SSH Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Secure Shell (SSH)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SSH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 132 147
Rank change year-on-year +10 +15 +51
Contract jobs citing SSH 31 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.12% 0.037% 0.035%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.40% 0.28% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 0
10th Percentile £386 - -
25th Percentile £463 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - -
75th Percentile £488 £438 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -22.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 369 360 555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.29% 13.45% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 205 301
10th Percentile £164 £170 £206
25th Percentile £300 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £525 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £715 £675
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 28
10th Percentile £18.50 £20.96 £16.70
25th Percentile £24.25 £22.64 £22.88
Median hourly rate £28.00 £24.19 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.75% -12.04% +44.74%
75th Percentile £34.00 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £43.93 £42.50 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.38 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.74% +1.57% +36.12%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SSH relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

SSH job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SSH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SSH

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SSH.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SSH

SSH
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Midlands +11 28 £475 +11.76% 2
East Midlands - 3 £134 -
SSH
England

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 22 (70.97%) Confluence
2 10 (32.26%) nginx
3 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (77.42%) Amazon S3
2 22 (70.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 22 (70.97%) Amazon EC2
2 22 (70.97%) Amazon ELB
2 22 (70.97%) AWS
2 22 (70.97%) AWS KMS
2 22 (70.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 12 (38.71%) Amazon Glacier
4 10 (32.26%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (32.26%) Azure
4 10 (32.26%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (32.26%) Route 53
5 2 (6.45%) GCP
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (74.19%) DNS
2 22 (70.97%) Firewall
2 22 (70.97%) FTP
2 22 (70.97%) HTTP
2 22 (70.97%) SMTP
3 10 (32.26%) IMAP
3 10 (32.26%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (9.68%) PuTTY
4 3 (9.68%) Telnet
5 2 (6.45%) Kerberos
5 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (70.97%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (38.71%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (32.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (6.45%) Big Data
4 2 (6.45%) Delta Lake
4 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 24 (77.42%) Jenkins
2 23 (74.19%) Git
3 22 (70.97%) JIRA
3 22 (70.97%) Vagrant
4 2 (6.45%) MLflow
4 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
4 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.23%) Poetry
5 1 (3.23%) PyCharm
5 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (67.74%) Public Sector
2 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
3 12 (38.71%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Finance
5 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (64.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (54.84%) AWS Engineer
2 17 (54.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 17 (54.84%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (48.39%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (48.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 10 (32.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 8 (25.81%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 4 (12.90%) Consultant
7 3 (9.68%) Management Consultant
8 2 (6.45%) Break Fix Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) Hardware Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) IT Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) IT Support
9 1 (3.23%) IT Support Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) Network Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) Network Support
9 1 (3.23%) Network Support Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (45.16%) LDAP
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Avro
2 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.45%) Flask
2 2 (6.45%) NumPy
2 2 (6.45%) OAuth
2 2 (6.45%) Pandas
2 2 (6.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (70.97%) Replication
2 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 31 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (93.55%) Windows
3 22 (70.97%) Amazon Linux
3 22 (70.97%) VMS
4 10 (32.26%) Ubuntu
5 4 (12.90%) AIX
5 4 (12.90%) Solaris
6 3 (9.68%) Windows 10
6 3 (9.68%) Windows 7
6 3 (9.68%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (77.42%) DevOps
2 22 (70.97%) Change Management
2 22 (70.97%) Cloud Security
2 22 (70.97%) Configuration Management
2 22 (70.97%) Patch Management
2 22 (70.97%) Platform Engineering
3 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
4 10 (32.26%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (12.90%) Key Management
5 4 (12.90%) RBAC
6 3 (9.68%) Break/Fix
6 3 (9.68%) Privileged Access Management
6 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
6 3 (9.68%) Strategic Planning
7 2 (6.45%) Containerisation
7 2 (6.45%) Data Engineering
7 2 (6.45%) Data Protection
7 2 (6.45%) ETL
7 2 (6.45%) Line Management
7 2 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (83.87%) Python
2 24 (77.42%) Groovy
2 24 (77.42%) PowerShell
3 12 (38.71%) Java
3 12 (38.71%) Perl
3 12 (38.71%) SQL
4 4 (12.90%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (67.74%) SC Cleared
1 21 (67.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (32.26%) AWS Certification
2 10 (32.26%) Azure Certification
2 10 (32.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.45%) NIST
1 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
1 2 (6.45%) SLA
1 2 (6.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (77.42%) Docker
2 22 (70.97%) DFS Replication
3 19 (61.29%) Active Directory
4 10 (32.26%) Dovecot
4 10 (32.26%) Postfix
4 10 (32.26%) Squid
5 3 (9.68%) BitLocker
5 3 (9.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (70.97%) Grafana
1 22 (70.97%) Prometheus
1 22 (70.97%) Terraform
2 10 (32.26%) Nessus
2 10 (32.26%) Proxmox
3 3 (9.68%) SCCM
4 2 (6.45%) Argo
4 2 (6.45%) Istio
4 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (70.97%) ServiceNow
2 10 (32.26%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (12.90%) BeyondTrust
3 4 (12.90%) CyberArk
4 3 (9.68%) Cisco
4 3 (9.68%) Dell
4 3 (9.68%) Draytek
4 3 (9.68%) McAfee
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.45%) Cloudera
6 1 (3.23%) Red Hat