HTTPS Contracts

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring HTTPS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HTTPS over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 536 615
Rank change year-on-year +52 +79 +55
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 66 38 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.088% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.67% 0.70% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 20 47
10th Percentile £369 £325 £405
25th Percentile £492 £488 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +3.22% -
75th Percentile £838 £670 £738
90th Percentile - £875 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £51.50 - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 3,941 5,422 7,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.39% 12.51% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,378 3,197 4,666
10th Percentile £231 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £502
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.30% +0.30%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 429 419
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.81 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +102.16% -23.40%
75th Percentile £60.41 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.35 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.55 £47.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -33.59% +94.08% +8.78%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HTTPS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HTTPS.

Daily rate trend for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTPS over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HTTPS.

Hourly rate trend for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Top 11 Contract 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 5 July 2025. 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 +62 45 £500 -15.75% 93
Work from Home +47 34 £825 +34.15% 44
London +53 29 £550 +4.76% 47
UK excluding London +43 14 £450 -21.74% 50
North of England +1 5 £475 -17.39% 12
South East - 5 £500 - 12
North West +3 3 £492 +118.67% 11
East Midlands - 3 £358 - 3
Midlands - 3 £358 - 11
Yorkshire +1 2 £400 -34.64% 1
East of England - 1 - - 3

HTTPS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.55%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (3.03%) IIS
3 1 (1.52%) Confluence
3 1 (1.52%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) SAP EHS
1 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (45.45%) Azure
2 28 (42.42%) AWS
3 22 (33.33%) GCP
4 21 (31.82%) IaaS
4 21 (31.82%) PaaS
5 17 (25.76%) SaaS
6 16 (24.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (7.58%) Akamai
8 5 (7.58%) Entra ID
9 4 (6.06%) Cloudflare
10 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
11 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.03%) Boomi
11 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (3.03%) Serverless
11 2 (3.03%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (1.52%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 32 (48.48%) HTTP
2 28 (42.42%) Firewall
3 22 (33.33%) DNS
4 18 (27.27%) BGP
4 18 (27.27%) OSPF
4 18 (27.27%) TCP/IP
5 17 (25.76%) DHCP
5 17 (25.76%) SSL
6 8 (12.12%) SSH
7 6 (9.09%) Network Security
8 3 (4.55%) SNMP
8 3 (4.55%) VLAN
9 2 (3.03%) IPsec
9 2 (3.03%) SD-WAN
9 2 (3.03%) WAN
9 2 (3.03%) X.509
10 1 (1.52%) DMVPN
10 1 (1.52%) DNSSEC
10 1 (1.52%) GLBP
10 1 (1.52%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Oracle Database
1 4 (6.06%) RDBMS
1 4 (6.06%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.03%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.52%) Power BI
3 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (13.64%) Git
2 7 (10.61%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.58%) JIRA
4 3 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.52%) Subversion
General
1 11 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.12%) Finance
4 3 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.52%) Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (40.91%) Architect
2 18 (27.27%) Cloud Architect
3 16 (24.24%) Cloud Native Architect
3 16 (24.24%) Technical Architect
4 10 (15.15%) Developer
5 8 (12.12%) AWS Architect
5 8 (12.12%) Network Security Architect
5 8 (12.12%) Security Architect
5 8 (12.12%) Security Technical Architect
6 5 (7.58%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Architect
7 4 (6.06%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (6.06%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Network Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Consultant
8 3 (4.55%) ForgeRock Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Security Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (30.30%) REST
2 13 (19.70%) SOAP
3 11 (16.67%) OAuth
4 9 (13.64%) RESTful
5 7 (10.61%) JDBC
5 7 (10.61%) Spring
5 7 (10.61%) Spring Boot
5 7 (10.61%) Web Services
6 6 (9.09%) OAuth2
6 6 (9.09%) OpenID
6 6 (9.09%) SAML
7 4 (6.06%) Hibernate
7 4 (6.06%) HTML
7 4 (6.06%) JWT
7 4 (6.06%) Middleware
8 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.55%) CSS
8 3 (4.55%) JPA
8 3 (4.55%) React
8 3 (4.55%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.76%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.64%) Onboarding
3 7 (10.61%) PKI
4 6 (9.09%) Taxonomies
5 4 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.55%) State Machine
7 2 (3.03%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.52%) FMCG
8 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.67%) Unix
2 9 (13.64%) Linux
2 9 (13.64%) Windows
3 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.52%) AIX
4 1 (1.52%) Solaris
4 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.52%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (28.79%) Sprint Planning
2 19 (28.79%) Test Automation
3 17 (25.76%) Agile
4 15 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 15 (22.73%) Mentoring
5 13 (19.70%) DevOps
6 12 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
7 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (15.15%) Scrum
8 9 (13.64%) API Integration
8 9 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
8 9 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
8 9 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (12.12%) Coaching
9 8 (12.12%) Software Engineering
10 7 (10.61%) Microservices
10 7 (10.61%) Open Source
10 7 (10.61%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.27%) Java
2 16 (24.24%) Bicep
3 14 (21.21%) JavaScript
4 12 (18.18%) ActionScript
4 12 (18.18%) ActionScript 2.0
5 10 (15.15%) Python
6 8 (12.12%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.58%) SQL
8 4 (6.06%) Bash
8 4 (6.06%) C
8 4 (6.06%) Groovy
9 3 (4.55%) Perl
9 3 (4.55%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.52%) ABAP
10 1 (1.52%) C++
10 1 (1.52%) Korn
10 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.55%) CCNP
3 3 (4.55%) CEH
3 3 (4.55%) CISSP
3 3 (4.55%) IBM Certification
4 2 (3.03%) CCIE
5 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.52%) CCDP
5 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) JNCIA
5 1 (1.52%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) GRC
2 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.52%) NIST
2 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (12.12%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) OpenAM
2 4 (6.06%) OpenDJ
2 4 (6.06%) OpenIDM
3 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.03%) Firmware
5 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (33.33%) Terraform
2 10 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 10 (15.15%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (10.61%) Ansible
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.52%) Nagios
4 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.52%) Puppet
4 1 (1.52%) SCCM
4 1 (1.52%) vRealize
4 1 (1.52%) VxRail
4 1 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (31.82%) Cisco
2 16 (24.24%) CheckPoint
2 16 (24.24%) Fortinet
2 16 (24.24%) Palo Alto
3 12 (18.18%) IBM
4 11 (16.67%) ForgeRock
5 10 (15.15%) IBM Sterling
6 8 (12.12%) Ping Identity
7 5 (7.58%) Oracle
8 4 (6.06%) Imperva
9 3 (4.55%) SAP
9 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
9 3 (4.55%) VMware
10 2 (3.03%) F5
10 2 (3.03%) Juniper
10 2 (3.03%) Qualtrics
10 2 (3.03%) Splunk
10 2 (3.03%) webMethods
11 1 (1.52%) AppDynamics
11 1 (1.52%) Zscaler