SSH Contract Job Trends in the North West

Secure Shell (SSH)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 125 121 143
Rank change year-on-year -4 +22 +33
Contract jobs citing SSH 9 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.41% 0.083% 0.035%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.03% 0.65% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £299 - -
25th Percentile £387 £213 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £225 £413
Median % change year-on-year +100.67% -45.45% -25.00%
75th Percentile £488 £238 £419
90th Percentile £489 - -
England median daily rate £475 £525 £438
% change year-on-year -9.52% +20.00% -20.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 297 306 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.53% 12.71% 16.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 155 319
10th Percentile £147 £246 £325
25th Percentile £334 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.88% +2.32%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £593
90th Percentile £680 £750 £650
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 10
10th Percentile - £25.43 £15.72
25th Percentile £15.50 £37.55 £15.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £16.68
Median % change year-on-year -60.87% +191.13% -16.35%
75th Percentile £34.97 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £67.25 £57.65 £49.35
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 West

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

SSH job vacancy trend in the North West

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for SSH in the North West

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

SSH
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire - 7 £430 - 4
Manchester +1 2 £479 +112.78%
SSH
England

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (100.00%) Confluence
1 9 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Tandem
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Unix
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 9 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 9 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 9 (100.00%) Information Security
1 9 (100.00%) ITIL
1 9 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (88.89%) Change Management
2 8 (88.89%) Release Management
3 7 (77.78%) Data Protection
3 7 (77.78%) Key Management
3 7 (77.78%) Project Management
4 6 (66.67%) Attestation
4 6 (66.67%) Customer Experience
4 6 (66.67%) Incident Management
4 6 (66.67%) Project Delivery
4 6 (66.67%) Service Management
5 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
5 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
2 5 (55.56%) Gemalto
2 5 (55.56%) Thales
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft