SSH Job Trends in the Midlands

Secure Shell (SSH)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 211 - 209
Rank change year-on-year - - +101
Permanent jobs citing SSH 13 0 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.17% - 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.82% - 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 21
10th Percentile £51,250 - £35,875
25th Percentile £54,525 - £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,600 - £49,565
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.87%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £57,000
90th Percentile - - £57,385
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £49,565
% change year-on-year +5.00% +0.88% -5.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,589 954 1,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.31% 14.95% 17.79%
Number of salaries quoted 423 398 880
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £36,063 £29,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £49,504 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.37% +10.01% -5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SSH job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SSH
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SSH.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SSH

SSH
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSH in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SSH in the Midlands

SSH
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the Midlands 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
West Midlands - 13 £60,600 -
SSH
England

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (53.85%) Confluence
2 4 (30.77%) nginx
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 9 (69.23%) Amazon EC2
1 9 (69.23%) Amazon ELB
1 9 (69.23%) Amazon S3
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
1 9 (69.23%) AWS KMS
1 9 (69.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon Glacier
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (30.77%) Route 53
5 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
1 13 (100.00%) HTTP
2 11 (84.62%) FTP
2 11 (84.62%) SMTP
3 9 (69.23%) Firewall
4 4 (30.77%) IMAP
4 4 (30.77%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
5 2 (15.38%) DHCP
5 2 (15.38%) SNMP
5 2 (15.38%) SSL
5 2 (15.38%) Telnet
5 2 (15.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Jenkins
1 9 (69.23%) Vagrant
2 7 (53.85%) Git
2 7 (53.85%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Subversion
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 6 (46.15%) Presentation Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Information Security Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Cyber Security Posture
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
1 9 (69.23%) VMS
2 8 (61.54%) Windows
3 7 (53.85%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (30.77%) Ubuntu
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Cloud Security
1 9 (69.23%) Configuration Management
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Change Management
2 7 (53.85%) Patch Management
3 5 (38.46%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
5 2 (15.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) RBAC
5 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Secure Coding
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
5 2 (15.38%) Threat Detection
5 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Groovy
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
3 5 (38.46%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) Perl
4 4 (30.77%) SQL
5 2 (15.38%) C#
5 2 (15.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) AWS Certification
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
3 4 (30.77%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) CEH
4 2 (15.38%) CISSP
4 2 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (15.38%) GSEC
4 2 (15.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
2 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (30.77%) DFS Replication
3 4 (30.77%) Dovecot
3 4 (30.77%) Postfix
3 4 (30.77%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 7 (53.85%) Grafana
2 7 (53.85%) Prometheus
3 6 (46.15%) Nessus
4 4 (30.77%) Proxmox
5 2 (15.38%) Nagios
5 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) ServiceNow
2 4 (30.77%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Qualys