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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 331 362
Rank change year-on-year -91 +31 +39
Contract jobs citing SSH 32 38 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.28% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.95% 2.96% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 12
10th Percentile £460 £283 £525
25th Percentile £496 £350 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -11.63% -8.51%
75th Percentile £684 £600 £563
90th Percentile £725 £648 £592
England median daily rate £538 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +13.16% -9.52% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £49.00 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 1,643 1,285 1,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.12% 9.59% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 821 962
10th Percentile £294 £281 £256
25th Percentile £405 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £624 £630 £636
90th Percentile £725 £711 £725
England median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 36 19
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.66 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.50 - £24.59
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -28.14% +33.33%
75th Percentile £92.50 £39.06 £58.38
90th Percentile £155.00 £59.88 £74.14
England median hourly rate £38.62 £34.00 £57.38
% change year-on-year +13.60% -40.74% +1.57%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -25 6 £513 +19.81% 3
South London -24 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 (21.88%) Confluence
2 6 (18.75%) nginx
3 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
4 3 (9.38%) OpenStack
5 1 (3.13%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) AWS
2 17 (53.13%) Azure
3 9 (28.13%) SaaS
4 8 (25.00%) GCP
5 7 (21.88%) Entra ID
6 6 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (15.63%) GitHub
8 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 2 (6.25%) AWS KMS
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (6.25%) Route 53
9 2 (6.25%) Sentry
10 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (3.13%) PaaS
10 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) HTTPS
2 7 (21.88%) DNS
2 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
3 4 (12.50%) Firewall
3 4 (12.50%) HTTP
3 4 (12.50%) OpenVPN
3 4 (12.50%) SSL
4 2 (6.25%) 4G
4 2 (6.25%) 5G
4 2 (6.25%) FTP
4 2 (6.25%) IMAP
4 2 (6.25%) Kerberos
4 2 (6.25%) Network Security
4 2 (6.25%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (6.25%) SMTP
5 1 (3.13%) Broadband
5 1 (3.13%) DHCP
5 1 (3.13%) MPLS
5 1 (3.13%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (34.38%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (18.75%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.38%) Metadata
3 3 (9.38%) MySQL
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.25%) Redis
5 1 (3.13%) Power BI
5 1 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Git
2 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.50%) JIRA
4 3 (9.38%) GitLab
5 2 (6.25%) Selenium
5 2 (6.25%) Vagrant
6 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Investment Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) CyberArk Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Implementation Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Architect
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Database Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Lead
6 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (50.00%) Terraform
2 8 (25.00%) REST
3 6 (18.75%) LDAP
4 4 (12.50%) boto
4 4 (12.50%) OpenTofu
5 3 (9.38%) Kafka
5 3 (9.38%) RESTful
6 2 (6.25%) CSS
6 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (6.25%) FastAPI
6 2 (6.25%) Flask
6 2 (6.25%) HTML
6 2 (6.25%) Jinja
6 2 (6.25%) OAuth
6 2 (6.25%) Pandas
6 2 (6.25%) Playwright
6 2 (6.25%) pytest
6 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (6.25%) SAML
7 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (59.38%) Onboarding
2 7 (21.88%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.50%) PKI
3 4 (12.50%) Replication
4 3 (9.38%) Client/Server
4 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) CMDB
6 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (3.13%) Cyberattack
6 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (71.88%) Linux
2 13 (40.63%) Windows
3 7 (21.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (18.75%) Windows Server
5 4 (12.50%) Unix
6 3 (9.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (6.25%) VMS
8 1 (3.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) DevOps
2 11 (34.38%) Privileged Access Management
3 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
4 8 (25.00%) Secrets Management
5 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (18.75%) Cloud Security
6 6 (18.75%) RBAC
7 5 (15.63%) Agile
7 5 (15.63%) Change Management
7 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) Runbook
7 5 (15.63%) Zero Trust
8 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 4 (12.50%) Key Management
8 4 (12.50%) Migration
8 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (9.38%) Integration Patterns
9 3 (9.38%) Patch Management
9 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) Python
2 13 (40.63%) PowerShell
3 8 (25.00%) SQL
4 5 (15.63%) Bash
4 5 (15.63%) Java
5 2 (6.25%) Groovy
5 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.13%) C++
6 1 (3.13%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.25%) CISSP
5 2 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.13%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (3.13%) CISM
6 1 (3.13%) CRISC
6 1 (3.13%) LFCS
6 1 (3.13%) RHCE
6 1 (3.13%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) NIST
2 3 (9.38%) QA
3 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.25%) SLA
4 1 (3.13%) NCSC
4 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) Docker
3 4 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (6.25%) DFS Replication
4 2 (6.25%) Dovecot
4 2 (6.25%) Postfix
4 2 (6.25%) Squid
4 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.13%) Ceph
5 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Ansible
2 6 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (12.50%) Grafana
3 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.38%) SELinux
5 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.25%) Nessus
5 2 (6.25%) Proxmox
6 1 (3.13%) Puppet
6 1 (3.13%) WMI
6 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) ServiceNow
2 15 (46.88%) CyberArk
3 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
4 7 (21.88%) Oracle
5 5 (15.63%) Red Hat
6 3 (9.38%) Splunk
7 2 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (6.25%) IBM
7 2 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (6.25%) Okta
7 2 (6.25%) VMware
8 1 (3.13%) Arista
8 1 (3.13%) BMC
8 1 (3.13%) Cisco
8 1 (3.13%) Confluent
8 1 (3.13%) Google
8 1 (3.13%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (3.13%) Juniper
8 1 (3.13%) Nokia
8 1 (3.13%) Snow