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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 361 468
Rank change year-on-year +26 +107 +59
Contract jobs citing SSH 18 30 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.17% 0.092%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.37% 1.75% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 16
10th Percentile £463 £273 £420
25th Percentile £500 £398 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% +8.00% -23.50%
75th Percentile £609 £597 £581
90th Percentile £641 £925 £632
England median daily rate £523 £540 £448
% change year-on-year -3.24% +20.54% -27.01%

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 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +4 4 £640 -24.68% 7
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 6 (33.33%) Apache
1 6 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 6 (33.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) HTTPS
1 4 (22.22%) SSL
2 3 (16.67%) Network Security
2 3 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (16.67%) SNMP
2 3 (16.67%) Telnet
2 3 (16.67%) Wireshark
3 2 (11.11%) DHCP
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.56%) DSLAM
4 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 6 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 6 (33.33%) Power BI
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) MariaDB
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) JIRA
2 8 (44.44%) Git
3 6 (33.33%) RStudio
4 3 (16.67%) GitLab
4 3 (16.67%) Gradle
4 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (16.67%) JMeter
4 3 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 11 (61.11%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 2 (11.11%) Java Automation Tester
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Network Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Tester
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Fibre Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) QA Automation Tester
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) JSON
2 6 (33.33%) pydantic
2 6 (33.33%) PySpark
2 6 (33.33%) YAML
3 3 (16.67%) Kafka
3 3 (16.67%) WireMock
3 3 (16.67%) XML
4 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 6 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (33.33%) Reference Data
2 4 (22.22%) Onboarding
3 3 (16.67%) Replication
4 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Unix
2 5 (27.78%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) CentOS
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (11.11%) SUSE
3 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
1 10 (55.56%) Data Security
2 8 (44.44%) Data Ingestion
3 7 (38.89%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 6 (33.33%) Scrum
5 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
5 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
6 4 (22.22%) Cryptography
6 4 (22.22%) Key Management
6 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
6 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
7 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (16.67%) Event Correlation
7 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (16.67%) Service Management
7 3 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) SQL
3 8 (44.44%) Bash
4 6 (33.33%) Java
4 6 (33.33%) Scala
5 4 (22.22%) ActionScript
5 4 (22.22%) ActionScript 2.0
6 2 (11.11%) C
6 2 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) GDPR
2 3 (16.67%) SLA
3 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) FreeRADIUS
1 3 (16.67%) iptables
2 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
1 5 (27.78%) Puppet
2 3 (16.67%) Cacti
2 3 (16.67%) Grafana
2 3 (16.67%) Nagios
2 3 (16.67%) Netcool
2 3 (16.67%) Proxmox
2 3 (16.67%) ZABBIX
3 2 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (11.11%) Terraform
4 1 (5.56%) Graylog
4 1 (5.56%) logstash
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Databricks
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 4 (22.22%) IBM
3 4 (22.22%) IBM Sterling
4 3 (16.67%) Nokia
4 3 (16.67%) Splunk
5 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco
6 1 (5.56%) Huawei
6 1 (5.56%) Juniper
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto