HTTPS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring HTTPS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.27% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £210 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 - -
75th Percentile £230 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £670 £550
% change year-on-year -29.10% +21.82% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 235 143 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.54% 9.02% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 96 142
10th Percentile £176 £200 £182
25th Percentile £296 £313 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -3.41% -4.03%
75th Percentile £611 £519 £600
90th Percentile £675 £550 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £490
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.51% -4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 20
10th Percentile £13.47 - £13.13
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £14.44 £22.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year -34.36% +20.42% +71.87%
75th Percentile £46.24 £23.53 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £32.36 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £36.57 £40.00
% change year-on-year +2.54% -8.57% +116.22%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HTTPS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

HTTPS job vacancy trend in Scotland

HTTPS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing HTTPS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing HTTPS

HTTPS
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing HTTPS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing HTTPS

HTTPS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTPS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 May 2026. 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
Edinburgh - 2 £220 - 1
Glasgow - 2 - - 1
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
HTTPS
UK

HTTPS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) SSH
1 3 (60.00%) SSL
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (20.00%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) Quarkus
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Micro Frontends
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Ceph
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (40.00%) Squid
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle