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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 437 543
Rank change year-on-year -84 +106 +142
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 62 89 69
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.57% 2.19% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 61 50
10th Percentile £335 £463 £363
25th Percentile £401 £500 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.28% +31.82% -
75th Percentile £688 £838 £628
90th Percentile £695 - £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.90% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 3,945 4,062 5,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.47% 12.90% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,602 2,363 3,623
10th Percentile £204 £213 £208
25th Percentile £356 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 138 364
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.95 £17.39
25th Percentile £18.97 £21.46 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -36.36% +158.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +29.05% -43.48% +204.07%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -51 54 £519 +3.80% 8
Work from Home -38 31 £675 -15.63% 4
UK excluding London -74 25 £461 -7.90% 6
London -24 23 £500 -23.08% 3
North of England -39 12 £670 +34.00%
Midlands - 10 £370 - 1
West Midlands - 10 £370 - 1
North West - 9 £660 -
Yorkshire -50 3 £700 +40.00%
South West -18 2 £520 +9.37% 5
Scotland -4 1 - -

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 4 (6.45%) Anypoint
2 2 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (11.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.61%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.97%) AWS
2 10 (16.13%) Azure
3 6 (9.68%) GCP
4 4 (6.45%) Akamai
4 4 (6.45%) Apigee
4 4 (6.45%) Cloudflare
5 2 (3.23%) GitHub
6 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.61%) Figma
6 1 (1.61%) Firebase
6 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.61%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (29.03%) SSL
2 14 (22.58%) HTTP
3 13 (20.97%) Firewall
4 12 (19.35%) DNS
5 11 (17.74%) IPsec
6 10 (16.13%) Wireless
7 7 (11.29%) VPN
8 6 (9.68%) BIG-IP
8 6 (9.68%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (9.68%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (9.68%) Ethereal
8 6 (9.68%) LAN
8 6 (9.68%) WAN
8 6 (9.68%) Wireshark
9 5 (8.06%) BGP
9 5 (8.06%) EIGRP
9 5 (8.06%) OSPF
10 3 (4.84%) DHCP
11 2 (3.23%) Network Security
12 1 (1.61%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.90%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Git
2 6 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.45%) Postman
4 2 (3.23%) GitLab
4 2 (3.23%) JIRA
5 1 (1.61%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.61%) Xcode
General
1 23 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (4.84%) Finance
3 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.61%) Banking
4 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Retail
4 1 (1.61%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 33 (53.23%) Developer
2 16 (25.81%) webMethods Developer
3 12 (19.35%) Network Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) Administrator
5 4 (6.45%) Apigee Developer
5 4 (6.45%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Java Developer
5 4 (6.45%) Juniper Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) webMethods Administrator
7 2 (3.23%) Architect
8 1 (1.61%) Firewall Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) Junior
8 1 (1.61%) Mobile Developer
8 1 (1.61%) Senior Architect
8 1 (1.61%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.61%) Support Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) Technical Architect
8 1 (1.61%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (56.45%) XML
2 34 (54.84%) JSON
3 27 (43.55%) SOAP
4 22 (35.48%) OAuth
5 17 (27.42%) REST
6 16 (25.81%) JMS
7 11 (17.74%) OAuth2
8 8 (12.90%) SAML
9 7 (11.29%) JWT
9 7 (11.29%) LDAP
10 6 (9.68%) OpenID
10 6 (9.68%) RESTful
11 4 (6.45%) Hibernate
11 4 (6.45%) JAX-RS
11 4 (6.45%) Spring
11 4 (6.45%) Spring Boot
12 3 (4.84%) JDBC
13 2 (3.23%) 802.1X
13 2 (3.23%) CSS
14 1 (1.61%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) PKI
2 3 (4.84%) Security Posture
2 3 (4.84%) Taxonomies
3 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.23%) IoT
4 1 (1.61%) BYOD
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.35%) Linux
2 4 (6.45%) CatOS
3 1 (1.61%) Android
3 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.61%) Windows
3 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (54.84%) DevOps
2 26 (41.94%) Test Automation
3 25 (40.32%) Deployment Automation
4 14 (22.58%) CI/CD
5 11 (17.74%) API Management
6 10 (16.13%) API Development
7 8 (12.90%) Kalman Filter
8 6 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (9.68%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (8.06%) Change Control
9 5 (8.06%) Computer Science
10 4 (6.45%) API Design
10 4 (6.45%) API Integration
10 4 (6.45%) API Testing
10 4 (6.45%) Application Security
10 4 (6.45%) Data Privacy
10 4 (6.45%) Integration Patterns
10 4 (6.45%) Microservices
10 4 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (6.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.52%) Java
2 7 (11.29%) Python
3 5 (8.06%) Bash
3 5 (8.06%) C++
3 5 (8.06%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.06%) Perl
4 3 (4.84%) SQL
5 1 (1.61%) Groovy
5 1 (1.61%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.61%) Objective-C
5 1 (1.61%) Rust
5 1 (1.61%) Swift
5 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (45.16%) Security Cleared
2 25 (40.32%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) Degree
4 5 (8.06%) CCNP
4 5 (8.06%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (8.06%) JNCIA
4 5 (8.06%) JNCIS
5 3 (4.84%) CEH
5 3 (4.84%) GIAC
5 3 (4.84%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.61%) PSD2
2 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 7 (11.29%) Docker
1 7 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.68%) VMware NSX
3 5 (8.06%) Firmware
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (14.52%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (11.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.23%) Ansible
3 2 (3.23%) Terraform
4 1 (1.61%) Grafana
4 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.61%) Rsyslog
4 1 (1.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) SAP
1 17 (27.42%) webMethods
2 16 (25.81%) IBM
3 14 (22.58%) Axway
4 12 (19.35%) Cisco
4 12 (19.35%) Software AG
5 10 (16.13%) F5
6 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
7 7 (11.29%) CheckPoint
7 7 (11.29%) Palo Alto
7 7 (11.29%) VMware
8 5 (8.06%) Juniper
9 4 (6.45%) ForgeRock
9 4 (6.45%) IBM Sterling
9 4 (6.45%) MuleSoft
9 4 (6.45%) Splunk
10 3 (4.84%) Imperva
11 2 (3.23%) ForeScout
11 2 (3.23%) Fortinet
11 2 (3.23%) SolarWinds