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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 475 545
Rank change year-on-year -24 +70 +140
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 66 78 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.68% 1.77% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 47 63
10th Percentile £358 £425 £375
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -
75th Percentile £688 £738 £682
90th Percentile £698 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £660 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +32.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £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 3,937 4,398 6,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.40% 12.11% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,551 2,532 4,075
10th Percentile £213 £223 £213
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 161 341
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.03 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.00 £26.25 £22.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £48.56 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.92% -11.71% +34.10%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -19.05% -7.06% +25.53%

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 4 November 2025.

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 12 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 4 November 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 -21 55 £563 +12.50% 17
Work from Home -8 33 £675 - 14
London +4 31 £533 -18.08% 6
UK excluding London -32 19 £660 +32.00% 12
North of England -36 10 £673 +198.89% 3
North West -19 7 £670 +197.78% 3
South East +6 4 £500 - 4
Midlands - 4 £363 -
Yorkshire -27 3 £700 +40.00%
East Midlands - 3 £358 -
Scotland -9 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £520 -

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 3 (4.55%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.52%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) SAP EHS
1 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.18%) Azure
2 10 (15.15%) AWS
3 6 (9.09%) Akamai
3 6 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.09%) Cloudflare
3 6 (9.09%) GCP
4 5 (7.58%) Entra ID
4 5 (7.58%) IaaS
4 5 (7.58%) PaaS
5 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
5 3 (4.55%) GitHub
6 2 (3.03%) Apigee
6 2 (3.03%) Firebase
7 1 (1.52%) Cloud Run
7 1 (1.52%) Figma
7 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.52%) Google App Engine
7 1 (1.52%) SaaS
7 1 (1.52%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 22 (33.33%) SSL
2 15 (22.73%) Firewall
3 13 (19.70%) HTTP
4 8 (12.12%) DNS
5 6 (9.09%) BGP
5 6 (9.09%) EIGRP
5 6 (9.09%) IPsec
5 6 (9.09%) OSPF
6 3 (4.55%) Network Security
7 2 (3.03%) SSH
7 2 (3.03%) Wireless
7 2 (3.03%) X.509
8 1 (1.52%) DMZ
8 1 (1.52%) Internet
8 1 (1.52%) RTP
8 1 (1.52%) SNMP
8 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.52%) Telnet
8 1 (1.52%) VPN
8 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (4.55%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (15.15%) Git
2 8 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.58%) JIRA
4 4 (6.06%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.03%) GitLab
5 2 (3.03%) Postman
6 1 (1.52%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.52%) Xcode
General
1 21 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.58%) Finance
3 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.52%) Banking
4 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.52%) Retail
4 1 (1.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 35 (53.03%) Developer
2 14 (21.21%) webMethods Developer
3 9 (13.64%) Network Engineer
4 8 (12.12%) Architect
5 6 (9.09%) Administrator
5 6 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.58%) Cisco Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Juniper Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Architect
7 4 (6.06%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (4.55%) Security Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) webMethods Administrator
9 2 (3.03%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (3.03%) Consultant
9 2 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Network Architect
9 2 (3.03%) Network Security Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (46.97%) XML
2 30 (45.45%) JSON
2 30 (45.45%) REST
3 29 (43.94%) SOAP
4 21 (31.82%) OAuth
5 14 (21.21%) JMS
6 8 (12.12%) OAuth2
6 8 (12.12%) RESTful
7 7 (10.61%) Spring
7 7 (10.61%) Spring Boot
8 5 (7.58%) JWT
8 5 (7.58%) OpenID
8 5 (7.58%) Web Services
9 4 (6.06%) CSS
9 4 (6.06%) Hibernate
10 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
10 3 (4.55%) JPA
10 3 (4.55%) RAML
10 3 (4.55%) React
10 3 (4.55%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) PKI
2 4 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (6.06%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.55%) State Machine
3 3 (4.55%) Taxonomies
4 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) BYOD
5 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.52%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (24.24%) Linux
2 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.03%) Ubuntu
2 2 (3.03%) Windows
3 1 (1.52%) Android
3 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.52%) VMS
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (59.09%) DevOps
2 25 (37.88%) Test Automation
3 22 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 16 (24.24%) CI/CD
5 14 (21.21%) API Development
6 13 (19.70%) Kalman Filter
7 11 (16.67%) API Management
8 8 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (10.61%) Microservices
10 6 (9.09%) Application Security
10 6 (9.09%) Cloud Security
10 6 (9.09%) Configuration Management
10 6 (9.09%) Containerisation
10 6 (9.09%) Design Patterns
10 6 (9.09%) Server Management
11 5 (7.58%) Validation
12 4 (6.06%) Incident Response
12 4 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 4 (6.06%) Release Management
12 4 (6.06%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.70%) Java
2 9 (13.64%) JavaScript
2 9 (13.64%) Python
3 6 (9.09%) Bash
3 6 (9.09%) C++
3 6 (9.09%) Perl
3 6 (9.09%) SQL
4 5 (7.58%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.55%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.03%) ActionScript
6 2 (3.03%) ActionScript 2.0
6 2 (3.03%) Groovy
7 1 (1.52%) ABAP
7 1 (1.52%) C
7 1 (1.52%) C#
7 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.52%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.52%) Rust
7 1 (1.52%) Swift
7 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (48.48%) Security Cleared
2 28 (42.42%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.09%) CCNP
3 6 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (9.09%) JNCIA
3 6 (9.09%) JNCIS
4 4 (6.06%) CEH
4 4 (6.06%) Degree
5 3 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.55%) GIAC
5 3 (4.55%) GWAPT
6 1 (1.52%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.03%) GDPR
2 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.52%) GRC
3 1 (1.52%) NIST
3 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.52%) PSD2
3 1 (1.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (15.15%) Docker
2 7 (10.61%) Firmware
3 1 (1.52%) OpenAM
3 1 (1.52%) OpenDJ
3 1 (1.52%) OpenIDM
3 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (19.70%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.64%) Ansible
3 8 (12.12%) Terraform
4 4 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.55%) Rsyslog
5 3 (4.55%) SCOM
6 1 (1.52%) Grafana
6 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (24.24%) SAP
2 15 (22.73%) webMethods
3 10 (15.15%) Axway
3 10 (15.15%) IBM
3 10 (15.15%) Software AG
4 7 (10.61%) Cisco
5 6 (9.09%) Juniper
6 5 (7.58%) ForgeRock
6 5 (7.58%) Imperva
7 4 (6.06%) F5
7 4 (6.06%) Oracle
8 2 (3.03%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.03%) Microsoft
8 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.03%) Splunk
9 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.52%) Ruckus Wireless
9 1 (1.52%) Tenable
9 1 (1.52%) Xamarin