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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 364 404
Rank change year-on-year +39 +40 +136
Contract jobs citing SSH 37 18 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.93% 1.20% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 16
10th Percentile £283 - £285
25th Percentile £350 £525 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £548 £488
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +12.31% -21.37%
75th Percentile £575 £579 £595
90th Percentile £650 £677 £615
England median daily rate £475 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -5.00% +14.29% -18.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.30
Median hourly rate - - £18.24
75th Percentile - - £19.18
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £78.00

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 1,261 1,501 2,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.22% 9.57% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 931 1,496
10th Percentile £283 £258 £226
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £630 £631 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £745
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 16 49
10th Percentile £18.82 £24.40 £18.86
25th Percentile - £30.94 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.66% +54.72% +10.42%
75th Percentile £42.75 £65.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £77.54 £80.65
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.87% +1.79% +36.12%

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 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
South London - 10 £475 -
Central London +8 4 £390 -32.17% 1
West London - 2 £350 -
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 16 (43.24%) Confluence
2 12 (32.43%) nginx
3 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (8.11%) AutoCAD
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.70%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) AWS
2 14 (37.84%) Azure
3 12 (32.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 12 (32.43%) Amazon S3
3 12 (32.43%) Route 53
4 11 (29.73%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (27.03%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (27.03%) Amazon ELB
5 10 (27.03%) AWS KMS
5 10 (27.03%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (27.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (8.11%) GCP
6 3 (8.11%) SaaS
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.41%) GitHub
7 2 (5.41%) Serverless
8 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (43.24%) HTTP
1 16 (43.24%) SMTP
2 12 (32.43%) DNS
2 12 (32.43%) Firewall
3 11 (29.73%) FTP
4 10 (27.03%) IMAP
4 10 (27.03%) OpenLDAP
5 7 (18.92%) TCP/IP
6 6 (16.22%) Internet
7 3 (8.11%) SNMP
7 3 (8.11%) SSL
8 2 (5.41%) DMZ
8 2 (5.41%) HTTPS
8 2 (5.41%) Network Security
8 2 (5.41%) SD-WAN
8 2 (5.41%) Telnet
8 2 (5.41%) VLAN
8 2 (5.41%) WAN
9 1 (2.70%) Cisco Wireless
9 1 (2.70%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (27.03%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (27.03%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.41%) Apache Hive
3 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.41%) Impala
4 1 (2.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (43.24%) JIRA
2 15 (40.54%) Jenkins
3 14 (37.84%) Git
4 10 (27.03%) Vagrant
5 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.41%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
General
1 22 (59.46%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
4 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Finance
6 3 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) AWS Engineer
1 11 (29.73%) DevOps Engineer
1 11 (29.73%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (27.03%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 10 (27.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) AWS DevOps
3 9 (24.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Audio Visual Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Network Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Commissioning Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Automation Specialist
7 2 (5.41%) Cryptography Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (40.54%) LDAP
2 2 (5.41%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.70%) Kafka
3 1 (2.70%) Middleware
3 1 (2.70%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) Replication
2 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.81%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.81%) PKI
3 3 (8.11%) Digital Signage
3 3 (8.11%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.41%) Market Risk
4 2 (5.41%) Tandem
5 1 (2.70%) BYOD
5 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (54.05%) Linux
2 18 (48.65%) Windows
3 12 (32.43%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (27.03%) Ubuntu
4 10 (27.03%) VMS
5 6 (16.22%) Unix
6 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) DevOps
2 13 (35.14%) CI/CD
3 12 (32.43%) Change Management
3 12 (32.43%) Patch Management
4 11 (29.73%) Configuration Management
4 11 (29.73%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (27.03%) Cloud Security
5 10 (27.03%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (21.62%) Key Management
6 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.22%) Incident Response
8 5 (13.51%) Cryptography
9 4 (10.81%) Information Security
10 3 (8.11%) Computer Science
10 3 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (8.11%) Kalman Filter
10 3 (8.11%) Open Source
10 3 (8.11%) Use Case
10 3 (8.11%) Validation
11 2 (5.41%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) Python
2 14 (37.84%) PowerShell
2 14 (37.84%) SQL
3 10 (27.03%) Groovy
4 2 (5.41%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Degree
2 11 (29.73%) SC Cleared
2 11 (29.73%) Security Cleared
3 10 (27.03%) AWS Certification
3 10 (27.03%) Azure Certification
4 4 (10.81%) CISSP
5 3 (8.11%) CEH
6 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.70%) CCNP
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.70%) CISM
7 1 (2.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.41%) FIPS 140-2
2 2 (5.41%) GRC
2 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.41%) NIST
3 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) Docker
2 10 (27.03%) DFS Replication
2 10 (27.03%) Dovecot
2 10 (27.03%) Postfix
2 10 (27.03%) Squid
3 4 (10.81%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.41%) Firmware
4 2 (5.41%) HDFS
5 1 (2.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (37.84%) Terraform
2 10 (27.03%) Grafana
2 10 (27.03%) Nessus
2 10 (27.03%) Prometheus
2 10 (27.03%) Proxmox
3 6 (16.22%) Ansible
4 4 (10.81%) Kibana
5 3 (8.11%) Packer
6 2 (5.41%) FortiGate
6 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.70%) yum
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) ServiceNow
2 10 (27.03%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.81%) CyberArk
5 2 (5.41%) IBM
5 2 (5.41%) Qualys
5 2 (5.41%) Splunk
5 2 (5.41%) Tenable
5 2 (5.41%) Thales
6 1 (2.70%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco
6 1 (2.70%) Solace
6 1 (2.70%) TIBCO
6 1 (2.70%) VMware