SSH Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Secure Shell (SSH)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring SSH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 88 94
Rank change year-on-year -30 +6 -
Contract jobs citing SSH 8 10 15
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.45% 0.72% 0.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.79% 5.32% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 15
10th Percentile £615 £384 £305
25th Percentile £638 £401 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £408 £350
Median % change year-on-year +62.58% +16.43% -
75th Percentile £688 £435 £392
90th Percentile - £438 £402
England median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -21.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 211 188 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.87% 13.62% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 105 166
10th Percentile £205 £167 £190
25th Percentile £350 £220 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.41% - -
75th Percentile £538 £556 £575
90th Percentile £621 £638 £675
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile - £11.86 £16.17
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.03 £17.22
Median hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -38.64% +4.07%
75th Percentile £34.13 £16.21 -
90th Percentile £45.15 £16.78 £30.32
England median hourly rate £34.00 £56.13 £56.49
% change year-on-year -39.42% -0.65% +29.86%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SSH relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

SSH job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SSH
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SSH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SSH

SSH
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
South Yorkshire - 8 £663 - 1
SSH
England

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) TPMS
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SNMP
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Cryptography Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Subject Matter Expert
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (25.00%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cryptography
2 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (62.50%) Key Management
2 5 (62.50%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (37.50%) Data Security
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) OWASP
3 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) UML
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) FFIEC
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) NIST
2 3 (37.50%) GDPR
2 3 (37.50%) GLBA
2 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (12.50%) FIPS 140-2
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Thales
3 1 (12.50%) BiZZdesign