SSH Contract Job Trends in London

Secure Shell (SSH)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SSH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 383 403
Rank change year-on-year +35 +20 +130
Contract jobs citing SSH 34 10 23
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.063% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.60% 0.66% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 1 16
10th Percentile £285 - £285
25th Percentile £353 - £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £770 £531
Median % change year-on-year -40.55% +44.94% -11.46%
75th Percentile £589 - £600
90th Percentile £658 - £778
England median daily rate £475 £425 £438
% change year-on-year +11.76% -2.86% -18.98%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,306 1,521 2,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.27% 9.63% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 934 1,409
10th Percentile £304 £256 £215
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -1.42% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £630 £638
90th Percentile £701 £729 £750
England median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 13 57
10th Percentile £20.24 £23.63 £18.93
25th Percentile - £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +32.08% +6.00%
75th Percentile £29.31 £43.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £61.78 £76.91 £77.50
England median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +25.53%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SSH job vacancy trend in London

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SSH

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH in London over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in London

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SSH

SSH
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the London region over the 6 months to 30 November 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
South London - 10 £475 -
Central London +8 3 £375 -
West London - 2 £350 -
SSH
England

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 16 (47.06%) Confluence
2 10 (29.41%) nginx
3 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.94%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (5.88%) AutoCAD
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.94%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 15 (44.12%) AWS
2 14 (41.18%) Azure
3 10 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (29.41%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (29.41%) Amazon ELB
3 10 (29.41%) Amazon S3
3 10 (29.41%) AWS KMS
3 10 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (29.41%) Route 53
3 10 (29.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (8.82%) GCP
4 3 (8.82%) SaaS
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (41.18%) HTTP
1 14 (41.18%) SMTP
2 13 (38.24%) Firewall
3 12 (35.29%) FTP
4 11 (32.35%) DNS
5 10 (29.41%) IMAP
5 10 (29.41%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
7 4 (11.76%) SNMP
7 4 (11.76%) WAN
8 3 (8.82%) Internet
8 3 (8.82%) SD-WAN
8 3 (8.82%) SSL
8 3 (8.82%) VLAN
9 2 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (5.88%) DMZ
9 2 (5.88%) Ethernet
9 2 (5.88%) Network Security
9 2 (5.88%) Spanning Tree
9 2 (5.88%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (29.41%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (29.41%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.88%) Apache Hive
3 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.88%) Impala
3 2 (5.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (47.06%) JIRA
2 13 (38.24%) Git
3 12 (35.29%) Jenkins
4 10 (29.41%) Vagrant
5 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.88%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
General
1 20 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (26.47%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Finance
5 3 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (26.47%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 8 (23.53%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (23.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Audio Visual Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Active Directory Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Automation Specialist
6 2 (5.88%) Commissioning Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cryptography Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (41.18%) LDAP
2 2 (5.88%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) LAMP
3 1 (2.94%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (2.94%) libvirt
3 1 (2.94%) Middleware
3 1 (2.94%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Replication
2 4 (11.76%) PKI
3 3 (8.82%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.88%) Digital Signage
4 2 (5.88%) Market Risk
4 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.88%) Tandem
5 1 (2.94%) BYOD
5 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (52.94%) Linux
1 18 (52.94%) Windows
2 10 (29.41%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (29.41%) Ubuntu
2 10 (29.41%) VMS
3 6 (17.65%) Unix
4 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) DevOps
2 12 (35.29%) Change Management
2 12 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 12 (35.29%) Patch Management
3 11 (32.35%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (32.35%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (29.41%) Cloud Security
4 10 (29.41%) Configuration Management
5 8 (23.53%) Key Management
6 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (17.65%) Incident Response
8 5 (14.71%) Cryptography
9 4 (11.76%) Information Security
10 3 (8.82%) Computer Science
10 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (8.82%) Open Source
10 3 (8.82%) Use Case
10 3 (8.82%) Validation
11 2 (5.88%) Analytics
11 2 (5.88%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 15 (44.12%) Python
2 14 (41.18%) PowerShell
2 14 (41.18%) SQL
3 10 (29.41%) Groovy
4 3 (8.82%) Bash
5 1 (2.94%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Degree
2 10 (29.41%) AWS Certification
2 10 (29.41%) Azure Certification
3 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
4 4 (11.76%) CISSP
5 3 (8.82%) CEH
6 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.94%) CCNP
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.94%) CISM
7 1 (2.94%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.88%) FIPS 140-2
2 2 (5.88%) GRC
2 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.88%) NIST
3 1 (2.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (35.29%) Docker
2 10 (29.41%) DFS Replication
2 10 (29.41%) Dovecot
2 10 (29.41%) Postfix
2 10 (29.41%) Squid
3 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.88%) Firmware
4 2 (5.88%) HDFS
5 1 (2.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (2.94%) Ceph
5 1 (2.94%) iptables
5 1 (2.94%) KVM
5 1 (2.94%) Lustre
5 1 (2.94%) NFS
5 1 (2.94%) Samba
5 1 (2.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) Terraform
2 10 (29.41%) Grafana
2 10 (29.41%) Nessus
2 10 (29.41%) Prometheus
2 10 (29.41%) Proxmox
3 6 (17.65%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) Kibana
4 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.94%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.94%) SELinux
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) ServiceNow
2 10 (29.41%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.76%) CyberArk
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco
5 2 (5.88%) IBM
5 2 (5.88%) Qualys
5 2 (5.88%) Splunk
5 2 (5.88%) Tenable
5 2 (5.88%) Thales
6 1 (2.94%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (2.94%) Meraki
6 1 (2.94%) Solace
6 1 (2.94%) TIBCO
6 1 (2.94%) VMware