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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 569 645
Rank change year-on-year +108 +76 +41
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 58 31 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.071% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.55% 0.55% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 21 46
10th Percentile £433 £450 £379
25th Percentile £498 £513 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £838 £615 £588
90th Percentile - £875 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -14.43% +15.00% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 -
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 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

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 30 April 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 10 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 30 April 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 +69 35 £500 -9.09% 39
Work from Home +74 33 £825 +43.48% 35
London +39 22 £537 -1.24% 18
UK excluding London +56 13 £492 -14.43% 23
North of England +29 6 £475 -22.39% 10
South East - 4 £500 - 5
Yorkshire +13 3 £400 -34.64% 1
North West - 3 £492 - 9
Scotland - 2 £475 - 2
East of England - 1 - - 4

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 6 (10.34%) IIS
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 29 (50.00%) AWS
2 27 (46.55%) Azure
3 23 (39.66%) GCP
4 19 (32.76%) IaaS
4 19 (32.76%) PaaS
4 19 (32.76%) SaaS
5 18 (31.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.17%) Akamai
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.45%) Boomi
8 2 (3.45%) Cloudflare
8 2 (3.45%) Serverless
8 2 (3.45%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.72%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (62.07%) HTTP
2 23 (39.66%) DNS
3 21 (36.21%) Firewall
3 21 (36.21%) TCP/IP
4 20 (34.48%) BGP
4 20 (34.48%) DHCP
4 20 (34.48%) OSPF
5 14 (24.14%) SSL
6 8 (13.79%) SSH
7 3 (5.17%) Network Security
8 2 (3.45%) SNMP
8 2 (3.45%) VLAN
9 1 (1.72%) DWDM
9 1 (1.72%) IGRP
9 1 (1.72%) Internet
9 1 (1.72%) LAN
9 1 (1.72%) MPLS
9 1 (1.72%) SMTP
9 1 (1.72%) VPN
9 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) RDBMS
1 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.45%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Power BI
3 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.17%) Git
3 2 (3.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.72%) GitLab
4 1 (1.72%) Subversion
General
1 13 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Finance
4 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Banking
5 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (41.38%) Architect
2 18 (31.03%) Cloud Architect
2 18 (31.03%) Cloud Native Architect
2 18 (31.03%) Technical Architect
3 10 (17.24%) AWS Architect
4 9 (15.52%) Network Security Architect
4 9 (15.52%) Security Architect
4 9 (15.52%) Security Technical Architect
5 7 (12.07%) Developer
6 5 (8.62%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) ForgeRock Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Administrator
8 2 (3.45%) Integration Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Network Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) SCCM Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
9 1 (1.72%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) SOAP
2 12 (20.69%) OAuth
3 9 (15.52%) REST
4 8 (13.79%) SAML
5 7 (12.07%) JDBC
6 6 (10.34%) JWT
6 6 (10.34%) LDAP
6 6 (10.34%) OAuth2
6 6 (10.34%) OpenID
7 4 (6.90%) Middleware
8 3 (5.17%) RESTful
9 1 (1.72%) 802.1X
9 1 (1.72%) Hibernate
9 1 (1.72%) HTML
9 1 (1.72%) Keycloak
9 1 (1.72%) Spring
9 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.72%) Web Services
9 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (31.03%) Cloud Native
2 8 (13.79%) Onboarding
3 6 (10.34%) PKI
3 6 (10.34%) Taxonomies
4 5 (8.62%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.45%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.72%) FMCG
6 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.72%) Robotics
6 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.69%) Unix
1 12 (20.69%) Windows
2 7 (12.07%) Linux
3 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.90%) Windows 10
4 4 (6.90%) Windows 7
4 4 (6.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.72%) AIX
5 1 (1.72%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (32.76%) Sprint Planning
2 19 (32.76%) Test Automation
3 15 (25.86%) Mentoring
4 14 (24.14%) Agile
5 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (15.52%) API Integration
6 9 (15.52%) Performance Optimisation
6 9 (15.52%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (15.52%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (13.79%) CI/CD
7 8 (13.79%) Coaching
7 8 (13.79%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (13.79%) Key Management
7 8 (13.79%) Scrum
8 7 (12.07%) Cryptography
8 7 (12.07%) Data Security
8 7 (12.07%) DevOps
8 7 (12.07%) DevSecOps
8 7 (12.07%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.03%) Bicep
2 15 (25.86%) Java
3 13 (22.41%) JavaScript
4 11 (18.97%) ActionScript
4 11 (18.97%) ActionScript 2.0
4 11 (18.97%) Python
5 6 (10.34%) Groovy
5 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
6 5 (8.62%) C
6 5 (8.62%) SQL
7 3 (5.17%) Bash
8 2 (3.45%) Perl
8 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.72%) Korn
9 1 (1.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.34%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.17%) IBM Certification
4 2 (3.45%) CCIE
4 2 (3.45%) CCNP
4 2 (3.45%) CEH
4 2 (3.45%) CISSP
4 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.72%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 6 (10.34%) OpenAM
1 6 (10.34%) OpenDJ
1 6 (10.34%) OpenIDM
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft App-V
3 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.90%) Docker
4 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (32.76%) Terraform
2 10 (17.24%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (8.62%) SCCM
3 5 (8.62%) WSUS
4 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.45%) Ansible
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.72%) Nagios
6 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.72%) Puppet
6 1 (1.72%) vRealize
6 1 (1.72%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (37.93%) Cisco
2 18 (31.03%) CheckPoint
2 18 (31.03%) Fortinet
2 18 (31.03%) Palo Alto
3 13 (22.41%) ForgeRock
3 13 (22.41%) IBM
4 11 (18.97%) IBM Sterling
5 9 (15.52%) Ping Identity
6 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
7 3 (5.17%) VMware
8 2 (3.45%) F5
8 2 (3.45%) Imperva
8 2 (3.45%) Oracle
8 2 (3.45%) Qualtrics
8 2 (3.45%) SAP
8 2 (3.45%) Splunk
8 2 (3.45%) webMethods
9 1 (1.72%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.72%) Arista
9 1 (1.72%) Zscaler