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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 348 364
Rank change year-on-year -35 +16 +125
Contract jobs citing SSH 11 9 28
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.069% 0.067% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.83% 0.67% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 19
10th Percentile £424 £506 £273
25th Percentile £450 £521 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £555 £618 £763
90th Percentile £679 £705 £925
England median daily rate £513 £523 £405
% change year-on-year -1.91% +29.01% -9.60%

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 1,325 1,340 1,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.34% 9.99% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 869 831 1,207
10th Percentile £256 £255 £206
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £625
90th Percentile £694 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 13 71
10th Percentile £20.69 - £14.48
25th Percentile £22.21 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +48.94% -8.60%
75th Percentile £28.88 £43.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.00 £60.35 £61.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +1.43% -22.22% +133.16%

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 28 February 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
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 28 February 2026. 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 - 2 - -
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 3 (27.27%) Confluence
2 2 (18.18%) nginx
3 1 (9.09%) Apache
3 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 2 (18.18%) AWS KMS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Route 53
2 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
1 3 (27.27%) FTP
2 2 (18.18%) HTTP
2 2 (18.18%) IMAP
2 2 (18.18%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (18.18%) SMTP
2 2 (18.18%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (18.18%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
3 1 (9.09%) InfiniBand
3 1 (9.09%) Kerberos
3 1 (9.09%) LAN
3 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
3 1 (9.09%) SNMP
3 1 (9.09%) TACACS
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Consultant
1 2 (18.18%) Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Consultant
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IAM Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms Test Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) LDAP
2 2 (18.18%) SailPoint
3 1 (9.09%) LAMP
3 1 (9.09%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (9.09%) libvirt
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Replication
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
3 1 (9.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Unix
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
3 2 (18.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Change Management
1 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
1 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (27.27%) Use Case
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
2 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) ITSM
2 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Patch Management
2 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Project Management
3 1 (9.09%) Service Management
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) Groovy
4 1 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) DFS Replication
2 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Dovecot
2 2 (18.18%) Postfix
2 2 (18.18%) Squid
3 1 (9.09%) Ceph
3 1 (9.09%) IAG
3 1 (9.09%) iptables
3 1 (9.09%) KVM
3 1 (9.09%) Lustre
3 1 (9.09%) NFS
3 1 (9.09%) Samba
3 1 (9.09%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Nessus
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
2 2 (18.18%) Proxmox
3 1 (9.09%) HAProxy
3 1 (9.09%) SELinux
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) CyberArk
2 2 (18.18%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Arista
3 1 (9.09%) F5
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
3 1 (9.09%) Juniper
3 1 (9.09%) Meraki
3 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) Tenable