SSH Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Secure Shell (SSH)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SSH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SSH 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.33% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £607 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £615 £384 £650
% change year-on-year +60.15% -40.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £55.50 - -
25th Percentile £61.88 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 346 270 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.48% 15.84% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 164 189
10th Percentile £313 £225 £248
25th Percentile £400 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £441 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.31% -11.75% +4.05%
75th Percentile £590 £538 £608
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £516 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +6.72% -3.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 7 6
10th Percentile £17.50 £40.60 £37.38
25th Percentile £21.63 £63.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £35.22 £89.63 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.71% +36.84% -10.07%
75th Percentile £68.43 - £84.41
90th Percentile £77.50 £91.28 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £56.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -6.80% -10.00% +4.17%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

SSH job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SSH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SSH

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SSH.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SSH

SSH
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SSH in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SSH in the Thames Valley

SSH
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 October 2026. 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
Buckinghamshire - 6 £615 - 2
Oxfordshire - 3 - -
Berkshire - 1 - - 3
SSH
South East

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) DNS
1 7 (70.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (60.00%) DHCP
2 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) VPN
3 4 (40.00%) Network Security
4 1 (10.00%) HTTP
4 1 (10.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Military
2 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Workflow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Terraform
2 6 (60.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (40.00%) ARM Cortex
4 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
1 9 (90.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (30.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (70.00%) Security Operations
3 6 (60.00%) Analytics
3 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (60.00%) Data Collection
3 6 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 6 (60.00%) Log Analytics
3 6 (60.00%) Task Automation
3 6 (60.00%) Validation
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) ITIL
4 5 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (50.00%) RBAC
4 5 (50.00%) Resource Management
4 5 (50.00%) Security Hardening
4 5 (50.00%) Server Patching
4 5 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (60.00%) Bash
2 6 (60.00%) Bicep
3 4 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) Degree
3 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) CCNA
5 1 (10.00%) CCNP
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (40.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (30.00%) BeyondTrust
3 3 (30.00%) CyberArk
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco