HTTPS Contracts in England

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring HTTPS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HTTPS over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 517 582
Rank change year-on-year +68 +65 +55
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 45 36 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.096% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.37% 0.75% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 39
10th Percentile £357 £325 £390
25th Percentile £453 £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.75% -1.08% +4.35%
75th Percentile £569 £670 £738
90th Percentile £701 £875 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £594 £575
% change year-on-year -7.33% +3.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £51.50 - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 3,288 4,827 6,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.73% 12.93% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,032 2,880 3,915
10th Percentile £235 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £355 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.38% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 393 392
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £16.67 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £38.41 £45.88 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +121.59% -17.18%
75th Percentile £64.69 £65.00 £62.55
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -3.33% +114.29% -27.88%

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 2 July 2025.

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

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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 2 July 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 +46 29 £550 +4.76% 44
North of England +5 5 £475 -17.39% 7
South East - 5 £500 - 18
North West +9 3 £492 +118.67% 4
East Midlands - 3 £358 - 3
Midlands - 3 £358 - 8
Yorkshire -5 2 £400 -34.64% 2
East of England - 1 - - 1
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 3 (6.67%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (2.22%) IIS
2 1 (2.22%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) AWS
3 8 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.33%) GCP
5 5 (11.11%) Akamai
5 5 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 5 (11.11%) IaaS
5 5 (11.11%) PaaS
6 4 (8.89%) Cloudflare
7 3 (6.67%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.44%) Boomi
8 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.44%) Serverless
8 2 (4.44%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (2.22%) GitHub
9 1 (2.22%) Google App Engine
9 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (35.56%) SSL
2 15 (33.33%) HTTP
3 12 (26.67%) Firewall
4 7 (15.56%) SSH
5 6 (13.33%) Network Security
6 5 (11.11%) DNS
7 3 (6.67%) VLAN
8 2 (4.44%) BGP
8 2 (4.44%) IPsec
8 2 (4.44%) OSPF
8 2 (4.44%) SD-WAN
8 2 (4.44%) SNMP
8 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
8 2 (4.44%) WAN
9 1 (2.22%) DNSSEC
9 1 (2.22%) DWDM
9 1 (2.22%) EIGRP
9 1 (2.22%) IGRP
9 1 (2.22%) Internet
9 1 (2.22%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.44%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Git
2 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.89%) JIRA
4 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Architect
2 10 (22.22%) Developer
3 5 (11.11%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.89%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) ForgeRock Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Integration Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Network Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.00%) REST
2 13 (28.89%) SOAP
3 11 (24.44%) OAuth
4 9 (20.00%) RESTful
5 7 (15.56%) JDBC
5 7 (15.56%) Spring
5 7 (15.56%) Spring Boot
5 7 (15.56%) Web Services
6 6 (13.33%) OAuth2
6 6 (13.33%) OpenID
6 6 (13.33%) SAML
7 4 (8.89%) Hibernate
7 4 (8.89%) HTML
7 4 (8.89%) JWT
7 4 (8.89%) Middleware
8 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.67%) CSS
8 3 (6.67%) JPA
8 3 (6.67%) React
8 3 (6.67%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Onboarding
2 7 (15.56%) PKI
3 6 (13.33%) Taxonomies
4 4 (8.89%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (6.67%) State Machine
6 2 (4.44%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.22%) FMCG
7 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Unix
2 8 (17.78%) Linux
3 6 (13.33%) Windows
4 1 (2.22%) AIX
4 1 (2.22%) Solaris
4 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.22%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) Agile
2 14 (31.11%) CI/CD
2 14 (31.11%) Mentoring
3 12 (26.67%) DevOps
3 12 (26.67%) Kalman Filter
4 10 (22.22%) Scrum
5 9 (20.00%) API Integration
5 9 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (17.78%) Coaching
6 8 (17.78%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (17.78%) Software Engineering
6 8 (17.78%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (15.56%) Design Patterns
7 7 (15.56%) DevSecOps
7 7 (15.56%) Microservices
7 7 (15.56%) Open Source
8 6 (13.33%) Identity Management
8 6 (13.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.00%) Java
2 14 (31.11%) JavaScript
3 9 (20.00%) ActionScript
3 9 (20.00%) ActionScript 2.0
3 9 (20.00%) Python
4 7 (15.56%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.89%) Groovy
5 4 (8.89%) SQL
6 3 (6.67%) Bash
6 3 (6.67%) C
6 3 (6.67%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.44%) Perl
8 1 (2.22%) C++
8 1 (2.22%) Korn
8 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.67%) CCNP
3 3 (6.67%) CEH
3 3 (6.67%) CISSP
3 3 (6.67%) IBM Certification
4 2 (4.44%) CCIE
5 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.22%) CCDP
5 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) JNCIA
5 1 (2.22%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) GRC
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) OpenAM
2 4 (8.89%) OpenDJ
2 4 (8.89%) OpenIDM
3 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.44%) Firmware
5 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 10 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (13.33%) Ansible
2 6 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.22%) Nagios
3 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.22%) Puppet
3 1 (2.22%) SCCM
3 1 (2.22%) vRealize
3 1 (2.22%) VxRail
3 1 (2.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) ForgeRock
1 11 (24.44%) IBM
2 9 (20.00%) IBM Sterling
3 8 (17.78%) Ping Identity
4 5 (11.11%) Cisco
5 4 (8.89%) Imperva
5 4 (8.89%) Oracle
6 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.67%) VMware
7 2 (4.44%) F5
7 2 (4.44%) Juniper
7 2 (4.44%) Qualtrics
7 2 (4.44%) SAP
7 2 (4.44%) Splunk
7 2 (4.44%) webMethods
8 1 (2.22%) AppDynamics
8 1 (2.22%) Arista
8 1 (2.22%) EMC
8 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.22%) Riverbed