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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 348 372
Rank change year-on-year -16 +24 +120
Contract jobs citing SSH 18 9 30
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.066% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.41% 0.66% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 20
10th Percentile £285 £506 £283
25th Percentile £406 £521 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -6.38% +6.09%
75th Percentile £555 £618 £704
90th Percentile £600 £705 £925
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500

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 1,280 1,360 1,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.60% 9.97% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 811 1,281
10th Percentile £263 £255 £206
25th Percentile £406 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £619
90th Percentile £688 £725 £745
England median daily rate £488 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.17% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 72
10th Percentile £20.31 £24.13 £16.18
25th Percentile £22.21 £24.66 £19.86
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.48% +33.66% -1.79%
75th Percentile £27.25 £41.50 £57.63
90th Percentile £90.50 £53.50 £72.25
England median hourly rate £29.44 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.89% -30.00% +143.90%

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 7 February 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 7 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 - 6 £475 -
Central London -10 1 £285 -50.97% 1
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 10 (55.56%) Confluence
2 6 (33.33%) nginx
3 1 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (5.56%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 6 (33.33%) AWS KMS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (33.33%) Route 53
2 6 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) FTP
2 7 (38.89%) DNS
2 7 (38.89%) Firewall
2 7 (38.89%) HTTP
2 7 (38.89%) SMTP
3 6 (33.33%) IMAP
3 6 (33.33%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (16.67%) SNMP
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (11.11%) Ethernet
5 2 (11.11%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (11.11%) SSL
5 2 (11.11%) WAN
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (5.56%) InfiniBand
6 1 (5.56%) iSCSI
6 1 (5.56%) NX-OS
6 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.56%) VLAN
6 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.11%) Apache Hive
3 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 2 (11.11%) Impala
4 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) JIRA
2 8 (44.44%) Git
2 8 (44.44%) Jenkins
3 6 (33.33%) Vagrant
4 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
4 2 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
4 3 (16.67%) Finance
5 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Active Directory Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Cryptography Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) IAM Developer
6 1 (5.56%) SailPoint Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Telecoms Test Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) LDAP
2 2 (11.11%) SailPoint
3 1 (5.56%) LAMP
3 1 (5.56%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (5.56%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Replication
2 3 (16.67%) PKI
3 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.11%) Market Risk
3 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.56%) BYOD
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Linux
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 6 (33.33%) VMS
4 4 (22.22%) Unix
5 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) Change Management
3 7 (38.89%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (38.89%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 6 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 6 (33.33%) Patch Management
5 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) Key Management
7 3 (16.67%) Cryptography
7 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
7 3 (16.67%) Open Source
8 2 (11.11%) Analytics
8 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics
8 2 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
8 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
8 2 (11.11%) Use Case
8 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) PowerShell
1 10 (55.56%) Python
1 10 (55.56%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) Groovy
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 6 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 6 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) CEH
4 2 (11.11%) CISSP
5 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) FIPS 140-2
1 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Docker
2 6 (33.33%) DFS Replication
2 6 (33.33%) Dovecot
2 6 (33.33%) Postfix
2 6 (33.33%) Squid
3 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (11.11%) HDFS
5 1 (5.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (5.56%) Ceph
5 1 (5.56%) iptables
5 1 (5.56%) KVM
5 1 (5.56%) Lustre
5 1 (5.56%) NFS
5 1 (5.56%) Samba
5 1 (5.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Terraform
2 6 (33.33%) Grafana
2 6 (33.33%) Nessus
2 6 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 6 (33.33%) Proxmox
3 3 (16.67%) Ansible
4 2 (11.11%) Kibana
4 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.56%) HAProxy
5 1 (5.56%) SELinux
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) ServiceNow
2 6 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) Thales
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Meraki
4 1 (5.56%) VMware