SSH Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Secure Shell (SSH)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring SSH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 80 91
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 +24
Contract jobs citing SSH 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.079% 0.10% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.54% 0.52% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £380 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.92% - -
75th Percentile £389 £675 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £384 £513 -
% change year-on-year -25.07% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
South East median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 184 194 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.52% 19.78% 26.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 115 108
10th Percentile £410 £363 £206
25th Percentile £500 £450 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £457
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +15.01% -11.14%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £570
90th Percentile £650 £673 £636
South East median daily rate £486 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.75% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 24 33
10th Percentile £47.47 £35.00 £16.95
25th Percentile £51.40 £52.22 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.36 £62.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +5.93% +22.92%
75th Percentile £67.90 £70.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.96 £75.00 £76.40
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.26% +4.17% +33.33%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SSH relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

SSH job vacancy trend in Hampshire

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SSH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SSH

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SSH.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SSH

SSH
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Portsmouth - 1 £384 -
SSH
South East

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) Poetry
1 1 (100.00%) PyCharm
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat