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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 343 379
Rank change year-on-year -13 +36 +125
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 25 21 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.97% 1.44% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 13
10th Percentile £397 £395 £440
25th Percentile £456 £509 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £659 £794 £681
90th Percentile £688 £800 -
England median daily rate £520 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 1,269 1,458 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.83% 9.92% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 812 895 1,271
10th Percentile £300 £258 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 12 58
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.73 £18.93
25th Percentile - £27.56 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +22.27% +14.50%
75th Percentile £28.63 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.45 £79.26 £76.63
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +48.66%

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 30 December 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 30 December 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 -1 3 £575 -25.81% 3
West London -16 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 (8.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (4.00%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Azure
1 4 (16.00%) GCP
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Firebase
3 2 (8.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) Akamai
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Run
4 1 (4.00%) Cloudflare
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) Figma
4 1 (4.00%) Google App Engine
4 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) DNS
1 7 (28.00%) SSL
2 5 (20.00%) BGP
2 5 (20.00%) EIGRP
2 5 (20.00%) IPsec
2 5 (20.00%) OSPF
3 3 (12.00%) Firewall
4 2 (8.00%) SSH
4 2 (8.00%) Wireless
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (4.00%) DMZ
5 1 (4.00%) DNSSEC
5 1 (4.00%) Internet
5 1 (4.00%) Network Security
5 1 (4.00%) NX-OS
5 1 (4.00%) RTP
5 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.00%) Telnet
5 1 (4.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
1 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (4.00%) Xcode
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Retail
3 1 (4.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Network Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) webMethods Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Juniper Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
6 1 (4.00%) Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Data Centre Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (48.00%) XML
2 11 (44.00%) JSON
2 11 (44.00%) OAuth
3 10 (40.00%) SOAP
4 6 (24.00%) REST
5 5 (20.00%) JMS
5 5 (20.00%) OAuth2
5 5 (20.00%) OpenID
6 3 (12.00%) JDBC
7 2 (8.00%) Flutter
7 2 (8.00%) RESTful
8 1 (4.00%) .NET
8 1 (4.00%) CSS
8 1 (4.00%) Django
8 1 (4.00%) HTML
8 1 (4.00%) JWT
8 1 (4.00%) React Native
8 1 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) PKI
2 3 (12.00%) Taxonomies
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) BYOD
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.00%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Android
2 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) DevOps
2 11 (44.00%) Test Automation
3 10 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 9 (36.00%) Kalman Filter
5 5 (20.00%) API Development
5 5 (20.00%) API Management
6 3 (12.00%) API Integration
6 3 (12.00%) Change Control
6 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (12.00%) Identity Management
7 2 (8.00%) Incident Response
7 2 (8.00%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (8.00%) Validation
8 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security
8 1 (4.00%) Customer Experience
8 1 (4.00%) End-to-End Testing
8 1 (4.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Python
2 5 (20.00%) Bash
2 5 (20.00%) C++
2 5 (20.00%) Perl
3 4 (16.00%) Java
3 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.00%) Objective-C
4 1 (4.00%) Swift
4 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) CCNP
2 5 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (20.00%) JNCIA
2 5 (20.00%) JNCIS
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) GRC
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
1 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.00%) PSD2
1 1 (4.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Firmware
2 2 (8.00%) Docker
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Cisco
1 6 (24.00%) webMethods
2 5 (20.00%) Axway
2 5 (20.00%) Juniper
2 5 (20.00%) SAP
3 4 (16.00%) IBM
3 4 (16.00%) Software AG
4 3 (12.00%) ForgeRock
5 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.00%) F5
6 1 (4.00%) Google
6 1 (4.00%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle
6 1 (4.00%) Qualys
6 1 (4.00%) Remedy
6 1 (4.00%) Ruckus Wireless
6 1 (4.00%) VMware
6 1 (4.00%) Xamarin