SSH Contract Job Trends in the South East

Secure Shell (SSH)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SSH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 177 209
Rank change year-on-year +5 +32 +36
Contract jobs citing SSH 1 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.026% 0.048% 0.092%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.17% 0.27% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £400 -
25th Percentile £380 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.07% - -
75th Percentile £389 £600 -
90th Percentile - £645 -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -5.00% +14.29% -19.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
England median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 598 737 1,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.75% 17.82% 21.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 409 646
10th Percentile £204 £237 £205
25th Percentile £327 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -2.44%
75th Percentile £586 £606 £580
90th Percentile £625 £651 £650
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 40 76
10th Percentile £18.32 £26.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £27.01 £35.00 £24.26
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +21.22% +28.32%
75th Percentile £86.32 £75.00 £75.67
90th Percentile £90.45 - £77.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £56.13 £56.45
% change year-on-year -39.42% -0.57% +34.15%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

SSH job vacancy trend in the South East

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SSH

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SSH

SSH
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Hampshire +5 1 £384 -40.92%
SSH
England

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) Poetry
1 1 (100.00%) PyCharm
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat