SSH Jobs with Work from Home Options

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 657 733
Rank change year-on-year +81 +76 -229
Permanent jobs citing SSH 14 18 98
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.042% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.26% 0.37% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12 11 71
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £36,250 £49,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,550 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.23% - +32.65%
75th Percentile £57,000 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile - £83,750 -
UK median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -4.76% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,294 4,862 7,251
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.65% 11.24% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,433 3,593 4,857
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% +6.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £73,675
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,852 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

SSH
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SSH trend for jobs with a WFH option

SSH
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing SSH over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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 9 (64.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (42.86%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (85.71%) DHCP
2 10 (71.43%) DNS
2 10 (71.43%) FTP
2 10 (71.43%) SNMP
2 10 (71.43%) TCP/IP
3 9 (64.29%) SMTP
3 9 (64.29%) SSL
4 8 (57.14%) HTTP
4 8 (57.14%) Telnet
5 3 (21.43%) HTTPS
5 3 (21.43%) LAN
5 3 (21.43%) VLAN
5 3 (21.43%) VPN
5 3 (21.43%) WAN
6 2 (14.29%) BGP
6 2 (14.29%) Ethernet
6 2 (14.29%) Internet
6 2 (14.29%) IPsec
6 2 (14.29%) MPLS
6 2 (14.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (14.29%) Billing
1 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Senior
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) IT Support
5 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Problem Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Support
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Data Centre
2 8 (57.14%) EFT
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Windows
2 8 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) ITIL
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (57.14%) Server Patching
3 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (14.29%) Data Munging
3 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (14.29%) ETL
3 2 (14.29%) Investment Management
3 2 (14.29%) ITSM
3 2 (14.29%) Network Design
3 2 (14.29%) Network Management
3 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.14%) Migration
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Threat Detection
4 1 (7.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) C
4 1 (7.14%) C++
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) CCNP
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 8 (57.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.14%) NFS
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) SCCM
1 8 (57.14%) vCenter Server
2 2 (14.29%) FortiGate
2 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (64.29%) VMware
3 8 (57.14%) Citrix
3 8 (57.14%) Globalscape
4 2 (14.29%) Alteryx
4 2 (14.29%) Blue Prism
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco
4 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 2 (14.29%) SAP
4 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds