SSH Contracts in England

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SSH skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SSH over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 501 604
Rank change year-on-year +55 +103 +26
Contract jobs citing SSH 24 38 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.10% 0.084%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.75% 0.78% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 30
10th Percentile £325 £265 £313
25th Percentile £460 £511 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £448
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +20.54% -27.89%
75th Percentile £569 £597 £561
90th Percentile £640 £925 £604
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £463
% change year-on-year -7.41% +16.76% -26.00%

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 3,198 4,859 5,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.15% 13.22% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,975 2,932 3,903
10th Percentile £220 £208 £232
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £517
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.16% +3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 392 430
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.72 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +116.22% -22.63%
75th Percentile £63.25 £63.75 £59.14
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.71 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.24% +116.22% -33.63%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSH in England.

Daily rate trend for SSH in England

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in England

SSH
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSH in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 12 May 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 +21 20 £523 -5.00% 25
North of England +21 3 £350 +55.56% 9
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 3
North West +13 1 - - 6
South West - 1 - - 4
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 6 (25.00%) Apache
1 6 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 6 (25.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) HTTPS
2 6 (25.00%) SSL
3 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
4 3 (12.50%) DHCP
4 3 (12.50%) DNS
4 3 (12.50%) Network Security
4 3 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (12.50%) SNMP
4 3 (12.50%) Telnet
4 3 (12.50%) Wireshark
5 2 (8.33%) Firewall
5 2 (8.33%) HTTP
5 2 (8.33%) Internet
5 2 (8.33%) SMTP
6 1 (4.17%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 6 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (25.00%) Delta Lake
1 6 (25.00%) Power BI
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.33%) MariaDB
3 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) JIRA
2 8 (33.33%) Git
3 6 (25.00%) RStudio
4 3 (12.50%) GitLab
4 3 (12.50%) Gradle
4 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (12.50%) JMeter
4 3 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 14 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Finance
5 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Network Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Audio Visual Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 2 (8.33%) Java Automation Tester
4 2 (8.33%) Network Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Commissioning Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Principal Security Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) JSON
2 6 (25.00%) pydantic
2 6 (25.00%) PySpark
2 6 (25.00%) YAML
3 3 (12.50%) Kafka
3 3 (12.50%) WireMock
3 3 (12.50%) XML
4 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (8.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 6 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (25.00%) Reference Data
2 5 (20.83%) Onboarding
3 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (12.50%) Replication
4 1 (4.17%) Clustering
4 1 (4.17%) Digital Signage
4 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Linux
2 8 (33.33%) Unix
3 7 (29.17%) Windows
4 2 (8.33%) CentOS
4 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.33%) SUSE
4 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.17%) AIX
5 1 (4.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Data Security
2 11 (45.83%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 8 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (29.17%) Key Management
5 6 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 6 (25.00%) Cryptography
5 6 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 6 (25.00%) Scrum
6 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (20.83%) Problem Management
6 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 4 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 4 (16.67%) Service Management
8 3 (12.50%) Data Analysis
8 3 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 10 (41.67%) Bash
3 9 (37.50%) SQL
4 7 (29.17%) ActionScript
4 7 (29.17%) ActionScript 2.0
5 6 (25.00%) Java
5 6 (25.00%) Scala
6 4 (16.67%) C
6 4 (16.67%) Perl
7 1 (4.17%) Korn
7 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) GDPR
2 3 (12.50%) SLA
3 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
1 3 (12.50%) FreeRADIUS
1 3 (12.50%) iptables
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
1 7 (29.17%) Puppet
2 4 (16.67%) Nagios
2 4 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 3 (12.50%) Cacti
3 3 (12.50%) Grafana
3 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.50%) Netcool
3 3 (12.50%) Proxmox
3 3 (12.50%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) ZABBIX
4 2 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (4.17%) Graylog
5 1 (4.17%) logstash
5 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) IBM
1 7 (29.17%) IBM Sterling
2 6 (25.00%) Databricks
3 5 (20.83%) VMware
4 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 4 (16.67%) Splunk
5 3 (12.50%) Nokia
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco
6 1 (4.17%) Huawei
6 1 (4.17%) Juniper
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto