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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 336 359
Rank change year-on-year -60 +23 +112
Contract jobs citing SSH 8 18 30
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.045% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.56% 1.36% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 19
10th Percentile £429 £463 £273
25th Percentile £463 £500 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% +8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £609 £597
90th Percentile £687 £641 £925
England median daily rate £575 £530 £540
% change year-on-year +8.49% -1.85% +20.54%

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 1,425 1,327 1,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.05% 10.57% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 935 851 1,149
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% - -10.51%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £700 £725 £739
England median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 60
10th Percentile £19.78 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.46 £25.60 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.31 £43.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.15% +98.86% -52.17%
75th Percentile £28.92 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £89.75 £62.65 £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.38 £36.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.10% -8.75% +112.54%

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 April 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 30 April 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 -12 1 £475 -25.81%
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 1 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
1 2 (25.00%) X.509
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) FTP
2 1 (12.50%) InfiniBand
2 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
2 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) SNMP
2 1 (12.50%) TACACS
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Analyst
1 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Senior
1 1 (12.50%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Test Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) SPIFFE
2 1 (12.50%) LAMP
2 1 (12.50%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) libvirt
2 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Build Automation
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Key Management
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Open Source
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Stability
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Go
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) OpenSSH
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Ceph
2 1 (12.50%) IAG
2 1 (12.50%) iptables
2 1 (12.50%) KVM
2 1 (12.50%) Lustre
2 1 (12.50%) NFS
2 1 (12.50%) Samba
2 1 (12.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) HAProxy
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (12.50%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Arista
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Tenable