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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 452 483
Rank change year-on-year -129 +31 +58
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 51 51 40
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.18% 1.55% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 36 25
10th Percentile £402 £409 £355
25th Percentile £455 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £544 £612
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -11.19% -2.08%
75th Percentile £556 £688 £660
90th Percentile £638 £700 £855
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £615
% change year-on-year -7.27% -10.57% +6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £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 4,307 3,297 3,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.39% 12.03% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,594 2,051 2,354
10th Percentile £250 £238 £250
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.45% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 167 240
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.50 £21.37
Median hourly rate £28.00 £41.45 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -32.45% -27.72% +1.52%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £43.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -39.53% -16.50% -7.88%

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 5 September 2026.

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 5 September 2026. 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 -78 33 £513 -6.82% 12
Midlands -48 9 £450 +25.70% 4
West Midlands - 8 £488 -
South East -69 7 £538 +7.50% 3
East Midlands -20 1 £402 +12.29% 4
East of England - 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 6 (11.76%) IIS
2 3 (5.88%) Apache
2 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.92%) nginx
4 1 (1.96%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.96%) Confluence
4 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (47.06%) Azure
2 18 (35.29%) AWS
3 5 (9.80%) SaaS
4 4 (7.84%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.88%) GCP
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.92%) AWS KMS
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Storage
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Table
6 2 (3.92%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.92%) Route 53
6 2 (3.92%) Serverless
6 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 20 (39.22%) HTTP
2 16 (31.37%) DNS
3 12 (23.53%) SSL
4 9 (17.65%) Firewall
4 9 (17.65%) SSH
4 9 (17.65%) TCP/IP
5 7 (13.73%) BIG-IP
5 7 (13.73%) Network Security
6 6 (11.76%) IPsec
6 6 (11.76%) WAN
7 5 (9.80%) LAN
8 4 (7.84%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (7.84%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (7.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (7.84%) VPN
8 4 (7.84%) Wireshark
9 3 (5.88%) FTP
9 3 (5.88%) Wireless
10 2 (3.92%) BGP
10 2 (3.92%) Ethereal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.96%) Neo4j
2 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) JIRA
3 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.88%) JMeter
4 2 (3.92%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.96%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.96%) GitLab
5 1 (1.96%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.96%) Maven
5 1 (1.96%) NeoLoad
5 1 (1.96%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.96%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Finance
3 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.80%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.92%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.92%) Banking
8 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Publishing
8 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (15.69%) Developer
2 5 (9.80%) CyberArk Engineer
2 5 (9.80%) Project Manager
3 4 (7.84%) Network Engineer
3 4 (7.84%) Senior
4 3 (5.88%) Architect
4 3 (5.88%) Network Security Specialist
4 3 (5.88%) Network Specialist
4 3 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Security Specialist
4 3 (5.88%) Telecoms Specialist
4 3 (5.88%) Tester
4 3 (5.88%) Web Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Software Developer
5 2 (3.92%) Support Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Technical Support
5 2 (3.92%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Web Support Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.49%) REST
2 8 (15.69%) SAML
3 7 (13.73%) Terraform
4 5 (9.80%) JSON
4 5 (9.80%) LDAP
5 4 (7.84%) RESTful
5 4 (7.84%) Web Services
6 3 (5.88%) Hibernate
6 3 (5.88%) Spring
6 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.92%) EDI
7 2 (3.92%) JDBC
7 2 (3.92%) SOAP
7 2 (3.92%) XML
8 1 (1.96%) DCOM
8 1 (1.96%) OAuth
8 1 (1.96%) WireMock
8 1 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.84%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.84%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.96%) Contactless
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.96%) EMV
5 1 (1.96%) IoT
5 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.96%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.96%) PKI
5 1 (1.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.53%) Windows
2 11 (21.57%) Linux
3 3 (5.88%) Unix
4 2 (3.92%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (3.92%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.96%) CatOS
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.53%) DevOps
2 11 (21.57%) Agile
2 11 (21.57%) CI/CD
3 10 (19.61%) Runbook
4 8 (15.69%) Change Management
5 7 (13.73%) Incident Response
5 7 (13.73%) Load Balancing
6 6 (11.76%) High Availability
6 6 (11.76%) Information Security
6 6 (11.76%) Regulatory Compliance
6 6 (11.76%) Roadmaps
6 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (11.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
7 5 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (9.80%) Data Protection
7 5 (9.80%) Microservices
7 5 (9.80%) PRINCE2
7 5 (9.80%) Programme Management
7 5 (9.80%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.57%) Python
2 9 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 6 (11.76%) Java
4 5 (9.80%) SQL
5 3 (5.88%) Bash
6 2 (3.92%) ActionScript
6 2 (3.92%) ActionScript 2.0
6 2 (3.92%) Groovy
6 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.96%) C++
7 1 (1.96%) Cypher
7 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.96%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) Degree
4 5 (9.80%) PMI Certification
4 5 (9.80%) PMP
5 4 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.96%) CCSAM
6 1 (1.96%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.96%) GPEN
6 1 (1.96%) GXPN
6 1 (1.96%) LFCS
6 1 (1.96%) OSCE
6 1 (1.96%) OSCP
6 1 (1.96%) RHCE
6 1 (1.96%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (11.76%) PCI DSS
2 5 (9.80%) GDPR
2 5 (9.80%) GRC
2 5 (9.80%) HIPAA
2 5 (9.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.92%) QA
4 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.96%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 8 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 5 (9.80%) Docker
3 5 (9.80%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (7.84%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.96%) Ceph
5 1 (1.96%) DFS Replication
5 1 (1.96%) Dovecot
5 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.96%) Postfix
5 1 (1.96%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (15.69%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (7.84%) Ansible
2 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.92%) Grafana
3 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.96%) Nessus
4 1 (1.96%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.96%) systemd
4 1 (1.96%) WMI
4 1 (1.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) VMware
2 9 (17.65%) CyberArk
3 8 (15.69%) F5
3 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
4 7 (13.73%) ServiceNow
5 6 (11.76%) Cisco
6 5 (9.80%) Oracle
7 4 (7.84%) CheckPoint
7 4 (7.84%) Palo Alto
7 4 (7.84%) SolarWinds
8 3 (5.88%) Axway
8 3 (5.88%) Okta
9 2 (3.92%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
9 2 (3.92%) Software AG
9 2 (3.92%) webMethods
9 2 (3.92%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.96%) Arista
10 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.96%) Netskope