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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 460 555
Rank change year-on-year -107 +95 +74
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 69 69 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.23% 0.085%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.43% 1.85% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 49 20
10th Percentile £328 £404 £325
25th Percentile £450 £492 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £670 £594
Median % change year-on-year -25.37% +12.89% +3.22%
75th Percentile £538 £838 £670
90th Percentile £583 - £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £463 £575
% change year-on-year +6.22% -19.57% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £52.75 £51.50 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £53.75 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £55.00
75th Percentile £56.88 - £57.50
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
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 4,832 3,722 5,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.50% 12.36% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,960 2,275 3,197
10th Percentile £250 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
75th Percentile £588 £590 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £473 £490
% change year-on-year +1.85% -3.57% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 174 430
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £27.88 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.04% - +136.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.97 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.10 £78.50 £72.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.69 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -23.74% -26.32% +150.00%

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 June 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 25 June 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 -116 52 £508 - 7
UK excluding London -96 33 £491 +6.22% 5
London -72 25 £505 -8.18% 4
Work from Home -63 23 £508 -38.48% 1
Midlands -51 11 £450 +25.70% 1
West Midlands - 11 £450 -
South East -62 7 £538 +5.39% 2
South West - 6 £520 - 1
Scotland - 6 £220 -
East of England -25 2 £475 -
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 6 (8.70%) IIS
2 5 (7.25%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.35%) Confluence
4 1 (1.45%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.45%) Apache
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (8.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.13%) Azure
2 17 (24.64%) AWS
3 7 (10.14%) Entra ID
3 7 (10.14%) GCP
4 6 (8.70%) SaaS
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Functions
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Storage
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Table
5 3 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.35%) Serverless
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.45%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (33.33%) DNS
1 23 (33.33%) HTTP
2 20 (28.99%) SSL
3 19 (27.54%) Firewall
4 16 (23.19%) Network Security
5 14 (20.29%) Wireless
6 13 (18.84%) WAN
7 12 (17.39%) IPsec
8 11 (15.94%) SSH
9 10 (14.49%) BIG-IP
10 9 (13.04%) DHCP
10 9 (13.04%) LAN
11 8 (11.59%) TCP/IP
12 7 (10.14%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (10.14%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (10.14%) VPN
12 7 (10.14%) Wireshark
13 5 (7.25%) Ethereal
13 5 (7.25%) SD-WAN
14 4 (5.80%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.80%) MariaDB
3 4 (5.80%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.90%) SQLPlus
5 1 (1.45%) Db2
5 1 (1.45%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) JIRA
2 4 (5.80%) Git
3 2 (2.90%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (2.90%) JMeter
4 1 (1.45%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.45%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.45%) NeoLoad
4 1 (1.45%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.45%) webpack
General
1 23 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.59%) Finance
3 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.25%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.45%) Back Office
6 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (10.14%) Developer
2 6 (8.70%) Network Engineer
3 5 (7.25%) CyberArk Engineer
3 5 (7.25%) Project Manager
3 5 (7.25%) Senior
4 4 (5.80%) Architect
4 4 (5.80%) Consultant
4 4 (5.80%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Developer
5 3 (4.35%) Integration Developer
5 3 (4.35%) Network Security Specialist
5 3 (4.35%) Network Specialist
5 3 (4.35%) Security Engineer
5 3 (4.35%) Security Specialist
5 3 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
5 3 (4.35%) Telecoms Specialist
5 3 (4.35%) Web Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.84%) REST
1 13 (18.84%) SAML
2 10 (14.49%) LDAP
3 8 (11.59%) 802.1X
4 5 (7.25%) JSON
4 5 (7.25%) RESTful
5 4 (5.80%) Spring
5 4 (5.80%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.35%) .NET
6 3 (4.35%) Hibernate
6 3 (4.35%) Web Services
7 2 (2.90%) EDI
7 2 (2.90%) OAuth
7 2 (2.90%) SOAP
7 2 (2.90%) XML
8 1 (1.45%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.45%) OpenID
8 1 (1.45%) Quarkus
8 1 (1.45%) React
8 1 (1.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Onboarding
2 9 (13.04%) IoT
3 5 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.80%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.35%) PACS
5 3 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.90%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.45%) PKI
7 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.29%) Windows
2 9 (13.04%) Linux
3 5 (7.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.35%) CatOS
5 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.45%) Unix
5 1 (1.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.29%) Regulatory Compliance
2 12 (17.39%) Zero Trust
3 11 (15.94%) DevOps
4 10 (14.49%) Agile
4 10 (14.49%) Computer Science
4 10 (14.49%) High Availability
4 10 (14.49%) Runbook
5 9 (13.04%) Change Management
5 9 (13.04%) CI/CD
5 9 (13.04%) Network Segmentation
6 8 (11.59%) Risk Assessment
6 8 (11.59%) Security Architecture
6 8 (11.59%) Vulnerability Management
7 7 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (10.14%) Data Protection
7 7 (10.14%) Information Security
7 7 (10.14%) Roadmaps
8 6 (8.70%) Incident Response
8 6 (8.70%) Microservices
9 5 (7.25%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.74%) Python
2 10 (14.49%) PowerShell
3 9 (13.04%) Java
3 9 (13.04%) SQL
4 6 (8.70%) Bash
5 3 (4.35%) C++
5 3 (4.35%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.90%) ActionScript
6 2 (2.90%) ActionScript 2.0
6 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.45%) Cypher
7 1 (1.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (13.04%) Degree
4 5 (7.25%) PMI Certification
4 5 (7.25%) PMP
5 4 (5.80%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.35%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.45%) CCSAM
7 1 (1.45%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.45%) GPEN
7 1 (1.45%) GXPN
7 1 (1.45%) OSCE
7 1 (1.45%) OSCP
7 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.25%) GDPR
2 5 (7.25%) GRC
2 5 (7.25%) HIPAA
2 5 (7.25%) PCI DSS
2 5 (7.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.45%) DICOM
3 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 16 (23.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (17.39%) Active Directory
3 7 (10.14%) VMware NSX
4 5 (7.25%) Hyper-V
5 4 (5.80%) Ceph
5 4 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (4.35%) Docker
6 3 (4.35%) Squid
7 1 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (20.29%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (7.25%) Terraform
3 4 (5.80%) Ansible
4 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (28.99%) VMware
2 16 (23.19%) Microsoft
3 10 (14.49%) F5
4 9 (13.04%) Oracle
5 8 (11.59%) Cisco
5 8 (11.59%) ForeScout
6 7 (10.14%) CheckPoint
6 7 (10.14%) Palo Alto
7 6 (8.70%) CyberArk
7 6 (8.70%) Okta
7 6 (8.70%) ServiceNow
8 5 (7.25%) SolarWinds
8 5 (7.25%) Zscaler
9 3 (4.35%) Axway
9 3 (4.35%) Veritas
10 2 (2.90%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.90%) Software AG
10 2 (2.90%) webMethods
11 1 (1.45%) Blue Coat
11 1 (1.45%) IBM