SSH Job Trends in the North East

Secure Shell (SSH)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring SSH skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SSH 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.062% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.93% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £50,000 £56,121 £54,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% +3.93% +5.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 108 64 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 6.74% 11.17% 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 83 52 233
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,599 £25,650
25th Percentile £27,750 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £52,089 £77,626 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -5.00%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

SSH job vacancy trend in the North East

SSH
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SSH.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SSH

SSH
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 April 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £47,500 - 1
SSH
England

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) systemd
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform