Secure Shell (SSH)
UK

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 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 842 935 995
Rank change year-on-year +93 +60 -222
Permanent jobs citing SSH 46 60 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.059% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.34% 0.38% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 41 30 125
10th Percentile £28,500 £34,550 £35,700
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,875 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £40,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year +35.00% -8.57% +9.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,535 15,801 20,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.65% 15.56% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,435 8,018 11,727
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SSH in the UK

SSH
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SSH.

Salary trend for SSH in the UK

SSH
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSH over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SSH in the UK

SSH
Top 11 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 6 months to 8 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +67 46 £54,000 +8.00% 16
UK excluding London -4 32 £54,000 +35.00% 8
South East +22 16 £60,000 -9.43% 2
London +111 14 £51,250 -6.82% 8
Work from Home +67 14 £50,550 -22.23% 6
Midlands +12 11 £54,000 - 2
West Midlands +18 9 £54,000 - 1
East of England +13 4 £30,250 -
East Midlands - 2 £33,750 - 1
Yorkshire +75 1 £27,500 -22.54% 3
North of England +33 1 £27,500 -31.25% 3

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.35%) nginx
3 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.96%) Azure
2 16 (34.78%) AWS
3 11 (23.91%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (17.39%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.35%) GCP
5 2 (4.35%) npm
5 2 (4.35%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.35%) PaaS
5 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.35%) WhatsApp
5 2 (4.35%) Yarn
6 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (63.04%) TCP/IP
2 23 (50.00%) SNMP
3 19 (41.30%) DNS
4 15 (32.61%) DHCP
5 13 (28.26%) HTTP
6 12 (26.09%) SMTP
7 11 (23.91%) FTP
7 11 (23.91%) SSL
7 11 (23.91%) Telnet
8 6 (13.04%) Internet
9 5 (10.87%) VLAN
9 5 (10.87%) VPN
10 4 (8.70%) HTTPS
11 3 (6.52%) LAN
11 3 (6.52%) WAN
12 2 (4.35%) BGP
12 2 (4.35%) EIGRP
12 2 (4.35%) Ethernet
12 2 (4.35%) MPLS
12 2 (4.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (41.30%) MySQL
2 18 (39.13%) Relational Database
3 5 (10.87%) MariaDB
4 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.35%) Power BI
5 2 (4.35%) Redis
5 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (28.26%) Eclipse
2 6 (13.04%) Git
3 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.35%) GitLab
3 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.35%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) JUnit
General
1 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.52%) Marketing
4 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Billing
5 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Electronics
5 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.17%) Games
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (41.30%) Senior
2 17 (36.96%) Support Engineer
3 13 (28.26%) Senior Support Engineer
3 13 (28.26%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 13 (28.26%) Senior Technical Support
3 13 (28.26%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
3 13 (28.26%) Technical Engineer
3 13 (28.26%) Technical Support
3 13 (28.26%) Technical Support Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Developer
6 5 (10.87%) IT Support
7 4 (8.70%) PHP Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Data Centre Technician
8 3 (6.52%) Data Technician
8 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Network Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Analyst
9 2 (4.35%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.96%) CSS
1 17 (36.96%) HTML
1 17 (36.96%) REST
1 17 (36.96%) SOAP
2 15 (32.61%) Web Services
2 15 (32.61%) XML
3 13 (28.26%) Ajax
3 13 (28.26%) AngularJS
3 13 (28.26%) JDBC
3 13 (28.26%) ODBC
3 13 (28.26%) XHTML
4 4 (8.70%) CSS3
4 4 (8.70%) HTML5
4 4 (8.70%) JSON
4 4 (8.70%) Laravel
4 4 (8.70%) Sass
4 4 (8.70%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (8.70%) Vue
5 3 (6.52%) LDAP
6 2 (4.35%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) CMDB
1 13 (28.26%) Data Centre
2 8 (17.39%) EFT
3 5 (10.87%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.35%) iPhone
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (60.87%) Windows
2 26 (56.52%) Linux
3 16 (34.78%) Unix
4 10 (21.74%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.35%) Android
5 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) ITIL
2 17 (36.96%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (36.96%) OO
3 16 (34.78%) ITSM
4 15 (32.61%) Network Management
4 15 (32.61%) OOP
5 14 (30.43%) Mentoring
6 13 (28.26%) Data Extraction
6 13 (28.26%) Database Tuning
7 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (19.57%) Agile
9 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (17.39%) Server Patching
10 7 (15.22%) Time Management
11 6 (13.04%) DevOps
11 6 (13.04%) Test Automation
12 5 (10.87%) Workflow
13 4 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
13 4 (8.70%) Kanban
13 4 (8.70%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 26 (56.52%) PowerShell
2 18 (39.13%) Python
3 17 (36.96%) JavaScript
4 16 (34.78%) Java
4 16 (34.78%) Perl
5 6 (13.04%) SQL
6 5 (10.87%) PHP
7 3 (6.52%) Bash
8 2 (4.35%) C
8 2 (4.35%) C#
9 1 (2.17%) ActionScript
9 1 (2.17%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (2.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) Degree
2 4 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.35%) CCNA
3 2 (4.35%) CCNP
3 2 (4.35%) MCSA
3 2 (4.35%) MCSE
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Active Directory
2 8 (17.39%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.52%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.52%) NFS
3 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.35%) Docker
4 2 (4.35%) Varnish
4 2 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (28.26%) WMI
2 8 (17.39%) SCCM
2 8 (17.39%) vCenter Server
3 2 (4.35%) Ansible
3 2 (4.35%) FortiGate
3 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.35%) Packer
3 2 (4.35%) Puppet
3 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds Orion
3 2 (4.35%) Terraform
4 1 (2.17%) Grafana
4 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.17%) systemd
Vendors
1 16 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 13 (28.26%) Oracle
2 13 (28.26%) Splunk
3 11 (23.91%) VMware
4 8 (17.39%) Citrix
4 8 (17.39%) Globalscape
5 4 (8.70%) SAP
6 3 (6.52%) Cisco
7 2 (4.35%) Alteryx
7 2 (4.35%) Blue Prism
7 2 (4.35%) Freshdesk
7 2 (4.35%) Google
7 2 (4.35%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.17%) IBM
8 1 (2.17%) IBM Sterling