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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 658 624
Rank change year-on-year +73 -34 +234
Permanent jobs citing SSH 32 21 56
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.061% 0.044% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% 0.32% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 21 13 50
10th Percentile - - £31,175
25th Percentile £46,250 £29,000 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +0.88% -5.59%
75th Percentile £63,400 £57,057 £57,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £57,411 £65,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,160 £49,565
% change year-on-year +5.44% +5.24% -5.59%

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 8,850 6,507 6,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.75% 13.52% 14.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,443 3,411 5,563
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,400 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £89,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £38,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +10.00% -4.76%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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
Midlands - 13 £60,600 -
West Midlands - 13 £60,600 -
South East +44 10 £47,500 -5.00% 1
North West +22 5 £60,300 +9.64% 1
North of England +6 5 £60,300 +101.00% 3
London +55 4 - - 1
South West +6 2 £57,110 +1.76%
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 8 (25.00%) Confluence
2 5 (15.63%) IIS
3 4 (12.50%) nginx
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (3.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (3.13%) CMS
5 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (3.13%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) AWS
2 10 (31.25%) IaaS
2 10 (31.25%) PaaS
2 10 (31.25%) SaaS
3 9 (28.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (28.13%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (28.13%) Amazon ELB
3 9 (28.13%) Amazon S3
3 9 (28.13%) AWS KMS
3 9 (28.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (25.00%) Azure
5 5 (15.63%) Amazon Glacier
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (12.50%) Route 53
7 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.13%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (3.13%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 14 (43.75%) DNS
1 14 (43.75%) HTTP
2 13 (40.63%) FTP
3 12 (37.50%) SMTP
4 11 (34.38%) Firewall
5 10 (31.25%) PuTTY
6 6 (18.75%) SNMP
7 5 (15.63%) TCP/IP
8 4 (12.50%) IMAP
8 4 (12.50%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (9.38%) DHCP
9 3 (9.38%) SSL
9 3 (9.38%) Telnet
9 3 (9.38%) WAN
10 2 (6.25%) BGP
10 2 (6.25%) Network Security
10 2 (6.25%) OpenVPN
10 2 (6.25%) OSPF
10 2 (6.25%) VPN
11 1 (3.13%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Git
2 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 9 (28.13%) JIRA
2 9 (28.13%) Vagrant
3 2 (6.25%) Subversion
4 1 (3.13%) JUnit
4 1 (3.13%) Maven
4 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
3 6 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Electronics
4 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Police
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
5 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.13%) Publishing
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Senior
1 10 (31.25%) Support Engineer
1 10 (31.25%) Technical Engineer
1 10 (31.25%) Technical Support
1 10 (31.25%) Technical Support Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Linux Support
4 5 (15.63%) Linux Support Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Support Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Technical Support
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Electronics Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Information Security Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) LDAP
2 3 (9.38%) Node.js
3 1 (3.13%) CSS
3 1 (3.13%) HTML
3 1 (3.13%) JSR 170
3 1 (3.13%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Replication
2 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) Life Science
4 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.13%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 23 (71.88%) Linux
2 19 (59.38%) VMS
3 15 (46.88%) Windows
4 7 (21.88%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (12.50%) Ubuntu
6 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
7 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (31.25%) DevOps
3 9 (28.13%) Cloud Security
3 9 (28.13%) Configuration Management
4 8 (25.00%) Change Management
5 7 (21.88%) Patch Management
6 5 (15.63%) Agile
6 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
6 5 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (12.50%) ITIL
7 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (9.38%) Incident Response
8 3 (9.38%) Information Security
8 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (9.38%) SDLC
9 2 (6.25%) Identity Management
9 2 (6.25%) OO
9 2 (6.25%) Penetration Testing
9 2 (6.25%) Project Management
9 2 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) SQL
2 12 (37.50%) Python
3 10 (31.25%) DCL
3 10 (31.25%) Tcl
4 9 (28.13%) Groovy
5 7 (21.88%) Java
5 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
6 5 (15.63%) Perl
7 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
8 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
9 2 (6.25%) C
9 2 (6.25%) C#
9 2 (6.25%) Ruby
10 1 (3.13%) Bash
10 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) AWS Certification
4 5 (15.63%) Degree
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (6.25%) CEH
6 2 (6.25%) CISSP
6 2 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (6.25%) GSEC
6 2 (6.25%) OSCP
7 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (3.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.50%) DFS Replication
3 4 (12.50%) Dovecot
3 4 (12.50%) Postfix
3 4 (12.50%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Terraform
2 7 (21.88%) Grafana
2 7 (21.88%) Prometheus
3 6 (18.75%) Nessus
4 4 (12.50%) Proxmox
5 2 (6.25%) Nagios
5 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) ServiceNow
2 4 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (9.38%) Cisco
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) CheckPoint
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (6.25%) Qualys
4 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.13%) Adobe
5 1 (3.13%) Gemalto
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) Meraki
5 1 (3.13%) Thales