SSH Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 339 466
Rank change year-on-year +44 +127 +117
Contract jobs citing SSH 9 6 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.039% 0.043%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.86% 0.37% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £395 £511 £417
25th Percentile £463 £511 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £446
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +17.71% -6.60%
75th Percentile - £556 £475
90th Percentile £585 £568 £565
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £446
% change year-on-year -7.41% +21.08% -27.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

SSH
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SSH trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SSH
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SSH.

SSH daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SSH over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SSH daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SSH.

SSH hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
1 1 (11.11%) Jupyter
1 1 (11.11%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) OVHcloud
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DHCP
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) HTTPS
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (22.22%) SSL
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MariaDB
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Gradle
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JMeter
2 1 (11.11%) RStudio
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Systems Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Django
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) pydantic
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) WireMock
1 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
1 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Unix
3 2 (22.22%) CentOS
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (22.22%) SUSE
3 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 1 (11.11%) AIX
4 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
4 1 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 3 (33.33%) Data Security
2 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (33.33%) Key Management
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Cryptography
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
3 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Service Management
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Bash
3 4 (44.44%) Perl
4 3 (33.33%) ActionScript
4 3 (33.33%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) Korn
5 1 (11.11%) Scala
5 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 1 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
1 4 (44.44%) Progress Chef
1 4 (44.44%) Puppet
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (22.22%) Terraform
4 1 (11.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 3 (33.33%) IBM
2 3 (33.33%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Databricks
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk