Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 18 January 2022

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 18 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
18 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 504 315 280
Rank change year-on-year -189 -35 -5
Permanent jobs citing SSH 42 24 5
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.23% 0.068%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.40% 1.67% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 31 24 5
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +10.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £85,625 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £91,375 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +15.79% +5.56%

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.

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,990 1,433 1,016
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.33% 13.72% 13.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,340 1,265 885
10th Percentile £35,750 £35,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,375 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -

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 18 January 2022.

SSH salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 18 January 2022, SSH job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for SSH.

1 31 (73.81%) Linux
2 28 (66.67%) AWS
3 20 (47.62%) Docker
3 20 (47.62%) Kubernetes
4 16 (38.10%) Azure
4 16 (38.10%) MySQL
5 15 (35.71%) Java
5 15 (35.71%) Python
6 14 (33.33%) DevOps
7 13 (30.95%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (30.95%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (30.95%) Windows
7 13 (30.95%) JavaScript
8 12 (28.57%) Grafana
9 11 (26.19%) Retail
9 11 (26.19%) PowerShell
9 11 (26.19%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (23.81%) C#
10 10 (23.81%) PHP
10 10 (23.81%) DNS
10 10 (23.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (23.81%) Go
11 9 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (21.43%) Amazon S3
11 9 (21.43%) SOAP
11 9 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
11 9 (21.43%) Terraform
12 8 (19.05%) Google
12 8 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (19.05%) FTP

SSH
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option 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
1 13 (30.95%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.76%) IIS
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 28 (66.67%) AWS
2 16 (38.10%) Azure
3 10 (23.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (21.43%) Amazon S3
5 8 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (19.05%) Serverless
5 8 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
6 7 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (16.67%) AWS IoT
6 7 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
6 7 (16.67%) CloudFront
6 7 (16.67%) GCP
6 7 (16.67%) Route 53
7 6 (14.29%) Google Ads
7 6 (14.29%) SaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon Glacier
8 1 (2.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (23.81%) DNS
2 8 (19.05%) FTP
2 8 (19.05%) HTTP
3 7 (16.67%) IPv6
3 7 (16.67%) RTSP
3 7 (16.67%) UPnP
4 5 (11.90%) SNMP
5 4 (9.52%) DHCP
5 4 (9.52%) Firewall
5 4 (9.52%) TCP/IP
6 3 (7.14%) HTTPS
6 3 (7.14%) SSL
7 2 (4.76%) SMTP
8 1 (2.38%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (2.38%) IPsec
8 1 (2.38%) iSCSI
8 1 (2.38%) NAS
8 1 (2.38%) Network Security
8 1 (2.38%) SAN
8 1 (2.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (38.10%) MySQL
2 7 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 7 (16.67%) Redis
3 4 (9.52%) InfluxDB
4 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.38%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.38%) Power BI
6 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Git (software)
1 7 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) gulp
3 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.38%) Subversion
3 1 (2.38%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (26.19%) Retail
2 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Finance
4 5 (11.90%) Marketing
5 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.76%) Games
7 1 (2.38%) Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) PHP Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Analyst
3 6 (14.29%) CloudOps Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Network Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Network Performance Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Network Performance Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) NOC Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Performance Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Technical Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Account Manager
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Interoperability Testing (IOT) Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) IT Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Monitoring Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.76%) Technical Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) SOAP
2 8 (19.05%) Node.js
3 7 (16.67%) CSS
3 7 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (16.67%) ONVIF
4 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (11.90%) React
6 4 (9.52%) .NET
7 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
7 2 (4.76%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.76%) Entity Framework
7 2 (4.76%) JSON
7 2 (4.76%) Regular Expression
7 2 (4.76%) REST
7 2 (4.76%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (4.76%) ServiceStack
7 2 (4.76%) XML
8 1 (2.38%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.95%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (16.67%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.14%) Blog
4 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.38%) Online Games
5 1 (2.38%) User Experience
Operating Systems
1 31 (73.81%) Linux
2 13 (30.95%) Windows
3 7 (16.67%) Unix
4 4 (9.52%) Windows Server
5 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.14%) SUSE
6 2 (4.76%) CentOS
6 2 (4.76%) CoreOS
6 2 (4.76%) Debian
6 2 (4.76%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.76%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.76%) Windows 2000 Server
6 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.76%) Windows XP
7 1 (2.38%) Solaris
7 1 (2.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) DevOps
2 11 (26.19%) Technical Leadership
3 9 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (19.05%) Configuration Management
5 7 (16.67%) API Design
5 7 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 7 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 7 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
5 7 (16.67%) Microservices
5 7 (16.67%) OO
5 7 (16.67%) Scrum
5 7 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 6 (14.29%) API Integration
6 6 (14.29%) Clean Code
6 6 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
6 6 (14.29%) GitOps
6 6 (14.29%) Pay per click
6 6 (14.29%) Server Management
6 6 (14.29%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) Java
1 15 (35.71%) Python
2 13 (30.95%) JavaScript
3 11 (26.19%) PowerShell
4 10 (23.81%) C#
4 10 (23.81%) Go
4 10 (23.81%) PHP
5 8 (19.05%) Bash
6 7 (16.67%) C++
6 7 (16.67%) TypeScript
7 6 (14.29%) SQL
8 4 (9.52%) Perl
8 4 (9.52%) R
9 3 (7.14%) MATLAB
9 3 (7.14%) Ruby
9 3 (7.14%) Scala
10 2 (4.76%) C
10 2 (4.76%) XPath
11 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
11 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) COBIT
1 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (47.62%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.38%) iptables
2 1 (2.38%) NFS
2 1 (2.38%) OpenSSH
2 1 (2.38%) Terminal Services
2 1 (2.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (2.38%) Veritas File System
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.38%) VirtualBox
2 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 12 (28.57%) Grafana
3 9 (21.43%) Terraform
4 8 (19.05%) Ansible
4 8 (19.05%) Prometheus
5 4 (9.52%) Nagios
6 1 (2.38%) BMC Marimba
6 1 (2.38%) Cacti
6 1 (2.38%) Nessus
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Google
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) ExtraHop
3 3 (7.14%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) DocuSign
4 2 (4.76%) Salesforce.com
4 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco
5 1 (2.38%) EMC
5 1 (2.38%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.38%) Qualys
5 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.38%) Sun
5 1 (2.38%) Veritas
5 1 (2.38%) VMware