SSH Jobs in Birmingham

Secure Shell (SSH)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring SSH skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SSH over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 121 113
Rank change year-on-year +36 -8 +86
Permanent jobs citing SSH 15 2 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.11% 0.084% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.77% 0.60% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 10
10th Percentile - - £35,875
25th Percentile £71,250 £51,000 £36,131
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £54,000 £48,533
Median % change year-on-year +34.26% +11.27% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £57,000 £53,478
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £54,000 £49,565
% change year-on-year +34.26% +8.95% -4.99%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

SSH falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 193 332 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.30% 13.91% 14.45%
Number of salaries quoted 153 192 186
10th Percentile £31,500 £26,750 £27,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £59,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,852 £79,875 £75,000
West Midlands median annual salary £41,500 £43,227 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.94% -13.63%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for SSH in Birmingham

SSH
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SSH in Birmingham.

Salary trend for SSH in Birmingham

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 15 (100.00%) Confluence
2 5 (33.33%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 15 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 15 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 15 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
1 15 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 15 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 10 (66.67%) Amazon Glacier
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (33.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) DNS
1 15 (100.00%) Firewall
1 15 (100.00%) FTP
1 15 (100.00%) HTTP
1 15 (100.00%) SMTP
2 5 (33.33%) IMAP
2 5 (33.33%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (100.00%) Git
1 15 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 15 (100.00%) JIRA
1 15 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
1 15 (100.00%) VMS
2 5 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 5 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Change Management
1 15 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 15 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
1 15 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 15 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Groovy
1 15 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (66.67%) Java
2 10 (66.67%) Perl
3 5 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 5 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Docker
2 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (33.33%) DFS Replication
3 5 (33.33%) Dovecot
3 5 (33.33%) Postfix
3 5 (33.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Grafana
1 15 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 15 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Nessus
2 5 (33.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (33.33%) Jaspersoft