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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 473 498
Rank change year-on-year -102 +25 +114
Contract jobs citing SSH 38 36 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.084% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.89% 1.05% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 23
10th Percentile £360 £288 £263
25th Percentile £418 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -10.88% +25.41%
75th Percentile £638 £525 £566
90th Percentile £752 £575 £599
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £533
% change year-on-year - -10.88% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £23.02 - -
25th Percentile £26.26 - -
Median hourly rate £40.19 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile £75.02 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.19 - -

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 4,276 3,427 4,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 12.64% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,639 2,129 2,873
10th Percentile £250 £235 £215
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £607
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +4.06% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 154 385
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.46 £23.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.69 £42.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.45% -2.33% +56.36%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.03 £82.73 £74.60
UK median hourly rate £26.22 £46.25 £41.50
% change year-on-year -43.31% +11.45% +50.91%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -63 15 £538 +10.26% 7
North of England -66 9 £390 +26.05% 2
South East - 9 £450 - 4
North West -46 6 £358 +33.68% 1
Yorkshire -48 3 £675 +92.86%
Midlands -65 2 £375 -21.05% 1
West Midlands -72 2 £375 -21.05%
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 7 (18.42%) Confluence
2 6 (15.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.26%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) AWS
3 9 (23.68%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.53%) SaaS
5 3 (7.89%) GCP
6 2 (5.26%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.26%) Sentry
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) HTTPS
2 6 (15.79%) SNMP
3 4 (10.53%) DNS
3 4 (10.53%) SSL
3 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 3 (7.89%) DHCP
4 3 (7.89%) HTTP
5 2 (5.26%) FTP
5 2 (5.26%) SMTP
5 2 (5.26%) Telnet
5 2 (5.26%) X.509
6 1 (2.63%) EIGRP
6 1 (2.63%) Firewall
6 1 (2.63%) ICMP
6 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
6 1 (2.63%) L2TP
6 1 (2.63%) OSPF
6 1 (2.63%) RIP
6 1 (2.63%) VPN
6 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.95%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) Git
3 1 (2.63%) GitLab
General
1 10 (26.32%) Finance
2 8 (21.05%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Military
5 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.26%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) CyberArk Engineer
2 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Senior
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) Cryptography Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Designer
5 1 (2.63%) Information Security Consultant
5 1 (2.63%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Security Consultant
5 1 (2.63%) Security Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Server Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (2.63%) Technical Designer
5 1 (2.63%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) JSON
2 3 (7.89%) LDAP
2 3 (7.89%) SPIFFE
3 2 (5.26%) REST
4 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.63%) OAuth
4 1 (2.63%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.63%) OpenID
4 1 (2.63%) RESTful
4 1 (2.63%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.63%) SAML
4 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (42.11%) Onboarding
2 10 (26.32%) Management Information System
2 10 (26.32%) PKI
3 4 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (7.89%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
4 3 (7.89%) Tandem
5 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) CMDB
6 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (57.89%) Windows
2 18 (47.37%) Linux
3 13 (34.21%) Unix
4 11 (28.95%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.26%) CentOS
5 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.63%) Rocky
6 1 (2.63%) SUSE
6 1 (2.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Privileged Access Management
2 12 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (31.58%) Runbook
3 11 (28.95%) Information Security
4 9 (23.68%) Computer Science
4 9 (23.68%) Key Management
4 9 (23.68%) SIEM
5 8 (21.05%) Cryptography
5 8 (21.05%) Security Monitoring
5 8 (21.05%) Security Operations
5 8 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (18.42%) Change Management
6 7 (18.42%) ITIL
7 6 (15.79%) Incident Response
7 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (15.79%) Project Delivery
8 5 (13.16%) Change Control
8 5 (13.16%) DevOps
8 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (13.16%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 21 (55.26%) Python
2 13 (34.21%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
4 2 (5.26%) Go
5 1 (2.63%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Degree
1 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.26%) CISM
4 2 (5.26%) CISSP
4 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) FFIEC
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.63%) CCNA
5 1 (2.63%) CCNP
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.63%) CRISC
5 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.95%) NIST
2 7 (18.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.26%) GDPR
4 2 (5.26%) GLBA
5 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (36.84%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.16%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (7.89%) Docker
4 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.26%) KVM
4 2 (5.26%) OpenSSH
5 1 (2.63%) IAG
5 1 (2.63%) NFS
5 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) Terraform
2 7 (18.42%) Ansible
3 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.63%) Grafana
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.63%) Nagios
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) CyberArk
2 10 (26.32%) Oracle
3 9 (23.68%) BeyondTrust
3 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
3 9 (23.68%) ServiceNow
4 8 (21.05%) Thales
5 5 (13.16%) Splunk
6 4 (10.53%) Gemalto
7 3 (7.89%) IBM
8 2 (5.26%) Cisco
8 2 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (2.63%) Arista
9 1 (2.63%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (2.63%) F5
9 1 (2.63%) Juniper
9 1 (2.63%) Okta
9 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.63%) Ping Identity
9 1 (2.63%) Tenable
9 1 (2.63%) VMware