HTTPS Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 384 431
Rank change year-on-year +63 +47 +26
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 13 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.048% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.66% 0.29% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 15
10th Percentile £430 £506 £375
25th Percentile £463 £542 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £594 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% +18.70% +3.63%
75th Percentile £500 £613 £550
90th Percentile £506 £614 -
UK median daily rate £670 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +21.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £50.50 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,977 3,409 3,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.48% 16.47% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,206 1,953 2,274
10th Percentile £194 £203 £210
25th Percentile £303 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 359 327
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.45 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.40 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.06 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £31.08 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.30% +110.53% -30.91%

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 3 May 2025.

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 3 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
North of England +12 6 £475 -22.39% 13
South East - 5 £500 - 9
Yorkshire +6 3 £400 -34.64% 2
North West - 3 £492 - 11
Scotland - 1 £500 - 2
East of England - 1 - - 4
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 (30.77%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) SSL
2 5 (38.46%) HTTP
3 2 (15.38%) SSH
4 1 (7.69%) BGP
4 1 (7.69%) DMVPN
4 1 (7.69%) DNS
4 1 (7.69%) DWDM
4 1 (7.69%) Firewall
4 1 (7.69%) GLBP
4 1 (7.69%) IGRP
4 1 (7.69%) Internet
4 1 (7.69%) IPsec
4 1 (7.69%) LAN
4 1 (7.69%) MPLS
4 1 (7.69%) Multicast
4 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
4 1 (7.69%) OSPF
4 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
4 1 (7.69%) SNMP
4 1 (7.69%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) ForgeRock Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) JDBC
1 3 (23.08%) OAuth
1 3 (23.08%) OAuth2
1 3 (23.08%) OpenID
1 3 (23.08%) RESTful
1 3 (23.08%) SOAP
2 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
2 2 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) Spring
2 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
2 2 (15.38%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) PKI
1 3 (23.08%) Taxonomies
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) FMCG
3 1 (7.69%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Unix
2 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
2 3 (23.08%) Windows 7
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
4 1 (7.69%) AIX
4 1 (7.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
1 5 (38.46%) Scrum
2 4 (30.77%) API Integration
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Coaching
2 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
2 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
2 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (30.77%) Prototyping
2 4 (30.77%) Service Design
2 4 (30.77%) Software Distribution
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Environments
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
3 3 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (23.08%) Identity Management
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (23.08%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) ActionScript
2 3 (23.08%) ActionScript 2.0
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) C
4 1 (7.69%) Korn
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) IBM Certification
4 1 (7.69%) CCDP
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) SCCM
1 4 (30.77%) WSUS
2 3 (23.08%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Nagios
4 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
4 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) ForgeRock
1 3 (23.08%) IBM
1 3 (23.08%) IBM Sterling
1 3 (23.08%) Ping Identity
2 1 (7.69%) Arista
2 1 (7.69%) Blue Coat
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Citrix
2 1 (7.69%) F5
2 1 (7.69%) Juniper
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) Riverbed
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Zscaler