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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 359 413
Rank change year-on-year +31 +54 +122
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 34 25 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.57% 1.64% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 12 19
10th Percentile £454 £368 £455
25th Percentile £474 £488 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.38% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £688 £744 £681
90th Percentile £709 £875 £684
England median daily rate £537 £612 £613
% change year-on-year -12.25% -0.08% +6.52%

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 1,323 1,529 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.84% 9.39% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 973 1,583
10th Percentile £289 £250 £250
25th Percentile £404 £390 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £721 £750
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 43
10th Percentile £18.56 £20.40 £18.93
25th Percentile - £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.37%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.05 £66.38 £79.50
England median hourly rate £41.72 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.25% +1.52% +34.02%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing HTTPS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for HTTPS 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
West London -6 1 - -
Central London - 1 £575 - 1
HTTPS
England

HTTPS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.94%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (17.65%) AWS
4 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
4 5 (14.71%) IaaS
4 5 (14.71%) PaaS
5 3 (8.82%) Azure AKS
5 3 (8.82%) GCP
6 2 (5.88%) Akamai
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.88%) Cloudflare
6 2 (5.88%) Firebase
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub
6 2 (5.88%) Serverless
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Run
7 1 (2.94%) Figma
7 1 (2.94%) Google App Engine
7 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (26.47%) DNS
1 9 (26.47%) Firewall
1 9 (26.47%) SSL
2 6 (17.65%) BGP
2 6 (17.65%) EIGRP
2 6 (17.65%) HTTP
2 6 (17.65%) IPsec
2 6 (17.65%) OSPF
3 3 (8.82%) Network Security
3 3 (8.82%) VLAN
4 2 (5.88%) SSH
4 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.88%) Wireless
5 1 (2.94%) DMZ
5 1 (2.94%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.94%) FTP
5 1 (2.94%) RTP
5 1 (2.94%) SNMP
5 1 (2.94%) VPN
5 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) SonarQube
2 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) Android Studio
3 1 (2.94%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
3 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.94%) Xcode
General
1 5 (14.71%) Finance
1 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.94%) Banking
2 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
2 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (2.94%) Retail
2 1 (2.94%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Network Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Architect
4 5 (14.71%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Juniper Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (8.82%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Security Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) webMethods Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.88%) ForgeRock Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Network Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (41.18%) SOAP
2 13 (38.24%) OAuth
3 10 (29.41%) REST
4 7 (20.59%) JDBC
4 7 (20.59%) JSON
4 7 (20.59%) OAuth2
4 7 (20.59%) OpenID
4 7 (20.59%) XML
5 3 (8.82%) JMS
6 2 (5.88%) Flutter
6 2 (5.88%) JWT
6 2 (5.88%) SAML
7 1 (2.94%) .NET
7 1 (2.94%) Django
7 1 (2.94%) React Native
7 1 (2.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) PKI
2 6 (17.65%) Taxonomies
3 4 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.88%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (2.94%) BYOD
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.94%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Android
3 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.94%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) DevOps
2 14 (41.18%) Kalman Filter
3 7 (20.59%) API Integration
3 7 (20.59%) DevSecOps
3 7 (20.59%) Test Automation
4 6 (17.65%) Cloud Security
4 6 (17.65%) Identity Management
5 5 (14.71%) Agile
5 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
5 5 (14.71%) Configuration Management
5 5 (14.71%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (14.71%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (14.71%) Server Management
6 4 (11.76%) Coaching
6 4 (11.76%) Incident Response
6 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
6 4 (11.76%) Open Source
6 4 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (11.76%) Scrum
6 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Java
1 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 8 (23.53%) Python
3 6 (17.65%) Bash
3 6 (17.65%) C++
3 6 (17.65%) Perl
4 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.88%) Groovy
6 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.94%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.94%) Swift
6 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 8 (23.53%) CCNP
3 8 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (17.65%) JNCIA
4 6 (17.65%) JNCIS
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.88%) CCIE
7 1 (2.94%) CEH
7 1 (2.94%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.94%) GRC
1 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.94%) NIST
1 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.94%) PSD2
1 1 (2.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Firmware
2 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.88%) Docker
3 2 (5.88%) OpenAM
3 2 (5.88%) OpenDJ
3 2 (5.88%) OpenIDM
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (14.71%) Ansible
2 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Cisco
1 9 (26.47%) ForgeRock
2 6 (17.65%) Juniper
3 3 (8.82%) Axway
3 3 (8.82%) Ping Identity
3 3 (8.82%) SAP
3 3 (8.82%) VMware
3 3 (8.82%) webMethods
4 2 (5.88%) IBM
4 2 (5.88%) Imperva
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.88%) Software AG
5 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) Qualys
5 1 (2.94%) Remedy
5 1 (2.94%) Ruckus Wireless
5 1 (2.94%) Tenable
5 1 (2.94%) Xamarin