SSH Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Secure Shell (SSH)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SSH 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.080% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.27% - -
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 - - -
North East median annual salary £47,500 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 79 38 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 6.35% 9.84% 14.78%
Number of salaries quoted 70 34 169
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,430 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £33,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £44,750 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.84% +11.88% -5.88%
75th Percentile £47,500 £68,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £50,443 £82,500 £72,500
North East median annual salary £30,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -32.22% +5.88% -

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

SSH job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

SSH
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SSH.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SSH

SSH
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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