HTTPS Contracts in London

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring HTTPS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HTTPS over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 384 449
Rank change year-on-year +53 +65 +81
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 29 21 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.12% 1.24% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 27
10th Percentile £404 £373 £483
25th Percentile £500 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £689 £825 £738
90th Percentile £713 £875 £775
England median daily rate £500 £594 £600
% change year-on-year -15.75% -1.08% +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 1,371 1,690 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.32% 9.59% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 1,114 1,887
10th Percentile £263 £229 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £622 £669
90th Percentile £717 £738 £775
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 49 49
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.91 £16.86 £22.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -34.87% +32.87%
75th Percentile £49.38 £41.25 £69.50
90th Percentile £62.05 £60.00 £76.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.27% +108.55% -12.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HTTPS in London.

Daily rate trend for HTTPS in London

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTPS in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTPS in London

HTTPS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HTTPS in London.

Hourly rate trend for HTTPS in London

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 5 July 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 £500 - 5
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 1 (3.45%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 8 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (17.24%) Entra ID
4 5 (17.24%) IaaS
4 5 (17.24%) PaaS
5 4 (13.79%) Akamai
5 4 (13.79%) Cloudflare
5 4 (13.79%) GCP
6 3 (10.34%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.90%) Serverless
8 1 (3.45%) Boomi
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub
8 1 (3.45%) Google App Engine
8 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.45%) SaaS
8 1 (3.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (37.93%) Firewall
2 10 (34.48%) HTTP
2 10 (34.48%) SSL
3 6 (20.69%) Network Security
4 5 (17.24%) SSH
5 4 (13.79%) DNS
6 3 (10.34%) VLAN
7 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
8 1 (3.45%) BGP
8 1 (3.45%) DMZ
8 1 (3.45%) DNSSEC
8 1 (3.45%) EIGRP
8 1 (3.45%) IPsec
8 1 (3.45%) OSPF
8 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
8 1 (3.45%) SNMP
8 1 (3.45%) Telnet
8 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
1 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.34%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Azure Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Developer
3 3 (10.34%) ForgeRock Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Network Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Network Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) REST
2 9 (31.03%) SOAP
3 8 (27.59%) OAuth
4 5 (17.24%) SAML
5 4 (13.79%) JDBC
5 4 (13.79%) JWT
6 3 (10.34%) OAuth2
6 3 (10.34%) OpenID
7 2 (6.90%) LDAP
7 2 (6.90%) Middleware
8 1 (3.45%) Django
8 1 (3.45%) Flutter
8 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Onboarding
2 4 (13.79%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (13.79%) PKI
3 3 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (10.34%) Taxonomies
4 2 (6.90%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Unix
2 6 (20.69%) Linux
3 4 (13.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) DevOps
2 8 (27.59%) Mentoring
3 7 (24.14%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
4 6 (20.69%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (20.69%) Incident Response
4 6 (20.69%) Kalman Filter
4 6 (20.69%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.69%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (17.24%) API Integration
5 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.24%) Configuration Management
5 5 (17.24%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (17.24%) Server Management
6 4 (13.79%) Coaching
6 4 (13.79%) Cryptography
6 4 (13.79%) Data Security
6 4 (13.79%) Open Source
6 4 (13.79%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Java
1 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
2 7 (24.14%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) ActionScript
3 6 (20.69%) ActionScript 2.0
3 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
4 4 (13.79%) Groovy
5 2 (6.90%) Bash
5 2 (6.90%) C
6 1 (3.45%) C++
6 1 (3.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.34%) CCNP
3 3 (10.34%) CEH
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (10.34%) CISSP
4 2 (6.90%) CCIE
5 1 (3.45%) IBM Certification
5 1 (3.45%) JNCIA
5 1 (3.45%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) GRC
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.45%) NIST
1 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.45%) QA
1 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) OpenAM
1 4 (13.79%) OpenDJ
1 4 (13.79%) OpenIDM
2 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.90%) Docker
3 2 (6.90%) Firmware
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (17.24%) Ansible
2 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.24%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.45%) vRealize
3 1 (3.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) ForgeRock
2 7 (24.14%) IBM
3 6 (20.69%) IBM Sterling
4 4 (13.79%) Cisco
4 4 (13.79%) Imperva
4 4 (13.79%) Ping Identity
5 3 (10.34%) VMware
6 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.45%) EMC
7 1 (3.45%) F5
7 1 (3.45%) Google
7 1 (3.45%) Juniper
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle
7 1 (3.45%) Qualtrics
7 1 (3.45%) SAP
7 1 (3.45%) ScienceLogic
7 1 (3.45%) Splunk
7 1 (3.45%) Tenable
7 1 (3.45%) webMethods