Secure Shell (SSH)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SSH skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SSH over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 654 953 944
Rank change year-on-year +299 -9 -300
Permanent jobs citing SSH 73 137 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.90% 0.87% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 66 77 100
10th Percentile £31,250 £39,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,875 £46,753 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,565 £55,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.88% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57,289 £70,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £81,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,565 £52,103 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.87% +9.69% +8.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SSH is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,115 15,817 16,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.07% 12.52% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6,389 10,530 11,491
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SSH in the UK

SSH
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SSH.

Salary trend for SSH in the UK

SSH
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSH over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for SSH in the UK

SSH
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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 +258 70 £49,565 -9.88% 19
UK excluding London +211 56 £49,565 -4.87% 12
Work from Home +272 46 £49,565 -5.59% 13
Midlands +119 27 £49,565 -4.99% 4
West Midlands +127 26 £49,565 -9.88% 4
South West +88 15 £42,221 -47.22% 1
London +253 13 £52,500 -7.20% 9
North of England +149 7 £50,000 - 3
North West +104 5 £52,500 -
South East +130 4 £77,500 +106.67% 2
Yorkshire +87 2 £41,250 +1.85% 3
Scotland - 2 £55,000 - 2
East Midlands +51 1 £33,500 -17.28%
Wales - 1 £50,000 -

SSH
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 24 (32.88%) MS Exchange
2 6 (8.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.37%) Mule
3 1 (1.37%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (57.53%) Azure
2 38 (52.05%) AWS
3 33 (45.21%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (19.18%) Entra ID
5 10 (13.70%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (10.96%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.11%) WhatsApp
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (2.74%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.74%) PaaS
8 2 (2.74%) SaaS
8 2 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.37%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.37%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 40 (54.79%) DNS
2 37 (50.68%) SNMP
3 35 (47.95%) HTTP
3 35 (47.95%) TCP/IP
4 31 (42.47%) FTP
4 31 (42.47%) SMTP
5 30 (41.10%) DHCP
6 28 (38.36%) SSL
7 24 (32.88%) Telnet
8 18 (24.66%) Firewall
9 11 (15.07%) WAN
10 10 (13.70%) EIGRP
10 10 (13.70%) OSPF
11 9 (12.33%) RIP
12 8 (10.96%) VPN
13 5 (6.85%) Internet
14 4 (5.48%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (5.48%) Kerberos
14 4 (5.48%) LAN
14 4 (5.48%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) Big Data
1 7 (9.59%) Hadoop
2 6 (8.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.11%) Firebird
3 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.37%) DB2
5 1 (1.37%) MySQL
5 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) Git
2 7 (9.59%) JUnit
3 6 (8.22%) Cucumber
3 6 (8.22%) ScalaTest
3 6 (8.22%) WebDriver
4 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.11%) Subversion
5 2 (2.74%) GitLab
5 2 (2.74%) JIRA
5 2 (2.74%) Selenium
5 2 (2.74%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.37%) Gradle
6 1 (1.37%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.37%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 13 (17.81%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.70%) Finance
3 8 (10.96%) Electronics
3 8 (10.96%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.59%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Legal
6 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Marketing
6 3 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.74%) Advertising
7 2 (2.74%) Banking
7 2 (2.74%) Police
7 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (32.88%) Senior
2 21 (28.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (17.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (16.44%) Developer
4 12 (16.44%) Network Engineer
5 11 (15.07%) Junior
6 6 (8.22%) AWS Developer
6 6 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Full Stack Developer
6 6 (8.22%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 6 (8.22%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.22%) Java Scala Developer
6 6 (8.22%) Scala Developer
6 6 (8.22%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Administrator
7 5 (6.85%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) .NET Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Junior .NET Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Junior Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.96%) REST
2 7 (9.59%) CSS
2 7 (9.59%) React
3 6 (8.22%) Hibernate
3 6 (8.22%) jQuery
3 6 (8.22%) JSP
3 6 (8.22%) Redux
3 6 (8.22%) Sass
3 6 (8.22%) Servlets
3 6 (8.22%) Spring
4 5 (6.85%) .NET
4 5 (6.85%) LDAP
5 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.48%) Vue
6 2 (2.74%) Node-RED
7 1 (1.37%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.37%) JSON
7 1 (1.37%) Node.js
7 1 (1.37%) OAuth
7 1 (1.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 26 (35.62%) Data Centre
2 24 (32.88%) EFT
3 4 (5.48%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.74%) 3D Printing
4 2 (2.74%) Arduino
4 2 (2.74%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.74%) Raspberry Pi
4 2 (2.74%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.37%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.37%) iPhone
5 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.37%) PKI
5 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (52.05%) Windows
2 26 (35.62%) Windows Server
3 24 (32.88%) Linux
4 7 (9.59%) CentOS
5 5 (6.85%) Ubuntu
6 4 (5.48%) Android
6 4 (5.48%) Debian
7 3 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (4.11%) Unix
8 2 (2.74%) VMS
9 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 24 (32.88%) ITIL
1 24 (32.88%) Server Patching
2 14 (19.18%) DevOps
3 11 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (15.07%) TDD
4 9 (12.33%) Agile
4 9 (12.33%) Network Management
5 8 (10.96%) Customer Requirements
5 8 (10.96%) Network Design
6 7 (9.59%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (8.22%) Computer Science
7 6 (8.22%) Containerisation
7 6 (8.22%) Data Engineering
7 6 (8.22%) ETL
7 6 (8.22%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (8.22%) Web Application Development
8 5 (6.85%) Configuration Management
8 5 (6.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 26 (35.62%) PowerShell
2 13 (17.81%) JavaScript
3 11 (15.07%) Java
4 8 (10.96%) Bash
4 8 (10.96%) Python
4 8 (10.96%) SQL
4 8 (10.96%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.22%) Scala
6 4 (5.48%) C#
7 2 (2.74%) C++
7 2 (2.74%) Groovy
7 2 (2.74%) Perl
7 2 (2.74%) R
7 2 (2.74%) Ruby
8 1 (1.37%) C
8 1 (1.37%) Go
8 1 (1.37%) Rust
8 1 (1.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (13.70%) Degree
2 4 (5.48%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.11%) CCNP
3 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.37%) CCNA
5 1 (1.37%) MCSA
5 1 (1.37%) MCSE
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.11%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.74%) NIST
2 2 (2.74%) SLA
3 1 (1.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (45.21%) Active Directory
2 24 (32.88%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (10.96%) Docker
4 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.37%) iptables
4 1 (1.37%) NFS
Systems Management
1 24 (32.88%) SCCM
1 24 (32.88%) vCenter Server
2 6 (8.22%) Terraform
3 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.11%) Ansible
4 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.74%) Nagios
5 2 (2.74%) yum
6 1 (1.37%) Control-M
6 1 (1.37%) Kibana
6 1 (1.37%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.37%) SELinux
6 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (46.58%) Microsoft
2 24 (32.88%) Citrix
2 24 (32.88%) Globalscape
2 24 (32.88%) VMware
3 16 (21.92%) Cisco
4 9 (12.33%) CheckPoint
4 9 (12.33%) SolarWinds
5 4 (5.48%) Aruba
6 3 (4.11%) Oracle
6 3 (4.11%) SAP
7 2 (2.74%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.74%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.74%) SonicWALL
8 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.37%) Freshdesk
8 1 (1.37%) IBM
8 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.37%) Palo Alto