SSH Jobs in the UK excluding London

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 727 723 775
Rank change year-on-year -4 +52 -132
Permanent jobs citing SSH 31 27 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.046% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% 0.25% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 30 14 45
10th Percentile £28,275 £30,500 £24,250
25th Percentile £34,125 £37,188 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £47,500 £48,750
90th Percentile - £75,875 £55,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding 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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,754 10,849 11,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.62% 18.34% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,061 4,721 6,541
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £74,919
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SSH in the UK excluding London

SSH
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SSH in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SSH in the UK excluding London

SSH
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSH in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SSH in the UK excluding London

SSH
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East +19 16 £60,000 -9.43% 5
Midlands -1 9 £54,000 - 1
West Midlands +18 8 £54,000 - 1
East of England +8 5 £29,000 -
Yorkshire +76 1 £27,500 -22.54% 2
North of England +27 1 £27,500 -31.25% 2
East Midlands - 1 £34,000 -
SSH
UK

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (25.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (25.81%) Azure
4 7 (22.58%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.45%) npm
5 2 (6.45%) Yarn
6 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (74.19%) TCP/IP
2 20 (64.52%) SNMP
3 12 (38.71%) DNS
4 11 (35.48%) DHCP
5 8 (25.81%) SMTP
5 8 (25.81%) SSL
5 8 (25.81%) Telnet
6 7 (22.58%) FTP
6 7 (22.58%) HTTP
7 2 (6.45%) VLAN
8 1 (3.23%) 4G
8 1 (3.23%) 5G
8 1 (3.23%) Firewall
8 1 (3.23%) HTTPS
8 1 (3.23%) IMAP
8 1 (3.23%) NAS
8 1 (3.23%) Network Security
8 1 (3.23%) SAN
8 1 (3.23%) VPN
8 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (58.06%) MySQL
1 18 (58.06%) Relational Database
2 6 (19.35%) MariaDB
3 5 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (41.94%) Eclipse
2 2 (6.45%) Git
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Games
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing
4 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (54.84%) Senior
2 14 (45.16%) Support Engineer
3 13 (41.94%) Senior Support Engineer
3 13 (41.94%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 13 (41.94%) Senior Technical Support
3 13 (41.94%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
3 13 (41.94%) Technical Engineer
3 13 (41.94%) Technical Support
3 13 (41.94%) Technical Support Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Developer
5 5 (16.13%) PHP Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) IT Support
7 2 (6.45%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Data Centre Technician
8 1 (3.23%) IT Technician
8 1 (3.23%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 1 (3.23%) Network Field Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Problem Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (58.06%) CSS
1 18 (58.06%) HTML
2 13 (41.94%) Ajax
2 13 (41.94%) AngularJS
2 13 (41.94%) JDBC
2 13 (41.94%) ODBC
2 13 (41.94%) REST
2 13 (41.94%) SOAP
2 13 (41.94%) Web Services
2 13 (41.94%) XHTML
2 13 (41.94%) XML
3 5 (16.13%) CSS3
3 5 (16.13%) HTML5
3 5 (16.13%) Laravel
3 5 (16.13%) Sass
3 5 (16.13%) Tailwind CSS
3 5 (16.13%) Vue
4 1 (3.23%) LDAP
4 1 (3.23%) PHP-FPM
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) CMDB
2 8 (25.81%) Data Centre
3 7 (22.58%) EFT
4 1 (3.23%) iPhone
4 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (74.19%) Windows
2 21 (67.74%) Linux
3 13 (41.94%) Unix
4 8 (25.81%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.23%) Android
5 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) ITIL
2 18 (58.06%) OO
3 13 (41.94%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (41.94%) Data Extraction
3 13 (41.94%) Database Tuning
3 13 (41.94%) ITSM
3 13 (41.94%) Mentoring
3 13 (41.94%) Network Management
3 13 (41.94%) OOP
4 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (22.58%) Server Patching
5 6 (19.35%) Agile
6 5 (16.13%) CRM
6 5 (16.13%) ERP
6 5 (16.13%) Kanban
6 5 (16.13%) Manual Testing
6 5 (16.13%) OO PHP
6 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
6 5 (16.13%) User Experience
6 5 (16.13%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) PowerShell
2 18 (58.06%) JavaScript
3 14 (45.16%) Java
3 14 (45.16%) Perl
3 14 (45.16%) Python
4 6 (19.35%) PHP
5 2 (6.45%) SQL
6 1 (3.23%) Bash
6 1 (3.23%) C
6 1 (3.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) CCNA
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.23%) MCSA
2 1 (3.23%) MCSE
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Active Directory
2 7 (22.58%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.23%) NFS
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (41.94%) WMI
2 7 (22.58%) SCCM
2 7 (22.58%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) Oracle
1 13 (41.94%) Splunk
2 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
3 8 (25.81%) VMware
4 7 (22.58%) Citrix
4 7 (22.58%) Globalscape
5 1 (3.23%) Freshdesk