SSH Jobs

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 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Secure Shell (SSH) UK
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	702	738	800
Rank change year-on-year	+36	+62
Permanent jobs citing SSH	174	211	188
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.20%	0.21%	0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	1.21%	1.27%	0.97%
Number of salaries quoted	128	177	157
Median salary	£47,250	£45,000	£42,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	+5.00%	+5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than	£30,450	£32,500	£24,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£60,000	£60,000	£65,000
UK excluding London median salary	£40,000	£44,500	£37,500
% change year-on-year	-10.11%	+18.66%

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

Communications & Computer Network Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	14351	16668	19314
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	16.16%	16.90%	17.41%
Number of salaries quoted	11670	13853	15719
Median salary	£45,000	£45,000	£45,000
90% offered a salary of more than	£27,500	£26,597	£27,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£70,000	£67,500	£67,500
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£42,500

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing SSH as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Communications & Networking category.

SSH
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SSH.

SSH
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing SSH over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

SSH
Top 30 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 3 months to 22 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+23	165	£47,500	+5.55%	19
London	+54	94	£52,500	-	5
West Midlands	+28	14	£40,000	+3.22%	1
North West	-32	14	£42,500	+30.76%	3
South East	+16	12	£45,000	-	5
South West	+3	12	£35,000	-36.36%	2
Cheshire	-	10	£40,000	-	1
Surbiton	-	8	-	-
Birmingham	-	8	£45,000	-
Hampshire	+32	7	£35,750	+2.14%	3
Southampton	+21	7	£35,750	+2.14%	3
Scotland	+9	7	£23,000	-54.00%	1
Edinburgh	-2	7	£23,000	-
Hertfordshire	-7	7	£45,000	+1.12%
East of England	-32	7	£45,000	-12.19%	1
Knutsford	-	7	£45,000	-
Yorkshire	-1	6	£45,000	+40.62%	2
East Midlands	+24	5	£32,500	-18.75%
West Yorkshire	+15	5	£51,750	+64.28%	1
Wiltshire	+5	4	£32,500	-50.94%
Swindon	+1	4	£32,500	-50.94%
Merseyside	-1	4	£47,500	+46.15%	1
Berkshire	+13	3	£70,000	+75.00%	1
Leeds	+8	3	£75,000	+140.00%
Devon	+4	3	£35,000	+42.85%
Nottinghamshire	+4	3	£30,000	-25.00%
Liverpool	+1	3	£47,500	+46.15%
Watford	-16	3	£40,000	-10.11%
Warrington	-	3	£36,500	-	1
Plymouth	-	3	£35,000	-

SSH
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT jobs citing SSH also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for SSH.

1	189 (60.00%)	Linux
2	134 (42.54%)	TCP/IP
3	106 (33.65%)	Windows
4	105 (33.33%)	Firewall
5	103 (32.70%)	HTTP
6	102 (32.38%)	DNS
7	87 (27.62%)	MySQL
8	85 (26.98%)	VPN
8	85 (26.98%)	WAN
9	79 (25.08%)	Apache
9	79 (25.08%)	Bash Shell
10	78 (24.76%)	Unix
11	76 (24.13%)	SMTP
11	76 (24.13%)	FTP
12	75 (23.81%)	CentOS

13	74 (23.49%)	Python
14	71 (22.54%)	LAN
15	69 (21.90%)	Cisco
16	68 (21.59%)	SSL
17	67 (21.27%)	VMware
18	66 (20.95%)	PHP
19	62 (19.68%)	Perl
20	60 (19.05%)	LAMP
21	59 (18.73%)	Java
22	58 (18.41%)	Git (software)
23	53 (16.83%)	Red Hat
24	51 (16.19%)	LDAP
25	49 (15.56%)	DHCP
26	48 (15.24%)	JavaScript
26	48 (15.24%)	SQL

SSH
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	79 (25.08%)	Apache
2	47 (14.92%)	Tomcat
3	24 (7.62%)	nginx
4	18 (5.71%)	IIS
5	17 (5.40%)	JBoss
6	16 (5.08%)	WordPress
7	11 (3.49%)	OpenStack
8	9 (2.86%)	WebLogic
8	9 (2.86%)	WebSphere
9	7 (2.22%)	WildFly
10	6 (1.90%)	ArcGIS
10	6 (1.90%)	Confluence
10	6 (1.90%)	IBM Notes
11	5 (1.59%)	CMS
11	5 (1.59%)	Moodle
12	4 (1.27%)	Elasticsearch
12	4 (1.27%)	MQSeries
12	4 (1.27%)	SharePoint
13	3 (0.95%)	GeoServer
13	3 (0.95%)	Oracle Application Server

Applications
1	8 (2.54%)	Photoshop
2	7 (2.22%)	Microsoft Office
3	3 (0.95%)	MS Visio
4	1 (0.32%)	GIMP
4	1 (0.32%)	Microsoft Excel
4	1 (0.32%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	9 (2.86%)	Magento
2	6 (1.90%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	1 (0.32%)	Remedy ITSM
3	1 (0.32%)	Shopify

Cloud Services
1	37 (11.75%)	Amazon AWS
2	17 (5.40%)	Microsoft Azure
3	16 (5.08%)	GitHub
4	12 (3.81%)	Amazon EC2
4	12 (3.81%)	IaaS
4	12 (3.81%)	Virtual Private Cloud
5	11 (3.49%)	Amazon S3
5	11 (3.49%)	Cloud Computing
6	8 (2.54%)	Office 365
7	4 (1.27%)	AWS CloudFormation
7	4 (1.27%)	SaaS
8	3 (0.95%)	PaaS
9	2 (0.63%)	Azure Active Directory
9	2 (0.63%)	Bluemix
9	2 (0.63%)	G Suite
9	2 (0.63%)	IBM Cloud
9	2 (0.63%)	Slack
10	1 (0.32%)	Amazon ELB
10	1 (0.32%)	Google Cloud Platform
10	1 (0.32%)	Route 53

Communications & Networking
1	134 (42.54%)	TCP/IP
2	105 (33.33%)	Firewall
3	103 (32.70%)	HTTP
4	102 (32.38%)	DNS
5	85 (26.98%)	VPN
5	85 (26.98%)	WAN
6	76 (24.13%)	FTP
6	76 (24.13%)	SMTP
7	71 (22.54%)	LAN
8	68 (21.59%)	SSL
9	51 (16.19%)	LDAP
10	49 (15.56%)	DHCP
11	47 (14.92%)	Internet
12	44 (13.97%)	Telnet
13	43 (13.65%)	SNMP
14	37 (11.75%)	SAN
15	36 (11.43%)	HTTPS
16	28 (8.89%)	IPsec
17	27 (8.57%)	VoIP
18	24 (7.62%)	Wireless

Database & Business Intelligence
1	87 (27.62%)	MySQL
2	35 (11.11%)	PostgreSQL
3	21 (6.67%)	SQL Server
4	20 (6.35%)	Relational Database
5	15 (4.76%)	RDBMS
6	12 (3.81%)	MariaDB
7	10 (3.17%)	Amazon RDS
8	7 (2.22%)	DB2
8	7 (2.22%)	NoSQL
9	6 (1.90%)	QGIS
10	5 (1.59%)	Oracle Database
10	5 (1.59%)	SQLite
11	3 (0.95%)	Apache Cassandra
11	3 (0.95%)	InfluxDB
11	3 (0.95%)	MongoDB
12	2 (0.63%)	Hadoop
12	2 (0.63%)	Redis
12	2 (0.63%)	SQL Server 2008
13	1 (0.32%)	Firebird
13	1 (0.32%)	SQL Server 2005

Development Applications
1	58 (18.41%)	Git (software)
2	21 (6.67%)	Maven
3	20 (6.35%)	JIRA
4	15 (4.76%)	Jenkins
5	12 (3.81%)	Atlassian Bamboo
6	11 (3.49%)	Vagrant
7	9 (2.86%)	Ant
7	9 (2.86%)	Cucumber
8	8 (2.54%)	Emacs
8	8 (2.54%)	GitLab
8	8 (2.54%)	Grunt
9	7 (2.22%)	git-flow
9	7 (2.22%)	Subversion
9	7 (2.22%)	Zephyr
10	6 (1.90%)	gulp
11	5 (1.59%)	Bitbucket
11	5 (1.59%)	Team Foundation Server
12	4 (1.27%)	Selenium
12	4 (1.27%)	TeamCity
13	3 (0.95%)	Mercurial

General
1	45 (14.29%)	Finance
2	25 (7.94%)	Telecoms
3	15 (4.76%)	Marketing
4	11 (3.49%)	Banking
5	9 (2.86%)	Retail
6	8 (2.54%)	Games
7	6 (1.90%)	Advertising
7	6 (1.90%)	Electronics
7	6 (1.90%)	French Language
7	6 (1.90%)	Law
7	6 (1.90%)	Manufacturing
8	4 (1.27%)	German Language
8	4 (1.27%)	Legal
8	4 (1.27%)	Portuguese Language
8	4 (1.27%)	Spanish Language
9	3 (0.95%)	Investment Banking
10	2 (0.63%)	Back Office
10	2 (0.63%)	Billing
10	2 (0.63%)	Military
11	1 (0.32%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	55 (17.46%)	Developer
2	43 (13.65%)	Network Engineer
3	42 (13.33%)	Analyst
4	38 (12.06%)	Linux Engineer
5	28 (8.89%)	Administrator
6	26 (8.25%)	Systems Administrator
7	21 (6.67%)	DevOps Engineer
8	20 (6.35%)	Infrastructure Engineer
9	19 (6.03%)	Systems Engineer
10	18 (5.71%)	Senior Developer
10	18 (5.71%)	Support Engineer
11	16 (5.08%)	Linux Systems Administrator
12	15 (4.76%)	JavaScript Developer
12	15 (4.76%)	Linux Administrator
12	15 (4.76%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
12	15 (4.76%)	Security Analyst
13	14 (4.44%)	Infrastructure Analyst
13	14 (4.44%)	IT Analyst
13	14 (4.44%)	PHP Developer
14	13 (4.13%)	Cloud Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	60 (19.05%)	LAMP
2	41 (13.02%)	HTML
3	37 (11.75%)	Web Services
4	36 (11.43%)	CSS
5	22 (6.98%)	SOAP
6	21 (6.67%)	jQuery
7	19 (6.03%)	HTML5
8	18 (5.71%)	LEMP Stack
9	17 (5.40%)	Ajax
9	17 (5.40%)	Sass
9	17 (5.40%)	XML
10	16 (5.08%)	802.1X
11	14 (4.44%)	CSS3
12	13 (4.13%)	REST
12	13 (4.13%)	RESTful
12	13 (4.13%)	Spring
12	13 (4.13%)	Spring Security
13	11 (3.49%)	AngularJS
14	10 (3.17%)	JSON
14	10 (3.17%)	Memcached

Miscellaneous
1	40 (12.70%)	Linux Command Line
2	31 (9.84%)	Data Centre
3	27 (8.57%)	Analytical Skills
4	26 (8.25%)	Computer Science
5	24 (7.62%)	PKI
6	11 (3.49%)	Client/Server
7	10 (3.17%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
7	10 (3.17%)	Management Information System
8	8 (2.54%)	Enterprise Storage
8	8 (2.54%)	Mobile App
9	7 (2.22%)	CMDB
9	7 (2.22%)	Fintech
10	6 (1.90%)	PACS
11	5 (1.59%)	e-Learning
11	5 (1.59%)	iPhone
11	5 (1.59%)	Mainframe
11	5 (1.59%)	User Experience
12	4 (1.27%)	Hybrid Cloud
12	4 (1.27%)	Private Cloud
12	4 (1.27%)	Public Cloud

Operating Systems
1	189 (60.00%)	Linux
2	106 (33.65%)	Windows
3	78 (24.76%)	Unix
4	75 (23.81%)	CentOS
5	45 (14.29%)	Windows Server
6	35 (11.11%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	30 (9.52%)	Debian
8	24 (7.62%)	Solaris
9	19 (6.03%)	Apple iOS
9	19 (6.03%)	Ubuntu
10	16 (5.08%)	Android
11	15 (4.76%)	Windows Server 2008
12	12 (3.81%)	AIX
12	12 (3.81%)	Windows Server 2003
13	8 (2.54%)	Windows Server 2012
14	6 (1.90%)	CoreOS
14	6 (1.90%)	Windows 2000 Server
15	5 (1.59%)	Mac OS
16	4 (1.27%)	Windows 7
16	4 (1.27%)	Windows NT

Processes & Methodologies
1	43 (13.65%)	Load Balancing
2	38 (12.06%)	DevOps
3	33 (10.48%)	Problem Management
4	31 (9.84%)	Network Architecture
5	30 (9.52%)	SIEM
6	29 (9.21%)	Configuration Management
6	29 (9.21%)	Performance Tuning
7	27 (8.57%)	ITIL
8	22 (6.98%)	Agile Software Development
8	22 (6.98%)	Web Development
9	21 (6.67%)	Change Management
10	19 (6.03%)	Mentoring
10	19 (6.03%)	Patch Management
10	19 (6.03%)	Project Management
11	18 (5.71%)	Root Cause Analysis
12	17 (5.40%)	Vulnerability Scanning
13	16 (5.08%)	Capacity Planning
13	16 (5.08%)	Cybersecurity
13	16 (5.08%)	Information Security
14	15 (4.76%)	Disaster Recovery

Programming Languages
1	79 (25.08%)	Bash Shell
2	74 (23.49%)	Python
3	66 (20.95%)	PHP
4	62 (19.68%)	Perl
5	59 (18.73%)	Java
6	48 (15.24%)	JavaScript
6	48 (15.24%)	SQL
7	40 (12.70%)	Ruby
8	35 (11.11%)	Shell Script
9	23 (7.30%)	PowerShell
10	8 (2.54%)	C#
11	7 (2.22%)	C
12	6 (1.90%)	XPath
13	4 (1.27%)	Bourne shell
13	4 (1.27%)	C-shell
13	4 (1.27%)	ES6
14	3 (0.95%)	AppleScript
14	3 (0.95%)	C++
14	3 (0.95%)	Objective-C
14	3 (0.95%)	PL/SQL

Qualifications
1	43 (13.65%)	Degree
2	31 (9.84%)	Cisco Certification
3	19 (6.03%)	CISSP
4	18 (5.71%)	Security Cleared
5	17 (5.40%)	CCNA
5	17 (5.40%)	CCNP
6	15 (4.76%)	Computer Science Degree
7	8 (2.54%)	CCIE
7	8 (2.54%)	CEH
7	8 (2.54%)	CISM
7	8 (2.54%)	Microsoft Certification
7	8 (2.54%)	SC Cleared
8	7 (2.22%)	CompTIA Security+
8	7 (2.22%)	ISTQB
8	7 (2.22%)	MCSE
8	7 (2.22%)	RHCE
8	7 (2.22%)	Security+ Certification
9	5 (1.59%)	ISEB
10	4 (1.27%)	JNCIE
10	4 (1.27%)	OSCP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	17 (5.40%)	PCI DSS
2	14 (4.44%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	13 (4.13%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
4	11 (3.49%)	Cyber Essentials
5	10 (3.17%)	SLA
6	9 (2.86%)	QA
7	8 (2.54%)	GDPR
8	5 (1.59%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9	4 (1.27%)	COBIT
10	3 (0.95%)	Def Stans
11	1 (0.32%)	COSO
11	1 (0.32%)	PMO
11	1 (0.32%)	SAS 70

System Software
1	47 (14.92%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	41 (13.02%)	Active Directory
3	24 (7.62%)	Docker
4	18 (5.71%)	NFS
5	17 (5.40%)	Hyper-V
6	15 (4.76%)	iptables
6	15 (4.76%)	Samba
7	14 (4.44%)	XenServer
8	9 (2.86%)	Varnish
9	8 (2.54%)	vSphere
10	7 (2.22%)	Job Entry Subsystem
11	6 (1.90%)	VMware ESXi
12	5 (1.59%)	Firmware
12	5 (1.59%)	OpenSIPS
12	5 (1.59%)	Postfix
13	4 (1.27%)	VMware Workstation
14	3 (0.95%)	OpenSSH
14	3 (0.95%)	Squid
14	3 (0.95%)	Terminal Services
14	3 (0.95%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	43 (13.65%)	Puppet
2	39 (12.38%)	Nagios
3	31 (9.84%)	Opscode Chef
4	27 (8.57%)	Ansible
5	23 (7.30%)	Nmap
6	15 (4.76%)	Nessus
6	15 (4.76%)	SELinux
7	13 (4.13%)	CFEngine
8	12 (3.81%)	Icinga
9	9 (2.86%)	Cobbler
9	9 (2.86%)	SCCM
10	8 (2.54%)	Cacti
10	8 (2.54%)	Oracle ZFS
10	8 (2.54%)	Red Hat Satellite
11	7 (2.22%)	HAProxy
12	6 (1.90%)	Computer Emergency Response Teams
12	6 (1.90%)	Kibana
12	6 (1.90%)	NetBackup
12	6 (1.90%)	Red Hat Spacewalk
12	6 (1.90%)	ZABBIX

Vendors
1	69 (21.90%)	Cisco
2	67 (21.27%)	VMware
3	53 (16.83%)	Red Hat
4	46 (14.60%)	Microsoft
5	30 (9.52%)	HP
6	27 (8.57%)	Oracle
7	20 (6.35%)	Qualys
8	16 (5.08%)	Juniper
9	13 (4.13%)	Citrix
9	13 (4.13%)	Google
9	13 (4.13%)	NetApp
9	13 (4.13%)	Palo Alto
10	12 (3.81%)	SolarWinds
11	11 (3.49%)	Splunk
12	10 (3.17%)	Aruba
12	10 (3.17%)	IBM
12	10 (3.17%)	McAfee
13	9 (2.86%)	SAP
14	8 (2.54%)	Salesforce.com
14	8 (2.54%)	Sybase