SSH Job Trends in England

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring SSH skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 670 600 803
Rank change year-on-year -70 +203 +33
Permanent jobs citing SSH 23 33 48
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.028% 0.084% 0.053%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.33% 0.54% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 18 21 41
10th Percentile - £41,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,800 £56,121 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.92% +3.93% +20.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile - £77,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £56,121 £54,000
% change year-on-year -15.36% +3.93% +20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,993 6,079 11,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.46% 15.42% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,926 3,369 8,531
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £69,230 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £47,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.05% - -5.94%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SSH job vacancy trend in England

SSH
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SSH.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SSH

SSH
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSH in England over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SSH in England

SSH
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the England region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. 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
South East - 13 £60,000 - 5
North of England -38 5 £47,500 +11.76% 1
North East - 4 £47,500 -
London -22 2 - - 5
South West -58 2 £58,099 +3.53% 3
North West -25 1 £60,600 +42.59% 1
West Midlands -31 1 £60,600 -16.41%
Midlands -44 1 £60,600 -16.41% 1
SSH
UK

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 2 (8.70%) IIS
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) IaaS
2 6 (26.09%) PaaS
2 6 (26.09%) SaaS
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
3 3 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) SSL
2 8 (34.78%) SNMP
3 7 (30.43%) DHCP
3 7 (30.43%) DNS
3 7 (30.43%) FTP
3 7 (30.43%) HTTP
4 6 (26.09%) BGP
4 6 (26.09%) Network Security
4 6 (26.09%) PuTTY
4 6 (26.09%) WAN
5 5 (21.74%) ICMP
5 5 (21.74%) IPsec
5 5 (21.74%) MPLS
5 5 (21.74%) SD-WAN
5 5 (21.74%) VLAN
5 5 (21.74%) VPN
6 4 (17.39%) Broadband
7 3 (13.04%) Firewall
8 2 (8.70%) SMTP
8 2 (8.70%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (13.04%) MySQL
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Law
3 1 (4.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Support Engineer
1 6 (26.09%) Technical Engineer
1 6 (26.09%) Technical Support
1 6 (26.09%) Technical Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Linux Support
2 5 (21.74%) Linux Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Network Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Network Security Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Security Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) OAuth
1 5 (21.74%) SAML
2 4 (17.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 4 (17.39%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (17.39%) Cyberattack
2 4 (17.39%) Onboarding
2 4 (17.39%) PKI
3 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.04%) Replication
4 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) VMS
3 4 (17.39%) Windows
4 3 (13.04%) Ubuntu
5 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (21.74%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 5 (21.74%) Network Segmentation
4 4 (17.39%) BCP
4 4 (17.39%) Cryptography
4 4 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (17.39%) Key Management
4 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (13.04%) ITIL
5 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
5 3 (13.04%) Task Automation
5 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (4.35%) Break/Fix
7 1 (4.35%) Decision-Making
7 1 (4.35%) DevSecOps
7 1 (4.35%) Proactive Management
7 1 (4.35%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) DCL
1 6 (26.09%) SQL
1 6 (26.09%) Tcl
2 3 (13.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (43.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (39.13%) NIST
3 5 (21.74%) SLA
4 1 (4.35%) ISO 9001
4 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
1 3 (13.04%) iptables
2 1 (4.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) CASB
1 5 (21.74%) FortiGate
2 3 (13.04%) Grafana
2 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
2 3 (13.04%) systemd
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Cisco
3 5 (21.74%) Palo Alto
4 4 (17.39%) Thales
5 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds