HTTPS Contracts in England

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for HTTPS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HTTPS over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 604 648
Rank change year-on-year +94 +44 -87
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 28 51 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.10% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.56% 0.83% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 107
10th Percentile £458 £371 £400
25th Percentile £513 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +22.99%
75th Percentile £658 £638 £638
90th Percentile £875 £748 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - £61.63
90th Percentile - - £62.60
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

HTTPS 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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,997 6,165 7,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.52% 12.21% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,051 5,204
10th Percentile £206 £231 £220
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.41% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 439 303
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.82 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +108.55% -21.29% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.20
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.48
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.41
% change year-on-year +100.00% -33.12% +1.46%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing HTTPS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for HTTPS in England

HTTPS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for HTTPS in England

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTPS in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTPS in England

HTTPS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTPS in England

HTTPS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTPS within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London +85 17 £544 -3.33% 10
North of England +36 5 £612 +23.02% 5
South West +19 5 £488 -11.36% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £612 - 3
Midlands +27 1 £550 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £550 - 3
HTTPS
UK

HTTPS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) Confluence
2 4 (14.29%) Apache Solr
2 4 (14.29%) MQSeries
2 4 (14.29%) nginx
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) GCP
2 11 (39.29%) Azure
3 7 (25.00%) AWS
4 6 (21.43%) SaaS
5 3 (10.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (50.00%) IPsec
2 12 (42.86%) Firewall
3 11 (39.29%) HTTP
3 11 (39.29%) TCP/IP
4 9 (32.14%) DNS
5 6 (21.43%) Network Security
5 6 (21.43%) VPN
6 5 (17.86%) FTP
6 5 (17.86%) Wireshark
7 4 (14.29%) tcpdump
8 3 (10.71%) SSL
9 2 (7.14%) SNMP
10 1 (3.57%) BGP
10 1 (3.57%) EIGRP
10 1 (3.57%) Internet
10 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
10 1 (3.57%) LAN
10 1 (3.57%) SMTP
10 1 (3.57%) TACACS
10 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) MySQL
2 4 (14.29%) Couchbase
2 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) JIRA
2 5 (17.86%) Git
3 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.57%) Fiddler
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Finance
4 4 (14.29%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) German Language
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Architect
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (17.86%) Senior
2 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Network Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Unix Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (3.57%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) JSON
1 5 (17.86%) RESTful
1 5 (17.86%) YAML
2 4 (14.29%) LDAP
2 4 (14.29%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (10.71%) SAML
4 1 (3.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 5 (17.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (17.86%) Management Information System
3 4 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (10.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (10.71%) PKI
5 1 (3.57%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
2 6 (21.43%) Windows
3 5 (17.86%) Unix
4 4 (14.29%) CentOS
5 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Agile
2 11 (39.29%) Information Security
3 10 (35.71%) DevOps
4 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (32.14%) Migration
5 8 (28.57%) Configuration Management
5 8 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (28.57%) Microservices
6 7 (25.00%) Application Security
6 7 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (25.00%) Service Management
7 6 (21.43%) DevSecOps
7 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
8 5 (17.86%) High Availability
8 5 (17.86%) ITIL
8 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.86%) SIEM
9 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Java
1 4 (14.29%) PHP
1 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) CCNP
1 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.71%) CCIE
2 3 (10.71%) Degree
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) CEH
4 1 (3.57%) CISSP
4 1 (3.57%) GCIA
4 1 (3.57%) GCIH
4 1 (3.57%) GIAC
4 1 (3.57%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
2 4 (14.29%) GDPR
2 4 (14.29%) HIPAA
2 4 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
1 4 (14.29%) Samba
1 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 8 (28.57%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Ansible
2 5 (17.86%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) CheckPoint
1 4 (14.29%) Cisco
1 4 (14.29%) Google
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.29%) Palo Alto
1 4 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 4 (14.29%) VMware
2 3 (10.71%) Dynatrace
2 3 (10.71%) New Relic
2 3 (10.71%) SolarWinds
3 2 (7.14%) Zscaler
4 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.57%) Fortinet