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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 499 519
Rank change year-on-year -97 +20 +46
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 74 51 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.46% 1.32% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 33 25
10th Percentile £359 £384 £355
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £537 £615
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% -12.68% +2.50%
75th Percentile £545 £680 £660
90th Percentile £638 £698 £855
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £492 £538
% change year-on-year -8.54% -8.47% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 -
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 5,060 3,865 4,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.43% 11.81% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,979 2,358 2,811
10th Percentile £250 £243 £220
25th Percentile £400 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £472 £500
% change year-on-year +0.58% -5.55% +10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 201 302
10th Percentile £15.18 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.78% -7.50% -11.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.35 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.84 £44.50 £54.94
% change year-on-year -41.93% -19.00% -4.32%

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 August 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 10 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 August 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 -105 51 £510 -5.03% 21
London -64 32 £513 -6.82% 8
UK excluding London -81 32 £450 -8.54% 17
Work from Home -59 22 £510 -11.30% 8
Scotland +1 14 £220 - 2
Midlands -56 9 £450 +25.70% 6
West Midlands - 8 £488 -
South East -66 7 £538 +7.50% 4
East of England - 2 £475 - 1
East Midlands -20 1 £402 +12.29% 6

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 (8.11%) Confluence
1 6 (8.11%) IIS
2 5 (6.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.05%) Apache
4 2 (2.70%) nginx
5 1 (1.35%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (47.30%) Azure
2 25 (33.78%) AWS
3 10 (13.51%) GCP
4 7 (9.46%) Entra ID
5 6 (8.11%) SaaS
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Functions
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Storage
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Table
6 3 (4.05%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.05%) Serverless
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.70%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.70%) Route 53
7 2 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (37.84%) HTTP
2 26 (35.14%) DNS
3 22 (29.73%) SSL
4 16 (21.62%) SSH
5 14 (18.92%) TCP/IP
6 10 (13.51%) WAN
7 9 (12.16%) Firewall
7 9 (12.16%) IPsec
8 8 (10.81%) Network Security
9 7 (9.46%) BIG-IP
10 6 (8.11%) LAN
11 5 (6.76%) SD-WAN
12 4 (5.41%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (5.41%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (5.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 4 (5.41%) VPN
12 4 (5.41%) Wireshark
13 3 (4.05%) FTP
13 3 (4.05%) Wireless
14 2 (2.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.86%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.76%) MariaDB
3 5 (6.76%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.05%) SQLPlus
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.35%) Db2
5 1 (1.35%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (12.16%) JIRA
2 8 (10.81%) Git
3 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.05%) JMeter
5 2 (2.70%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.35%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.35%) GitLab
6 1 (1.35%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.35%) Maven
6 1 (1.35%) NeoLoad
6 1 (1.35%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.35%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.35%) webpack
General
1 28 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.92%) Finance
3 9 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.70%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.70%) Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Back Office
7 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
7 1 (1.35%) Publishing
7 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (14.86%) Developer
2 8 (10.81%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (9.46%) Network Engineer
3 7 (9.46%) Senior
4 5 (6.76%) Consultant
4 5 (6.76%) CyberArk Engineer
4 5 (6.76%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.41%) Architect
5 4 (5.41%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Developer
6 3 (4.05%) Integration Developer
6 3 (4.05%) Java Developer
6 3 (4.05%) Network Performance Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Network Specialist
6 3 (4.05%) Performance Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Security Specialist
6 3 (4.05%) Telecoms Specialist
6 3 (4.05%) Tester
6 3 (4.05%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.27%) REST
2 11 (14.86%) SAML
3 7 (9.46%) Terraform
4 6 (8.11%) JSON
4 6 (8.11%) LDAP
4 6 (8.11%) Spring
4 6 (8.11%) Spring Boot
5 5 (6.76%) RESTful
6 4 (5.41%) Web Services
7 3 (4.05%) Hibernate
8 2 (2.70%) EDI
8 2 (2.70%) JDBC
8 2 (2.70%) OAuth
8 2 (2.70%) SailPoint
8 2 (2.70%) SOAP
8 2 (2.70%) XML
9 1 (1.35%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.35%) Quarkus
9 1 (1.35%) React
9 1 (1.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Onboarding
2 10 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.41%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (4.05%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.70%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.35%) Contactless
6 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.35%) EMV
6 1 (1.35%) IoT
6 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.35%) PACS
6 1 (1.35%) PKI
6 1 (1.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.08%) Linux
2 13 (17.57%) Windows
3 3 (4.05%) Unix
3 3 (4.05%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.70%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.35%) CatOS
5 1 (1.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.97%) DevOps
2 15 (20.27%) Agile
3 12 (16.22%) CI/CD
3 12 (16.22%) Load Balancing
4 10 (13.51%) Change Management
4 10 (13.51%) Runbook
5 9 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (10.81%) Cloud Security
6 8 (10.81%) Computer Science
7 7 (9.46%) Containerisation
7 7 (9.46%) Data Protection
7 7 (9.46%) High Availability
7 7 (9.46%) Incident Response
7 7 (9.46%) Information Security
7 7 (9.46%) Network Virtualisation
7 7 (9.46%) Roadmaps
8 6 (8.11%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (8.11%) Regulatory Compliance
8 6 (8.11%) Risk Management
8 6 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.03%) Python
2 12 (16.22%) PowerShell
3 11 (14.86%) SQL
4 10 (13.51%) Java
5 9 (12.16%) Bash
6 5 (6.76%) C++
7 3 (4.05%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.70%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.70%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (2.70%) Groovy
8 2 (2.70%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.35%) Cypher
9 1 (1.35%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (9.46%) Degree
4 6 (8.11%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.76%) PMI Certification
5 5 (6.76%) PMP
6 2 (2.70%) LFCS
6 2 (2.70%) RHCE
6 2 (2.70%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.35%) CCSAM
7 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.35%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.35%) GPEN
7 1 (1.35%) GXPN
7 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.35%) OSCE
7 1 (1.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (8.11%) PCI DSS
2 5 (6.76%) GDPR
2 5 (6.76%) GRC
2 5 (6.76%) HIPAA
2 5 (6.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (4.05%) QA
4 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.35%) DICOM
4 1 (1.35%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 19 (25.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (12.16%) Hyper-V
3 7 (9.46%) Active Directory
3 7 (9.46%) Ceph
3 7 (9.46%) Docker
4 5 (6.76%) Squid
4 5 (6.76%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (5.41%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.35%) DFS Replication
6 1 (1.35%) Dovecot
6 1 (1.35%) Postfix
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (14.86%) Ansible
1 11 (14.86%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.70%) Grafana
3 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.35%) Nessus
4 1 (1.35%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.35%) systemd
4 1 (1.35%) WMI
4 1 (1.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (28.38%) VMware
2 11 (14.86%) Microsoft
3 10 (13.51%) CyberArk
4 8 (10.81%) F5
5 7 (9.46%) Oracle
5 7 (9.46%) ServiceNow
6 6 (8.11%) Cisco
6 6 (8.11%) Okta
7 5 (6.76%) Zscaler
8 4 (5.41%) CheckPoint
8 4 (5.41%) Palo Alto
8 4 (5.41%) SolarWinds
9 3 (4.05%) Axway
9 3 (4.05%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.70%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.70%) Software AG
10 2 (2.70%) webMethods
11 1 (1.35%) BMC
11 1 (1.35%) IBM
11 1 (1.35%) Veritas