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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 344 369
Rank change year-on-year -49 +25 +121
Contract jobs citing SSH 9 13 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.054% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.66% 0.98% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £424 £459 £269
25th Percentile £450 £472 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £388
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +31.94% -29.55%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £925
90th Percentile £687 £653 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +6.50%

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 1,374 1,322 1,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.25% 10.30% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 839 1,173
10th Percentile £263 £263 £205
25th Percentile £407 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 66
10th Percentile £20.31 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.21 £27.47 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £38.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.84% +75.00% -27.87%
75th Percentile £38.75 £49.06 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.75 £62.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.00 £35.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +0.70% +10.00% +71.05%

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 22 March 2026.

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
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 1 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (22.22%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) FTP
2 1 (11.11%) InfiniBand
2 1 (11.11%) iSCSI
2 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (11.11%) SNMP
2 1 (11.11%) TACACS
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) IAM Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SailPoint Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) SailPoint
2 1 (11.11%) LAMP
2 1 (11.11%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (11.11%) libvirt
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (33.33%) Use Case
2 2 (22.22%) ITSM
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 1 (11.11%) API Development
3 1 (11.11%) Build Automation
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Defect Management
3 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Open Source
3 1 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (11.11%) Ceph
3 1 (11.11%) IAG
3 1 (11.11%) iptables
3 1 (11.11%) KVM
3 1 (11.11%) Lustre
3 1 (11.11%) NFS
3 1 (11.11%) Samba
3 1 (11.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) HAProxy
2 1 (11.11%) SELinux
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) CyberArk
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Arista
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Infoblox
2 1 (11.11%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) Meraki
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Tenable