SSH Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Secure Shell (SSH)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

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

 6 months to
4 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SSH 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.21% - 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.52% - 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £615 - -
25th Percentile £638 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - £300
75th Percentile £688 - £325
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £663 - £300

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 84 63 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 12.73% 15.40% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 32 20
10th Percentile £296 £209 £188
25th Percentile £406 £220 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £592
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -12.30% +13.75%
75th Percentile £613 £622 £625
90th Percentile £689 £689 £748
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £538 £588
% change year-on-year -2.33% -8.51% +30.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £13.50 -

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

SSH job vacancy trend in Sheffield

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SSH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SSH

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 3 (37.50%) TPMS
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SNMP
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Cryptography Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Subject Matter Expert
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (25.00%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cryptography
2 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (62.50%) Key Management
2 5 (62.50%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (37.50%) Data Security
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) OWASP
3 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) UML
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) FFIEC
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) NIST
2 3 (37.50%) GDPR
2 3 (37.50%) GLBA
2 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (12.50%) FIPS 140-2
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Thales
3 1 (12.50%) BiZZdesign
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