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 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Secure Shell (SSH) UK
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	698	715	790
Rank change year-on-year	+17	+75
Permanent jobs citing SSH	174	210	182
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.20%	0.22%	0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	1.22%	1.28%	0.94%
Number of salaries quoted	130	177	152
Median salary	£47,250	£45,000	£40,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+5.00%	+12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than	£30,600	£32,500	£24,100
10% offered a salary of more than	£60,000	£60,000	£65,000
UK excluding London median salary	£40,000	£45,000	£37,500
% change year-on-year	-11.11%	+20.00%

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	14205	16463	19293
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	16.13%	16.96%	17.43%
Number of salaries quoted	11559	13682	15731
Median salary	£45,000	£45,000	£45,000
90% offered a salary of more than	£27,500	£27,000	£27,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£70,000	£67,500	£67,500
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£42,000
% change year-on-year	-	+1.19%

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 25 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 25 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	+24	165	£47,500	+5.55%	17
London	+44	94	£52,500	-	5
West Midlands	+23	14	£40,000	+3.22%	1
North West	-28	14	£42,500	+30.76%	3
South West	0	13	£35,000	-36.36%	1
South East	+29	12	£45,000	-	5
Cheshire	-	10	£40,000	-	1
Birmingham	-	8	£45,000	-
Hampshire	+16	7	£35,750	+2.14%	3
Southampton	+14	7	£35,750	+2.14%	3
Scotland	+10	7	£23,000	-54.00%
Edinburgh	+2	7	£23,000	-
Hertfordshire	-14	7	£45,000	+1.12%
East of England	-26	7	£45,000	-12.19%
Knutsford	-	7	£45,000	-
Surbiton	-	7	-	-
Yorkshire	+9	6	£45,000	+40.62%	2
West Yorkshire	+13	5	£51,750	+64.28%	1
East Midlands	+23	4	£32,500	-18.75%
Wiltshire	+7	4	£32,500	-50.94%
Swindon	+1	4	£32,500	-50.94%
Merseyside	-8	4	£47,500	+46.15%	1
Dorset	-	4	£42,500	-
Berkshire	+17	3	£70,000	+75.00%	1
Leeds	+3	3	£75,000	+140.00%
Liverpool	+1	3	£47,500	+46.15%
Watford	-13	3	£40,000	-10.11%
Malvern	-	3	£40,000	-
Croydon	-	3	£30,000	-
Warrington	-	3	£36,500	-	1

SSH
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 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	188 (59.68%)	Linux
2	132 (41.90%)	TCP/IP
3	107 (33.97%)	Firewall
4	105 (33.33%)	Windows
5	104 (33.02%)	HTTP
6	101 (32.06%)	DNS
7	87 (27.62%)	VPN
7	87 (27.62%)	WAN
8	86 (27.30%)	MySQL
9	79 (25.08%)	Bash Shell
10	78 (24.76%)	Apache
11	77 (24.44%)	SMTP
12	76 (24.13%)	FTP
12	76 (24.13%)	CentOS
13	75 (23.81%)	Unix

14	73 (23.17%)	Python
14	73 (23.17%)	LAN
15	71 (22.54%)	Cisco
16	69 (21.90%)	SSL
16	69 (21.90%)	VMware
17	65 (20.63%)	PHP
18	62 (19.68%)	Perl
19	60 (19.05%)	LAMP
20	59 (18.73%)	Java
21	58 (18.41%)	Git (software)
22	53 (16.83%)	Red Hat
23	50 (15.87%)	LDAP
24	49 (15.56%)	VMware Infrastructure
25	48 (15.24%)	JavaScript
25	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	78 (24.76%)	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	38 (12.06%)	Amazon AWS
2	18 (5.71%)	Microsoft Azure
3	16 (5.08%)	GitHub
4	12 (3.81%)	Amazon EC2
4	12 (3.81%)	Virtual Private Cloud
5	11 (3.49%)	Amazon S3
5	11 (3.49%)	Cloud Computing
5	11 (3.49%)	IaaS
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	132 (41.90%)	TCP/IP
2	107 (33.97%)	Firewall
3	104 (33.02%)	HTTP
4	101 (32.06%)	DNS
5	87 (27.62%)	VPN
5	87 (27.62%)	WAN
6	77 (24.44%)	SMTP
7	76 (24.13%)	FTP
8	73 (23.17%)	LAN
9	69 (21.90%)	SSL
10	50 (15.87%)	LDAP
11	48 (15.24%)	DHCP
12	47 (14.92%)	Internet
13	46 (14.60%)	SNMP
14	44 (13.97%)	Telnet
15	36 (11.43%)	HTTPS
15	36 (11.43%)	SAN
16	29 (9.21%)	IPsec
16	29 (9.21%)	VoIP
17	25 (7.94%)	Wireless

Database & Business Intelligence
1	86 (27.30%)	MySQL
2	34 (10.79%)	PostgreSQL
3	21 (6.67%)	SQL Server
4	20 (6.35%)	Relational Database
5	15 (4.76%)	RDBMS
6	13 (4.13%)	MariaDB
7	10 (3.17%)	Amazon RDS
8	7 (2.22%)	NoSQL
9	6 (1.90%)	DB2
9	6 (1.90%)	QGIS
10	5 (1.59%)	Oracle Database
10	5 (1.59%)	SQLite
11	3 (0.95%)	InfluxDB
11	3 (0.95%)	MongoDB
12	2 (0.63%)	Apache Cassandra
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%)	Rational DOORS
12	4 (1.27%)	Selenium
12	4 (1.27%)	TeamCity

General
1	45 (14.29%)	Finance
2	26 (8.25%)	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%)	Financial Institution

Job Titles
1	55 (17.46%)	Developer
2	43 (13.65%)	Analyst
2	43 (13.65%)	Network Engineer
3	37 (11.75%)	Linux Engineer
4	28 (8.89%)	Administrator
5	26 (8.25%)	Systems Administrator
6	21 (6.67%)	DevOps Engineer
7	20 (6.35%)	Infrastructure Engineer
8	19 (6.03%)	Systems Engineer
9	18 (5.71%)	Senior Developer
9	18 (5.71%)	Support Engineer
10	16 (5.08%)	Linux Systems Administrator
10	16 (5.08%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
11	15 (4.76%)	Infrastructure Analyst
11	15 (4.76%)	IT Analyst
11	15 (4.76%)	JavaScript Developer
11	15 (4.76%)	Linux Administrator
11	15 (4.76%)	Security Analyst
12	14 (4.44%)	PHP Developer
13	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%)	802.1X
9	17 (5.40%)	Ajax
9	17 (5.40%)	Sass
9	17 (5.40%)	XML
10	14 (4.44%)	CSS3
11	13 (4.13%)	REST
11	13 (4.13%)	RESTful
11	13 (4.13%)	Spring
11	13 (4.13%)	Spring Security
12	11 (3.49%)	AngularJS
13	10 (3.17%)	JSON
13	10 (3.17%)	Middleware

Miscellaneous
1	40 (12.70%)	Linux Command Line
2	30 (9.52%)	Data Centre
3	28 (8.89%)	Analytical Skills
4	25 (7.94%)	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	9 (2.86%)	Enterprise Storage
9	8 (2.54%)	Mobile App
10	7 (2.22%)	CMDB
10	7 (2.22%)	Fintech
11	6 (1.90%)	PACS
12	5 (1.59%)	e-Learning
12	5 (1.59%)	iPhone
12	5 (1.59%)	Mainframe
12	5 (1.59%)	User Experience
13	4 (1.27%)	Learning Management System
13	4 (1.27%)	Private Cloud
13	4 (1.27%)	VLE

Operating Systems
1	188 (59.68%)	Linux
2	105 (33.33%)	Windows
3	76 (24.13%)	CentOS
4	75 (23.81%)	Unix
5	45 (14.29%)	Windows Server
6	35 (11.11%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	30 (9.52%)	Debian
8	23 (7.30%)	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	39 (12.38%)	DevOps
3	32 (10.16%)	Problem Management
4	31 (9.84%)	Network Architecture
4	31 (9.84%)	SIEM
5	29 (9.21%)	Configuration Management
6	28 (8.89%)	ITIL
6	28 (8.89%)	Performance Tuning
7	22 (6.98%)	Agile Software Development
7	22 (6.98%)	Web Development
8	21 (6.67%)	Change Management
9	19 (6.03%)	Mentoring
9	19 (6.03%)	Patch Management
9	19 (6.03%)	Project Management
10	18 (5.71%)	Root Cause Analysis
11	17 (5.40%)	Vulnerability Scanning
12	16 (5.08%)	Capacity Planning
12	16 (5.08%)	Cybersecurity
12	16 (5.08%)	Information Security
13	14 (4.44%)	Disaster Recovery

Programming Languages
1	79 (25.08%)	Bash Shell
2	73 (23.17%)	Python
3	65 (20.63%)	PHP
4	62 (19.68%)	Perl
5	59 (18.73%)	Java
6	48 (15.24%)	JavaScript
6	48 (15.24%)	SQL
7	39 (12.38%)	Ruby
8	34 (10.79%)	Shell Script
9	22 (6.98%)	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	32 (10.16%)	Cisco Certification
3	19 (6.03%)	CISSP
3	19 (6.03%)	Security Cleared
4	18 (5.71%)	CCNA
4	18 (5.71%)	CCNP
5	14 (4.44%)	Computer Science Degree
6	9 (2.86%)	SC Cleared
7	8 (2.54%)	CCIE
7	8 (2.54%)	CEH
7	8 (2.54%)	CISM
7	8 (2.54%)	Microsoft Certification
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	15 (4.76%)	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
9	4 (1.27%)	Def Stans
10	1 (0.32%)	COSO
10	1 (0.32%)	PMO
10	1 (0.32%)	SAS 70

System Software
1	49 (15.56%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	42 (13.33%)	Active Directory
3	24 (7.62%)	Docker
4	18 (5.71%)	Hyper-V
5	16 (5.08%)	NFS
6	15 (4.76%)	XenServer
7	14 (4.44%)	iptables
8	13 (4.13%)	Samba
9	9 (2.86%)	Varnish
10	8 (2.54%)	vSphere
11	6 (1.90%)	Job Entry Subsystem
11	6 (1.90%)	VMware ESXi
12	5 (1.59%)	OpenSIPS
12	5 (1.59%)	Postfix
13	4 (1.27%)	Firmware
13	4 (1.27%)	VMware Workstation
14	3 (0.95%)	LXC
14	3 (0.95%)	OpenSSH
14	3 (0.95%)	Snort
14	3 (0.95%)	Terminal Services

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	16 (5.08%)	SELinux
7	15 (4.76%)	Nessus
8	13 (4.13%)	CFEngine
8	13 (4.13%)	Icinga
9	10 (3.17%)	SCCM
10	9 (2.86%)	Cobbler
11	7 (2.22%)	Cacti
11	7 (2.22%)	HAProxy
11	7 (2.22%)	Oracle ZFS
11	7 (2.22%)	Red Hat Satellite
12	6 (1.90%)	Computer Emergency Response Teams
12	6 (1.90%)	Kibana
12	6 (1.90%)	Red Hat Spacewalk
12	6 (1.90%)	ZABBIX
13	5 (1.59%)	NetBackup

Vendors
1	71 (22.54%)	Cisco
2	69 (21.90%)	VMware
3	53 (16.83%)	Red Hat
4	46 (14.60%)	Microsoft
5	29 (9.21%)	HP
6	25 (7.94%)	Oracle
7	20 (6.35%)	Qualys
8	16 (5.08%)	Juniper
9	14 (4.44%)	Citrix
10	13 (4.13%)	Google
10	13 (4.13%)	Palo Alto
11	12 (3.81%)	NetApp
11	12 (3.81%)	SolarWinds
12	11 (3.49%)	Splunk
13	10 (3.17%)	Aruba
13	10 (3.17%)	IBM
13	10 (3.17%)	McAfee
14	9 (2.86%)	SAP
15	8 (2.54%)	Salesforce.com
15	8 (2.54%)	Sybase