Secure Shell (SSH)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 801 811 1040
Rank change year-on-year +10 +229 -187
Permanent jobs citing SSH 41 76 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.094% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.37% 0.59% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 30 48 98
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £28,625 £35,031 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,000 £64,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £71,000 £75,875 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £44,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -32.20% -11.50% +14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 11,133 12,974 22,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 16.08% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,152 7,381 12,357
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £38,367
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,083 £70,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% 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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for SSH in the UK

SSH
Top 11 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 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
England +2 41 £50,000 +11.11% 21
London +77 21 £50,000 -13.04% 9
UK excluding London -55 20 £30,000 -32.20% 11
Work from Home +25 10 £54,000 +8.95% 17
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
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 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) nginx
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (31.71%) AWS
1 13 (31.71%) Azure
2 6 (14.63%) Entra ID
2 6 (14.63%) GCP
2 6 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.44%) OneDrive
3 1 (2.44%) SaaS
3 1 (2.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (46.34%) TCP/IP
2 18 (43.90%) DNS
3 16 (39.02%) SSL
4 14 (34.15%) DHCP
5 12 (29.27%) HTTP
6 11 (26.83%) Wireless
7 8 (19.51%) SMTP
8 7 (17.07%) 4G
8 7 (17.07%) 5G
8 7 (17.07%) FTP
8 7 (17.07%) SNMP
9 6 (14.63%) Telnet
10 5 (12.20%) IPsec
11 2 (4.88%) Internet
12 1 (2.44%) Firewall
12 1 (2.44%) HTTPS
12 1 (2.44%) POP3
12 1 (2.44%) VLAN
12 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) MySQL
2 5 (12.20%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.32%) MariaDB
4 2 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.88%) Redis
4 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Burp Suite
1 5 (12.20%) Metasploit
2 3 (7.32%) Cucumber
2 3 (7.32%) JIRA
2 3 (7.32%) JUnit
3 2 (4.88%) Eclipse
3 2 (4.88%) Git
3 2 (4.88%) GitLab
3 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 15 (36.59%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Marketing
4 5 (12.20%) Automotive
4 5 (12.20%) Banking
5 4 (9.76%) Back Office
5 4 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (7.32%) Finance
7 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Front Office
8 1 (2.44%) Games
8 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (17.07%) Field Engineer
1 7 (17.07%) Network Engineer
1 7 (17.07%) Network Field Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Principal Security Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Security Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) Applications Support
4 4 (9.76%) Applications Support Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Graduate
4 4 (9.76%) Graduate Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Graduate Applications Support
4 4 (9.76%) Graduate Applications Support Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Graduate Support Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Support Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Consultant
5 3 (7.32%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) REST
1 7 (17.07%) SOAP
2 5 (12.20%) CSS
2 5 (12.20%) HTML
2 5 (12.20%) Web Services
2 5 (12.20%) XML
3 3 (7.32%) Hibernate
3 3 (7.32%) J2EE
3 3 (7.32%) JPA
3 3 (7.32%) JSON
3 3 (7.32%) Spring
4 2 (4.88%) Ajax
4 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.88%) CSS3
4 2 (4.88%) HTML5
4 2 (4.88%) Laravel
4 2 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.88%) Sass
4 2 (4.88%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (4.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) IoT
2 6 (14.63%) Data Centre
2 6 (14.63%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (12.20%) EFT
4 4 (9.76%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (9.76%) Mobile App
5 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (4.88%) CMDB
6 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.44%) iPhone
7 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (51.22%) Windows
2 17 (41.46%) Linux
3 10 (24.39%) Unix
4 7 (17.07%) Windows 10
5 6 (14.63%) Windows Server
6 5 (12.20%) Kali Linux
7 1 (2.44%) Android
7 1 (2.44%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (31.71%) Computer Science
3 9 (21.95%) Penetration Testing
4 8 (19.51%) Agile
4 8 (19.51%) SDLC
5 7 (17.07%) ITIL
6 6 (14.63%) Containerisation
6 6 (14.63%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (12.20%) Incident Response
7 5 (12.20%) OOP
7 5 (12.20%) Risk Assessment
7 5 (12.20%) Server Patching
7 5 (12.20%) Social Engineering
8 4 (9.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (9.76%) Information Management
8 4 (9.76%) OO
8 4 (9.76%) OWASP
8 4 (9.76%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (39.02%) Python
2 11 (26.83%) Java
3 9 (21.95%) SQL
4 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
5 6 (14.63%) C++
5 6 (14.63%) Perl
6 5 (12.20%) JavaScript
7 4 (9.76%) Shell Script
8 3 (7.32%) PHP
9 2 (4.88%) C
10 1 (2.44%) ActionScript
10 1 (2.44%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (2.44%) Bash
10 1 (2.44%) Go
10 1 (2.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) Degree
2 9 (21.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (12.20%) OSCP
4 4 (9.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (9.76%) CREST Certified
4 4 (9.76%) OSCE
4 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) CCNA
5 1 (2.44%) CHECK Team Leader
5 1 (2.44%) CHECK Team Member
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.44%) MCSA
5 1 (2.44%) MCSE
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Active Directory
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
2 5 (12.20%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.88%) Varnish
3 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.88%) vSphere
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) Nmap
1 5 (12.20%) SCCM
1 5 (12.20%) vCenter Server
2 4 (9.76%) Nessus
3 2 (4.88%) Ansible
3 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.88%) Packer
3 2 (4.88%) Puppet
3 2 (4.88%) Terraform
3 2 (4.88%) WMI
4 1 (2.44%) Grafana
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.44%) systemd
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
1 7 (17.07%) VMware
2 6 (14.63%) Google
3 5 (12.20%) Citrix
3 5 (12.20%) Globalscape
4 4 (9.76%) Qualys
5 2 (4.88%) Oracle
5 2 (4.88%) Splunk
6 1 (2.44%) Cisco
6 1 (2.44%) Freshdesk
6 1 (2.44%) IBM
6 1 (2.44%) IBM Sterling