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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 483 521
Rank change year-on-year +18 +38 +119
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 54 47 70
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.65% 1.20% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 23 49
10th Percentile £366 £363 £362
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £718 £683
90th Percentile £700 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -
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 3,269 3,910 5,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.61% 12.18% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,091 2,253 3,512
10th Percentile £216 £243 £220
25th Percentile £358 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £688 £688 £701
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 148 306
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.91 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.09 £26.25 £23.02
Median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.87% +1.79% +34.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.14 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -29.98% -14.04% +37.73%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +21 32 £537 -23.29% 3
North of England -23 7 £675 +25.58% 5
South East - 6 £500 - 1
North West -13 4 £673 +198.89% 5
Yorkshire -20 3 £700 +17.94%
East Midlands - 3 £358 - 1
Midlands - 3 £358 - 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 3 (5.56%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.85%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) Azure
2 8 (14.81%) AWS
3 6 (11.11%) Akamai
3 6 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (11.11%) Cloudflare
4 5 (9.26%) Entra ID
4 5 (9.26%) IaaS
4 5 (9.26%) PaaS
5 4 (7.41%) GCP
6 3 (5.56%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.70%) Firebase
7 2 (3.70%) GitHub
8 1 (1.85%) Cloud Run
8 1 (1.85%) Figma
8 1 (1.85%) Google App Engine
8 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (35.19%) SSL
2 14 (25.93%) Firewall
3 10 (18.52%) HTTP
4 8 (14.81%) DNS
5 6 (11.11%) BGP
5 6 (11.11%) EIGRP
5 6 (11.11%) IPsec
5 6 (11.11%) OSPF
6 3 (5.56%) Network Security
7 2 (3.70%) SSH
7 2 (3.70%) Wireless
8 1 (1.85%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.85%) DMZ
8 1 (1.85%) Internet
8 1 (1.85%) RTP
8 1 (1.85%) SNMP
8 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.85%) Telnet
8 1 (1.85%) VLAN
8 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Git
2 6 (11.11%) JIRA
3 5 (9.26%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.85%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.85%) GitLab
5 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.85%) Xcode
General
1 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Finance
3 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Banking
4 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Retail
4 1 (1.85%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (51.85%) Developer
2 10 (18.52%) webMethods Developer
3 9 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Juniper Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Architect
6 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (7.41%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Security Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Network Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Network Security Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior
9 1 (1.85%) Administrator
9 1 (1.85%) Lead
9 1 (1.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (46.30%) REST
2 22 (40.74%) JSON
2 22 (40.74%) SOAP
2 22 (40.74%) XML
3 15 (27.78%) OAuth
4 10 (18.52%) JMS
5 8 (14.81%) RESTful
6 7 (12.96%) Spring
6 7 (12.96%) Spring Boot
6 7 (12.96%) Web Services
7 5 (9.26%) OAuth2
7 5 (9.26%) OpenID
8 4 (7.41%) Hibernate
8 4 (7.41%) JDBC
9 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
9 3 (5.56%) CSS
9 3 (5.56%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (5.56%) RAML
9 3 (5.56%) React
9 3 (5.56%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) PKI
2 4 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (7.41%) Security Posture
2 4 (7.41%) Taxonomies
3 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.56%) State Machine
4 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.85%) BYOD
5 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.85%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (24.07%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Android
2 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.85%) VMS
2 1 (1.85%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (59.26%) DevOps
2 21 (38.89%) Test Automation
3 17 (31.48%) Deployment Automation
4 14 (25.93%) Kalman Filter
5 12 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 11 (20.37%) API Development
7 8 (14.81%) API Management
7 8 (14.81%) Design Patterns
8 7 (12.96%) Microservices
9 6 (11.11%) Agile
9 6 (11.11%) Application Security
9 6 (11.11%) Cloud Security
9 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (9.26%) Configuration Management
10 5 (9.26%) SDLC
10 5 (9.26%) Server Management
11 4 (7.41%) API Integration
11 4 (7.41%) Containerisation
11 4 (7.41%) DevSecOps
11 4 (7.41%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.07%) Java
2 9 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 8 (14.81%) Python
4 6 (11.11%) Bash
4 6 (11.11%) C++
4 6 (11.11%) Perl
4 6 (11.11%) SQL
5 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.85%) C
7 1 (1.85%) C#
7 1 (1.85%) Groovy
7 1 (1.85%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.85%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.85%) Swift
7 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (46.30%) Security Cleared
2 21 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.11%) CCNP
3 6 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (11.11%) JNCIA
3 6 (11.11%) JNCIS
4 4 (7.41%) CEH
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.56%) GIAC
5 3 (5.56%) GWAPT
6 1 (1.85%) CISSP
6 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) GRC
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.85%) PSD2
2 1 (1.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Firmware
2 6 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (1.85%) OpenAM
3 1 (1.85%) OpenDJ
3 1 (1.85%) OpenIDM
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.81%) Ansible
3 7 (12.96%) Terraform
4 5 (9.26%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.70%) Rsyslog
5 2 (3.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) webMethods
2 10 (18.52%) SAP
3 8 (14.81%) Axway
3 8 (14.81%) IBM
3 8 (14.81%) Software AG
4 7 (12.96%) Cisco
5 6 (11.11%) Juniper
6 5 (9.26%) ForgeRock
6 5 (9.26%) Imperva
7 4 (7.41%) F5
7 4 (7.41%) Oracle
8 2 (3.70%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.85%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.85%) Google
9 1 (1.85%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.85%) Qualys
9 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.85%) Remedy
9 1 (1.85%) VMware