HTTPS Contracts in the North of England

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 180 219
Rank change year-on-year +20 +39 -1
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 6 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.10% 0.017%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.09% 0.83% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £390 £572 -
25th Percentile £450 £587 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £612 £498
Median % change year-on-year -22.39% +23.02% -0.50%
75th Percentile £492 £614 £499
90th Percentile - £614 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 552 599 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 12.56% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 419 467
10th Percentile £181 £200 £200
25th Percentile £246 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing HTTPS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for HTTPS in the North of England

HTTPS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HTTPS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for HTTPS in the North of England

HTTPS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HTTPS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for HTTPS in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTPS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire +6 3 £400 -34.64% 1
North West - 3 £492 - 8
HTTPS
England

HTTPS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SSH
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) JDBC
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (50.00%) OpenID
1 3 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) PKI
1 3 (50.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) API Integration
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Coaching
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Open Source
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) B2B
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Key Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) ActionScript
1 3 (50.00%) ActionScript 2.0
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) Korn
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) IBM Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Nagios
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ForgeRock
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
1 3 (50.00%) IBM Sterling
1 3 (50.00%) Ping Identity
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk