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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 512 602
Rank change year-on-year +62 +90 +45
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 35 30 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.081% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.10% 0.60% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 33
10th Percentile £401 £458 £371
25th Percentile £461 £513 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £547 £658 £638
90th Percentile £698 £875 £748
UK median daily rate £611 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +11.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 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 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +41 22 £537 -1.24% 24
North of England +20 6 £475 -22.39% 9
South East - 4 £500 - 9
Yorkshire +6 3 £400 -34.64% 1
North West - 3 £492 - 8
East of England - 1 - - 4
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 (8.57%) IIS
2 1 (2.86%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) AWS
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) GCP
4 4 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.57%) Akamai
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) Boomi
6 2 (5.71%) Cloudflare
6 2 (5.71%) Serverless
6 2 (5.71%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.86%) IaaS
7 1 (2.86%) PaaS
7 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (42.86%) HTTP
2 10 (28.57%) SSL
3 7 (20.00%) SSH
4 4 (11.43%) DNS
5 3 (8.57%) Firewall
5 3 (8.57%) Network Security
5 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
6 2 (5.71%) BGP
6 2 (5.71%) DHCP
6 2 (5.71%) OSPF
6 2 (5.71%) VLAN
7 1 (2.86%) DWDM
7 1 (2.86%) IGRP
7 1 (2.86%) Internet
7 1 (2.86%) IPsec
7 1 (2.86%) LAN
7 1 (2.86%) MPLS
7 1 (2.86%) SNMP
7 1 (2.86%) VPN
7 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) RDBMS
1 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.71%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.71%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 12 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Developer
2 6 (17.14%) Architect
3 5 (14.29%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) ForgeRock Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Integration Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Network Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Administrator
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Consultant
6 1 (2.86%) Network Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) SOAP
2 12 (34.29%) OAuth
3 9 (25.71%) REST
4 8 (22.86%) SAML
5 7 (20.00%) JDBC
6 6 (17.14%) JWT
6 6 (17.14%) OAuth2
6 6 (17.14%) OpenID
7 5 (14.29%) LDAP
8 4 (11.43%) Middleware
9 3 (8.57%) RESTful
10 1 (2.86%) 802.1X
10 1 (2.86%) Hibernate
10 1 (2.86%) HTML
10 1 (2.86%) Spring
10 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
10 1 (2.86%) Web Services
10 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (17.14%) PKI
2 6 (17.14%) Taxonomies
3 5 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.71%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.86%) FMCG
5 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Robotics
5 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Unix
2 8 (22.86%) Windows
3 5 (14.29%) Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.71%) Windows 7
4 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.86%) AIX
5 1 (2.86%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 12 (34.29%) Agile
3 9 (25.71%) API Integration
3 9 (25.71%) Performance Optimisation
3 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (22.86%) Coaching
4 8 (22.86%) Identity Access Management
4 8 (22.86%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (22.86%) Scrum
4 8 (22.86%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 7 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
5 7 (20.00%) Key Management
5 7 (20.00%) Open Source
6 6 (17.14%) Cryptography
6 6 (17.14%) Data Security
6 6 (17.14%) DevOps
6 6 (17.14%) Identity Management
6 6 (17.14%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) Java
2 13 (37.14%) JavaScript
3 10 (28.57%) ActionScript
3 10 (28.57%) ActionScript 2.0
3 10 (28.57%) Python
4 6 (17.14%) Groovy
5 4 (11.43%) C
6 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.71%) Bash
7 2 (5.71%) SQL
8 1 (2.86%) Korn
8 1 (2.86%) Perl
8 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) IBM Certification
3 2 (5.71%) CCIE
3 2 (5.71%) CCNP
3 2 (5.71%) CEH
3 2 (5.71%) CISSP
4 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.86%) CCDP
4 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) QA
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) OpenAM
1 6 (17.14%) OpenDJ
1 6 (17.14%) OpenIDM
2 3 (8.57%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) SCCM
2 3 (8.57%) WSUS
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.86%) Nagios
3 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.86%) Puppet
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) vRealize
3 1 (2.86%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) ForgeRock
2 12 (34.29%) IBM
3 10 (28.57%) IBM Sterling
4 9 (25.71%) Ping Identity
5 4 (11.43%) Cisco
6 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
6 3 (8.57%) VMware
7 2 (5.71%) F5
7 2 (5.71%) Imperva
7 2 (5.71%) Qualtrics
7 2 (5.71%) SAP
7 2 (5.71%) Splunk
7 2 (5.71%) webMethods
8 1 (2.86%) Citrix
8 1 (2.86%) EMC
8 1 (2.86%) Juniper
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.86%) Oracle
8 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.86%) Riverbed