SSH Contracts in the UK excluding London

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SSH skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SSH over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 374 413
Rank change year-on-year +30 +39 +62
Contract jobs citing SSH 26 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.027% 0.072%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.18% 0.18% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 10
10th Percentile £334 - £308
25th Percentile £391 £213 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £316 £400
Median % change year-on-year +50.20% -20.94% -9.86%
75th Percentile £488 £411 £549
90th Percentile £488 - £552
UK median daily rate £475 £533 £450
% change year-on-year -10.88% +18.44% -26.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £47.73
UK median hourly rate - - £32.99
% change year-on-year - - -58.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,198 2,814 3,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.46% 15.05% 15.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,296 1,649 2,171
10th Percentile £200 £205 £205
25th Percentile £325 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £602 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 288 186
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.27 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £56.91
Median % change year-on-year -22.55% -3.58% +125.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £76.49
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +53.85%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SSH in the UK excluding London

SSH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSH in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SSH in the UK excluding London

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in the UK excluding London

SSH
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSH in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SSH in the UK excluding London

SSH
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
Midlands - 17 £475 - 11
West Midlands - 15 £475 - 4
North of England -4 8 £470 +48.70% 11
North West +3 4 £470 +109.00% 8
Yorkshire -9 4 £500 +22.70% 1
East Midlands - 2 £134 - 6
South East - 1 £384 - 4
SSH
UK

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (65.38%) Confluence
2 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (11.54%) Apache Spark
3 3 (11.54%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (11.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) Amazon S3
2 13 (50.00%) AWS
3 12 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 12 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (46.15%) Amazon ELB
3 12 (46.15%) AWS KMS
3 12 (46.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (34.62%) Amazon Glacier
5 4 (15.38%) Azure
5 4 (15.38%) GCP
6 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (11.54%) GitHub
6 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (11.54%) Route 53
7 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) DNS
2 13 (50.00%) Firewall
3 12 (46.15%) FTP
3 12 (46.15%) HTTP
3 12 (46.15%) SMTP
4 3 (11.54%) IMAP
4 3 (11.54%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
5 2 (7.69%) PuTTY
5 2 (7.69%) SSL
5 2 (7.69%) Telnet
6 1 (3.85%) HTTPS
6 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (46.15%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (11.54%) Big Data
3 3 (11.54%) Delta Lake
3 3 (11.54%) Hadoop
3 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
3 3 (11.54%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 17 (65.38%) JIRA
2 15 (57.69%) Jenkins
3 14 (53.85%) Git
4 12 (46.15%) Vagrant
5 3 (11.54%) MLflow
5 3 (11.54%) SonarQube
6 2 (7.69%) Poetry
6 2 (7.69%) PyCharm
6 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 4 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (26.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Break Fix Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Management Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Subject Matter Expert
6 1 (3.85%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) LDAP
2 3 (11.54%) Apache Avro
2 3 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (11.54%) Flask
2 3 (11.54%) NumPy
2 3 (11.54%) Pandas
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth
3 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Replication
2 4 (15.38%) Tandem
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 19 (73.08%) Linux
1 19 (73.08%) Windows
2 12 (46.15%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (46.15%) VMS
3 5 (19.23%) Unix
4 3 (11.54%) Ubuntu
5 2 (7.69%) AIX
5 2 (7.69%) Solaris
5 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
5 2 (7.69%) Windows 7
5 2 (7.69%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Change Management
2 16 (61.54%) DevOps
3 12 (46.15%) Cloud Security
3 12 (46.15%) Configuration Management
3 12 (46.15%) Patch Management
3 12 (46.15%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (34.62%) Key Management
5 7 (26.92%) Cryptography
6 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 6 (23.08%) Customer Experience
7 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
7 5 (19.23%) Data Protection
8 4 (15.38%) Attestation
8 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 4 (15.38%) Incident Management
8 4 (15.38%) Incident Response
8 4 (15.38%) Privileged Access Management
8 4 (15.38%) Project Delivery
8 4 (15.38%) Release Management
8 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) Python
2 15 (57.69%) Groovy
3 13 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 10 (38.46%) Perl
5 9 (34.62%) Java
6 6 (23.08%) SQL
7 5 (19.23%) Bash
8 1 (3.85%) ActionScript
8 1 (3.85%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (3.85%) Korn
8 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 12 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (30.77%) Degree
3 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.85%) CISM
5 1 (3.85%) CISSP
5 1 (3.85%) IBM Certification
5 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) NIST
1 2 (7.69%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) FIPS 140-2
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (61.54%) Docker
2 12 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 12 (46.15%) DFS Replication
3 3 (11.54%) Dovecot
3 3 (11.54%) Postfix
3 3 (11.54%) Squid
4 2 (7.69%) BitLocker
4 2 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Terraform
2 12 (46.15%) Grafana
2 12 (46.15%) Prometheus
3 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 3 (11.54%) Argo
4 3 (11.54%) Istio
4 3 (11.54%) Nessus
4 3 (11.54%) Proxmox
5 2 (7.69%) SCCM
6 1 (3.85%) Ansible
6 1 (3.85%) Nagios
6 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) ServiceNow
2 5 (19.23%) IBM
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (11.54%) Cloudera
4 3 (11.54%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
5 2 (7.69%) Cisco
5 2 (7.69%) Dell
5 2 (7.69%) Draytek
5 2 (7.69%) McAfee
6 1 (3.85%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (3.85%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.85%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (3.85%) Splunk