SSH Jobs in the North of England

Secure Shell (SSH)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring SSH skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SSH over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 402 413
Rank change year-on-year +73 +11 +38
Permanent jobs citing SSH 10 3 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.084% 0.015% 0.078%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.13% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 £26,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £27,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% -31.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £43,750 £28,750 £41,875
90th Percentile - - £47,500
England median annual salary £56,121 £54,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.93% +20.00% -18.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

SSH falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,657 2,277 3,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.41% 11.13% 20.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,152 1,692 1,183
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,875 £27,100
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £34,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £43,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.23% -5.43% -3.16%
75th Percentile £41,500 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £64,901 £72,500 £73,875
England median annual salary £42,085 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.40% -5.00% -4.76%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SSH in the North of England

SSH
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SSH in the North of England.

Salary trend for SSH in the North of England

SSH
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 June 2025. 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
North West - 10 £42,500 - 3
SSH
England

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) HTTP
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Broadband
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Linux Support
1 5 (50.00%) Linux Support Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Software Support Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) LDAP
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Android
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 5 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (50.00%) Telematics
2 5 (50.00%) Vehicle Telematics
3 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (40.00%) Epics
3 4 (40.00%) Identity Management
3 4 (40.00%) Information Security
3 4 (40.00%) ITSM
3 4 (40.00%) Knowledge Management
3 4 (40.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Key Management
4 1 (10.00%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
1 4 (40.00%) Okta
1 4 (40.00%) Perforce
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Thales
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