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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 331 369
Rank change year-on-year -88 +38 +69
Contract jobs citing SSH 33 38 28
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.00% 2.86% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 15
10th Percentile £460 £283 £525
25th Percentile £492 £350 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -12.04% -8.09%
75th Percentile £636 £600 £574
90th Percentile £714 £648 £598
England median daily rate £537 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +13.05% -9.52% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £49.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.75 - -

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 1,647 1,328 1,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.10% 9.85% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 847 988
10th Percentile £294 £282 £256
25th Percentile £404 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £715 £711 £725
England median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 35 19
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.63 £23.04
25th Percentile £22.50 - £23.99
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -28.14% +33.33%
75th Percentile £95.00 £42.38 £55.88
90th Percentile £155.03 £60.35 £66.38
England median hourly rate £44.25 £39.66 £57.35
% change year-on-year +11.57% -30.85% +1.52%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -27 6 £513 +19.81% 2
South London -15 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 7 (21.21%) Confluence
2 6 (18.18%) nginx
3 4 (12.12%) SharePoint
4 3 (9.09%) OpenStack
5 1 (3.03%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 22 (66.67%) AWS
2 18 (54.55%) Azure
3 8 (24.24%) SaaS
4 7 (21.21%) GCP
5 6 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 6 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (15.15%) GitHub
7 4 (12.12%) AWS KMS
8 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
9 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (6.06%) Route 53
9 2 (6.06%) Sentry
10 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (30.30%) HTTPS
2 7 (21.21%) DNS
2 7 (21.21%) TCP/IP
3 4 (12.12%) Firewall
3 4 (12.12%) HTTP
3 4 (12.12%) OpenVPN
3 4 (12.12%) SSL
4 3 (9.09%) X.509
5 2 (6.06%) 4G
5 2 (6.06%) 5G
5 2 (6.06%) FTP
5 2 (6.06%) IMAP
5 2 (6.06%) Network Security
5 2 (6.06%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (6.06%) SMTP
6 1 (3.03%) Broadband
6 1 (3.03%) DHCP
6 1 (3.03%) Kerberos
6 1 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.09%) MySQL
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.06%) Metadata
4 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.06%) Redis
5 1 (3.03%) Power BI
5 1 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.12%) JIRA
4 3 (9.09%) GitLab
5 2 (6.06%) Selenium
5 2 (6.06%) Vagrant
6 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
2 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Banking
4 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) CyberArk Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Administrator
6 1 (3.03%) Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Architect
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Database Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Lead
6 1 (3.03%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (54.55%) Terraform
2 7 (21.21%) REST
3 5 (15.15%) LDAP
4 4 (12.12%) boto
4 4 (12.12%) OpenTofu
5 3 (9.09%) JSON
5 3 (9.09%) Kafka
5 3 (9.09%) RESTful
5 3 (9.09%) SPIFFE
6 2 (6.06%) CSS
6 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (6.06%) Flask
6 2 (6.06%) HTML
6 2 (6.06%) Jinja
6 2 (6.06%) OAuth
6 2 (6.06%) Pandas
6 2 (6.06%) Playwright
6 2 (6.06%) pytest
6 2 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (6.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (54.55%) Onboarding
2 7 (21.21%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (18.18%) PKI
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
4 4 (12.12%) Replication
5 3 (9.09%) Client/Server
5 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
6 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (3.03%) CMDB
7 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (3.03%) Cyberattack
7 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (66.67%) Linux
2 12 (36.36%) Windows
3 6 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (15.15%) Windows Server
5 4 (12.12%) Unix
6 3 (9.09%) Ubuntu
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (6.06%) VMS
8 1 (3.03%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) DevOps
2 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
2 10 (30.30%) Privileged Access Management
3 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (24.24%) Secrets Management
5 6 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 6 (18.18%) Runbook
6 5 (15.15%) Agile
6 5 (15.15%) Change Management
6 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (15.15%) Key Management
6 5 (15.15%) RBAC
7 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
7 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (12.12%) Validation
7 4 (12.12%) Zero Trust
8 3 (9.09%) API Integration
8 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (9.09%) Migration
8 3 (9.09%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) Python
2 14 (42.42%) PowerShell
3 8 (24.24%) SQL
4 6 (18.18%) Bash
5 5 (15.15%) Java
6 3 (9.09%) Go
7 2 (6.06%) Groovy
7 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.03%) C++
8 1 (3.03%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) Azure Certification
2 5 (15.15%) Degree
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
4 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.06%) CISSP
5 2 (6.06%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.03%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (3.03%) CISM
6 1 (3.03%) CRISC
6 1 (3.03%) LFCS
6 1 (3.03%) RHCE
6 1 (3.03%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) NIST
2 3 (9.09%) QA
3 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.06%) SLA
4 1 (3.03%) NCSC
4 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.15%) Docker
3 4 (12.12%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (6.06%) DFS Replication
4 2 (6.06%) Dovecot
4 2 (6.06%) OpenSSH
4 2 (6.06%) Postfix
4 2 (6.06%) Squid
4 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.03%) Ceph
5 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (36.36%) Ansible
2 6 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (12.12%) Grafana
3 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.09%) SELinux
5 2 (6.06%) Nessus
5 2 (6.06%) Proxmox
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.03%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) WMI
6 1 (3.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) ServiceNow
2 14 (42.42%) CyberArk
3 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 7 (21.21%) Oracle
5 5 (15.15%) Red Hat
6 3 (9.09%) Splunk
7 2 (6.06%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (6.06%) IBM
7 2 (6.06%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (6.06%) Okta
7 2 (6.06%) VMware
8 1 (3.03%) BMC
8 1 (3.03%) Cisco
8 1 (3.03%) Confluent
8 1 (3.03%) Google
8 1 (3.03%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (3.03%) Juniper
8 1 (3.03%) Nokia
8 1 (3.03%) Ping Identity
8 1 (3.03%) Snow