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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 477 499
Rank change year-on-year -15 +22 +170
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 53 38 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.56% 1.03% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 18 43
10th Percentile £335 £418 £380
25th Percentile £402 £463 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £680 £650 £669
90th Percentile £688 £800 £710
UK median daily rate £575 £551 £550
% change year-on-year +4.36% +0.18% -4.35%

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 3,387 3,685 5,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.80% 12.80% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,190 2,163 3,259
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.99%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 113 314
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £18.68
25th Percentile £20.56 £21.46 £23.02
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -38.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £76.21
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -8.57% -37.99% +37.57%

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 -1 25 £500 -23.08% 2
North of England -28 12 £670 +34.00% 2
North West -21 9 £660 - 1
Midlands - 8 £400 - 3
West Midlands - 8 £400 - 3
Yorkshire -42 3 £700 +40.00% 1
South East -18 2 £500 - 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 4 (7.55%) Anypoint
2 2 (3.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.89%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.42%) AWS
2 11 (20.75%) Azure
3 8 (15.09%) GCP
4 4 (7.55%) Akamai
4 4 (7.55%) Apigee
4 4 (7.55%) Cloudflare
5 2 (3.77%) Firebase
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub
6 1 (1.89%) Cloud Run
6 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.89%) Figma
6 1 (1.89%) Google App Engine
6 1 (1.89%) SaaS
6 1 (1.89%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (26.42%) SSL
2 11 (20.75%) HTTP
3 10 (18.87%) DNS
3 10 (18.87%) Firewall
4 8 (15.09%) IPsec
5 5 (9.43%) BGP
5 5 (9.43%) EIGRP
5 5 (9.43%) OSPF
5 5 (9.43%) Wireless
6 4 (7.55%) VPN
6 4 (7.55%) WAN
7 3 (5.66%) BIG-IP
7 3 (5.66%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (5.66%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (5.66%) Ethereal
7 3 (5.66%) LAN
7 3 (5.66%) Wireshark
8 2 (3.77%) SSH
9 1 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (1.89%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Git
1 6 (11.32%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.55%) Postman
3 2 (3.77%) JIRA
4 1 (1.89%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.89%) GitLab
4 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.89%) Xcode
General
1 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.66%) Finance
4 1 (1.89%) Banking
4 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Retail
4 1 (1.89%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 27 (50.94%) Developer
2 13 (24.53%) webMethods Developer
3 10 (18.87%) Network Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Apigee Developer
4 4 (7.55%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Java Developer
4 4 (7.55%) Juniper Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Security Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Senior
7 1 (1.89%) Administrator
7 1 (1.89%) Network Architect
7 1 (1.89%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Software Developer
7 1 (1.89%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.89%) Support Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (56.60%) XML
2 29 (54.72%) JSON
3 22 (41.51%) SOAP
4 19 (35.85%) OAuth
5 13 (24.53%) JMS
5 13 (24.53%) REST
6 10 (18.87%) OAuth2
7 6 (11.32%) RESTful
8 5 (9.43%) JWT
8 5 (9.43%) OpenID
9 4 (7.55%) Hibernate
9 4 (7.55%) JAX-RS
9 4 (7.55%) SAML
9 4 (7.55%) Spring
9 4 (7.55%) Spring Boot
10 3 (5.66%) JDBC
10 3 (5.66%) LDAP
11 2 (3.77%) Flutter
12 1 (1.89%) React Native
12 1 (1.89%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) PKI
2 3 (5.66%) Security Posture
2 3 (5.66%) Taxonomies
3 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.89%) BYOD
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) CatOS
3 1 (1.89%) Android
3 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.89%) VMS
3 1 (1.89%) Windows
3 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (56.60%) DevOps
2 22 (41.51%) Test Automation
3 21 (39.62%) Deployment Automation
4 13 (24.53%) CI/CD
5 9 (16.98%) API Management
5 9 (16.98%) Kalman Filter
6 8 (15.09%) API Development
7 5 (9.43%) Change Control
7 5 (9.43%) Computer Science
7 5 (9.43%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (7.55%) API Design
8 4 (7.55%) API Testing
8 4 (7.55%) Application Security
8 4 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (7.55%) Data Privacy
8 4 (7.55%) Integration Patterns
8 4 (7.55%) Microservices
8 4 (7.55%) User Experience
8 4 (7.55%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 3 (5.66%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.09%) Java
2 6 (11.32%) Python
3 5 (9.43%) Bash
3 5 (9.43%) C++
3 5 (9.43%) Perl
4 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.66%) SQL
6 1 (1.89%) C
6 1 (1.89%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.89%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.89%) Swift
6 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (45.28%) Security Cleared
2 21 (39.62%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) Degree
4 5 (9.43%) CCNP
4 5 (9.43%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (9.43%) JNCIA
4 5 (9.43%) JNCIS
5 3 (5.66%) CEH
5 3 (5.66%) GIAC
5 3 (5.66%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) GRC
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.89%) NIST
2 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.89%) PSD2
2 1 (1.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Docker
2 6 (11.32%) Firmware
3 4 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.66%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.66%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) Kubernetes
1 7 (13.21%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (5.66%) Ansible
3 2 (3.77%) Rsyslog
3 2 (3.77%) SCOM
3 2 (3.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) IBM
2 14 (26.42%) SAP
2 14 (26.42%) webMethods
3 12 (22.64%) Axway
4 11 (20.75%) Software AG
5 9 (16.98%) Cisco
6 7 (13.21%) F5
7 5 (9.43%) Juniper
7 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
8 4 (7.55%) CheckPoint
8 4 (7.55%) IBM Sterling
8 4 (7.55%) MuleSoft
8 4 (7.55%) Palo Alto
8 4 (7.55%) Splunk
8 4 (7.55%) VMware
9 3 (5.66%) ForgeRock
9 3 (5.66%) Imperva
10 2 (3.77%) Fortinet
11 1 (1.89%) Google
11 1 (1.89%) Qualys