Hybrid/Remote OpenSSH Contract Job Trends

OpenSSH
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OpenSSH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenSSH 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.008% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.077% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £500 - -

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

OpenSSH falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,301 1,115 1,414
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.11% 11.48% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 925 801 1,050
10th Percentile £329 £350 £290
25th Percentile £425 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £509
Median % change year-on-year - +0.69% -3.05%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £619
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 8 25
10th Percentile £13.97 £50.63 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £64.88 £15.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £75.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.53% +87.58% -37.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £92.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 - £85.00
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.68%

OpenSSH
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenSSH and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OpenSSH job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

OpenSSH
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OpenSSH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OpenSSH

OpenSSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat