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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 320 362
Rank change year-on-year -89 +42 +92
Contract jobs citing SSH 7 22 34
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.038% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.49% 1.75% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 24
10th Percentile £475 £346 £275
25th Percentile £494 £463 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.79% +20.52%
75th Percentile £669 £575 £589
90th Percentile £725 £640 £839
England median daily rate £663 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +32.50% -6.54% +20.77%

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 1,443 1,260 1,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.85% 10.40% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 949 811 1,128
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £412 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £709 £713 £738
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 52
10th Percentile £16.04 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.28 £24.66 £16.71
Median hourly rate £25.63 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -33.86% +62.82% -34.87%
75th Percentile £38.38 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £61.85 £60.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.39% -3.98% +134.40%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -19 1 £475 -25.78%
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS KMS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) X.509
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Senior
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) SPIFFE
2 2 (28.57%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) LDAP
3 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) CMDB
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Key Management
2 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (28.57%) Runbook
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (14.29%) API Development
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Security Patching
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) OpenSSH
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) IAG
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Arista
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Tenable