HTTPS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring HTTPS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 1 0 16
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.047% - 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% - 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £363
25th Percentile £510 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £425
75th Percentile £530 - £691
90th Percentile - - £750
England median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 349 258 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.27% 13.65% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 144 224
10th Percentile £213 £202 £200
25th Percentile £300 £309 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £403
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +24.22% -9.55%
75th Percentile £525 £591 £550
90th Percentile £584 £675 £684
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 20
10th Percentile £19.05 £12.18 £22.83
25th Percentile £27.75 £15.22 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +13.40%
75th Percentile £35.63 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £42.68 £40.00 £67.63
England median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +26.38%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HTTPS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

HTTPS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

HTTPS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HTTPS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HTTPS

HTTPS
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HTTPS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HTTPS

HTTPS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTPS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Coventry - 1 £520 -
HTTPS
England

HTTPS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) IDoc
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SAP PI
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Process Management
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ariba
1 1 (100.00%) SAP