HTTPS Contract Job Trends in England

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring HTTPS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 468 514
Rank change year-on-year -21 +46 +167
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 48 44 69
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.42% 1.16% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 22 47
10th Percentile £358 £401 £370
25th Percentile £463 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £684 £658 £681
90th Percentile £688 £798 £738
UK median daily rate £575 £589 £575
% change year-on-year -2.29% +2.35% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

HTTPS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,373 3,784 5,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.04% 12.27% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,174 2,186 3,418
10th Percentile £205 £225 £210
25th Percentile £356 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 134 325
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £18.71
25th Percentile £20.26 £23.22 £23.00
Median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -17.07% -26.39% +32.62%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HTTPS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

HTTPS job vacancy trend in England

HTTPS
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HTTPS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HTTPS

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTPS in England over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTPS in England

HTTPS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HTTPS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HTTPS

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 30 November 2025. 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 +15 27 £508 -21.92% 7
North of England -38 12 £670 +84.83% 1
North West -14 9 £660 +193.33% 1
Yorkshire -29 3 £700 +40.00%
South East -9 2 £500 - 6
West Midlands - 1 £520 - 1
Midlands - 1 £520 - 1
HTTPS
UK

HTTPS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.08%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.00%) AWS
2 8 (16.67%) GCP
3 6 (12.50%) Akamai
3 6 (12.50%) Azure
3 6 (12.50%) Cloudflare
4 4 (8.33%) Apigee
5 2 (4.17%) Firebase
5 2 (4.17%) GitHub
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Run
6 1 (2.08%) Figma
6 1 (2.08%) Google App Engine
6 1 (2.08%) SaaS
6 1 (2.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.92%) SSL
2 10 (20.83%) HTTP
3 9 (18.75%) Firewall
4 8 (16.67%) DNS
5 6 (12.50%) BGP
5 6 (12.50%) EIGRP
5 6 (12.50%) IPsec
5 6 (12.50%) OSPF
6 3 (6.25%) Network Security
7 2 (4.17%) SSH
7 2 (4.17%) Wireless
8 1 (2.08%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (2.08%) DMZ
8 1 (2.08%) Internet
8 1 (2.08%) RTP
8 1 (2.08%) SNMP
8 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.08%) Telnet
8 1 (2.08%) VLAN
8 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Git
1 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.33%) Postman
3 2 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) Android Studio
4 1 (2.08%) GitLab
4 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.08%) Xcode
General
1 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Finance
3 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Banking
4 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Retail
4 1 (2.08%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 27 (56.25%) Developer
2 13 (27.08%) webMethods Developer
3 9 (18.75%) Network Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Juniper Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Apigee Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Architect
7 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior
8 1 (2.08%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 1 (2.08%) Mobile Developer
8 1 (2.08%) Senior Architect
8 1 (2.08%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (2.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Senior Firewall Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (60.42%) JSON
1 29 (60.42%) XML
2 22 (45.83%) SOAP
3 18 (37.50%) OAuth
4 13 (27.08%) JMS
4 13 (27.08%) REST
5 9 (18.75%) OAuth2
6 5 (10.42%) RESTful
7 4 (8.33%) Hibernate
7 4 (8.33%) JAX-RS
7 4 (8.33%) JWT
7 4 (8.33%) OpenID
7 4 (8.33%) Spring
7 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
8 3 (6.25%) JDBC
9 2 (4.17%) Flutter
10 1 (2.08%) .NET
10 1 (2.08%) IDoc
10 1 (2.08%) Middleware
10 1 (2.08%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) PKI
2 4 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.25%) Taxonomies
4 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.08%) BYOD
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.08%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.83%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Android
2 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.08%) VMS
2 1 (2.08%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (60.42%) DevOps
2 22 (45.83%) Test Automation
3 20 (41.67%) Deployment Automation
4 10 (20.83%) Kalman Filter
5 9 (18.75%) API Management
5 9 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 8 (16.67%) API Development
7 6 (12.50%) Application Security
8 5 (10.42%) Change Control
8 5 (10.42%) Computer Science
9 4 (8.33%) API Design
9 4 (8.33%) API Testing
9 4 (8.33%) Incident Response
9 4 (8.33%) Microservices
9 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 3 (6.25%) API Integration
10 3 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (6.25%) SDLC
10 3 (6.25%) Security Operations
10 3 (6.25%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) Java
2 7 (14.58%) Python
3 6 (12.50%) Bash
3 6 (12.50%) C++
3 6 (12.50%) Perl
4 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.25%) SQL
6 1 (2.08%) C
6 1 (2.08%) C#
6 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.08%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.08%) Swift
6 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.50%) CCNP
3 6 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (12.50%) Degree
3 6 (12.50%) JNCIA
3 6 (12.50%) JNCIS
4 5 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (8.33%) CEH
6 3 (6.25%) GIAC
6 3 (6.25%) GWAPT
7 1 (2.08%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) GRC
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
2 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.08%) PSD2
2 1 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) Docker
1 7 (14.58%) Firmware
2 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (14.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (6.25%) Ansible
4 2 (4.17%) Rsyslog
4 2 (4.17%) SCOM
4 2 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) SAP
1 14 (29.17%) webMethods
2 11 (22.92%) IBM
2 11 (22.92%) Software AG
3 8 (16.67%) Axway
4 7 (14.58%) Cisco
5 6 (12.50%) Juniper
6 5 (10.42%) Imperva
7 4 (8.33%) F5
7 4 (8.33%) Splunk
8 3 (6.25%) ForgeRock
9 2 (4.17%) Fortinet
9 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
10 1 (2.08%) Ariba
10 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.08%) Google
10 1 (2.08%) Oracle
10 1 (2.08%) Qualys
10 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
10 1 (2.08%) VMware