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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 549 639
Rank change year-on-year +93 +90 +42
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 62 33 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.077% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.63% 0.60% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 22 42
10th Percentile £388 £371 £394
25th Percentile £492 £513 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £838 £632 £588
90th Percentile - £870 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £50.50 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 3,800 5,473 7,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.90% 12.73% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,310 3,274 4,628
10th Percentile £213 £205 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £495 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -4.44% +3.60%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 418 472
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.44 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +116.22% -34.51%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.20 £46.14 £18.47
% change year-on-year -47.55% +149.85% -14.12%

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 11 May 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 11 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 11 May 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 +91 41 £500 -9.09% 49
Work from Home +71 34 £825 +43.48% 29
London +39 24 £544 -1.18% 32
UK excluding London +58 15 £475 -17.39% 27
North of England +17 6 £475 -19.97% 4
South East - 5 £500 - 12
North West +16 3 £492 +118.67% 4
Yorkshire +11 3 £400 -34.64%
East Midlands - 3 £358 - 1
Midlands - 3 £358 - 3
East of England - 1 - - 2

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 4 (6.45%) IIS
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.61%) Confluence
3 1 (1.61%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.77%) AWS
1 29 (46.77%) Azure
2 23 (37.10%) GCP
3 21 (33.87%) IaaS
3 21 (33.87%) PaaS
4 19 (30.65%) SaaS
5 18 (29.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.84%) Akamai
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.23%) Boomi
8 2 (3.23%) Cloudflare
8 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.23%) Serverless
8 2 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 37 (59.68%) HTTP
2 23 (37.10%) DNS
2 23 (37.10%) Firewall
3 21 (33.87%) TCP/IP
4 20 (32.26%) BGP
4 20 (32.26%) DHCP
4 20 (32.26%) OSPF
5 17 (27.42%) SSL
6 8 (12.90%) SSH
7 3 (4.84%) Network Security
8 2 (3.23%) SNMP
8 2 (3.23%) VLAN
9 1 (1.61%) DWDM
9 1 (1.61%) IGRP
9 1 (1.61%) Internet
9 1 (1.61%) LAN
9 1 (1.61%) MPLS
9 1 (1.61%) SMTP
9 1 (1.61%) VPN
9 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) Oracle Database
1 4 (6.45%) RDBMS
1 4 (6.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.23%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.61%) Power BI
3 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Git
1 7 (11.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.84%) JIRA
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
3 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.61%) Subversion
General
1 13 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.68%) Finance
3 3 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Banking
4 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (41.94%) Architect
2 19 (30.65%) Cloud Architect
3 18 (29.03%) Cloud Native Architect
3 18 (29.03%) Technical Architect
4 11 (17.74%) Developer
5 10 (16.13%) AWS Architect
6 9 (14.52%) Network Security Architect
6 9 (14.52%) Security Architect
6 9 (14.52%) Security Technical Architect
7 5 (8.06%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Azure Architect
8 3 (4.84%) ForgeRock Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Java Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Administrator
9 2 (3.23%) Integration Architect
9 2 (3.23%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Network Architect
9 2 (3.23%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (24.19%) REST
1 15 (24.19%) SOAP
2 12 (19.35%) OAuth
3 8 (12.90%) SAML
4 7 (11.29%) JDBC
4 7 (11.29%) RESTful
5 6 (9.68%) JWT
5 6 (9.68%) LDAP
5 6 (9.68%) OAuth2
5 6 (9.68%) OpenID
6 5 (8.06%) Spring
6 5 (8.06%) Spring Boot
6 5 (8.06%) Web Services
7 4 (6.45%) HTML
7 4 (6.45%) Middleware
8 3 (4.84%) CSS
8 3 (4.84%) JPA
8 3 (4.84%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (4.84%) RAML
8 3 (4.84%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (29.03%) Cloud Native
2 8 (12.90%) Onboarding
3 6 (9.68%) PKI
3 6 (9.68%) Taxonomies
4 5 (8.06%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.84%) State Machine
6 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.23%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.61%) FMCG
7 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.61%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.35%) Unix
2 10 (16.13%) Windows
3 8 (12.90%) Linux
4 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.23%) Windows 7
5 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.61%) AIX
6 1 (1.61%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (32.26%) Sprint Planning
2 20 (32.26%) Test Automation
3 15 (24.19%) Agile
3 15 (24.19%) Mentoring
4 13 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (19.35%) CI/CD
6 10 (16.13%) Kalman Filter
7 9 (14.52%) API Integration
7 9 (14.52%) DevOps
7 9 (14.52%) Performance Optimisation
7 9 (14.52%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (14.52%) Scrum
7 9 (14.52%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (12.90%) Coaching
8 8 (12.90%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (12.90%) Key Management
9 7 (11.29%) DevSecOps
9 7 (11.29%) Open Source
9 7 (11.29%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.65%) Java
2 18 (29.03%) Bicep
3 16 (25.81%) JavaScript
4 11 (17.74%) ActionScript
4 11 (17.74%) ActionScript 2.0
4 11 (17.74%) Python
5 6 (9.68%) Groovy
5 6 (9.68%) PowerShell
5 6 (9.68%) SQL
6 5 (8.06%) C
7 3 (4.84%) Bash
7 3 (4.84%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.23%) Perl
8 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.61%) Korn
9 1 (1.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.84%) IBM Certification
3 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) CCIE
4 2 (3.23%) CCNP
4 2 (3.23%) CEH
4 2 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.61%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 7 (11.29%) Docker
2 6 (9.68%) OpenAM
2 6 (9.68%) OpenDJ
2 6 (9.68%) OpenIDM
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (33.87%) Terraform
2 10 (16.13%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (11.29%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.45%) Ansible
5 3 (4.84%) SCCM
5 3 (4.84%) WSUS
6 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.61%) Nagios
6 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.61%) Puppet
6 1 (1.61%) vRealize
6 1 (1.61%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (35.48%) Cisco
2 18 (29.03%) CheckPoint
2 18 (29.03%) Fortinet
2 18 (29.03%) Palo Alto
3 13 (20.97%) ForgeRock
3 13 (20.97%) IBM
4 11 (17.74%) IBM Sterling
5 9 (14.52%) Ping Identity
6 5 (8.06%) Oracle
7 4 (6.45%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.84%) VMware
9 2 (3.23%) F5
9 2 (3.23%) Imperva
9 2 (3.23%) Qualtrics
9 2 (3.23%) SAP
9 2 (3.23%) Splunk
9 2 (3.23%) webMethods
10 1 (1.61%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.61%) Arista
10 1 (1.61%) Zscaler