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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 338 368
Rank change year-on-year -61 +30 +105
Contract jobs citing SSH 8 17 28
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.046% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.57% 1.28% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 19
10th Percentile £438 £463 £273
25th Percentile £486 £491 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £587 £763
90th Percentile £706 £641 £925
England median daily rate £613 £511 £544
% change year-on-year +19.80% -6.02% +21.97%

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 1,395 1,323 1,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.06% 10.45% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 855 1,157
10th Percentile £300 £265 £206
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £607
90th Percentile £700 £733 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 15 65
10th Percentile £20.23 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.84 £26.54 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.07% +93.18% -38.89%
75th Percentile £33.90 £51.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £84.50 £62.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £43.85 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.94% -6.25% +111.30%

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 16 April 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
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 1 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
1 2 (25.00%) X.509
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) FTP
2 1 (12.50%) InfiniBand
2 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
2 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) SNMP
2 1 (12.50%) TACACS
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Test Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) SPIFFE
2 1 (12.50%) LAMP
2 1 (12.50%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) libvirt
2 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Build Automation
1 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (25.00%) Key Management
2 1 (12.50%) API Development
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (12.50%) Defect Management
2 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (12.50%) Open Source
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Stability
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (12.50%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
2 1 (12.50%) Runbook
2 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
3 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (25.00%) Go
5 1 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) OpenSSH
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) Ceph
2 1 (12.50%) IAG
2 1 (12.50%) iptables
2 1 (12.50%) KVM
2 1 (12.50%) Lustre
2 1 (12.50%) NFS
2 1 (12.50%) Samba
2 1 (12.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) HAProxy
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (12.50%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Arista
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Tenable