SSH Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 578 655
Rank change year-on-year +197 +77 +98
Permanent jobs citing SSH 16 14 18
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.041% 0.042%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.64% 0.26% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15 12 11
10th Percentile - £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,121 £50,550 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.02% -22.23% -
75th Percentile £57,057 £57,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £71,000 - £83,750
UK median annual salary £56,121 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.93% +8.00% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,513 5,294 4,791
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.80% 15.65% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,608 3,435 3,553
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,300
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
% change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%

SSH
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SSH trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SSH
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SSH.

SSH salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SSH
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SSH over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SSH salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (18.75%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Drupal
2 1 (6.25%) IIS
2 1 (6.25%) nginx
2 1 (6.25%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) Firewall
2 6 (37.50%) EIGRP
2 6 (37.50%) OSPF
2 6 (37.50%) RIP
2 6 (37.50%) SNMP
2 6 (37.50%) WAN
3 3 (18.75%) DNS
4 2 (12.50%) FTP
4 2 (12.50%) HTTP
4 2 (12.50%) HTTPS
4 2 (12.50%) SSL
5 1 (6.25%) DHCP
5 1 (6.25%) IPsec
5 1 (6.25%) OpenVPN
5 1 (6.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (43.75%) Police
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (6.25%) Local Government
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Network Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
1 6 (37.50%) Senior Network Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Linux Support
2 5 (31.25%) Linux Support Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Software Support Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DBA
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Technology Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) EDI
1 2 (12.50%) LAMP
1 2 (12.50%) Loki
1 2 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (6.25%) Laravel
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Driving Licence
2 2 (12.50%) Life Science
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
3 2 (12.50%) AIX
3 2 (12.50%) CentOS
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Debian
4 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Solaris
4 1 (6.25%) Windows
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) Line Management
2 7 (43.75%) Strategic Thinking
2 7 (43.75%) Technical Analysis
3 6 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (37.50%) Incident Management
3 6 (37.50%) Inventory Management
3 6 (37.50%) Network Design
3 6 (37.50%) Network Management
4 5 (31.25%) Analytical Thinking
4 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
4 5 (31.25%) Telematics
4 5 (31.25%) Vehicle Telematics
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
7 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (12.50%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) AWK
2 2 (12.50%) C
2 2 (12.50%) C++
2 2 (12.50%) Korn
2 2 (12.50%) Perl
2 2 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Go
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) PMO
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
1 2 (12.50%) KVM
1 2 (12.50%) Postfix
1 2 (12.50%) Sendmail
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) LXC
2 1 (6.25%) Samba
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Grafana
2 2 (12.50%) Nagios
2 2 (12.50%) Nessus
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) CheckPoint
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco
1 6 (37.50%) SolarWinds
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
3 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 2 (12.50%) Tenable
4 1 (6.25%) SaltStack