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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 346 367
Rank change year-on-year -63 +21 +69
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 28 26 20
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.78% 1.85% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 12
10th Percentile £460 £400 £423
25th Percentile £500 £502 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £556 £689 £838
90th Percentile £643 £713 £875
England median daily rate £511 £500 £612
% change year-on-year +2.25% -18.30% -5.85%

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 1,577 1,404 1,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.86% 10.32% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 919 1,047
10th Percentile £300 £279 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £623
90th Percentile £729 £715 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 31 33
10th Percentile £18.68 £19.46 £15.60
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £16.86
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +36.36% -37.14%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £67.75 £63.25 £64.00
England median hourly rate £27.88 £45.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -38.04% -10.89% +1.00%

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 31 July 2026.

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 31 July 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
Central London -12 2 £625 +25.00%
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 6 (21.43%) IIS
2 3 (10.71%) Apache
3 1 (3.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) SaaS
4 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (3.57%) AWS KMS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) npm
6 1 (3.57%) NuGet
6 1 (3.57%) Route 53
6 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (35.71%) DNS
1 10 (35.71%) HTTP
2 8 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 7 (25.00%) SSL
4 6 (21.43%) Network Security
4 6 (21.43%) SSH
5 4 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (10.71%) BIG-IP
6 3 (10.71%) Firewall
7 2 (7.14%) FTP
7 2 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (3.57%) BGP
8 1 (3.57%) DMZ
8 1 (3.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (3.57%) Internet
8 1 (3.57%) IPsec
8 1 (3.57%) SAN
8 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
8 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) JMeter
2 1 (3.57%) Burp Suite
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) Maven
2 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
2 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.57%) Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) CyberArk Engineer
1 5 (17.86%) Project Manager
2 3 (10.71%) Network Security Specialist
2 3 (10.71%) Network Specialist
2 3 (10.71%) Security Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Security Specialist
2 3 (10.71%) Telecoms Specialist
2 3 (10.71%) Tester
2 3 (10.71%) Web Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Developer
3 2 (7.14%) Performance Tester
3 2 (7.14%) Senior
3 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Technical Support
3 2 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Web Support Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) webMethods Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Diagnostic Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (14.29%) SAML
3 2 (7.14%) EDI
3 2 (7.14%) JDBC
3 2 (7.14%) JSON
3 2 (7.14%) SOAP
3 2 (7.14%) XML
4 1 (3.57%) LDAP
4 1 (3.57%) OAuth
4 1 (3.57%) Web Services
4 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 4 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 4 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (10.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (10.71%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.57%) IoT
5 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.57%) PKI
5 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
2 6 (21.43%) Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Runbook
2 8 (28.57%) DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) Change Management
3 7 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 7 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 6 (21.43%) Information Security
4 6 (21.43%) Regulatory Compliance
4 6 (21.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 5 (17.86%) Agile
5 5 (17.86%) Attestation
5 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
5 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (17.86%) Data Protection
5 5 (17.86%) High Availability
5 5 (17.86%) PRINCE2
5 5 (17.86%) Programme Management
5 5 (17.86%) Project Governance
5 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
6 4 (14.29%) Application Security
6 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) ActionScript
4 2 (7.14%) ActionScript 2.0
4 2 (7.14%) Bash
4 2 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) PMI Certification
2 5 (17.86%) PMP
3 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.57%) CCSAM
5 1 (3.57%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.57%) GPEN
5 1 (3.57%) GXPN
5 1 (3.57%) OSCE
5 1 (3.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (17.86%) GDPR
2 5 (17.86%) GRC
2 5 (17.86%) HIPAA
2 5 (17.86%) PCI DSS
2 5 (17.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) Docker
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 4 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (7.14%) Ansible
3 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.57%) Grafana
4 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.57%) systemd
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) CyberArk
1 6 (21.43%) ServiceNow
2 5 (17.86%) Oracle
3 4 (14.29%) F5
4 3 (10.71%) Okta
5 2 (7.14%) Axway
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.14%) Software AG
5 2 (7.14%) webMethods
5 2 (7.14%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.57%) Arista
6 1 (3.57%) Blue Coat
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco
6 1 (3.57%) Netskope
6 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.57%) Sonatype
6 1 (3.57%) VMware