SSH Contracts in Central London

Secure Shell (SSH)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for SSH skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SSH over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 167 181
Rank change year-on-year +35 +14 -
Contract jobs citing SSH 5 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.21% 0.19% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.02% 1.84% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £560 £533 £518
25th Percentile £613 £544 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £575 £638
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -9.80% -
75th Percentile £925 £594 £755
90th Percentile - £598 £795
London median daily rate £538 £450 £700
% change year-on-year +19.44% -35.71% +36.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

SSH is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 247 381 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.31% 10.27% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 261 333
10th Percentile £211 £183 £313
25th Percentile £350 £360 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £620
90th Percentile £729 £738 £713
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +13.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 12
10th Percentile - £21.70 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £23.92 £24.75
Median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.53% -25.23% +136.51%
75th Percentile £14.25 £31.55 £48.81
90th Percentile - £33.62 £62.43
London median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £28.25
% change year-on-year -34.87% +29.35% -43.11%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for SSH in Central London

SSH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSH in Central London.

Daily rate trend for SSH in Central London

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in Central London

SSH
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +45 5 £850 +47.83%
SSH
London

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (20.00%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) FTP
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
1 3 (60.00%) ICMP
1 3 (60.00%) POP3
1 3 (60.00%) SMTP
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) ArcSight Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) J2EE
2 1 (20.00%) JPA
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Security Monitoring
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) BDD
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Server Hardening
2 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kibana
1 3 (60.00%) logstash
1 3 (60.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ArcSight
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle