Secure Shell (SSH)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SSH skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SSH over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 664 709
Rank change year-on-year +99 +45 -95
Contract jobs citing SSH 33 55 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.092% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.59% 0.75% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 37 90
10th Percentile £273 £313 £328
25th Percentile £398 £412 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £446 £614
Median % change year-on-year +21.08% -27.33% +29.21%
75th Percentile £597 £565 £700
90th Percentile £925 £630 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate - £425 £488
% change year-on-year - -12.82% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £47.73 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -39.39% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £47.73 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SSH is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SSH in the UK

SSH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SSH in the UK

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in the UK

SSH
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SSH in the UK

SSH
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 SSH within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +115 33 £540 +20.54% 9
London +106 30 £540 +8.00% 4
Work from Home +126 6 £525 +17.71% 2
UK excluding London +42 1 - - 5
Midlands +18 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 - - 2

SSH
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.06%) Apache
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (3.03%) Drupal
2 1 (3.03%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) InVision
1 1 (3.03%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (12.12%) PaaS
4 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub
5 2 (6.06%) SaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.03%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.03%) Figma
6 1 (3.03%) Route 53
6 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (36.36%) HTTP
1 12 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 7 (21.21%) DNS
2 7 (21.21%) Firewall
2 7 (21.21%) FTP
2 7 (21.21%) SMTP
2 7 (21.21%) SSL
2 7 (21.21%) Telnet
2 7 (21.21%) VPN
3 4 (12.12%) DHCP
3 4 (12.12%) ICMP
3 4 (12.12%) Internet
3 4 (12.12%) POP3
4 3 (9.09%) SNMP
5 1 (3.03%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.03%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.03%) LAN
5 1 (3.03%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (3.03%) VLAN
5 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (12.12%) MySQL
1 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) JIRA
1 6 (18.18%) JUnit
2 5 (15.15%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.03%) Git
4 1 (3.03%) Gradle
4 1 (3.03%) IntelliJ
4 1 (3.03%) Selenium
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (39.39%) Finance
3 8 (24.24%) Banking
4 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Marketing
5 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.06%) Electronics
6 2 (6.06%) Front Office
6 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.03%) Advertising
7 1 (3.03%) Automotive
7 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Consultant
1 6 (18.18%) Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Java Developer
3 4 (12.12%) ArcSight Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Data Centre Technician
3 4 (12.12%) Data Technician
3 4 (12.12%) SIEM Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Citrix Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Citrix Support
4 2 (6.06%) Citrix Support Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Linux Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Management Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Senior
5 1 (3.03%) CyberArk Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Operations Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) JSON
2 6 (18.18%) REST
2 6 (18.18%) SOAP
2 6 (18.18%) XML
3 5 (15.15%) Hibernate
3 5 (15.15%) J2EE
3 5 (15.15%) JPA
3 5 (15.15%) LDAP
3 5 (15.15%) Spring
3 5 (15.15%) Web Services
4 4 (12.12%) .NET
4 4 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (9.09%) SAML
6 2 (6.06%) LAMP
6 2 (6.06%) LAPP Stack
6 2 (6.06%) OpenID
6 2 (6.06%) SailPoint
7 1 (3.03%) Framer.js
7 1 (3.03%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (3.03%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.03%) Animation
5 1 (3.03%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Linux
2 11 (33.33%) Unix
3 7 (21.21%) Windows
4 1 (3.03%) CentOS
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (24.24%) Migration
2 8 (24.24%) Workflow
3 7 (21.21%) Agile
3 7 (21.21%) Computer Science
4 5 (15.15%) Acceptance Criteria
4 5 (15.15%) BDD
4 5 (15.15%) Business Analysis
4 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (15.15%) DevOps
4 5 (15.15%) OOP
4 5 (15.15%) Pair Programming
4 5 (15.15%) Release Management
4 5 (15.15%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (15.15%) Scrum
4 5 (15.15%) Software Architecture
4 5 (15.15%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (15.15%) Sprint Retrospective
4 5 (15.15%) TDD
4 5 (15.15%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 7 (21.21%) Java
3 7 (21.21%) Perl
3 7 (21.21%) SQL
4 4 (12.12%) Bash
4 4 (12.12%) C#
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) ABAP
6 1 (3.03%) Groovy
6 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Degree
1 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) SLA
3 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) NFS
2 4 (12.12%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.09%) Terminal Services
4 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.06%) Docker
4 2 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (6.06%) XenApp
5 1 (3.03%) Ceph
5 1 (3.03%) Firmware
5 1 (3.03%) iptables
5 1 (3.03%) KVM
5 1 (3.03%) Lustre
5 1 (3.03%) Samba
5 1 (3.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Kibana
2 4 (12.12%) logstash
2 4 (12.12%) QRadar
2 4 (12.12%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (6.06%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.03%) HAProxy
4 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.03%) SELinux
4 1 (3.03%) Terraform
4 1 (3.03%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) ArcSight
2 4 (12.12%) CyberArk
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
2 4 (12.12%) Splunk
3 3 (9.09%) SAP
4 2 (6.06%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (6.06%) CheckPoint
4 2 (6.06%) Citrix
4 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco