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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 343 372
Rank change year-on-year -39 +29 +115
Contract jobs citing SSH 13 10 27
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.083% 0.074% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.98% 0.74% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 18
10th Percentile £419 £506 £271
25th Percentile £439 £521 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £519
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +5.97% -6.28%
75th Percentile £542 £618 £844
90th Percentile £550 £705 £925
England median daily rate £500 £523 £450
% change year-on-year -4.31% +16.11% -

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 1,326 1,357 1,853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.47% 10.05% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 861 821 1,207
10th Percentile £258 £255 £206
25th Percentile £404 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £625
90th Percentile £694 £738 £750
England median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.80% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 14 71
10th Percentile £20.01 £23.91 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.65 £24.66 £19.73
Median hourly rate £25.31 £33.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.01% +35.00% -2.76%
75th Percentile £28.47 £43.00 £54.63
90th Percentile £93.88 £58.90 £72.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £33.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.74% -28.95% +138.93%

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
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 21 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 - 4 - -
West London - 1 - -
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 6 (46.15%) Confluence
2 4 (30.77%) nginx
3 1 (7.69%) Apache
3 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.69%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
2 4 (30.77%) AWS KMS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (30.77%) Route 53
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) FTP
2 5 (38.46%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) Firewall
3 4 (30.77%) HTTP
3 4 (30.77%) IMAP
3 4 (30.77%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (30.77%) SMTP
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (15.38%) Ethernet
4 2 (15.38%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (15.38%) WAN
5 1 (7.69%) DHCP
5 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
5 1 (7.69%) LAN
5 1 (7.69%) SNMP
5 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.69%) VLAN
5 1 (7.69%) VPN
5 1 (7.69%) Wireless
5 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) JIRA
2 4 (30.77%) Git
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) Vagrant
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Active Directory Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IAM Developer
4 1 (7.69%) SailPoint Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) LDAP
2 2 (15.38%) SailPoint
3 1 (7.69%) LAMP
3 1 (7.69%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (7.69%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) BYOD
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Ubuntu
2 4 (30.77%) Unix
2 4 (30.77%) VMS
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Change Management
1 5 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
2 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Patch Management
2 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) ITSM
4 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (15.38%) Use Case
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
5 1 (7.69%) Manual Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Release Management
5 1 (7.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
1 6 (46.15%) Python
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Groovy
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
1 4 (30.77%) DFS Replication
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
1 4 (30.77%) Dovecot
1 4 (30.77%) Postfix
1 4 (30.77%) Squid
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) Ceph
3 1 (7.69%) iptables
3 1 (7.69%) KVM
3 1 (7.69%) Lustre
3 1 (7.69%) NFS
3 1 (7.69%) Samba
3 1 (7.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Grafana
2 4 (30.77%) Nessus
2 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
2 4 (30.77%) Proxmox
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) HAProxy
3 1 (7.69%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Jaspersoft
1 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) CyberArk
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Meraki
3 1 (7.69%) Tenable
3 1 (7.69%) VMware