SSH Contracts

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 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 535 636 681
Rank change year-on-year +101 +45 -29
Contract jobs citing SSH 40 46 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.082% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.74% 0.65% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 97
10th Percentile £269 £313 £322
25th Percentile £516 £320 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £610
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -26.23% +23.54%
75th Percentile £592 £561 £700
90th Percentile £813 £575 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £478 £520
% change year-on-year -52.88% -8.17% +5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £32.99 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -58.11% +55.57%
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 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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 1 June 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 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
England +89 39 £538 +25.00% 15
London +106 34 £538 +19.44% 9
Work from Home +105 10 £560 +3.56% 9
UK excluding London +21 2 £225 -52.88% 5
North of England +23 1 £225 - 1
North West +21 1 £225 -
Midlands +18 1 - - 2
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 (15.00%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) InVision
1 1 (2.50%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) AWS
3 6 (15.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (15.00%) SaaS
4 5 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (10.00%) GCP
5 4 (10.00%) PaaS
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) GitHub
8 1 (2.50%) Azure App Service
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.50%) Figma
8 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (27.50%) TCP/IP
2 10 (25.00%) HTTP
3 7 (17.50%) DNS
3 7 (17.50%) Firewall
3 7 (17.50%) SSL
3 7 (17.50%) Telnet
3 7 (17.50%) VPN
4 6 (15.00%) FTP
4 6 (15.00%) SMTP
5 5 (12.50%) SNMP
6 4 (10.00%) DHCP
7 3 (7.50%) ICMP
7 3 (7.50%) Internet
7 3 (7.50%) POP3
8 1 (2.50%) HTTPS
8 1 (2.50%) IPsec
8 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
8 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
8 1 (2.50%) LAN
8 1 (2.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) MySQL
1 7 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Cucumber
1 9 (22.50%) JIRA
1 9 (22.50%) JUnit
2 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (37.50%) Finance
3 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Banking
4 6 (15.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (7.50%) Front Office
5 3 (7.50%) Marketing
6 2 (5.00%) Electronics
6 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.50%) Advertising
7 1 (2.50%) Automotive
7 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Developer
2 9 (22.50%) Consultant
2 9 (22.50%) Java Developer
3 4 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Data Centre Technician
3 4 (10.00%) Data Technician
3 4 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) ArcSight Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) CyberArk Consultant
4 3 (7.50%) Management Consultant
4 3 (7.50%) Senior
4 3 (7.50%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) Citrix Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Citrix Support
5 2 (5.00%) Citrix Support Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) Linux Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) JSON
2 10 (25.00%) REST
2 10 (25.00%) SOAP
2 10 (25.00%) Web Services
2 10 (25.00%) XML
3 9 (22.50%) Hibernate
3 9 (22.50%) J2EE
3 9 (22.50%) JPA
3 9 (22.50%) Spring
4 8 (20.00%) LDAP
5 5 (12.50%) SailPoint
5 5 (12.50%) SAML
6 4 (10.00%) OpenID
7 3 (7.50%) .NET
7 3 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (2.50%) Framer.js
8 1 (2.50%) IDoc
8 1 (2.50%) JWT
8 1 (2.50%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (2.50%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (22.50%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (15.00%) Data Centre
4 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (7.50%) Algorithms
5 3 (7.50%) Clustering
5 3 (7.50%) Data Structures
5 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
6 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.50%) Animation
7 1 (2.50%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (2.50%) Blockchain
7 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.50%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 26 (65.00%) Linux
2 14 (35.00%) Unix
3 12 (30.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.50%) CentOS
4 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.50%) VMS
4 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (30.00%) Migration
3 11 (27.50%) Agile
4 9 (22.50%) Acceptance Criteria
4 9 (22.50%) BDD
4 9 (22.50%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (22.50%) OOP
4 9 (22.50%) Pair Programming
4 9 (22.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 9 (22.50%) Release Management
4 9 (22.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 9 (22.50%) Scrum
4 9 (22.50%) SDLC
4 9 (22.50%) Software Architecture
4 9 (22.50%) Sprint Planning
4 9 (22.50%) Sprint Retrospective
4 9 (22.50%) TDD
4 9 (22.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (17.50%) Computer Science
5 7 (17.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) PowerShell
2 10 (25.00%) Java
2 10 (25.00%) Python
2 10 (25.00%) SQL
3 9 (22.50%) Perl
4 3 (7.50%) Bash
4 3 (7.50%) C#
4 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) ABAP
5 1 (2.50%) Groovy
5 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
1 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (22.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) SLA
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.50%) NFS
3 3 (7.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (7.50%) Terminal Services
4 2 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (5.00%) XenApp
5 1 (2.50%) Ceph
5 1 (2.50%) Docker
5 1 (2.50%) Firmware
5 1 (2.50%) iptables
5 1 (2.50%) KVM
5 1 (2.50%) Lustre
5 1 (2.50%) Samba
5 1 (2.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (7.50%) Kibana
2 3 (7.50%) logstash
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (7.50%) QRadar
3 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 2 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.50%) Argo
4 1 (2.50%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.50%) SELinux
4 1 (2.50%) TADDM
4 1 (2.50%) WMI
4 1 (2.50%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Oracle
2 7 (17.50%) CyberArk
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 3 (7.50%) ArcSight
4 3 (7.50%) BeyondTrust
4 3 (7.50%) CheckPoint
4 3 (7.50%) SAP
4 3 (7.50%) Splunk
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (5.00%) Citrix