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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 452 551
Rank change year-on-year -112 +99 +114
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 55 66 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.23% 0.075%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.24% 1.74% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 47 21
10th Percentile £300 £425 £363
25th Percentile £355 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £838 £563
90th Percentile £618 - £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -14.80% +2.56% -2.01%
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 4,425 3,797 5,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.06% 13.06% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,841 2,357 3,552
10th Percentile £220 £213 £205
25th Percentile £375 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 145 397
10th Percentile £15.51 £14.99 £13.94
25th Percentile £18.97 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +7.69% +69.71%
75th Percentile £67.31 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £76.35 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £32.50 £45.44
% change year-on-year +30.00% -28.48% +140.30%

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 26 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 14 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 26 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 -86 44 £475 -5.00% 7
UK excluding London -86 36 £426 -14.80% 6
Work from Home -53 22 £529 -35.94% 1
West Midlands - 16 £400 - 2
Midlands - 16 £400 - 2
London -52 9 £575 +15.00% 3
North of England -61 6 £380 -5.00% 1
South West - 6 £520 -
North West - 5 £358 - 1
Scotland 0 3 - - 1
South East -55 3 - - 1
East of England -29 1 £475 - 1
Yorkshire -55 1 £700 +75.00%
Wales - 1 £345 - 2

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 5 (9.09%) Anypoint
1 5 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (12.73%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (23.64%) AWS
2 11 (20.00%) Azure
3 7 (12.73%) GCP
4 4 (7.27%) Apigee
5 2 (3.64%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.64%) SaaS
6 1 (1.82%) Akamai
6 1 (1.82%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (32.73%) Firewall
2 17 (30.91%) HTTP
3 15 (27.27%) SSL
3 15 (27.27%) Wireless
4 14 (25.45%) DNS
5 11 (20.00%) Network Security
6 9 (16.36%) BIG-IP
6 9 (16.36%) DHCP
7 8 (14.55%) LAN
7 8 (14.55%) WAN
8 7 (12.73%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (12.73%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (12.73%) Ethereal
8 7 (12.73%) IPsec
8 7 (12.73%) VPN
8 7 (12.73%) Wireshark
9 4 (7.27%) SSH
9 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
10 3 (5.45%) NAS
10 3 (5.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) MariaDB
1 3 (5.45%) MongoDB
1 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.82%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Git
2 5 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.09%) JIRA
3 4 (7.27%) Postman
4 1 (1.82%) Browser DevTools
General
1 13 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) Developer
2 7 (12.73%) Network Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) Java Developer
3 6 (10.91%) webMethods Developer
4 4 (7.27%) Apigee Developer
4 4 (7.27%) Consultant
5 3 (5.45%) Administrator
5 3 (5.45%) Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (3.64%) Integration Specialist
6 2 (3.64%) Network Security Specialist
6 2 (3.64%) Network Specialist
6 2 (3.64%) Security Specialist
6 2 (3.64%) Senior
6 2 (3.64%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Telecoms Specialist
6 2 (3.64%) Web Engineer
7 1 (1.82%) Java Engineer
7 1 (1.82%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.64%) XML
2 12 (21.82%) JSON
3 10 (18.18%) LDAP
4 9 (16.36%) SAML
5 8 (14.55%) 802.1X
5 8 (14.55%) RESTful
6 7 (12.73%) Hibernate
6 7 (12.73%) OAuth
6 7 (12.73%) Spring
6 7 (12.73%) Spring Boot
7 6 (10.91%) JMS
7 6 (10.91%) OAuth2
7 6 (10.91%) REST
7 6 (10.91%) SOAP
8 5 (9.09%) JWT
9 4 (7.27%) JAX-RS
10 3 (5.45%) .NET
11 2 (3.64%) Web Services
12 1 (1.82%) CSS
12 1 (1.82%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) IoT
2 3 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.45%) PACS
3 2 (3.64%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) CatOS
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
1 4 (7.27%) Windows
1 4 (7.27%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.45%) CI/CD
2 12 (21.82%) DevOps
3 9 (16.36%) Computer Science
3 9 (16.36%) Test Automation
4 8 (14.55%) Network Segmentation
4 8 (14.55%) Regulatory Compliance
4 8 (14.55%) Risk Assessment
4 8 (14.55%) Security Architecture
4 8 (14.55%) Vulnerability Management
4 8 (14.55%) Zero Trust
5 7 (12.73%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (12.73%) Deployment Automation
5 7 (12.73%) High Availability
5 7 (12.73%) Microservices
6 6 (10.91%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (9.09%) Agile
7 5 (9.09%) Data Privacy
7 5 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (9.09%) RBAC
8 4 (7.27%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) Java
2 7 (12.73%) SQL
3 3 (5.45%) Bash
3 3 (5.45%) C++
3 3 (5.45%) Python
3 3 (5.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.55%) Degree
4 7 (12.73%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (12.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.82%) CEH
6 1 (1.82%) GIAC
6 1 (1.82%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) DICOM
1 1 (1.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (29.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (12.73%) VMware NSX
4 4 (7.27%) Docker
4 4 (7.27%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.45%) Ceph
6 2 (3.64%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (14.55%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (7.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (32.73%) VMware
2 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
3 11 (20.00%) IBM
4 10 (18.18%) F5
5 8 (14.55%) ForeScout
6 7 (12.73%) CheckPoint
6 7 (12.73%) Cisco
6 7 (12.73%) Palo Alto
6 7 (12.73%) SAP
7 6 (10.91%) Axway
7 6 (10.91%) Software AG
7 6 (10.91%) webMethods
8 5 (9.09%) IBM Sterling
8 5 (9.09%) MuleSoft
9 4 (7.27%) Splunk
10 3 (5.45%) Oracle
10 3 (5.45%) SolarWinds
10 3 (5.45%) Veritas
11 1 (1.82%) Ariba
11 1 (1.82%) Imperva