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 3 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 329 359
Rank change year-on-year -36 +30 +139
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 29 28 32
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.68% 1.44% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 23
10th Percentile £358 £436 £365
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £588
90th Percentile £698 £800 £630
UK median daily rate £670 £594 £538
% change year-on-year +12.89% +10.42% +11.98%

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 1,724 1,940 2,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.83% 13.09% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,134 1,093 1,674
10th Percentile £203 £225 £206
25th Percentile £336 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -3.41%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £687 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 56 180
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.74 £19.99
25th Percentile £15.81 £21.28 £24.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -42.47% +34.02%
75th Percentile £64.13 £60.63 £67.83
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.63 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -22.62% -42.47% +37.68%

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 3 months to 22 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 3 months to 22 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +1 17 £500 -35.48% 3
North of England -24 9 £670 +34.00% 4
North West - 6 £509 - 4
Yorkshire -33 3 £700 +40.00%
Midlands - 1 £520 -
West Midlands - 1 £520 -
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 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.00%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) AWS
2 7 (14.00%) Azure
2 7 (14.00%) GCP
3 6 (12.00%) Akamai
3 6 (12.00%) Cloudflare
4 3 (6.00%) Apigee
5 2 (4.00%) Firebase
5 2 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) Cloud Run
6 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.00%) Figma
6 1 (2.00%) Google App Engine
6 1 (2.00%) IaaS
6 1 (2.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.00%) SSL
2 10 (20.00%) Firewall
3 9 (18.00%) HTTP
4 8 (16.00%) DNS
5 6 (12.00%) BGP
5 6 (12.00%) EIGRP
5 6 (12.00%) IPsec
5 6 (12.00%) OSPF
6 3 (6.00%) Network Security
7 2 (4.00%) SSH
7 2 (4.00%) Wireless
8 1 (2.00%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (2.00%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (2.00%) DMZ
8 1 (2.00%) DNSSEC
8 1 (2.00%) NX-OS
8 1 (2.00%) RTP
8 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.00%) Telnet
8 1 (2.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Git
2 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.00%) JIRA
4 3 (6.00%) Postman
5 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.00%) Android Studio
6 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.00%) GitLab
6 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.00%) Xcode
General
1 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Banking
4 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Retail
4 1 (2.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (56.00%) Developer
2 13 (26.00%) webMethods Developer
3 9 (18.00%) Network Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Juniper Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Apigee Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior
7 2 (4.00%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Architect
8 1 (2.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Firewall Architect
8 1 (2.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 1 (2.00%) Mobile UI Developer
8 1 (2.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (56.00%) JSON
1 28 (56.00%) XML
2 22 (44.00%) SOAP
3 17 (34.00%) OAuth
4 16 (32.00%) REST
5 13 (26.00%) JMS
6 8 (16.00%) OAuth2
7 6 (12.00%) RESTful
8 5 (10.00%) Hibernate
8 5 (10.00%) Spring
8 5 (10.00%) Spring Boot
9 4 (8.00%) OpenID
10 3 (6.00%) JAX-RS
10 3 (6.00%) JDBC
10 3 (6.00%) JWT
11 2 (4.00%) Flutter
11 2 (4.00%) Web Services
12 1 (2.00%) JSF
12 1 (2.00%) Middleware
12 1 (2.00%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) PKI
2 4 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.00%) Taxonomies
4 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.00%) BYOD
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Android
2 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.00%) VMS
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (60.00%) DevOps
2 22 (44.00%) Test Automation
3 20 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 10 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
5 9 (18.00%) API Management
6 8 (16.00%) API Development
7 6 (12.00%) Application Security
8 5 (10.00%) Change Control
8 5 (10.00%) Microservices
9 4 (8.00%) Computer Science
9 4 (8.00%) Incident Response
9 4 (8.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 3 (6.00%) API Design
10 3 (6.00%) API Integration
10 3 (6.00%) API Testing
10 3 (6.00%) DevSecOps
10 3 (6.00%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (6.00%) SDLC
10 3 (6.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) Java
2 7 (14.00%) Python
3 6 (12.00%) Bash
3 6 (12.00%) C++
3 6 (12.00%) Perl
4 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.00%) C
6 1 (2.00%) C#
6 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.00%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.00%) Swift
6 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (44.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) CCNP
3 6 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (12.00%) JNCIA
3 6 (12.00%) JNCIS
4 5 (10.00%) Degree
5 4 (8.00%) CEH
5 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.00%) GIAC
6 3 (6.00%) GWAPT
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) GRC
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.00%) PSD2
2 1 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Firmware
2 6 (12.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Ansible
2 4 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (6.00%) Terraform
4 2 (4.00%) Rsyslog
4 2 (4.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (28.00%) SAP
1 14 (28.00%) webMethods
2 11 (22.00%) IBM
2 11 (22.00%) Software AG
3 8 (16.00%) Axway
4 7 (14.00%) Cisco
5 6 (12.00%) Juniper
6 5 (10.00%) Imperva
7 4 (8.00%) F5
8 3 (6.00%) ForgeRock
8 3 (6.00%) Splunk
9 2 (4.00%) Fortinet
9 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
10 1 (2.00%) Ariba
10 1 (2.00%) Google
10 1 (2.00%) Infoblox
10 1 (2.00%) Qualys
10 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
10 1 (2.00%) Remedy
10 1 (2.00%) VMware