SSH Contracts in London

Secure Shell (SSH)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring SSH skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SSH over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 371 470
Rank change year-on-year +37 +99 +41
Contract jobs citing SSH 26 36 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.20% 0.063%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.93% 2.14% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 6
10th Percentile £286 £275 £410
25th Percentile £363 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £533 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% -4.39% -20.36%
75th Percentile £570 £573 £561
90th Percentile £612 £600 £581
England median daily rate £475 £533 £413
% change year-on-year -10.88% +29.21% -31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.30
Median hourly rate - - £18.24
75th Percentile - - £19.18
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £18.24
% change year-on-year - - -76.84%

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 1,349 1,684 2,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.29% 9.56% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,115 1,865
10th Percentile £263 £226 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £624 £619 £670
90th Percentile £716 £738 £775
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 49 48
10th Percentile £19.14 £14.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.78 £16.86 £22.75
Median hourly rate £33.75 £23.80 £38.27
Median % change year-on-year +41.81% -37.81% +39.16%
75th Percentile £49.69 £41.25 £69.63
90th Percentile £62.25 £60.00 £76.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -18.27% +121.59% -17.18%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SSH in London

SSH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSH in London.

Daily rate trend for SSH in London

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in London

SSH
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSH in London.

Hourly rate trend for SSH in London

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 3 July 2025. 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 +8 4 £641 +2.48% 4
SSH
England

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) Apache
1 4 (15.38%) Apache Spark
1 4 (15.38%) Jupyter
2 2 (7.69%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub
3 2 (7.69%) Route 53
3 2 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) OCI
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
2 6 (23.08%) Internet
3 5 (19.23%) HTTP
3 5 (19.23%) HTTPS
3 5 (19.23%) SMTP
4 4 (15.38%) Network Security
4 4 (15.38%) SNMP
4 4 (15.38%) SSL
4 4 (15.38%) Telnet
5 3 (11.54%) DNS
5 3 (11.54%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (11.54%) Wireshark
6 2 (7.69%) DHCP
6 2 (7.69%) Firewall
7 1 (3.85%) DMZ
7 1 (3.85%) DSLAM
7 1 (3.85%) NAS
7 1 (3.85%) SAN
7 1 (3.85%) VLAN
7 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Apache Hive
1 4 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (15.38%) Delta Lake
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) MariaDB
2 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Git
1 7 (26.92%) JIRA
2 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 4 (15.38%) RStudio
4 3 (11.54%) GitLab
4 3 (11.54%) Gradle
4 3 (11.54%) JMeter
4 3 (11.54%) Selenium
5 1 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 15 (57.69%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Network Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Audio Visual Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Commissioning Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Automation Tester
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Java Automation Tester
5 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Network Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Tester
6 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) QA Automation Tester
6 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) JSON
2 5 (19.23%) LDAP
3 4 (15.38%) pydantic
3 4 (15.38%) PySpark
3 4 (15.38%) YAML
4 3 (11.54%) Kafka
4 3 (11.54%) WireMock
4 3 (11.54%) XML
5 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Onboarding
2 4 (15.38%) Data Structures
2 4 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (15.38%) Reference Data
3 3 (11.54%) Digital Signage
3 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 3 (11.54%) Replication
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (23.08%) Unix
3 5 (19.23%) Windows
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (7.69%) CentOS
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.69%) SUSE
4 2 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) Data Security
3 7 (26.92%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (23.08%) Configuration Management
4 6 (23.08%) Data Ingestion
4 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (19.23%) DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
6 4 (15.38%) Cryptography
6 4 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (15.38%) Key Management
6 4 (15.38%) Problem Management
6 4 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (15.38%) Scrum
6 4 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (11.54%) Data Analysis
7 3 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (11.54%) Service Management
7 3 (11.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) Bash
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 6 (23.08%) Java
4 4 (15.38%) ActionScript
4 4 (15.38%) ActionScript 2.0
4 4 (15.38%) Scala
5 2 (7.69%) C
5 2 (7.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) GDPR
2 3 (11.54%) SLA
3 1 (3.85%) GRC
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.85%) NIST
3 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) FreeRADIUS
1 3 (11.54%) iptables
2 2 (7.69%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Ansible
2 5 (19.23%) Puppet
2 5 (19.23%) Terraform
3 3 (11.54%) Cacti
3 3 (11.54%) Grafana
3 3 (11.54%) Nagios
3 3 (11.54%) Netcool
3 3 (11.54%) Packer
3 3 (11.54%) Proxmox
3 3 (11.54%) ZABBIX
4 2 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
4 2 (7.69%) Kibana
4 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (3.85%) Graylog
5 1 (3.85%) logstash
5 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.85%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) VMware
2 4 (15.38%) Databricks
2 4 (15.38%) IBM
2 4 (15.38%) IBM Sterling
3 3 (11.54%) Nokia
3 3 (11.54%) Splunk
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco
5 1 (3.85%) Huawei
5 1 (3.85%) Juniper
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.85%) Qualys
5 1 (3.85%) Tenable