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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 338 360
Rank change year-on-year -83 +22 +90
Contract jobs citing SSH 24 34 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.50% 2.47% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 18
10th Percentile £460 £284 £440
25th Percentile £485 £350 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £475 £534
Median % change year-on-year +13.11% -11.05% +0.99%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £569
90th Percentile £728 £665 £596
England median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +23.53%

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 1,605 1,376 1,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.99% 10.17% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 896 1,021
10th Percentile £305 £287 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £725 £716 £703
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +0.97% -0.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 33 31
10th Percentile £19.34 £20.32 £16.24
25th Percentile £19.50 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% +5.67% -34.87%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.05 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.75 £44.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -36.93% -19.82% -0.23%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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
Central London -22 5 £513 +10.10% 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 5 (20.83%) Confluence
2 4 (16.67%) nginx
2 4 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) AWS
2 15 (62.50%) Azure
3 6 (25.00%) GCP
3 6 (25.00%) SaaS
4 5 (20.83%) GitHub
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 4 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.33%) AWS KMS
7 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (8.33%) Sentry
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) HTTPS
2 4 (16.67%) OpenVPN
2 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (12.50%) SSL
4 2 (8.33%) VPN
4 2 (8.33%) X.509
5 1 (4.17%) DNS
5 1 (4.17%) Firewall
5 1 (4.17%) Network Security
5 1 (4.17%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) CyberArk Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Database Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Database Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) boto
2 3 (12.50%) JSON
2 3 (12.50%) REST
2 3 (12.50%) SPIFFE
3 2 (8.33%) LDAP
3 2 (8.33%) OAuth
4 1 (4.17%) Kafka
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.17%) OpenID
4 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
4 1 (4.17%) SAML
4 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (58.33%) Onboarding
2 7 (29.17%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (20.83%) PKI
4 3 (12.50%) Client/Server
4 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) CMDB
6 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (54.17%) Linux
2 7 (29.17%) Windows
3 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.17%) CentOS
5 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.17%) Unix
5 1 (4.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) DevOps
2 8 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 7 (29.17%) Secrets Management
4 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.83%) Runbook
6 3 (12.50%) Change Management
6 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Key Management
6 3 (12.50%) RBAC
7 2 (8.33%) Auto-Scaling
7 2 (8.33%) Build Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (8.33%) Migration
7 2 (8.33%) Performance Management
7 2 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (8.33%) Service Delivery
7 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 4 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) Bash
5 2 (8.33%) Go
5 2 (8.33%) SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.33%) CISSP
4 2 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (4.17%) CISM
5 1 (4.17%) CRISC
5 1 (4.17%) LFCS
5 1 (4.17%) RHCE
5 1 (4.17%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) NIST
2 2 (8.33%) SLA
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.33%) OpenSSH
3 1 (4.17%) Ceph
3 1 (4.17%) Docker
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) IAG
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (62.50%) Terraform
2 10 (41.67%) Ansible
3 5 (20.83%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
5 3 (12.50%) SELinux
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) ServiceNow
2 11 (45.83%) CyberArk
3 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 6 (25.00%) Oracle
5 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
6 2 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (8.33%) Splunk
7 1 (4.17%) Arista
7 1 (4.17%) Cisco
7 1 (4.17%) Confluent
7 1 (4.17%) F5
7 1 (4.17%) Google
7 1 (4.17%) Infoblox
7 1 (4.17%) Juniper
7 1 (4.17%) Okta
7 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.17%) Ping Identity
7 1 (4.17%) Snow
7 1 (4.17%) VMware