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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 716 727
Rank change year-on-year +152 +11 +42
Permanent jobs citing SSH 22 32 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.056% 0.045% 0.045%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% 0.33% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 13 31 14
10th Percentile - £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,250 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +30.91% -5.71%
75th Percentile £57,057 £65,000 £47,500
90th Percentile - - £75,875
UK median annual salary £56,121 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.93% +8.00% -4.76%

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 6,187 9,778 10,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.79% 13.77% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,189 7,087 4,761
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -3.23%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,600 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 2025. 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
North of England +72 11 £42,500 +54.55% 10
North West - 11 £42,500 - 7
South West - 7 £56,121 - 4
Midlands +61 2 - - 4
West Midlands +54 2 - - 2
Scotland - 2 - - 2
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 2 (9.09%) Apache
1 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) Nutanix
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.09%) AWS KMS
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (59.09%) Firewall
2 9 (40.91%) DNS
3 8 (36.36%) HTTP
4 6 (27.27%) EIGRP
4 6 (27.27%) OSPF
4 6 (27.27%) RIP
4 6 (27.27%) SNMP
4 6 (27.27%) WAN
5 4 (18.18%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (18.18%) FTP
5 4 (18.18%) SSL
5 4 (18.18%) VPN
6 2 (9.09%) HTTPS
6 2 (9.09%) SMTP
7 1 (4.55%) DHCP
7 1 (4.55%) IPsec
7 1 (4.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (9.09%) MySQL
1 2 (9.09%) NonStop SQL
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
1 6 (27.27%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (9.09%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Police
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (4.55%) Local Government
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Senior
2 6 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Network Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Linux Support
3 5 (22.73%) Linux Support Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Software Support Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Support Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) IT Support
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Administrator
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Manager
6 2 (9.09%) Systems Manager
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) DBA
7 1 (4.55%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.55%) Unix Administrator
7 1 (4.55%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) LDAP
2 2 (9.09%) EDI
2 2 (9.09%) LAMP
2 2 (9.09%) Loki
2 2 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Driving Licence
2 4 (18.18%) Anti-Spyware
2 4 (18.18%) Replication
3 2 (9.09%) Life Science
3 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 7 (31.82%) Windows
3 4 (18.18%) Android
4 3 (13.64%) Unix
5 2 (9.09%) AIX
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (9.09%) CentOS
5 2 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (9.09%) VMS
6 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
6 1 (4.55%) Solaris
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (31.82%) Line Management
2 7 (31.82%) Technical Analysis
3 6 (27.27%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (27.27%) Customer Service
3 6 (27.27%) Inventory Management
3 6 (27.27%) Network Design
3 6 (27.27%) Network Management
3 6 (27.27%) Strategic Thinking
4 5 (22.73%) Analytical Thinking
4 5 (22.73%) Incident Management
4 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
4 5 (22.73%) Telematics
4 5 (22.73%) Vehicle Telematics
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Epics
5 4 (18.18%) Information Security
5 4 (18.18%) Knowledge Management
5 4 (18.18%) Patch Management
5 4 (18.18%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Java
1 4 (18.18%) Perl
1 4 (18.18%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) AWK
3 2 (9.09%) C
3 2 (9.09%) C++
3 2 (9.09%) Groovy
3 2 (9.09%) Korn
3 2 (9.09%) PHP
3 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.64%) Docker
4 2 (9.09%) DFS Replication
4 2 (9.09%) KVM
4 2 (9.09%) Postfix
4 2 (9.09%) Sendmail
5 1 (4.55%) LXC
5 1 (4.55%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Ansible
1 4 (18.18%) Grafana
1 4 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (9.09%) Nagios
2 2 (9.09%) Nessus
2 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Cisco
2 6 (27.27%) CheckPoint
2 6 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 6 (27.27%) SolarWinds
3 4 (18.18%) Okta
3 4 (18.18%) Perforce
3 4 (18.18%) VMware
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.64%) Oracle
5 2 (9.09%) IBM
5 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.09%) SAP
5 2 (9.09%) Tenable