SSH Jobs in the UK excluding London

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 687 632 801
Rank change year-on-year -55 +169 -126
Permanent jobs citing SSH 20 46 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.096% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.25% 0.51% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 19 32 40
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £24,225
25th Percentile £27,375 £35,031 £36,339
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £44,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.20% -11.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57,000 £50,869 £55,000
90th Percentile £58,600 £57,098 £57,385
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,042 9,068 11,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.32% 18.83% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,374 4,409 6,985
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SSH in the UK excluding London

SSH
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SSH in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SSH in the UK excluding London

SSH
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSH in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for SSH in the UK excluding London

SSH
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Yorkshire +56 8 £30,000 -3.23% 2
North of England +1 8 £30,000 -25.00% 2
Midlands -23 7 £54,000 +13.68% 1
West Midlands -7 6 £54,000 +13.68%
South East +1 3 £60,000 -22.58% 2
East of England -5 2 £28,250 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £34,000 - 1
SSH
UK

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 15 (75.00%) DNS
3 14 (70.00%) DHCP
4 7 (35.00%) 4G
4 7 (35.00%) 5G
4 7 (35.00%) SNMP
4 7 (35.00%) Wireless
5 6 (30.00%) FTP
6 5 (25.00%) HTTP
6 5 (25.00%) SMTP
6 5 (25.00%) SSL
6 5 (25.00%) Telnet
7 1 (5.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) MySQL
1 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (15.00%) MariaDB
3 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (5.00%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Games
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Field Engineer
1 7 (35.00%) Network Engineer
1 7 (35.00%) Network Field Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) PHP Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Technical Support
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Support
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) IT Support
5 1 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) CSS
1 5 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (10.00%) Ajax
2 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.00%) CSS3
2 2 (10.00%) HTML5
2 2 (10.00%) JDBC
2 2 (10.00%) Laravel
2 2 (10.00%) ODBC
2 2 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) Sass
2 2 (10.00%) SOAP
2 2 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (10.00%) Vue
2 2 (10.00%) Web Services
2 2 (10.00%) XHTML
2 2 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (5.00%) PHP-FPM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (25.00%) EFT
2 2 (10.00%) CMDB
3 1 (5.00%) iPhone
3 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) Windows 10
3 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (10.00%) Unix
5 1 (5.00%) Android
5 1 (5.00%) Kali Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) ITIL
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (25.00%) Server Patching
4 4 (20.00%) OO
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) CRM
6 2 (10.00%) Data Extraction
6 2 (10.00%) Database Tuning
6 2 (10.00%) ERP
6 2 (10.00%) ITSM
6 2 (10.00%) Kanban
6 2 (10.00%) Manual Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (10.00%) Network Management
6 2 (10.00%) OO PHP
6 2 (10.00%) OOP
6 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (10.00%) User Experience
6 2 (10.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) Python
4 3 (15.00%) Java
4 3 (15.00%) Perl
4 3 (15.00%) PHP
5 2 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) C
6 1 (5.00%) C++
6 1 (5.00%) Go
6 1 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) CCNA
1 1 (5.00%) CHECK Team Leader
1 1 (5.00%) CHECK Team Member
1 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.00%) MCSA
1 1 (5.00%) MCSE
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.00%) OSCP
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) SCCM
1 5 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (10.00%) WMI
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Nmap
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Citrix
2 5 (25.00%) Globalscape
2 5 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Freshdesk