SSH Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Secure Shell (SSH)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring SSH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing SSH 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.90% 0.61% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.18% 9.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £295 - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £685 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% - -
75th Percentile £466 - -
90th Percentile £493 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £430 £685 -
% change year-on-year -37.24% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 44 11 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 15.94% 6.67% 54.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 9 43
10th Percentile £313 £309 £495
25th Percentile £358 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% -6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £491 £685 £590
90th Percentile £611 £788 £609
Cheshire median daily rate £455 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -9.00% -6.54% +7.00%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

SSH job vacancy trend in Knutsford

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing SSH

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH in Knutsford over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in Knutsford

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 8 (100.00%) Confluence
1 8 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Tandem
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Unix
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 8 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 8 (100.00%) Information Security
1 8 (100.00%) ITIL
1 8 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (87.50%) Incident Response
3 6 (75.00%) Change Management
3 6 (75.00%) Release Management
4 5 (62.50%) Key Management
5 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
5 4 (50.00%) Project Management
6 3 (37.50%) Attestation
6 3 (37.50%) Customer Experience
6 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
6 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
6 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
6 3 (37.50%) Service Management
7 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
2 5 (62.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) CISM
4 1 (12.50%) CISSP
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
2 6 (75.00%) Gemalto
2 6 (75.00%) Thales
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft