SSH Jobs in England

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 667 794 861
Rank change year-on-year +127 +67 +85
Permanent jobs citing SSH 24 46 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.054% 0.065%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% 0.38% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16 41 30
10th Percentile - £28,500 £34,550
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,750 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,121 £54,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.93% +10.77% -11.36%
75th Percentile £57,168 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £75,875
UK median annual salary £56,121 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.93% +8.00% -4.76%

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 7,590 12,093 14,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.55% 14.08% 15.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,736 8,543 7,265
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,017
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SSH in England

SSH
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SSH in England

SSH
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSH in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 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
North of England +72 11 £42,500 +54.55% 9
North West - 11 £42,500 - 6
South West - 7 £56,121 - 4
London +104 4 £80,000 +56.10% 21
Midlands +61 2 - - 3
West Midlands +54 2 - - 2
SSH
UK

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (8.33%) Confluence
3 1 (4.17%) Drupal
3 1 (4.17%) IIS
3 1 (4.17%) nginx
3 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Nutanix
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.33%) AWS KMS
5 2 (8.33%) GCP
5 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
6 1 (4.17%) Google App Engine
6 1 (4.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (54.17%) Firewall
2 10 (41.67%) DNS
3 8 (33.33%) HTTP
4 6 (25.00%) EIGRP
4 6 (25.00%) OSPF
4 6 (25.00%) RIP
4 6 (25.00%) SNMP
4 6 (25.00%) WAN
5 4 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (16.67%) FTP
5 4 (16.67%) VPN
6 2 (8.33%) DHCP
6 2 (8.33%) HTTPS
6 2 (8.33%) SMTP
6 2 (8.33%) SSL
6 2 (8.33%) VLAN
7 1 (4.17%) Multicast
7 1 (4.17%) OpenVPN
7 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
7 1 (4.17%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Git
2 6 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (8.33%) Vagrant
5 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.17%) JUnit
5 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Police
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Back Office
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (4.17%) Front Office
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Local Government
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) Senior
1 6 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Linux Support
2 5 (20.83%) Linux Support Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Software Support Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Support Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) IT Support
4 2 (8.33%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) DBA
5 1 (4.17%) Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) LDAP
2 3 (12.50%) XML
3 2 (8.33%) EDI
3 2 (8.33%) LAMP
3 2 (8.33%) Loki
3 2 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) Apache Camel
4 1 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (4.17%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.17%) JPA
4 1 (4.17%) JSON
4 1 (4.17%) Laravel
4 1 (4.17%) Next.js
4 1 (4.17%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) RESTful
4 1 (4.17%) SOAP
4 1 (4.17%) Spring
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.17%) XSD
4 1 (4.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 4 (16.67%) Anti-Spyware
2 4 (16.67%) Replication
3 2 (8.33%) Life Science
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Linux
2 7 (29.17%) Windows
3 4 (16.67%) Android
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (12.50%) Unix
5 2 (8.33%) AIX
5 2 (8.33%) CentOS
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (8.33%) VMS
6 1 (4.17%) Debian
6 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.17%) Solaris
6 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (29.17%) Incident Management
2 7 (29.17%) Line Management
2 7 (29.17%) Strategic Thinking
2 7 (29.17%) Technical Analysis
3 6 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (25.00%) DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Inventory Management
3 6 (25.00%) Network Design
3 6 (25.00%) Network Management
4 5 (20.83%) Analytical Thinking
4 5 (20.83%) Information Security
4 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
4 5 (20.83%) Telematics
4 5 (20.83%) Vehicle Telematics
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.67%) Identity Management
5 4 (16.67%) ITSM
5 4 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
5 4 (16.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) Perl
3 4 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) Bash
4 3 (12.50%) SQL
5 2 (8.33%) AWK
5 2 (8.33%) C
5 2 (8.33%) C++
5 2 (8.33%) Groovy
5 2 (8.33%) Korn
5 2 (8.33%) PHP
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.17%) Go
6 1 (4.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) PMO
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.33%) DFS Replication
3 2 (8.33%) KVM
3 2 (8.33%) Postfix
3 2 (8.33%) Sendmail
4 1 (4.17%) LXC
4 1 (4.17%) Samba
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Ansible
1 5 (20.83%) Grafana
2 4 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (16.67%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.33%) Nagios
4 2 (8.33%) Nessus
5 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Cisco
2 6 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 6 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 4 (16.67%) Okta
3 4 (16.67%) Perforce
3 4 (16.67%) VMware
4 3 (12.50%) IBM
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.33%) SAP
5 2 (8.33%) Tenable
6 1 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (4.17%) SaltStack