SSH Contracts in the West Midlands

Secure Shell (SSH)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SSH 15 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.91% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £402 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £533 £388
% change year-on-year -10.88% +37.55% -35.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 224 313 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.55% 16.79% 19.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 202 254
10th Percentile £244 £250 £215
25th Percentile £325 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - -
75th Percentile £575 £633 £576
90th Percentile £648 £725 £729
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.92% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 9
10th Percentile £14.18 £11.88 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.00 £13.44 £18.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -48.15% +44.00%
75th Percentile £37.44 £21.31 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.78 £23.75 £29.00
England median hourly rate £43.75 £51.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.05% +3.00% +92.31%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SSH in the West Midlands

SSH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SSH in the West Midlands

SSH
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SSH in the West Midlands

SSH
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham - 14 £475 - 2
Shropshire - 1 - - 2
SSH
England

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 12 (80.00%) Confluence
2 3 (20.00%) nginx
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) Amazon S3
2 12 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 12 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (80.00%) Amazon ELB
2 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 12 (80.00%) AWS KMS
2 12 (80.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 9 (60.00%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (20.00%) Route 53
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) DNS
2 12 (80.00%) Firewall
2 12 (80.00%) FTP
2 12 (80.00%) HTTP
2 12 (80.00%) SMTP
3 3 (20.00%) IMAP
3 3 (20.00%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
5 1 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (13.33%) Big Data
4 2 (13.33%) Delta Lake
4 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
4 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (13.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (93.33%) Jenkins
2 13 (86.67%) Git
3 12 (80.00%) JIRA
3 12 (80.00%) Vagrant
4 2 (13.33%) MLflow
4 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (6.67%) Poetry
5 1 (6.67%) PyCharm
5 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) LDAP
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Avro
2 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (13.33%) Flask
2 2 (13.33%) NumPy
2 2 (13.33%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (86.67%) Windows
3 12 (80.00%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (80.00%) VMS
4 3 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (6.67%) AIX
5 1 (6.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) DevOps
2 12 (80.00%) Change Management
2 12 (80.00%) Cloud Security
2 12 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 12 (80.00%) Patch Management
2 12 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) ETL
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Secrets Management
6 1 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
6 1 (6.67%) Dependency Management
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (6.67%) Memory Management
6 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
6 1 (6.67%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (93.33%) Groovy
3 13 (86.67%) PowerShell
4 9 (60.00%) Java
4 9 (60.00%) Perl
5 5 (33.33%) SQL
6 3 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (93.33%) Docker
2 12 (80.00%) DFS Replication
3 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
4 3 (20.00%) Dovecot
4 3 (20.00%) Postfix
4 3 (20.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Grafana
1 12 (80.00%) Prometheus
1 12 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Nessus
2 3 (20.00%) Proxmox
3 2 (13.33%) Argo
3 2 (13.33%) Istio
3 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (20.00%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (13.33%) Cloudera
4 1 (6.67%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat