HTTPS Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 120 137
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 +41
DemandTrendContract jobs citing HTTPS 5 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.23% 0.16% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.65% 1.34% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £474 - £325
25th Percentile - £213 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £225 £613
Median % change year-on-year +118.67% -63.27% +11.36%
75th Percentile £680 £238 £681
90th Percentile £685 - £738
England median daily rate £537 £620 £625
% change year-on-year -13.39% -0.80% +8.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 303 299 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.72% 12.27% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 197 277
10th Percentile £147 £250 £300
25th Percentile £325 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.13% +8.42% -
75th Percentile £538 £675 £575
90th Percentile £675 £835 £638
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +1.00% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 10
10th Percentile £19.25 £24.61 £15.72
25th Percentile £21.50 £35.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £46.75 £48.56 £16.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% +191.13% -27.65%
75th Percentile £67.25 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £68.71 £62.80 £49.35
England median hourly rate £42.00 £54.94 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.55% -2.75% +43.01%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTPS in the North West

HTTPS
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing HTTPS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing HTTPS

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTPS in the North West over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTPS in the North West

HTTPS
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire - 3 £492 - 2
Lancashire -3 2 £673 - 4
HTTPS
England

HTTPS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) SOAP
2 4 (80.00%) OAuth
3 3 (60.00%) JDBC
3 3 (60.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (60.00%) OpenID
4 2 (40.00%) JSON
4 2 (40.00%) XML
5 1 (20.00%) JMS
5 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) PKI
1 3 (60.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) API Integration
1 3 (60.00%) Coaching
1 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (60.00%) Open Source
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ForgeRock
1 3 (60.00%) Ping Identity
2 1 (20.00%) Axway
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Software AG
2 1 (20.00%) webMethods