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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 453 515
Rank change year-on-year -70 +62 +181
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 59 76 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.50% 1.84% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 51 51
10th Percentile £358 £463 £375
25th Percentile £436 £500 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £688 £800 £644
90th Percentile £695 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +18.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 3,939 4,125 5,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.64% 12.79% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,578 2,418 3,570
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.32%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £474 £473
% change year-on-year -5.01% +0.26% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 138 326
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.86 £18.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £20.81 £23.22
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% -42.47% +125.96%
75th Percentile £66.31 £53.44 £65.98
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.38 £75.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £31.79 £59.50
% change year-on-year +33.69% -46.57% +170.45%

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 7 January 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 11 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 7 January 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 -35 51 £520 +4.00% 9
Work from Home -13 32 £675 -6.90% 2
London -18 23 £500 -23.08% 3
UK excluding London -67 23 £500 - 6
North of England -39 12 £670 +34.00% 1
North West - 9 £660 -
Midlands - 8 £400 - 4
West Midlands - 8 £400 - 4
Yorkshire -48 3 £700 +40.00% 1
South East -25 2 £500 - 1
Scotland -12 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 (6.78%) Anypoint
2 2 (3.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.69%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.03%) AWS
2 10 (16.95%) Azure
3 6 (10.17%) GCP
4 4 (6.78%) Akamai
4 4 (6.78%) Apigee
4 4 (6.78%) Cloudflare
5 2 (3.39%) GitHub
6 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.69%) Figma
6 1 (1.69%) Firebase
6 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (27.12%) SSL
2 12 (20.34%) HTTP
3 9 (15.25%) DNS
3 9 (15.25%) Firewall
4 8 (13.56%) IPsec
5 5 (8.47%) BGP
5 5 (8.47%) EIGRP
5 5 (8.47%) OSPF
5 5 (8.47%) Wireless
6 4 (6.78%) VPN
7 3 (5.08%) BIG-IP
7 3 (5.08%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (5.08%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (5.08%) Ethereal
7 3 (5.08%) LAN
7 3 (5.08%) WAN
7 3 (5.08%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.69%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (1.69%) NX-OS
8 1 (1.69%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Git
2 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.78%) Postman
4 3 (5.08%) JIRA
5 2 (3.39%) GitLab
6 1 (1.69%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.69%) Xcode
General
1 22 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.08%) Finance
5 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
6 1 (1.69%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 34 (57.63%) Developer
2 16 (27.12%) webMethods Developer
3 9 (15.25%) Network Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Administrator
5 4 (6.78%) Apigee Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Juniper Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) webMethods Administrator
7 2 (3.39%) Architect
7 2 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.69%) Senior Network Architect
8 1 (1.69%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (1.69%) Software Developer
8 1 (1.69%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.69%) Support Engineer
8 1 (1.69%) Technical Architect
8 1 (1.69%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (59.32%) XML
2 34 (57.63%) JSON
3 28 (47.46%) SOAP
4 22 (37.29%) OAuth
5 17 (28.81%) REST
6 16 (27.12%) JMS
7 11 (18.64%) OAuth2
8 7 (11.86%) JWT
9 6 (10.17%) OpenID
9 6 (10.17%) RESTful
10 5 (8.47%) SAML
11 4 (6.78%) Hibernate
11 4 (6.78%) JAX-RS
11 4 (6.78%) LDAP
11 4 (6.78%) Spring
11 4 (6.78%) Spring Boot
12 3 (5.08%) JDBC
13 2 (3.39%) CSS
14 1 (1.69%) .NET
14 1 (1.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) PKI
2 3 (5.08%) Security Posture
2 3 (5.08%) Taxonomies
3 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.69%) BYOD
4 1 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.69%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.03%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) CatOS
2 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.69%) Android
3 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.69%) VMS
3 1 (1.69%) Windows
3 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (59.32%) DevOps
2 26 (44.07%) Test Automation
3 25 (42.37%) Deployment Automation
4 15 (25.42%) CI/CD
5 11 (18.64%) API Development
5 11 (18.64%) API Management
6 8 (13.56%) Kalman Filter
7 5 (8.47%) Change Control
7 5 (8.47%) Computer Science
7 5 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (8.47%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (6.78%) API Design
8 4 (6.78%) API Integration
8 4 (6.78%) API Testing
8 4 (6.78%) Application Security
8 4 (6.78%) Data Privacy
8 4 (6.78%) Integration Patterns
8 4 (6.78%) Microservices
8 4 (6.78%) OWASP
8 4 (6.78%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.25%) Java
2 7 (11.86%) Python
3 5 (8.47%) Bash
3 5 (8.47%) C++
3 5 (8.47%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.47%) Perl
4 3 (5.08%) SQL
5 1 (1.69%) C
5 1 (1.69%) C#
5 1 (1.69%) Groovy
5 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.69%) Objective-C
5 1 (1.69%) Rust
5 1 (1.69%) Swift
5 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (50.85%) Security Cleared
2 27 (45.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.17%) Degree
4 5 (8.47%) CCNP
4 5 (8.47%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (8.47%) JNCIA
4 5 (8.47%) JNCIS
5 3 (5.08%) CEH
5 3 (5.08%) GIAC
5 3 (5.08%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) PSD2
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) Docker
2 5 (8.47%) Firmware
3 4 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.08%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.17%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (6.78%) Ansible
4 3 (5.08%) Rsyslog
4 3 (5.08%) SCOM
4 3 (5.08%) Terraform
5 1 (1.69%) Grafana
5 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (28.81%) SAP
1 17 (28.81%) webMethods
2 16 (27.12%) IBM
3 14 (23.73%) Axway
4 12 (20.34%) Software AG
5 9 (15.25%) Cisco
6 7 (11.86%) F5
7 5 (8.47%) Juniper
7 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
8 4 (6.78%) CheckPoint
8 4 (6.78%) ForgeRock
8 4 (6.78%) IBM Sterling
8 4 (6.78%) MuleSoft
8 4 (6.78%) Palo Alto
8 4 (6.78%) Splunk
8 4 (6.78%) VMware
9 3 (5.08%) Imperva
10 2 (3.39%) Fortinet
10 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.69%) SolarWinds