HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 652 678
Rank change year-on-year +84 +26 -83
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 30 67 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.53% 0.91% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 46 130
10th Percentile £450 £379 £405
25th Percentile £513 £457 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £615 £588 £638
90th Percentile £875 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £483
% change year-on-year +15.00% +3.63% +20.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £61.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTPS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTPS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +106 28 £550 - 28
London +79 17 £544 -3.33% 10
UK excluding London +54 11 £575 +15.00% 17
Work from Home +112 9 £575 +4.55% 13
North of England +37 5 £612 +23.02% 5
South West +26 5 £488 -11.36% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £612 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £550 - 3
Midlands - 1 £550 - 4

HTTPS
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 5 (16.67%) Confluence
2 4 (13.33%) Apache Solr
2 4 (13.33%) MQSeries
2 4 (13.33%) nginx
3 1 (3.33%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) Drupal
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) GCP
2 11 (36.67%) Azure
3 7 (23.33%) AWS
4 6 (20.00%) SaaS
5 3 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Basecamp
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (46.67%) IPsec
2 13 (43.33%) Firewall
3 11 (36.67%) HTTP
3 11 (36.67%) TCP/IP
4 9 (30.00%) DNS
5 6 (20.00%) Network Security
5 6 (20.00%) VPN
6 5 (16.67%) FTP
6 5 (16.67%) Wireshark
7 4 (13.33%) tcpdump
8 3 (10.00%) SSL
9 2 (6.67%) SNMP
10 1 (3.33%) BGP
10 1 (3.33%) EIGRP
10 1 (3.33%) Kerberos
10 1 (3.33%) LAN
10 1 (3.33%) SMTP
10 1 (3.33%) TACACS
10 1 (3.33%) WAN
10 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) MySQL
2 4 (13.33%) Couchbase
2 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) JIRA
2 5 (16.67%) Git
3 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.33%) Fiddler
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Finance
4 4 (13.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) German Language
5 1 (3.33%) Local Government
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Architect
1 5 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (16.67%) Senior
2 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Network Architect
2 4 (13.33%) Unix Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Applications Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) JSON
1 5 (16.67%) LDAP
1 5 (16.67%) RESTful
1 5 (16.67%) YAML
2 4 (13.33%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (10.00%) SAML
4 1 (3.33%) CSS
4 1 (3.33%) CSS3
4 1 (3.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 5 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 4 (13.33%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (10.00%) PKI
5 1 (3.33%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (20.00%) Windows
3 5 (16.67%) Unix
4 4 (13.33%) CentOS
5 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Agile
2 11 (36.67%) Information Security
3 10 (33.33%) DevOps
4 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (30.00%) Migration
5 8 (26.67%) Configuration Management
5 8 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (26.67%) Microservices
6 7 (23.33%) Application Security
6 7 (23.33%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (23.33%) Service Management
7 6 (20.00%) DevSecOps
7 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 5 (16.67%) High Availability
8 5 (16.67%) ITIL
8 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (16.67%) SIEM
9 4 (13.33%) Cost Reduction
9 4 (13.33%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) PHP
2 4 (13.33%) Java
2 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) C
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) CCNP
1 5 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.00%) CCIE
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.33%) CEH
4 1 (3.33%) CISSP
4 1 (3.33%) GCIA
4 1 (3.33%) GCIH
4 1 (3.33%) GIAC
4 1 (3.33%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 4 (13.33%) GDPR
2 4 (13.33%) HIPAA
2 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (13.33%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Docker
2 4 (13.33%) Samba
2 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
1 8 (26.67%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) Ansible
2 5 (16.67%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) CheckPoint
1 4 (13.33%) Cisco
1 4 (13.33%) Google
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (13.33%) Palo Alto
1 4 (13.33%) Red Hat
1 4 (13.33%) VMware
2 3 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (10.00%) New Relic
2 3 (10.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (6.67%) Zscaler
4 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.33%) Fortinet