HTTPS Contracts in the UK excluding London

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for HTTPS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HTTPS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 432 445
Rank change year-on-year +58 +13 -53
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 11 24 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.33% 0.69% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 38
10th Percentile £320 £375 £371
25th Percentile £481 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £612 £550 £543
90th Percentile £614 - £595
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £61.63
75th Percentile - - £63.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

HTTPS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,339 3,500 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.27% 14.89% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,213 2,635
10th Percentile £200 £213 £185
25th Percentile £343 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £544
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 323 238
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.63
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing HTTPS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for HTTPS in the UK excluding London

HTTPS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for HTTPS in the UK excluding London

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTPS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTPS in the UK excluding London

HTTPS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTPS in the UK excluding London

HTTPS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
North of England +34 6 £594 +19.30% 3
South West +23 5 £488 -11.36% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £612 - 2
North West +24 1 £225 -54.77% 1
HTTPS
UK

HTTPS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (36.36%) Apache Solr
1 4 (36.36%) nginx
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) GCP
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) IPsec
1 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
2 5 (45.45%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) HTTP
4 1 (9.09%) Firewall
4 1 (9.09%) FTP
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security
4 1 (9.09%) SNMP
4 1 (9.09%) SSH
4 1 (9.09%) tcpdump
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
4 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Couchbase
1 4 (36.36%) MySQL
1 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
General
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Support
2 1 (9.09%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (9.09%) IT Technician
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Support Technician
2 1 (9.09%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) JSON
1 4 (36.36%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (36.36%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (36.36%) YAML
2 2 (18.18%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) CentOS
3 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
3 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
1 9 (81.82%) Information Security
2 5 (45.45%) Application Security
2 5 (45.45%) Configuration Management
2 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps
2 5 (45.45%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (45.45%) Service Management
2 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (36.36%) Cost Reduction
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (36.36%) SDLC
3 4 (36.36%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) GDPR
1 4 (36.36%) HIPAA
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (36.36%) NIST
1 4 (36.36%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) NFS
1 1 (9.09%) Samba
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) VMware