (57.63%) Python
2 25 (42.37%) PowerShell
3 19 (32.20%) Bash
4 12 (20.34%) SQL
5 8 (13.56%) Bicep
6 5 (8.47%) Java
6 5 (8.47%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.39%) Groovy
8 1 (1.69%) C++
8 1 (1.69%) Go
8 1 (1.69%) Korn
Qualifications
1 19 (32.20%) Degree
1 19 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (15.25%) DV Cleared
4 8 (13.56%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.78%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.78%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.39%) CISSP
6 2 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.69%) CCNA
7 1 (1.69%) CCNP
7 1 (1.69%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.69%) CISM
7 1 (1.69%) CRISC
7 1 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.69%) LFCS
7 1 (1.69%) RHCE
7 1 (1.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) NIST
1 7 (11.86%) QA
2 4 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.08%) SLA
4 1 (1.69%) NCSC
4 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (33.90%) Active Directory
2 11 (18.64%) Docker
3 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.39%) DFS Replication
5 2 (3.39%) Dovecot
5 2 (3.39%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.39%) Postfix
5 2 (3.39%) Squid
6 1 (1.69%) Ceph
6 1 (1.69%) KVM
6 1 (1.69%) NFS
Systems Management
1 19 (32.20%) Ansible
2 8 (13.56%) Grafana
2 8 (13.56%) Prometheus
3 7 (11.86%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (10.17%) SCCM
5 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
6 3 (5.08%) SELinux
7 2 (3.39%) Nessus
7 2 (3.39%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.69%) Nagios
8 1 (1.69%) Puppet
8 1 (1.69%) WMI
8 1 (1.69%) WSUS
8 1 (1.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (35.59%) Microsoft
1 21 (35.59%) ServiceNow
2 19 (32.20%) CyberArk
3 9 (15.25%) Oracle
4 8 (13.56%) CrowdStrike
4 8 (13.56%) Thales
5 6 (10.17%) IBM
6 5 (8.47%) Gemalto
6 5 (8.47%) Red Hat
7 4 (6.78%) Splunk
8 3 (5.08%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (5.08%) VMware
9 2 (3.39%) Cisco
9 2 (3.39%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (3.39%) Okta
10 1 (1.69%) Becrypt
10 1 (1.69%) BMC
10 1 (1.69%) Ciena
10 1 (1.69%) Juniper
10 1 (1.69%) Nokia