PuTTY Contracts

PuTTY
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring PuTTY skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PuTTY over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 582 663
Rank change year-on-year +56 +81 +186
Contract jobs citing PuTTY 13 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.018% 0.039%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.33% 0.15% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 21
10th Percentile - £404 -
25th Percentile - £440 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £255
Median % change year-on-year - +96.08% -49.00%
75th Percentile - - £430
90th Percentile - - £550
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £255
% change year-on-year - +96.08% -49.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

PuTTY 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,890 5,433 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.42% 12.50% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,342 3,208 4,616
10th Percentile £230 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 428 433
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.81 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +114.29% -27.74%
75th Percentile £60.41 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.32 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -36.17% +115.91% -2.22%

PuTTY
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PuTTY as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PuTTY in the UK

PuTTY
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PuTTY.

Daily rate trend for PuTTY in the UK

PuTTY
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PuTTY.

Hourly rate trend for PuTTY in the UK

PuTTY
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PuTTY within the UK over the 6 months to 3 July 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
England +63 13 - - 2
UK excluding London +41 13 - - 1
East of England - 7 - -
Midlands - 5 - - 1
West Midlands - 5 - - 1
South East - 1 - -

PuTTY
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 12 (92.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) Cisco IOS
1 12 (92.31%) DHCP
1 12 (92.31%) DNS
2 7 (53.85%) Firewall
2 7 (53.85%) LAN
2 7 (53.85%) WAN
2 7 (53.85%) Wireless
2 7 (53.85%) WLAN
3 1 (7.69%) WinSCP
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) Maven
1 1 (7.69%) Toad
General
1 12 (92.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Analyst
2 7 (53.85%) Network Analyst
3 5 (38.46%) Network Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) Network Support
3 5 (38.46%) Network Support Analyst
3 5 (38.46%) Network Support Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) Support Analyst
3 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Computer Science
2 7 (53.85%) Change Management
2 7 (53.85%) Process Improvement
2 7 (53.85%) Project Management
3 1 (7.69%) Build Automation
3 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.69%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (7.69%) ITSM
3 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (7.69%) Validation
3 1 (7.69%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) CCNA
1 12 (92.31%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (92.31%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (92.31%) Degree
2 7 (53.85%) CCNP
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Cisco
1 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 8 (61.54%) Remedy
3 7 (53.85%) Peregrine
4 5 (38.46%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.69%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
5 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
5 1 (7.69%) Splunk