HTTPS Contract Job Trends in London

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring HTTPS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 354 408
Rank change year-on-year +19 +54 +118
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 31 26 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.47% 1.70% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 18
10th Percentile £430 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £631 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £682 £800 £681
90th Percentile £689 - £684
England median daily rate £575 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -8.00% +6.38% +2.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,255 1,525 2,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.38% 9.60% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 934 1,496
10th Percentile £282 £256 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £711 £720 £750
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 17 45
10th Percentile £18.72 £23.80 -
25th Percentile - £30.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% +49.06% +10.83%
75th Percentile £39.69 £65.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £62.55 £76.41 £79.00
England median hourly rate £32.77 £56.13 £56.49
% change year-on-year -41.61% -0.65% +36.12%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HTTPS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

HTTPS job vacancy trend in London

HTTPS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HTTPS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HTTPS

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTPS in London over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTPS in London

HTTPS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HTTPS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HTTPS

HTTPS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTPS within the London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Central London +11 3 £575 -25.81% 1
West London -5 1 - -
HTTPS
England

HTTPS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (6.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
1 1 (3.23%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (16.13%) AWS
3 5 (16.13%) Entra ID
3 5 (16.13%) IaaS
3 5 (16.13%) PaaS
4 4 (12.90%) GCP
5 3 (9.68%) Akamai
5 3 (9.68%) Azure AKS
5 3 (9.68%) Cloudflare
6 2 (6.45%) Firebase
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Run
7 1 (3.23%) Figma
7 1 (3.23%) Google App Engine
7 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (38.71%) SSL
2 10 (32.26%) Firewall
3 8 (25.81%) DNS
4 6 (19.35%) BGP
4 6 (19.35%) EIGRP
4 6 (19.35%) IPsec
4 6 (19.35%) OSPF
5 3 (9.68%) HTTP
5 3 (9.68%) Network Security
6 2 (6.45%) SSH
6 2 (6.45%) Wireless
7 1 (3.23%) DHCP
7 1 (3.23%) DMZ
7 1 (3.23%) Internet
7 1 (3.23%) RTP
7 1 (3.23%) SNMP
7 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.23%) Telnet
7 1 (3.23%) VPN
7 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) SonarQube
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) Android Studio
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.23%) Xcode
General
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Banking
3 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Retail
3 1 (3.23%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Developer
1 9 (29.03%) Network Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Cisco Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Juniper Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Security Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) webMethods Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Network Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Firewall Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Mobile UI Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) REST
2 11 (35.48%) OAuth
2 11 (35.48%) SOAP
3 9 (29.03%) JSON
3 9 (29.03%) XML
4 4 (12.90%) OAuth2
4 4 (12.90%) OpenID
5 3 (9.68%) JDBC
5 3 (9.68%) JMS
6 2 (6.45%) Flutter
7 1 (3.23%) .NET
7 1 (3.23%) Django
7 1 (3.23%) JWT
7 1 (3.23%) React Native
7 1 (3.23%) RESTful
7 1 (3.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) PKI
2 4 (12.90%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (9.68%) Taxonomies
4 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.23%) BYOD
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.23%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Android
2 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) DevOps
2 10 (32.26%) Kalman Filter
3 9 (29.03%) Test Automation
4 7 (22.58%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (19.35%) Cloud Security
6 5 (16.13%) API Development
6 5 (16.13%) API Management
6 5 (16.13%) Configuration Management
6 5 (16.13%) Server Management
7 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.90%) Incident Response
8 3 (9.68%) API Integration
8 3 (9.68%) Application Security
8 3 (9.68%) DevSecOps
8 3 (9.68%) Identity Management
8 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (9.68%) Release Management
9 2 (6.45%) AI
9 2 (6.45%) Load Balancing
9 2 (6.45%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) Bash
2 6 (19.35%) C++
2 6 (19.35%) Perl
3 5 (16.13%) Java
3 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.23%) Groovy
4 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.23%) Objective-C
4 1 (3.23%) Swift
4 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 11 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 6 (19.35%) CCNP
3 6 (19.35%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (19.35%) JNCIA
3 6 (19.35%) JNCIS
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.23%) CEH
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
1 1 (3.23%) GRC
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.23%) NIST
1 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.23%) PSD2
1 1 (3.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Firmware
2 2 (6.45%) Docker
3 1 (3.23%) OpenAM
3 1 (3.23%) OpenDJ
3 1 (3.23%) OpenIDM
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Ansible
1 6 (19.35%) Terraform
2 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Cisco
2 6 (19.35%) Juniper
3 5 (16.13%) Axway
4 4 (12.90%) ForgeRock
4 4 (12.90%) webMethods
5 3 (9.68%) SAP
6 2 (6.45%) Fortinet
6 2 (6.45%) IBM
6 2 (6.45%) Imperva
6 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.45%) Software AG
7 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.23%) F5
7 1 (3.23%) Google
7 1 (3.23%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle
7 1 (3.23%) Qualys
7 1 (3.23%) Remedy
7 1 (3.23%) Ruckus Wireless
7 1 (3.23%) VMware