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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 364 459
Rank change year-on-year +11 +95 +72
Contract jobs citing SSH 31 31 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.19% 0.058%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.19% 2.03% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 5
10th Percentile £294 £440 £316
25th Percentile £363 £525 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £534 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +25.65% -39.29%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £500
90th Percentile £673 £596 £537
England median daily rate £475 £533 £350
% change year-on-year -10.88% +52.29% -41.67%
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 - - £18.24
% change year-on-year - - -76.84%

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 1,415 1,524 2,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.31% 9.37% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 1,026 1,770
10th Percentile £280 £250 £257
25th Percentile £400 £375 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £670
90th Percentile £716 £713 £750
England median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 31 37
10th Percentile £19.46 £16.24 £18.79
25th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £22.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -34.87% +45.66%
75th Percentile £52.88 £50.25 £67.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £65.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £43.75 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year -20.27% +9.75% +92.31%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +2 5 £553 -3.83% 1
South London - 3 - -
West London - 1 £350 -
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 5 (16.13%) Confluence
1 5 (16.13%) nginx
2 4 (12.90%) Apache
2 4 (12.90%) Apache Spark
2 4 (12.90%) Jupyter
3 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) AutoCAD
1 3 (9.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) AWS
2 11 (35.48%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (16.13%) Amazon S3
3 5 (16.13%) Route 53
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (9.68%) AWS KMS
5 3 (9.68%) GCP
5 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.45%) Serverless
7 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.23%) OCI
7 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) HTTP
1 8 (25.81%) SMTP
2 7 (22.58%) TCP/IP
3 6 (19.35%) Firewall
3 6 (19.35%) Internet
4 5 (16.13%) Network Security
4 5 (16.13%) Telnet
5 4 (12.90%) DNS
5 4 (12.90%) SNMP
6 3 (9.68%) FTP
6 3 (9.68%) IMAP
6 3 (9.68%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (9.68%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (9.68%) Wireshark
7 2 (6.45%) DMZ
7 2 (6.45%) HTTPS
7 2 (6.45%) SD-WAN
7 2 (6.45%) SSL
7 2 (6.45%) VLAN
7 2 (6.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Apache Hive
1 4 (12.90%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (12.90%) Delta Lake
1 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (12.90%) Power BI
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.68%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (41.94%) JIRA
2 11 (35.48%) Git
3 9 (29.03%) Jenkins
4 4 (12.90%) RStudio
5 3 (9.68%) GitLab
5 3 (9.68%) Gradle
5 3 (9.68%) JMeter
5 3 (9.68%) Selenium
5 3 (9.68%) Vagrant
6 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (38.71%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Network Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Audio Visual Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (12.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Data Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Commissioning Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Automation Specialist
5 2 (6.45%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.45%) Java Automation Tester
5 2 (6.45%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) LDAP
2 7 (22.58%) JSON
3 4 (12.90%) Kafka
3 4 (12.90%) pydantic
3 4 (12.90%) PySpark
3 4 (12.90%) YAML
4 3 (9.68%) WireMock
4 3 (9.68%) XML
5 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.23%) Middleware
6 1 (3.23%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Replication
2 6 (19.35%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (12.90%) Data Structures
3 4 (12.90%) Reference Data
4 3 (9.68%) Digital Signage
4 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
4 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.23%) PKI
6 1 (3.23%) Tandem
6 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 1 (3.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (58.06%) Linux
2 7 (22.58%) Windows
3 5 (16.13%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (16.13%) Unix
4 3 (9.68%) Ubuntu
4 3 (9.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) DevOps
2 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (22.58%) Agile
3 7 (22.58%) Configuration Management
3 7 (22.58%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (19.35%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.13%) Data Security
5 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (16.13%) Key Management
5 5 (16.13%) Patch Management
5 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
5 5 (16.13%) Validation
6 4 (12.90%) Change Management
6 4 (12.90%) Cloud Security
6 4 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (12.90%) Information Security
6 4 (12.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (12.90%) Scrum
7 3 (9.68%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) Python
2 10 (32.26%) SQL
3 6 (19.35%) Bash
3 6 (19.35%) Java
4 4 (12.90%) Scala
5 3 (9.68%) Groovy
5 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.23%) ActionScript
6 1 (3.23%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) SC Cleared
1 11 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) Degree
3 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
3 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.45%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) CCNP
5 1 (3.23%) CEH
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.23%) CISM
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.23%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
2 3 (9.68%) SLA
3 2 (6.45%) GRC
3 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.45%) NIST
3 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.23%) QA
4 1 (3.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) DFS Replication
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
1 3 (9.68%) Dovecot
1 3 (9.68%) FreeRADIUS
1 3 (9.68%) iptables
1 3 (9.68%) Postfix
1 3 (9.68%) Squid
2 2 (6.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) Terraform
2 7 (22.58%) Ansible
3 6 (19.35%) Grafana
3 6 (19.35%) Proxmox
4 4 (12.90%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.68%) Cacti
5 3 (9.68%) Nagios
5 3 (9.68%) Nessus
5 3 (9.68%) Netcool
5 3 (9.68%) Packer
5 3 (9.68%) Puppet
5 3 (9.68%) ZABBIX
6 2 (6.45%) FortiGate
6 2 (6.45%) Kibana
7 1 (3.23%) Graylog
7 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
7 1 (3.23%) logstash
7 1 (3.23%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Databricks
2 3 (9.68%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (9.68%) Nokia
2 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
2 3 (9.68%) Splunk
2 3 (9.68%) VMware
3 2 (6.45%) CyberArk
3 2 (6.45%) IBM
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) Qualys
3 2 (6.45%) Tenable
4 1 (3.23%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco
4 1 (3.23%) Huawei
4 1 (3.23%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (3.23%) Juniper
4 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.23%) Solace
4 1 (3.23%) TIBCO