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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 466 550
Rank change year-on-year -101 +84 +87
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 58 63 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.22% 0.080%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.26% 1.70% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 47 21
10th Percentile £300 £396 £363
25th Percentile £360 £496 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +22.73% -
75th Percentile £537 £838 £638
90th Percentile £561 - £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £575
% change year-on-year -2.70% -19.57% +5.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £52.75 £50.50 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £51.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £56.88 £53.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £57.25 £54.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -

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 4,594 3,697 5,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.54% 12.67% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,838 2,286 3,217
10th Percentile £263 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £485 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.06% -1.02% -5.31%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +4.40% -4.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 162 417
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.52 £36.57 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% -8.57% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £58.73 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £26.25 £45.88
% change year-on-year +59.77% -42.79% +151.88%

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 20 May 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 13 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 20 May 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 -109 45 £488 -2.50% 6
UK excluding London -66 36 £450 -2.70% 6
Midlands -50 18 £400 +11.73%
West Midlands - 18 £400 -
Work from Home -61 17 £504 -38.94% 2
London -68 14 £500 -9.09% 2
South West - 6 £520 -
Scotland - 5 £220 - 2
South East -64 4 £625 +22.55% 3
East of England -29 1 £475 -
North West -42 1 £402 -18.29% 1
North of England -69 1 £402 -15.37% 1
Wales - 1 £345 -

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 5 (8.62%) Anypoint
1 5 (8.62%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.17%) IIS
3 2 (3.45%) Confluence
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.59%) Azure
2 12 (20.69%) AWS
3 5 (8.62%) GCP
4 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.17%) SaaS
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Functions
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Storage
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Table
5 2 (3.45%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.45%) Serverless
6 1 (1.72%) Apigee
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 24 (41.38%) HTTP
2 21 (36.21%) Firewall
3 20 (34.48%) DNS
4 17 (29.31%) SSL
4 17 (29.31%) Wireless
5 14 (24.14%) Network Security
6 13 (22.41%) BIG-IP
7 11 (18.97%) LAN
7 11 (18.97%) WAN
8 10 (17.24%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (17.24%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (17.24%) IPsec
9 9 (15.52%) DHCP
9 9 (15.52%) VPN
9 9 (15.52%) Wireshark
10 8 (13.79%) Ethereal
10 8 (13.79%) TCP/IP
11 4 (6.90%) SSH
12 3 (5.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 3 (5.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) MariaDB
1 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
1 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.72%) DB2
2 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.72%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Git
1 5 (8.62%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.72%) Postman
3 1 (1.72%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.72%) webpack
General
1 18 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.17%) Finance
3 3 (5.17%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.72%) Back Office
5 1 (1.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (15.52%) Network Engineer
2 6 (10.34%) Developer
3 4 (6.90%) Consultant
4 3 (5.17%) Architect
4 3 (5.17%) Java Developer
4 3 (5.17%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (5.17%) Network Security Specialist
4 3 (5.17%) Network Specialist
4 3 (5.17%) Project Manager
4 3 (5.17%) Security Engineer
4 3 (5.17%) Security Specialist
4 3 (5.17%) Senior
4 3 (5.17%) Technical Consultant
4 3 (5.17%) Telecoms Specialist
4 3 (5.17%) Web Engineer
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Developer
5 2 (3.45%) Integration Developer
5 2 (3.45%) Integration Specialist
5 2 (3.45%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (3.45%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.41%) LDAP
1 13 (22.41%) SAML
2 9 (15.52%) REST
3 8 (13.79%) 802.1X
4 6 (10.34%) RESTful
5 5 (8.62%) Spring
5 5 (8.62%) Spring Boot
6 4 (6.90%) Hibernate
6 4 (6.90%) JSON
6 4 (6.90%) OAuth
7 3 (5.17%) .NET
7 3 (5.17%) OAuth2
7 3 (5.17%) XML
8 2 (3.45%) CSS
8 2 (3.45%) JWT
8 2 (3.45%) OpenID
8 2 (3.45%) Web Services
9 1 (1.72%) EDI
9 1 (1.72%) HTML
9 1 (1.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) IoT
2 4 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.17%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.17%) PACS
4 2 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) CatOS
3 4 (6.90%) Linux
3 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (20.69%) Regulatory Compliance
2 11 (18.97%) CI/CD
3 9 (15.52%) Computer Science
3 9 (15.52%) High Availability
3 9 (15.52%) Network Segmentation
4 8 (13.79%) Agile
4 8 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (13.79%) DevOps
4 8 (13.79%) Risk Assessment
4 8 (13.79%) Security Architecture
4 8 (13.79%) Vulnerability Management
4 8 (13.79%) Zero Trust
5 6 (10.34%) Change Management
5 6 (10.34%) Integration Patterns
5 6 (10.34%) Microservices
5 6 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
5 6 (10.34%) Runbook
6 5 (8.62%) Data Protection
6 5 (8.62%) Information Security
6 5 (8.62%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) Java
2 6 (10.34%) SQL
3 4 (6.90%) Bash
3 4 (6.90%) Python
4 3 (5.17%) C++
4 3 (5.17%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.72%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.72%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) Degree
2 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
5 3 (5.17%) PMI Certification
5 3 (5.17%) PMP
6 1 (1.72%) CCSAM
6 1 (1.72%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.72%) GPEN
6 1 (1.72%) GXPN
6 1 (1.72%) OSCE
6 1 (1.72%) OSCP
6 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) GDPR
1 3 (5.17%) GRC
1 3 (5.17%) HIPAA
1 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.17%) PCI DSS
1 3 (5.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.72%) DICOM
2 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 18 (31.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (24.14%) Active Directory
3 10 (17.24%) VMware NSX
4 4 (6.90%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.17%) Ceph
6 2 (3.45%) Docker
6 2 (3.45%) Squid
7 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (22.41%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (5.17%) Ansible
3 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (37.93%) VMware
2 15 (25.86%) Microsoft
3 13 (22.41%) F5
4 10 (17.24%) CheckPoint
4 10 (17.24%) Cisco
4 10 (17.24%) Palo Alto
5 8 (13.79%) ForeScout
6 6 (10.34%) Axway
7 5 (8.62%) IBM
7 5 (8.62%) IBM Sterling
7 5 (8.62%) MuleSoft
7 5 (8.62%) SolarWinds
8 4 (6.90%) Oracle
9 3 (5.17%) Veritas
10 2 (3.45%) Okta
11 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
11 1 (1.72%) Netskope
11 1 (1.72%) Software AG
11 1 (1.72%) webMethods
11 1 (1.72%) Zscaler