SSH Jobs in the East of England

Secure Shell (SSH)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 30 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 179 175
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +113
Permanent jobs citing SSH 13 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.33% 0.039% 0.083%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.44% 0.28% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £26,475 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £26,813 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £28,250 -
Median % change year-on-year +76.99% - -
75th Percentile £55,000 £29,313 -
90th Percentile - £29,425 -
England median annual salary £56,121 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% +11.11% -18.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 905 715 869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 23.29% 14.07% 24.15%
Number of salaries quoted 252 521 322
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,000 £24,100
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £27,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £73,625
England median annual salary £35,000 £49,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% -2.97% -3.81%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SSH in the East of England

SSH
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SSH in the East of England.

Salary trend for SSH in the East of England

SSH
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the East of England region over the 6 months to 30 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire - 6 - -
Essex - 3 - -
Norfolk +15 2 - -
Suffolk - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £50,000 - 2
SSH
England

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
1 12 (92.31%) AWS Lambda
1 12 (92.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) Broadband
1 12 (92.31%) SSL
2 1 (7.69%) CATAPAN
2 1 (7.69%) DHCP
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) IPsec
2 1 (7.69%) iSCSI
2 1 (7.69%) Multicast
2 1 (7.69%) OSPF
2 1 (7.69%) SAN
2 1 (7.69%) SNMP
2 1 (7.69%) VLAN
2 1 (7.69%) VoIP
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Cloud Engineer
1 12 (92.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Senior
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) RESTful
1 12 (92.31%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
2 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) PKI
2 12 (92.31%) Cyber Threat
2 12 (92.31%) Cyberattack
2 12 (92.31%) Management Information System
2 12 (92.31%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Smartcard
3 1 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (92.31%) Deployment Automation
1 12 (92.31%) DevOps
1 12 (92.31%) Key Management
1 12 (92.31%) Programme Delivery
1 12 (92.31%) Roadmaps
1 12 (92.31%) Use Case
1 12 (92.31%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (7.69%) Change Management
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (7.69%) Network Architecture
2 1 (7.69%) Scrum
2 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Management
2 1 (7.69%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CCNA
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (92.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (92.31%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.69%) Nessus
2 1 (7.69%) WMI
2 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Thales
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Dell
2 1 (7.69%) Veeam
2 1 (7.69%) VMware