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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 332 364
Rank change year-on-year -89 +32 +79
Contract jobs citing SSH 28 41 30
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.69% 2.96% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 27 16
10th Percentile £460 £285 £519
25th Percentile £477 £356 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +13.05% -11.63% +7.50%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £573
90th Percentile £659 £660 £597
England median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £49.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.75 - -

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 1,661 1,384 1,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.21% 10.28% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 888 991
10th Percentile £300 £286 £252
25th Percentile £413 £400 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £625
90th Percentile £728 £711 £723
England median daily rate £500 £492 £505
% change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 34 25
10th Percentile £19.39 £19.01 £20.00
25th Percentile £19.50 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +17.38% +4.01% -31.44%
75th Percentile £53.75 £49.38 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.25 £61.95 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.11 £42.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -36.21% -24.77% -

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 August 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 August 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 -18 5 £513 +10.10%
South London -20 2 - - 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 7 (25.00%) Confluence
2 6 (21.43%) nginx
3 4 (14.29%) SharePoint
4 2 (7.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) AWS
2 17 (60.71%) Azure
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (21.43%) GCP
3 6 (21.43%) SaaS
3 6 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (17.86%) GitHub
5 4 (14.29%) AWS KMS
5 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (7.14%) Route 53
7 2 (7.14%) Sentry
8 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) HTTPS
2 5 (17.86%) DNS
2 5 (17.86%) TCP/IP
3 4 (14.29%) OpenVPN
4 3 (10.71%) Firewall
4 3 (10.71%) HTTP
4 3 (10.71%) SSL
5 2 (7.14%) FTP
5 2 (7.14%) IMAP
5 2 (7.14%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (7.14%) SMTP
5 2 (7.14%) VPN
5 2 (7.14%) X.509
6 1 (3.57%) 4G
6 1 (3.57%) 5G
6 1 (3.57%) DHCP
6 1 (3.57%) IPv4
6 1 (3.57%) Network Security
6 1 (3.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.14%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) Metadata
4 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
4 1 (3.57%) Redis
4 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) GitLab
3 2 (7.14%) Vagrant
4 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.57%) Selenium
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) CyberArk Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Database Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Database Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (60.71%) Terraform
2 4 (14.29%) boto
2 4 (14.29%) OpenTofu
2 4 (14.29%) REST
3 3 (10.71%) JSON
3 3 (10.71%) LDAP
3 3 (10.71%) SPIFFE
4 2 (7.14%) Kafka
4 2 (7.14%) OAuth
5 1 (3.57%) Django
5 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.57%) Flask
5 1 (3.57%) Jinja
5 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.57%) Pandas
5 1 (3.57%) Playwright
5 1 (3.57%) pytest
5 1 (3.57%) SailPoint
5 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 7 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (17.86%) PKI
4 3 (10.71%) Client/Server
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 3 (10.71%) Public Cloud
4 3 (10.71%) Replication
5 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 18 (64.29%) Linux
2 10 (35.71%) Windows
3 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 3 (10.71%) Ubuntu
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (7.14%) Unix
6 2 (7.14%) VMS
7 1 (3.57%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (28.57%) Privileged Access Management
3 7 (25.00%) Secrets Management
4 5 (17.86%) Change Management
4 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
4 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (17.86%) Runbook
5 4 (14.29%) Agile
5 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 4 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (10.71%) Key Management
6 3 (10.71%) Patch Management
6 3 (10.71%) RBAC
6 3 (10.71%) Validation
7 2 (7.14%) Cryptography
7 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (7.14%) Migration
7 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 11 (39.29%) PowerShell
3 7 (25.00%) SQL
4 5 (17.86%) Java
5 4 (14.29%) Bash
6 3 (10.71%) Go
7 2 (7.14%) Groovy
8 1 (3.57%) C++
8 1 (3.57%) Korn
8 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Azure Certification
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) CISSP
3 2 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (3.57%) CISM
4 1 (3.57%) CRISC
4 1 (3.57%) LFCS
4 1 (3.57%) RHCE
4 1 (3.57%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) NIST
2 2 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) SLA
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.29%) Docker
3 2 (7.14%) DFS Replication
3 2 (7.14%) Dovecot
3 2 (7.14%) OpenSSH
3 2 (7.14%) Postfix
3 2 (7.14%) Squid
3 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.57%) Ceph
4 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) Ansible
2 5 (17.86%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
4 3 (10.71%) SELinux
5 2 (7.14%) Nessus
5 2 (7.14%) Proxmox
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.57%) Puppet
6 1 (3.57%) WMI
6 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) ServiceNow
2 12 (42.86%) CyberArk
3 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
4 6 (21.43%) Oracle
5 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
6 2 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (7.14%) Splunk
6 2 (7.14%) VMware
7 1 (3.57%) Arista
7 1 (3.57%) BMC
7 1 (3.57%) Ciena
7 1 (3.57%) Cisco
7 1 (3.57%) Confluent
7 1 (3.57%) Google
7 1 (3.57%) Juniper
7 1 (3.57%) Nokia
7 1 (3.57%) Okta
7 1 (3.57%) Ping Identity
7 1 (3.57%) Snow