PuTTY Contract Job Trends

PuTTY
UK

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 528 594
Rank change year-on-year -92 +66 +120
Contract jobs citing PuTTY 5 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.007% 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.11% 0.053% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £432 - £340
25th Percentile £449 - £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £380 £388
Median % change year-on-year +20.79% -1.94% +51.96%
75th Percentile £464 - £442
90th Percentile £468 - £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +96.08%

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 4,478 3,778 5,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 12.92% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,855 2,339 3,529
10th Percentile £225 £213 £205
25th Percentile £381 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £479
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +1.77% -7.88%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +1.60% -1.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 155 410
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.99 £13.82
25th Percentile £20.41 £21.46 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.25 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.71% +7.69% +71.05%
75th Percentile £70.29 £62.88 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.10 £75.00 £67.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.57% -34.88% +132.43%

PuTTY
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PuTTY job vacancy trend in the UK

PuTTY
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PuTTY.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PuTTY

PuTTY
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PuTTY.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PuTTY

PuTTY
Top 5 Contract Job 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 6 April 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
UK excluding London -100 4 £459 - 3
England -104 4 £459 +20.79% 3
Midlands - 4 £459 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £459 - 1
Work from Home - 2 £465 - 1

PuTTY
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Notepad++
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 5 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (100.00%) Metadata
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 5 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Informatica
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle