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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 439 549
Rank change year-on-year -120 +110 +133
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 53 88 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.29% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.23% 2.18% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 61 32
10th Percentile £334 £450 £364
25th Percentile £360 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £725 £531
Median % change year-on-year -34.48% +36.47% +0.24%
75th Percentile £569 £838 £591
90th Percentile £688 - £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.30% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £52.75 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £56.88 - £57.50
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £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 4,325 4,029 5,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.14% 13.22% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,807 2,428 3,578
10th Percentile £205 £208 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £473 £475
% change year-on-year -1.16% -0.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 133 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.97 £21.46 £19.83
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -12.50% +108.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.75 £73.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £31.08 £47.50
% change year-on-year +34.94% -34.57% +151.19%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -81 47 £492 -1.60% 9
UK excluding London -80 31 £439 -12.30% 8
Work from Home -45 26 £544 -31.95% 3
London -49 14 £500 -9.09% 3
Midlands - 11 £375 - 1
West Midlands - 11 £375 - 1
North of England -57 9 £660 +65.00%
North West - 7 £402 -
South West -24 6 £520 +9.37%
South East -47 3 - - 5
Yorkshire -60 2 £700 +75.00%
East of England -26 1 £475 - 1
Wales - 1 £345 - 1

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 4 (7.55%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (11.32%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.64%) AWS
2 9 (16.98%) Azure
3 6 (11.32%) GCP
4 4 (7.55%) Apigee
5 3 (5.66%) Akamai
5 3 (5.66%) Cloudflare
6 2 (3.77%) GitHub
7 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.89%) Figma
7 1 (1.89%) Firebase
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.89%) SaaS
7 1 (1.89%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (32.08%) Firewall
2 15 (28.30%) Wireless
3 13 (24.53%) HTTP
4 12 (22.64%) SSL
5 10 (18.87%) DHCP
5 10 (18.87%) DNS
6 8 (15.09%) IPsec
6 8 (15.09%) Network Security
7 6 (11.32%) BIG-IP
7 6 (11.32%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (11.32%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (11.32%) Ethereal
7 6 (11.32%) LAN
7 6 (11.32%) VPN
7 6 (11.32%) WAN
7 6 (11.32%) Wireshark
8 2 (3.77%) BGP
8 2 (3.77%) OSPF
8 2 (3.77%) SAN
8 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (18.87%) Git
2 6 (11.32%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.55%) JIRA
3 4 (7.55%) Postman
4 2 (3.77%) GitLab
5 1 (1.89%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.89%) Xcode
General
1 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (5.66%) Finance
3 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.89%) Banking
4 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Retail
4 1 (1.89%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (35.85%) Developer
2 9 (16.98%) Network Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) webMethods Developer
4 6 (11.32%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Apigee Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Administrator
6 3 (5.66%) Consultant
7 2 (3.77%) Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Technical Consultant
8 1 (1.89%) Business Consultant
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Junior
8 1 (1.89%) Network Architect
8 1 (1.89%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Server Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Software Developer
8 1 (1.89%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (35.85%) XML
2 18 (33.96%) JSON
3 15 (28.30%) OAuth
4 13 (24.53%) SOAP
5 11 (20.75%) OAuth2
5 11 (20.75%) REST
6 9 (16.98%) RESTful
7 8 (15.09%) 802.1X
7 8 (15.09%) LDAP
8 7 (13.21%) Hibernate
8 7 (13.21%) JMS
8 7 (13.21%) SAML
8 7 (13.21%) Spring
8 7 (13.21%) Spring Boot
9 6 (11.32%) JWT
9 6 (11.32%) OpenID
10 4 (7.55%) JAX-RS
11 3 (5.66%) .NET
11 3 (5.66%) JDBC
12 2 (3.77%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) IoT
2 5 (9.43%) PKI
3 3 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.66%) Taxonomies
4 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.77%) PACS
4 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.89%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) CatOS
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
2 3 (5.66%) Windows
2 3 (5.66%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.89%) Android
3 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.96%) DevOps
2 15 (28.30%) CI/CD
3 13 (24.53%) Test Automation
4 11 (20.75%) Deployment Automation
5 8 (15.09%) Network Segmentation
5 8 (15.09%) Regulatory Compliance
5 8 (15.09%) Risk Assessment
5 8 (15.09%) Security Architecture
5 8 (15.09%) Vulnerability Management
5 8 (15.09%) Zero Trust
6 7 (13.21%) Computer Science
6 7 (13.21%) Microservices
7 6 (11.32%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (11.32%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (9.43%) API Development
8 5 (9.43%) API Management
8 5 (9.43%) High Availability
8 5 (9.43%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (7.55%) Design Patterns
9 4 (7.55%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.53%) Java
2 4 (7.55%) C++
2 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
2 4 (7.55%) SQL
3 3 (5.66%) Python
4 2 (3.77%) Bash
4 2 (3.77%) Perl
4 2 (3.77%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.89%) Objective-C
5 1 (1.89%) Rust
5 1 (1.89%) Swift
5 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.09%) Degree
4 7 (13.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.77%) CCNP
5 2 (3.77%) CEH
5 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.77%) GIAC
5 2 (3.77%) GWAPT
5 2 (3.77%) JNCIA
5 2 (3.77%) JNCIS
5 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.77%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.89%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.32%) Docker
2 6 (11.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (11.32%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.77%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (16.98%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (11.32%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) Grafana
3 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) IBM
1 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.98%) F5
3 8 (15.09%) Axway
3 8 (15.09%) Cisco
3 8 (15.09%) ForeScout
3 8 (15.09%) SAP
3 8 (15.09%) VMware
3 8 (15.09%) webMethods
4 7 (13.21%) CheckPoint
4 7 (13.21%) Palo Alto
4 7 (13.21%) Software AG
5 4 (7.55%) IBM Sterling
5 4 (7.55%) MuleSoft
5 4 (7.55%) Splunk
6 3 (5.66%) ForgeRock
6 3 (5.66%) Oracle
7 2 (3.77%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.77%) Imperva
7 2 (3.77%) Juniper