SSH Contracts with Work from Home Options

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 454 571
Rank change year-on-year +113 +117 -110
Contract jobs citing SSH 8 12 49
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.054% 0.048% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.52% 0.41% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 25
10th Percentile £511 £417 £268
25th Percentile £512 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £446 £480
Median % change year-on-year +21.64% -7.08% +1.05%
75th Percentile £564 £475 £580
90th Percentile £571 £520 £633
UK median daily rate £540 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +20.00% -28.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
UK median hourly rate - £47.73 £78.75
% change year-on-year - -39.39% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,541 2,904 4,330
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.32% 11.53% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,924 2,932
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -4.99% +3.15% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 96 103
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.14 £42.50 £25.88
Median hourly rate £23.75 £58.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.57% +23.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.06 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +1.85%

SSH
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SSH trend for jobs with a WFH option

SSH
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SSH.

SSH daily rate 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 a work from home option 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 4 (50.00%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) Management Consultant
3 2 (25.00%) CyberArk Consultant
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Linux Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Linux Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) SailPoint
2 3 (37.50%) OpenID
2 3 (37.50%) SAML
3 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
1 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 4 (50.00%) Use Case
2 4 (50.00%) User Experience
3 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
3 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) API Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (25.00%) Runbook
4 2 (25.00%) Secrets Management
4 2 (25.00%) Server Hardening
5 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (12.50%) Fintech
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) CyberArk
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle
3 3 (37.50%) BeyondTrust
3 3 (37.50%) CheckPoint
3 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (12.50%) SAP