HTTPS Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring HTTPS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.13% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.01% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £389 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £538 £510 -
% change year-on-year +5.39% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 397 236 515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.87% 15.71% 19.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 130 220
10th Percentile £306 £250 £212
25th Percentile £400 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £460 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% -10.31% +2.50%
75th Percentile £590 £538 £608
90th Percentile £643 £600 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% +4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 10 45
10th Percentile £16.17 - £16.73
25th Percentile £19.34 - £22.58
Median hourly rate £32.50 £14.20 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.87% -78.15% -6.36%
75th Percentile £42.38 £24.23 £85.65
90th Percentile £57.60 £58.75 £87.50
South East median hourly rate £42.25 £45.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -7.14% -20.66% -3.54%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

HTTPS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

HTTPS
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing HTTPS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing HTTPS

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTPS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HTTPS in the Thames Valley

HTTPS
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing HTTPS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing HTTPS

HTTPS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTPS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Berkshire - 2 £413 - 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £625 -
HTTPS
South East

HTTPS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Table
2 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) IPsec
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (25.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Groovy
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Parasoft
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds