SSH Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 366 570 612
Rank change year-on-year +204 +42 +203
Permanent jobs citing SSH 99 16 19
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.045% 0.051%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.87% 0.30% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 12 10 11
10th Percentile - £31,875 £35,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £39,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,121 £54,000 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year +3.93% +8.95% -38.04%
75th Percentile £57,057 £57,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £77,706 - £83,750
UK 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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,297 5,276 4,280
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.04% 14.76% 11.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,827 3,319 3,247
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,825 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -41.29% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £38,000 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year -20.00% -7.50% -2.19%

SSH
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SSH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SSH trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SSH
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SSH.

SSH salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SSH
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SSH over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

SSH salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SSH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.01%) Apache
1 1 (1.01%) Drupal
1 1 (1.01%) nginx
1 1 (1.01%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 84 (84.85%) AWS
2 82 (82.83%) AWS Lambda
2 82 (82.83%) Serverless
3 6 (6.06%) Azure
4 1 (1.01%) Cloudflare
4 1 (1.01%) GCP
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 87 (87.88%) SSL
2 82 (82.83%) Broadband
3 5 (5.05%) EIGRP
3 5 (5.05%) Firewall
3 5 (5.05%) OSPF
3 5 (5.05%) RIP
3 5 (5.05%) SNMP
3 5 (5.05%) WAN
4 1 (1.01%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.05%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.01%) MySQL
2 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.01%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (84.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (5.05%) Police
3 1 (1.01%) Finance
Job Titles
1 83 (83.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 82 (82.83%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (10.10%) Senior
4 5 (5.05%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (5.05%) Linux Support
4 5 (5.05%) Linux Support Engineer
4 5 (5.05%) Network Engineer
4 5 (5.05%) Senior Manager
4 5 (5.05%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (5.05%) Software Support Engineer
4 5 (5.05%) Support Engineer
4 5 (5.05%) Systems Manager
5 1 (1.01%) Lead
5 1 (1.01%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (1.01%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.01%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (82.83%) RESTful
1 82 (82.83%) Web Services
2 1 (1.01%) Laravel
2 1 (1.01%) Middleware
2 1 (1.01%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 82 (82.83%) Cyber Threat
1 82 (82.83%) Cyberattack
1 82 (82.83%) Management Information System
1 82 (82.83%) Onboarding
1 82 (82.83%) PKI
2 5 (5.05%) Driving Licence
2 5 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.05%) Tandem
3 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.07%) Linux
2 1 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (1.01%) Debian
2 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (84.85%) Deployment Automation
1 84 (84.85%) DevOps
2 83 (83.84%) Roadmaps
2 83 (83.84%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 82 (82.83%) Cybersecurity
3 82 (82.83%) Key Management
3 82 (82.83%) Programme Delivery
3 82 (82.83%) Use Case
4 7 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (6.06%) Incident Management
5 6 (6.06%) Strategic Thinking
6 5 (5.05%) Line Management
6 5 (5.05%) Mentoring
6 5 (5.05%) Migration
6 5 (5.05%) Network Design
6 5 (5.05%) Network Management
6 5 (5.05%) Patch Management
6 5 (5.05%) Security Management
6 5 (5.05%) Technical Analysis
6 5 (5.05%) Telematics
Programming Languages
1 83 (83.84%) Python
2 6 (6.06%) Java
3 5 (5.05%) SQL
4 1 (1.01%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (1.01%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (83.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (82.83%) NIST
3 1 (1.01%) PMO
3 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 82 (82.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 84 (84.85%) Terraform
2 1 (1.01%) Ansible
2 1 (1.01%) Grafana
2 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.01%) Puppet
Vendors
1 82 (82.83%) Thales
2 5 (5.05%) CheckPoint
2 5 (5.05%) Cisco
2 5 (5.05%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.01%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.01%) SaltStack
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