HTTPS Contracts with Work from Home Options

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 440 510
Rank change year-on-year +108 +70 -61
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 9 28 105
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.060% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.57% 0.97% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 75
10th Percentile £495 £383 £438
25th Percentile £563 £469 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +10.84%
75th Percentile £612 £588 £650
90th Percentile £614 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.44
90th Percentile - - £63.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,567 2,884 4,286
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.39% 11.50% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 1,907 2,899
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.10 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £26.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.19 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

HTTPS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing HTTPS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

HTTPS trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing HTTPS.

HTTPS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing HTTPS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

HTTPS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

HTTPS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing HTTPS.

HTTPS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

HTTPS
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 4 (44.44%) Apache Solr
1 4 (44.44%) nginx
2 1 (11.11%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Basecamp
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
1 4 (44.44%) IPsec
1 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Couchbase
1 4 (44.44%) MySQL
1 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Legal
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Local Government
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) JSON
1 4 (44.44%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (44.44%) YAML
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) CSS3
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
1 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) CentOS
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) Information Security
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (44.44%) Cost Reduction
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (44.44%) SDLC
3 4 (44.44%) Software Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Application Security
4 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (33.33%) Service Management
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PHP
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
1 4 (44.44%) HIPAA
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
1 4 (44.44%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google