HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for HTTPS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 856 912 984
Rank change year-on-year +56 +72 -204
Permanent jobs citing HTTPS 40 58 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.055% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% 0.36% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 36 40 164
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,938 £58,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.86% +26.36% -9.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,813 £73,675
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing HTTPS.

Salary trend for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +96 32 £60,641 -12.11% 28
Work from Home +93 22 £50,000 -28.57% 13
London +125 18 £83,125 +7.26% 10
UK excluding London +19 18 £50,000 +25.00% 17
East of England +16 4 £37,500 -50.00% 1
Wales +16 4 £50,000 - 1
North of England +48 3 £62,783 +56.96% 5
South West 0 3 £55,000 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £58,500 - 3
Midlands - 3 £58,500 - 4
North East - 2 £62,783 - 1
South East +29 1 £40,000 -54.93% 4
North West +12 1 £62,783 -30.24% 1

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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 4 (10.00%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) nginx
2 4 (10.00%) SAS
3 2 (5.00%) Apache
3 2 (5.00%) Apache Solr
3 2 (5.00%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) AWS
3 9 (22.50%) SaaS
4 6 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
5 5 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (10.00%) Google Workspace
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.50%) Slack
7 3 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (5.00%) GCP
9 1 (2.50%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 25 (62.50%) SSL
2 16 (40.00%) Firewall
3 14 (35.00%) VPN
4 13 (32.50%) HTTP
5 12 (30.00%) DNS
6 11 (27.50%) IPsec
7 10 (25.00%) DHCP
7 10 (25.00%) LAN
7 10 (25.00%) WAN
8 9 (22.50%) BGP
8 9 (22.50%) DMVPN
8 9 (22.50%) EIGRP
8 9 (22.50%) MPLS
8 9 (22.50%) OSPF
8 9 (22.50%) SNMP
9 8 (20.00%) Internet
10 7 (17.50%) DWDM
10 7 (17.50%) IGRP
10 7 (17.50%) TCP/IP
10 7 (17.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) Couchbase
2 2 (5.00%) MySQL
2 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Vagrant
2 6 (15.00%) Git
3 5 (12.50%) JIRA
4 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.50%) GitLab
5 2 (5.00%) Browser DevTools
General
1 17 (42.50%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Billing
6 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Senior
2 8 (20.00%) Administrator
2 8 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 8 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 8 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (17.50%) Architect
3 7 (17.50%) Systems Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Senior Systems Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Network Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Development Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Full Stack Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) IT Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Security Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Software Development Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) GCP DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) HTML
1 9 (22.50%) XML
2 7 (17.50%) 802.1X
3 6 (15.00%) .NET
4 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.50%) JSON
4 3 (7.50%) Kendo UI
4 3 (7.50%) REST
5 2 (5.00%) CSS
5 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (5.00%) React
5 2 (5.00%) RESTful
6 1 (2.50%) LDAP
6 1 (2.50%) OAuth
6 1 (2.50%) SAML
6 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Data Centre
2 5 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.50%) Robotics
4 1 (2.50%) BYOD
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (52.50%) Linux
2 11 (27.50%) Unix
3 8 (20.00%) CentOS
3 8 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 8 (20.00%) Windows
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) DevOps
2 11 (27.50%) Technical Leadership
3 10 (25.00%) Agile
3 10 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 10 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 9 (22.50%) Customer Experience
4 9 (22.50%) Network Management
5 8 (20.00%) Capacity Management
5 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (20.00%) Inventory Management
5 8 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (17.50%) Load Balancing
6 7 (17.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 7 (17.50%) Open Source
6 7 (17.50%) Technology Roadmap
6 7 (17.50%) Two-Factor Authentication
7 6 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 5 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (25.00%) Python
2 8 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.00%) C#
4 4 (10.00%) SQL
5 3 (7.50%) Bash
6 2 (5.00%) C
6 2 (5.00%) PHP
7 1 (2.50%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.50%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.50%) C++
7 1 (2.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (17.50%) CCNA
3 2 (5.00%) CCNP
4 1 (2.50%) CISSP
4 1 (2.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
2 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) Ansible
2 7 (17.50%) Progress Chef
2 7 (17.50%) Puppet
3 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (15.00%) Terraform
4 4 (10.00%) SCCM
5 2 (5.00%) FortiGate
5 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (22.50%) Cisco
2 9 (22.50%) Google
3 7 (17.50%) Arista
3 7 (17.50%) Fortinet
3 7 (17.50%) Juniper
3 7 (17.50%) Tufin
4 5 (12.50%) VMware
5 4 (10.00%) Aruba
5 4 (10.00%) Veeam
6 3 (7.50%) Telerik
7 2 (5.00%) Imperva
7 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.50%) Apple
8 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.50%) F5
8 1 (2.50%) IBM
8 1 (2.50%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (2.50%) Red Hat