SSH Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Secure Shell (SSH)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SSH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 153 178
Rank change year-on-year -20 +25 +70
Contract jobs citing SSH 16 12 16
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.39% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.25% 2.26% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 16
10th Percentile £313 £213 £313
25th Percentile £421 £365 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £408 £350
Median % change year-on-year +16.56% +16.43% -36.36%
75th Percentile £546 £433 £394
90th Percentile £650 £438 £408
England median daily rate £475 £525 £438
% change year-on-year -9.52% +20.00% -20.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 493 532 715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.07% 12.86% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 279 514
10th Percentile £161 £196 £259
25th Percentile £325 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £588
90th Percentile £649 £688 £659
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 20
10th Percentile - £12.93 £15.70
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.55 £15.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £35.00 £19.82
Median % change year-on-year -44.29% +76.59% -4.62%
75th Percentile £44.58 £51.45 £31.21
90th Percentile £67.25 £52.26 £46.97
England median hourly rate £36.25 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -36.79% +1.52% +37.73%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SSH job vacancy trend in the North of England

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SSH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SSH

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in the North of England

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SSH.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SSH

SSH
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
North West -4 9 £452 +100.67% 4
Yorkshire -23 7 £650 +59.51%
SSH
England

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (62.50%) Confluence
2 9 (56.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (12.50%) TPMS
Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) SNMP
1 2 (12.50%) SSL
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) JIRA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Cryptography Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Security Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Subject Matter Expert
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Tandem
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Machine to Machine
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 9 (56.25%) Unix
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Cryptography
2 12 (75.00%) Key Management
3 11 (68.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (62.50%) Computer Science
5 9 (56.25%) Change Management
5 9 (56.25%) Incident Response
5 9 (56.25%) Information Security
5 9 (56.25%) ITIL
6 8 (50.00%) Release Management
7 7 (43.75%) Data Protection
7 7 (43.75%) Project Management
8 6 (37.50%) Attestation
8 6 (37.50%) Customer Experience
8 6 (37.50%) Incident Management
8 6 (37.50%) Project Delivery
8 6 (37.50%) Service Management
9 5 (31.25%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (31.25%) Privileged Access Management
10 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
11 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Degree
2 9 (56.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (12.50%) FFIEC
4 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) CISM
5 1 (6.25%) CISSP
5 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) NIST
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) GLBA
2 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (6.25%) FIPS 140-2
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) IBM
2 6 (37.50%) Thales
3 5 (31.25%) Gemalto
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) Splunk
5 1 (6.25%) BiZZdesign