PuTTY Job Trends

PuTTY
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring PuTTY skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 664 - 768
Rank change year-on-year - - +413
Permanent jobs citing PuTTY 9 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% - 0.010%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% - 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 6
10th Percentile £44,750 - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £48,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.36%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £50,000
90th Percentile £49,125 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 - £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -13.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

PuTTY 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,158 9,321 9,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.53% 11.99% 16.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,986 4,891 6,940
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,369 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,985
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -1.93% -2.89%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% -5.26%

PuTTY
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PuTTY as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PuTTY in the UK

PuTTY
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PuTTY.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PuTTY

PuTTY
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PuTTY within the UK over the 6 months to 16 September 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
England - 9 £47,500 - 3
UK excluding London - 9 £47,500 - 3
South East - 4 £47,500 -
West Midlands - 3 £46,250 - 3
Midlands - 3 £46,250 - 3
North East - 3 £47,500 -
North of England - 3 £47,500 -

PuTTY
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (44.44%) IIS
2 3 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (33.33%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) IaaS
2 4 (44.44%) PaaS
2 4 (44.44%) SaaS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) SSH
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) Wireless
2 1 (11.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 3 (33.33%) Big Data
1 3 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 3 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 3 (33.33%) HBase
1 3 (33.33%) Impala
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
1 3 (33.33%) Neo4j
1 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
1 3 (33.33%) Qlik Sense
1 3 (33.33%) QlikView
1 3 (33.33%) Spark SQL
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 3 (33.33%) SQLite
1 3 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Support Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Support Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Technical Support
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Support
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
1 3 (33.33%) Plotly
1 3 (33.33%) PySpark
1 3 (33.33%) Regular Expression
1 3 (33.33%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) VMS
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 3 (33.33%) Coaching
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Data Development
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Data Matching
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (33.33%) Data Science
2 3 (33.33%) ETL
2 3 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Operational Stability
2 3 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) DCL
2 4 (44.44%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Tcl
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) PROC SQL
3 3 (33.33%) R
4 1 (11.11%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Apache Flume
1 3 (33.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kibana
1 3 (33.33%) logstash
1 3 (33.33%) Oozie
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Databricks
1 3 (33.33%) Informatica
1 3 (33.33%) MicroStrategy
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Peregrine
2 1 (11.11%) Remedy