HTTPS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring HTTPS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 355 380
Rank change year-on-year +4 +25 +75
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 19 19 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.91% 0.73% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 32
10th Percentile £360 £213 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +17.95%
75th Percentile £680 £600 £728
90th Percentile £698 £615 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £640 £588
% change year-on-year -14.06% +8.94% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £51.50 - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 2,080 2,595 3,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.47% 14.47% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,307 1,433 2,179
10th Percentile £200 £205 £207
25th Percentile £323 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.89% +1.11%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £588
90th Percentile £640 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 216 250
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £16.20
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.37 £24.38
Median hourly rate £42.50 £57.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% -0.26% +27.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.81 £75.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £50.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.84% -10.60% +37.73%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HTTPS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HTTPS

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 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTPS in the UK excluding London

HTTPS
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HTTPS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HTTPS

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 20 September 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 -31 8 £670 +24.65% 5
South East - 7 £500 - 2
North West -10 6 £581 +158.22% 5
East Midlands - 3 £358 - 1
Midlands - 3 £358 - 1
Yorkshire -16 2 £700 +17.94%
Scotland 0 1 - - 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 3 (15.79%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (5.26%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Akamai
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Cloudflare
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) HTTP
2 7 (36.84%) SSL
3 3 (15.79%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
2 5 (26.32%) JIRA
3 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Java Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Software Developer
3 3 (15.79%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (63.16%) REST
2 8 (42.11%) SOAP
3 7 (36.84%) RESTful
3 7 (36.84%) Spring
3 7 (36.84%) Spring Boot
3 7 (36.84%) Web Services
4 6 (31.58%) OAuth
5 5 (26.32%) JSON
5 5 (26.32%) XML
6 4 (21.05%) Hibernate
7 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
7 3 (15.79%) CSS
7 3 (15.79%) HTML
7 3 (15.79%) JDBC
7 3 (15.79%) JPA
7 3 (15.79%) OAuth2
7 3 (15.79%) OpenID
7 3 (15.79%) RAML
7 3 (15.79%) React
7 3 (15.79%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.79%) PKI
2 3 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (15.79%) State Machine
2 3 (15.79%) Taxonomies
3 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.26%) VMS
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.26%) Windows 7
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) Design Patterns
2 7 (36.84%) Microservices
3 6 (31.58%) API Development
3 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) Kalman Filter
3 6 (31.58%) Scrum
4 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
5 4 (21.05%) Issue Tracking
5 4 (21.05%) SDLC
5 4 (21.05%) SysML
5 4 (21.05%) UML
6 3 (15.79%) API Integration
6 3 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
6 3 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (15.79%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Java
2 7 (36.84%) JavaScript
3 6 (31.58%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.26%) C
5 1 (5.26%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) Groovy
5 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) CEH
3 2 (10.53%) GIAC
3 2 (10.53%) GWAPT
4 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (10.53%) Ansible
3 2 (10.53%) Rsyslog
3 2 (10.53%) SCOM
4 1 (5.26%) SCCM
4 1 (5.26%) Terraform
4 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) ForgeRock
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Ping Identity
3 2 (10.53%) Axway
3 2 (10.53%) F5
3 2 (10.53%) Imperva
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.26%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Software AG
4 1 (5.26%) webMethods