SSH Job Trends in the North West

Secure Shell (SSH)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West 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 181 203 200
Rank change year-on-year +22 -3 +94
Permanent jobs citing SSH 5 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.078% 0.040% 0.067%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.26% 0.37% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £58,020 - -
25th Percentile £58,350 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,300 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £62,550 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £63,060 - -
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
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,921 536 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.15% 10.61% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 362 317 457
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,300 £28,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £77,715
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 North West

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

SSH job vacancy trend in the North West

SSH
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SSH

SSH
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the North West 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
Manchester - 5 £60,300 - 1
SSH
England

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) OpenVPN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) FTP
2 1 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (20.00%) SMTP
2 1 (20.00%) SNMP
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Electronics
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Electronics Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) JSR 170
2 1 (20.00%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (20.00%) Life Science
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Energy Management
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Content Management
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) UX Design
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (40.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft