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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 485 509
Rank change year-on-year -115 +24 +60
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 72 65 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.41% 1.69% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 44 33
10th Percentile £386 £450 £373
25th Percentile £450 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £544 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.16% -13.04% +8.70%
75th Percentile £550 £688 £688
90th Percentile £638 £700 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% -0.80% -4.76%
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 5,121 3,847 4,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.40% 11.66% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,001 2,367 2,650
10th Percentile £235 £235 £228
25th Percentile £396 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -7.00% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 201 267
10th Percentile £14.68 £15.33 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £26.14 £42.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.49% -17.48% -8.83%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.13 £73.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.77 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -39.36% -25.89% +1.52%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -125 48 £513 -4.56% 15
London -79 31 £513 -4.56% 7
UK excluding London -103 30 £450 -9.27% 10
Work from Home -72 21 £510 -23.88% 6
Scotland -27 14 £220 - 1
Midlands -49 8 £488 +36.17% 3
South East -65 7 £538 +7.50% 4
West Midlands - 7 £525 -
East Midlands -19 1 £402 +12.29% 3
East of England - 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 6 (8.33%) Confluence
1 6 (8.33%) IIS
2 5 (6.94%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.17%) Apache
4 2 (2.78%) nginx
5 1 (1.39%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.39%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (50.00%) Azure
2 27 (37.50%) AWS
3 10 (13.89%) GCP
4 6 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.56%) SaaS
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Functions
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Storage
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Table
6 3 (4.17%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.17%) Serverless
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.78%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.78%) Route 53
7 2 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (34.72%) HTTP
2 24 (33.33%) DNS
3 20 (27.78%) SSL
4 16 (22.22%) SSH
5 13 (18.06%) TCP/IP
6 9 (12.50%) WAN
7 8 (11.11%) Firewall
7 8 (11.11%) IPsec
8 7 (9.72%) Network Security
9 6 (8.33%) BIG-IP
10 5 (6.94%) LAN
10 5 (6.94%) SD-WAN
11 4 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 3 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (4.17%) FTP
12 3 (4.17%) VPN
12 3 (4.17%) Wireshark
13 2 (2.78%) BGP
13 2 (2.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.28%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.94%) MariaDB
3 5 (6.94%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.17%) SQLPlus
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.39%) Db2
5 1 (1.39%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) JIRA
2 8 (11.11%) Git
3 4 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.17%) JMeter
5 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.39%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.39%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.39%) GitLab
5 1 (1.39%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.39%) Maven
5 1 (1.39%) NeoLoad
5 1 (1.39%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.39%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.39%) webpack
General
1 27 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.44%) Finance
3 10 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.78%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.78%) Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Back Office
8 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Legal
8 1 (1.39%) Publishing
8 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (15.28%) Developer
2 8 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (9.72%) Senior
4 6 (8.33%) Consultant
4 6 (8.33%) Network Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) CyberArk Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.56%) Architect
6 4 (5.56%) CyberArk Consultant
6 4 (5.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Integration Developer
7 3 (4.17%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.17%) Network Performance Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Network Security Specialist
7 3 (4.17%) Network Specialist
7 3 (4.17%) Performance Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Security Consultant
7 3 (4.17%) Security Specialist
7 3 (4.17%) Telecoms Specialist
7 3 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.83%) REST
2 9 (12.50%) SAML
3 7 (9.72%) Terraform
4 6 (8.33%) JSON
4 6 (8.33%) Spring
4 6 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 5 (6.94%) LDAP
5 5 (6.94%) RESTful
6 4 (5.56%) Web Services
7 3 (4.17%) Hibernate
7 3 (4.17%) SailPoint
8 2 (2.78%) EDI
8 2 (2.78%) JDBC
8 2 (2.78%) OAuth
8 2 (2.78%) SOAP
8 2 (2.78%) XML
9 1 (1.39%) .NET
9 1 (1.39%) CSS
9 1 (1.39%) DCOM
9 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Onboarding
2 10 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.78%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.39%) EMV
6 1 (1.39%) IoT
6 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.39%) PACS
6 1 (1.39%) PKI
6 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.94%) Linux
2 13 (18.06%) Windows
3 3 (4.17%) Unix
3 3 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.78%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.78%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.39%) CatOS
5 1 (1.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.61%) DevOps
2 15 (20.83%) Agile
3 12 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 12 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 10 (13.89%) Change Management
4 10 (13.89%) Runbook
5 9 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 8 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 7 (9.72%) Containerisation
7 7 (9.72%) Data Protection
7 7 (9.72%) High Availability
7 7 (9.72%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (9.72%) Incident Response
7 7 (9.72%) Information Security
7 7 (9.72%) Network Virtualisation
7 7 (9.72%) Roadmaps
8 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (8.33%) Microservices
8 6 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.78%) Python
2 12 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 11 (15.28%) SQL
4 10 (13.89%) Java
5 9 (12.50%) Bash
6 5 (6.94%) C++
7 3 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.78%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.78%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (2.78%) Groovy
8 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.39%) Cypher
9 1 (1.39%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (31.94%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.72%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (9.72%) Degree
4 6 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.94%) PMI Certification
5 5 (6.94%) PMP
6 2 (2.78%) LFCS
6 2 (2.78%) RHCE
6 2 (2.78%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.39%) CCSAM
7 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.39%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.39%) GPEN
7 1 (1.39%) GXPN
7 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.39%) OSCP
7 1 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 5 (6.94%) GDPR
2 5 (6.94%) GRC
2 5 (6.94%) HIPAA
2 5 (6.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (4.17%) QA
4 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.39%) DICOM
4 1 (1.39%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 18 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 7 (9.72%) Ceph
3 7 (9.72%) Docker
4 6 (8.33%) Active Directory
5 5 (6.94%) Squid
5 5 (6.94%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (4.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.39%) DFS Replication
7 1 (1.39%) Dovecot
7 1 (1.39%) Postfix
7 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (15.28%) Ansible
2 9 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.78%) Grafana
4 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.39%) Nessus
5 1 (1.39%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.39%) systemd
5 1 (1.39%) WMI
5 1 (1.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (27.78%) VMware
2 12 (16.67%) CyberArk
3 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.72%) F5
4 7 (9.72%) Oracle
4 7 (9.72%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.94%) Cisco
5 5 (6.94%) Okta
6 4 (5.56%) Zscaler
7 3 (4.17%) Axway
7 3 (4.17%) CheckPoint
7 3 (4.17%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.17%) Red Hat
7 3 (4.17%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.78%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.78%) Software AG
8 2 (2.78%) webMethods
9 1 (1.39%) BMC
9 1 (1.39%) IBM
9 1 (1.39%) Veritas