SSH Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Secure Shell (SSH)
West Midlands > Shropshire

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SSH 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.99% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 40.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 -
% change year-on-year +11.76% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 15 13 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 4.97% 11.40% 24.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile £182 £172 -
25th Percentile £325 - £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £210 £480
Median % change year-on-year +80.95% -56.25% +32.41%
75th Percentile £400 £488 £516
90th Percentile £460 £584 £529
West Midlands median daily rate £407 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -18.55% +25.00% -8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.18 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% +18.56%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

SSH job vacancy trend in Shropshire

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing SSH

SSH
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 16 November 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
Telford - 4 £450 - 1
SSH
West Midlands

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Kerberos
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Consultant
2 5 (83.33%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) LDAP
2 4 (66.67%) OAuth
2 4 (66.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) AIX
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Solaris
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Key Management
1 6 (100.00%) RBAC
2 5 (83.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
3 4 (66.67%) Data Protection
3 4 (66.67%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 6 (100.00%) CyberArk