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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 472 525
Rank change year-on-year -54 +53 +187
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 60 77 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.51% 1.74% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 48 62
10th Percentile £358 £425 £375
25th Percentile £463 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £589 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% +2.35% -
75th Percentile £688 £738 £680
90th Percentile £695 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £660 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +32.00% -4.76% +20.00%

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 3,978 4,418 6,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.90% 12.28% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,586 2,547 3,845
10th Percentile £205 £220 £210
25th Percentile £355 £369 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £584 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £686 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 167 345
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.06 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.18 £22.75 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -25.45% +26.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £47.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -10.53% -15.91% +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 December 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 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 4 December 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 -23 50 £550 +10.00% 20
Work from Home -5 32 £675 - 14
London -4 27 £508 -21.92% 4
UK excluding London -55 18 £660 +32.00% 19
North of England -34 12 £670 +84.83% 2
North West -15 9 £660 +193.33% 1
Yorkshire -29 3 £700 +40.00% 1
Midlands - 3 £430 - 7
West Midlands - 3 £430 - 7
South East -8 2 £500 - 6
Scotland -9 1 - - 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 2 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.67%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.00%) AWS
2 8 (13.33%) GCP
3 6 (10.00%) Akamai
3 6 (10.00%) Azure
3 6 (10.00%) Cloudflare
4 4 (6.67%) Apigee
5 3 (5.00%) GitHub
6 2 (3.33%) Firebase
7 1 (1.67%) Cloud Run
7 1 (1.67%) Figma
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.67%) Google App Engine
7 1 (1.67%) SaaS
7 1 (1.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (26.67%) SSL
2 13 (21.67%) HTTP
3 12 (20.00%) Firewall
4 10 (16.67%) DNS
5 8 (13.33%) IPsec
6 6 (10.00%) BGP
6 6 (10.00%) EIGRP
6 6 (10.00%) OSPF
7 4 (6.67%) Wireless
8 3 (5.00%) Network Security
8 3 (5.00%) VPN
8 3 (5.00%) WAN
9 2 (3.33%) BIG-IP
9 2 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (3.33%) Ethereal
9 2 (3.33%) LAN
9 2 (3.33%) SSH
9 2 (3.33%) Wireshark
9 2 (3.33%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Git
2 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.67%) Postman
4 3 (5.00%) JIRA
5 2 (3.33%) GitLab
6 1 (1.67%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.67%) Xcode
General
1 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.67%) Finance
3 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Banking
5 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Retail
5 1 (1.67%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 34 (56.67%) Developer
2 16 (26.67%) webMethods Developer
3 11 (18.33%) Network Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Administrator
5 5 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Juniper Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Apigee Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) webMethods Administrator
8 2 (3.33%) Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Consultant
8 2 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Network Security Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Senior
9 1 (1.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 1 (1.67%) Rust Developer
9 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (56.67%) JSON
1 34 (56.67%) XML
2 28 (46.67%) SOAP
3 22 (36.67%) OAuth
4 19 (31.67%) REST
5 16 (26.67%) JMS
6 10 (16.67%) OAuth2
7 6 (10.00%) JWT
8 5 (8.33%) OpenID
8 5 (8.33%) RESTful
9 4 (6.67%) Hibernate
9 4 (6.67%) JAX-RS
9 4 (6.67%) Spring
9 4 (6.67%) Spring Boot
10 3 (5.00%) JDBC
10 3 (5.00%) LDAP
10 3 (5.00%) SAML
11 2 (3.33%) Flutter
12 1 (1.67%) htmx
12 1 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) PKI
2 4 (6.67%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.00%) Taxonomies
4 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.67%) BYOD
5 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.67%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.67%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) CatOS
2 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.67%) Android
3 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.67%) VMS
3 1 (1.67%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (58.33%) DevOps
2 27 (45.00%) Test Automation
3 24 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 12 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (18.33%) API Development
5 11 (18.33%) API Management
6 10 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
7 6 (10.00%) Application Security
8 5 (8.33%) Change Control
8 5 (8.33%) Computer Science
8 5 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (8.33%) Validation
9 4 (6.67%) API Design
9 4 (6.67%) API Integration
9 4 (6.67%) API Testing
9 4 (6.67%) Incident Response
9 4 (6.67%) Microservices
9 4 (6.67%) OWASP
9 4 (6.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 3 (5.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) Java
2 8 (13.33%) Python
3 6 (10.00%) Bash
3 6 (10.00%) C++
3 6 (10.00%) Perl
4 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.00%) SQL
6 2 (3.33%) ActionScript
6 2 (3.33%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.67%) C
7 1 (1.67%) C#
7 1 (1.67%) Groovy
7 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.67%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.67%) Rust
7 1 (1.67%) Swift
7 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.00%) CCNP
3 6 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (10.00%) Degree
3 6 (10.00%) JNCIA
3 6 (10.00%) JNCIS
4 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.67%) CEH
6 3 (5.00%) GIAC
6 3 (5.00%) GWAPT
7 1 (1.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
2 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) GRC
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
3 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.67%) PSD2
3 1 (1.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Docker
2 7 (11.67%) Firmware
3 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.33%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (6.67%) Ansible
4 3 (5.00%) Rsyslog
4 3 (5.00%) SCOM
4 3 (5.00%) Terraform
5 1 (1.67%) Grafana
5 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (28.33%) SAP
1 17 (28.33%) webMethods
2 12 (20.00%) IBM
2 12 (20.00%) Software AG
3 10 (16.67%) Axway
4 9 (15.00%) Cisco
5 6 (10.00%) F5
5 6 (10.00%) Juniper
6 5 (8.33%) Imperva
7 4 (6.67%) ForgeRock
7 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
7 4 (6.67%) Splunk
8 3 (5.00%) CheckPoint
8 3 (5.00%) Palo Alto
8 3 (5.00%) VMware
9 2 (3.33%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.67%) Google
10 1 (1.67%) Qualys
10 1 (1.67%) Remedy