Secure Shell (SSH)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 641 700
Rank change year-on-year +109 +59 -59
Contract jobs citing SSH 39 46 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.081% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.72% 0.65% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 90
10th Percentile £266 £313 £359
25th Percentile £512 £412 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £448 £625
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -28.32% +26.58%
75th Percentile £595 £561 £700
90th Percentile £925 £604 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £478 £530
% change year-on-year -52.88% -9.91% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £32.99 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -58.11% +50.00%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £47.73 -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,394 7,081 9,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.67% 12.44% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,577 6,274
10th Percentile £205 £235 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 458 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.21 £50.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.65 £65.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -7.37%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SSH in the UK

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSH over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SSH in the UK

SSH
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSH.

Hourly rate trend for SSH in the UK

SSH
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +110 39 £550 +23.46% 17
London +111 35 £560 +25.00% 10
Work from Home +105 9 £560 +25.56% 9
UK excluding London +42 2 £225 -52.88% 9
North of England +33 1 £225 - 2
North West +21 1 £225 -
Midlands +18 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

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 6 (15.38%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.13%) Apache
4 1 (2.56%) Drupal
4 1 (2.56%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) InVision
1 1 (2.56%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) Azure
2 9 (23.08%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 5 (12.82%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (12.82%) SaaS
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (10.26%) GCP
5 4 (10.26%) PaaS
6 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.13%) GitHub
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.56%) Azure App Service
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.56%) Figma
8 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.56%) Route 53
8 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (33.33%) HTTP
1 13 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 8 (20.51%) DNS
3 7 (17.95%) Firewall
3 7 (17.95%) FTP
3 7 (17.95%) SMTP
3 7 (17.95%) SSL
3 7 (17.95%) Telnet
3 7 (17.95%) VPN
4 4 (10.26%) DHCP
4 4 (10.26%) ICMP
4 4 (10.26%) Internet
4 4 (10.26%) POP3
4 4 (10.26%) SNMP
5 1 (2.56%) HTTPS
5 1 (2.56%) IPsec
5 1 (2.56%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.56%) LAN
5 1 (2.56%) VLAN
5 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) MySQL
1 8 (20.51%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (10.26%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Cucumber
1 7 (17.95%) JIRA
1 7 (17.95%) JUnit
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 15 (38.46%) Finance
3 9 (23.08%) Banking
4 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Investment Banking
5 4 (10.26%) Marketing
6 3 (7.69%) Electronics
6 3 (7.69%) Manufacturing
6 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
7 2 (5.13%) Front Office
7 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Advertising
8 1 (2.56%) Automotive
8 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Consultant
2 8 (20.51%) Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Java Developer
4 6 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) ArcSight Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Data Centre Technician
6 4 (10.26%) Data Technician
6 4 (10.26%) SIEM Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Support Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) CyberArk Consultant
7 3 (7.69%) Management Consultant
8 2 (5.13%) Active Directory Consultant
8 2 (5.13%) Citrix Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Citrix Support
8 2 (5.13%) Citrix Support Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Cloud Consultant
8 2 (5.13%) Linux Consultant
8 2 (5.13%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) JSON
2 8 (20.51%) LDAP
2 8 (20.51%) REST
2 8 (20.51%) SOAP
2 8 (20.51%) XML
3 7 (17.95%) Hibernate
3 7 (17.95%) J2EE
3 7 (17.95%) JPA
3 7 (17.95%) Spring
3 7 (17.95%) Web Services
4 5 (12.82%) SailPoint
4 5 (12.82%) SAML
5 4 (10.26%) .NET
5 4 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (10.26%) OpenID
6 2 (5.13%) LAMP
6 2 (5.13%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (2.56%) libvirt
7 1 (2.56%) React
7 1 (2.56%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (17.95%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (15.38%) Data Centre
4 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
5 3 (7.69%) Clustering
5 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
6 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
6 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
6 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.56%) Animation
7 1 (2.56%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (2.56%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 24 (61.54%) Linux
2 13 (33.33%) Unix
3 12 (30.77%) Windows
4 1 (2.56%) CentOS
4 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (25.64%) Migration
3 9 (23.08%) Agile
4 8 (20.51%) Computer Science
4 8 (20.51%) Workflow
5 7 (17.95%) Acceptance Criteria
5 7 (17.95%) BDD
5 7 (17.95%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (17.95%) OOP
5 7 (17.95%) Pair Programming
5 7 (17.95%) Performance Optimisation
5 7 (17.95%) Release Management
5 7 (17.95%) Requirements Gathering
5 7 (17.95%) Scrum
5 7 (17.95%) SDLC
5 7 (17.95%) Software Architecture
5 7 (17.95%) Sprint Planning
5 7 (17.95%) Sprint Retrospective
5 7 (17.95%) TDD
5 7 (17.95%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) PowerShell
2 9 (23.08%) Python
2 9 (23.08%) SQL
3 8 (20.51%) Java
4 7 (17.95%) Perl
5 4 (10.26%) Bash
5 4 (10.26%) C#
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.56%) ABAP
7 1 (2.56%) Groovy
7 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
2 4 (10.26%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) SLA
3 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.38%) NFS
3 4 (10.26%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.69%) Terminal Services
5 2 (5.13%) Docker
5 2 (5.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.13%) XenApp
6 1 (2.56%) Ceph
6 1 (2.56%) Firmware
6 1 (2.56%) iptables
6 1 (2.56%) KVM
6 1 (2.56%) Lustre
6 1 (2.56%) Samba
6 1 (2.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (10.26%) Kibana
2 4 (10.26%) logstash
2 4 (10.26%) QRadar
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.56%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.56%) SELinux
5 1 (2.56%) Terraform
5 1 (2.56%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Oracle
2 7 (17.95%) CyberArk
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.26%) ArcSight
3 4 (10.26%) SAP
3 4 (10.26%) ServiceNow
3 4 (10.26%) Splunk
4 3 (7.69%) BeyondTrust
4 3 (7.69%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco
5 2 (5.13%) Citrix