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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 361 362
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 +131
Contract jobs citing SSH 29 6 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.042% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.31% 0.43% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 19
10th Percentile £305 £537 £285
25th Percentile £417 £576 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £640 £588
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +8.94% +5.62%
75th Percentile £600 £705 £615
90th Percentile £668 £744 £925
England median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -13.04%

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 1,253 1,411 1,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.74% 9.90% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 806 869 1,243
10th Percentile £300 £265 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £628 £628
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £492 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -1.60% +0.50% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 59
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £18.93
25th Percentile - £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%
75th Percentile £31.13 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.75 £75.31 £76.50
England median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +10.00% -38.04% +121.53%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 - 10 £475 -
Central London -1 2 £375 -35.44%
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 (55.17%) Confluence
2 10 (34.48%) nginx
3 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.45%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.45%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) AWS
2 12 (41.38%) Azure
3 10 (34.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (34.48%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (34.48%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (34.48%) Amazon ELB
3 10 (34.48%) Amazon S3
3 10 (34.48%) AWS KMS
3 10 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (34.48%) Route 53
3 10 (34.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub
4 2 (6.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (41.38%) Firewall
1 12 (41.38%) FTP
2 11 (37.93%) DNS
2 11 (37.93%) HTTP
2 11 (37.93%) SMTP
3 10 (34.48%) IMAP
3 10 (34.48%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (10.34%) SNMP
4 3 (10.34%) SSL
4 3 (10.34%) WAN
5 2 (6.90%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (6.90%) Ethernet
5 2 (6.90%) Kerberos
5 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
5 2 (6.90%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.90%) VLAN
6 1 (3.45%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (3.45%) InfiniBand
6 1 (3.45%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (34.48%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (34.48%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.90%) Apache Hive
3 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.90%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.90%) Impala
3 2 (6.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (55.17%) JIRA
2 13 (44.83%) Git
3 12 (41.38%) Jenkins
4 10 (34.48%) Vagrant
5 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.90%) TeamCity
6 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 17 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (31.03%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.79%) Finance
5 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (34.48%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (34.48%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 10 (34.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 10 (34.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (31.03%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 8 (27.59%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (27.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Automation Specialist
6 2 (6.90%) Cryptography Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Electronic Trading Support
7 1 (3.45%) IAM Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Messaging Support
7 1 (3.45%) SailPoint Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Telecoms Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) LDAP
2 2 (6.90%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.45%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) LAMP
3 1 (3.45%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (3.45%) libvirt
3 1 (3.45%) Middleware
3 1 (3.45%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Replication
2 3 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (10.34%) PKI
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Market Risk
3 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) Tandem
4 1 (3.45%) BYOD
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (62.07%) Linux
1 18 (62.07%) Windows
2 10 (34.48%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (34.48%) Ubuntu
2 10 (34.48%) VMS
3 6 (20.69%) Unix
4 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) DevOps
2 12 (41.38%) Change Management
2 12 (41.38%) CI/CD
2 12 (41.38%) Patch Management
3 11 (37.93%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (37.93%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (34.48%) Cloud Security
4 10 (34.48%) Configuration Management
5 8 (27.59%) Key Management
6 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.24%) Cryptography
7 5 (17.24%) Incident Response
8 4 (13.79%) Information Security
9 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
9 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (10.34%) Open Source
9 3 (10.34%) Use Case
10 2 (6.90%) Analytics
10 2 (6.90%) Data Visualisation
10 2 (6.90%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 14 (48.28%) PowerShell
2 14 (48.28%) SQL
3 10 (34.48%) Groovy
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) Java
5 1 (3.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) Degree
2 10 (34.48%) AWS Certification
2 10 (34.48%) Azure Certification
3 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
4 4 (13.79%) CISSP
5 3 (10.34%) CEH
6 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.45%) CCNP
7 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (3.45%) CISM
7 1 (3.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.90%) FIPS 140-2
3 1 (3.45%) GRC
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (41.38%) Docker
2 10 (34.48%) DFS Replication
2 10 (34.48%) Dovecot
2 10 (34.48%) Postfix
2 10 (34.48%) Squid
3 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.90%) HDFS
5 1 (3.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (3.45%) Ceph
5 1 (3.45%) Firmware
5 1 (3.45%) iptables
5 1 (3.45%) KVM
5 1 (3.45%) Lustre
5 1 (3.45%) NFS
5 1 (3.45%) Samba
5 1 (3.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Terraform
2 10 (34.48%) Grafana
2 10 (34.48%) Nessus
2 10 (34.48%) Prometheus
2 10 (34.48%) Proxmox
3 6 (20.69%) Ansible
4 2 (6.90%) Kibana
4 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.45%) HAProxy
5 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.45%) SELinux
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) ServiceNow
2 10 (34.48%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.79%) CyberArk
5 2 (6.90%) Cisco
5 2 (6.90%) IBM
5 2 (6.90%) Splunk
5 2 (6.90%) Thales
6 1 (3.45%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (3.45%) Meraki
6 1 (3.45%) Qualys
6 1 (3.45%) Solace
6 1 (3.45%) Tenable
6 1 (3.45%) TIBCO
6 1 (3.45%) VMware