HTTPS Contract Job Trends

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring HTTPS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 496 497
Rank change year-on-year -127 +1 +56
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 66 71 66
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.29% 1.87% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 48 40
10th Percentile £409 £450 £408
25th Percentile £460 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -13.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile £556 £688 £738
90th Percentile £638 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,109 3,794 4,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.31% 11.50% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,954 2,369 2,655
10th Percentile £231 £225 £225
25th Percentile £390 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £454 £495
% change year-on-year +4.74% -8.38% +7.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 202 227
10th Percentile £14.24 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £23.45
Median hourly rate £32.75 £42.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.94% -15.84% -10.60%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.72 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -31.76% -25.89% -0.26%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

HTTPS job vacancy trend in the UK

HTTPS
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTPS over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

HTTPS
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 September 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
England -137 46 £513 -6.82% 44
London -101 30 £513 -6.82% 20
UK excluding London -97 26 £450 -10.00% 31
Work from Home -70 19 £510 -24.44% 24
Scotland -17 11 £220 - 2
South East -69 8 £538 +7.50% 7
Midlands -43 5 £450 +25.70% 3
West Midlands - 4 £493 - 1
East of England - 2 - - 5
East Midlands -13 1 £402 +12.29% 2

HTTPS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (9.09%) IIS
2 4 (6.06%) Confluence
3 3 (4.55%) Apache
4 2 (3.03%) nginx
4 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (50.00%) Azure
2 24 (36.36%) AWS
3 7 (10.61%) GCP
4 6 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.06%) SaaS
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Functions
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Storage
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Table
6 3 (4.55%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.55%) Serverless
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.03%) AWS KMS
7 2 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.03%) Route 53
7 2 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (36.36%) HTTP
2 20 (30.30%) DNS
3 16 (24.24%) SSL
4 14 (21.21%) SSH
5 13 (19.70%) TCP/IP
6 8 (12.12%) IPsec
6 8 (12.12%) WAN
7 7 (10.61%) Firewall
8 6 (9.09%) Network Security
9 5 (7.58%) SD-WAN
10 4 (6.06%) BIG-IP
10 4 (6.06%) LAN
11 3 (4.55%) BGP
11 3 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (4.55%) FTP
11 3 (4.55%) VPN
11 3 (4.55%) Wireshark
12 2 (3.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 2 (3.03%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.03%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.03%) SQLPlus
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.52%) Db2
4 1 (1.52%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (13.64%) Git
2 8 (12.12%) JIRA
3 4 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.55%) JMeter
5 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.52%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.52%) GitLab
5 1 (1.52%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.52%) Maven
5 1 (1.52%) NeoLoad
5 1 (1.52%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.52%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.52%) webpack
General
1 25 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Finance
3 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.58%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.03%) Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Back Office
9 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Legal
9 1 (1.52%) Publishing
9 1 (1.52%) Retail
9 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (18.18%) Developer
2 7 (10.61%) Network Engineer
3 5 (7.58%) Architect
3 5 (7.58%) Consultant
3 5 (7.58%) CyberArk Engineer
3 5 (7.58%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (7.58%) Project Manager
3 5 (7.58%) Senior
4 4 (6.06%) CyberArk Consultant
5 3 (4.55%) Azure Developer
5 3 (4.55%) Integration Developer
5 3 (4.55%) Java Developer
5 3 (4.55%) Network Performance Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) Performance Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) Security Consultant
5 3 (4.55%) Software Developer
5 3 (4.55%) Tester
6 2 (3.03%) Performance Tester
6 2 (3.03%) Technical Architect
6 2 (3.03%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.24%) REST
2 9 (13.64%) SAML
3 7 (10.61%) Spring
3 7 (10.61%) Spring Boot
3 7 (10.61%) Terraform
4 6 (9.09%) JSON
4 6 (9.09%) RESTful
5 5 (7.58%) Web Services
6 4 (6.06%) Hibernate
6 4 (6.06%) LDAP
7 3 (4.55%) SailPoint
8 2 (3.03%) EDI
8 2 (3.03%) JDBC
8 2 (3.03%) OAuth
8 2 (3.03%) SOAP
8 2 (3.03%) XML
9 1 (1.52%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.52%) OpenID
9 1 (1.52%) React
9 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 11 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (6.06%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (3.03%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.52%) Contactless
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.52%) EMV
6 1 (1.52%) IoT
6 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.52%) PKI
6 1 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (33.33%) Linux
2 13 (19.70%) Windows
3 4 (6.06%) Unix
4 3 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.03%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.52%) CatOS
6 1 (1.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (24.24%) DevOps
2 14 (21.21%) Agile
3 13 (19.70%) CI/CD
4 11 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (15.15%) Runbook
6 9 (13.64%) Change Management
7 8 (12.12%) Cloud Security
7 8 (12.12%) Containerisation
7 8 (12.12%) Microservices
8 7 (10.61%) Data Protection
8 7 (10.61%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (10.61%) Incident Response
9 6 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (9.09%) Information Security
9 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (9.09%) Open Source
9 6 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
9 6 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (28.79%) Python
2 13 (19.70%) PowerShell
3 11 (16.67%) Java
4 7 (10.61%) SQL
5 6 (9.09%) Bash
6 4 (6.06%) C++
7 2 (3.03%) ActionScript
7 2 (3.03%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (3.03%) Groovy
7 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.52%) Cypher
8 1 (1.52%) R
8 1 (1.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.09%) Degree
4 5 (7.58%) PMI Certification
4 5 (7.58%) PMP
5 4 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.03%) LFCS
7 2 (3.03%) RHCE
7 2 (3.03%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.52%) CCSAM
8 1 (1.52%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.52%) GPEN
8 1 (1.52%) GXPN
8 1 (1.52%) OSCE
8 1 (1.52%) OSCP
8 1 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 5 (7.58%) GDPR
2 5 (7.58%) GRC
2 5 (7.58%) HIPAA
2 5 (7.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (4.55%) QA
4 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.52%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 11 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (12.12%) Docker
3 6 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 5 (7.58%) Hyper-V
4 5 (7.58%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (6.06%) Ceph
6 3 (4.55%) Squid
6 3 (4.55%) VMware NSX
7 2 (3.03%) vSphere
8 1 (1.52%) DFS Replication
8 1 (1.52%) Dovecot
8 1 (1.52%) Postfix
8 1 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (13.64%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (12.12%) Ansible
3 7 (10.61%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.03%) Grafana
4 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.52%) Nagios
5 1 (1.52%) Nessus
5 1 (1.52%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.52%) systemd
5 1 (1.52%) WMI
5 1 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (21.21%) VMware
2 12 (18.18%) CyberArk
3 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
4 7 (10.61%) ServiceNow
5 6 (9.09%) Cisco
5 6 (9.09%) Oracle
6 5 (7.58%) F5
6 5 (7.58%) Okta
7 4 (6.06%) SolarWinds
7 4 (6.06%) Zscaler
8 3 (4.55%) CheckPoint
8 3 (4.55%) Palo Alto
8 3 (4.55%) Red Hat
9 2 (3.03%) Axway
9 2 (3.03%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.03%) Software AG
9 2 (3.03%) webMethods
10 1 (1.52%) BMC
10 1 (1.52%) IBM Sterling
10 1 (1.52%) Jaspersoft