HTTPS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 336 448
Rank change year-on-year +65 +112 +75
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 33 9 29
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.059% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.16% 0.56% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 5 23
10th Percentile £443 £495 £383
25th Percentile £537 £563 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +43.48% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £838 £612 £588
90th Percentile - £614 £725
UK median daily rate £611 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +11.00% - -4.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

HTTPS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing HTTPS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

HTTPS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

HTTPS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing HTTPS.

HTTPS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing HTTPS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

HTTPS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

HTTPS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing HTTPS.

HTTPS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

HTTPS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (3.03%) Confluence
1 1 (3.03%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 25 (75.76%) Azure
2 24 (72.73%) AWS
3 22 (66.67%) GCP
4 19 (57.58%) IaaS
4 19 (57.58%) PaaS
4 19 (57.58%) SaaS
5 18 (54.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.03%) Akamai
6 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (69.70%) HTTP
2 21 (63.64%) DNS
3 20 (60.61%) BGP
3 20 (60.61%) DHCP
3 20 (60.61%) OSPF
4 19 (57.58%) Firewall
4 19 (57.58%) TCP/IP
5 4 (12.12%) SSL
6 3 (9.09%) SSH
7 2 (6.06%) SNMP
8 1 (3.03%) DMVPN
8 1 (3.03%) DWDM
8 1 (3.03%) IGRP
8 1 (3.03%) Internet
8 1 (3.03%) IPsec
8 1 (3.03%) LAN
8 1 (3.03%) MPLS
8 1 (3.03%) SMTP
8 1 (3.03%) VPN
8 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) Subversion
General
1 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (60.61%) Architect
2 18 (54.55%) Cloud Architect
2 18 (54.55%) Cloud Native Architect
2 18 (54.55%) Technical Architect
3 10 (30.30%) AWS Architect
4 9 (27.27%) Network Security Architect
4 9 (27.27%) Security Architect
4 9 (27.27%) Security Technical Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Developer
5 3 (9.09%) ForgeRock Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Architect
7 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Network Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) OAuth
1 6 (18.18%) SOAP
2 4 (12.12%) JDBC
2 4 (12.12%) OAuth2
2 4 (12.12%) OpenID
3 3 (9.09%) LDAP
4 2 (6.06%) JWT
4 2 (6.06%) REST
4 2 (6.06%) SAML
5 1 (3.03%) 802.1X
5 1 (3.03%) HTML
5 1 (3.03%) Keycloak
5 1 (3.03%) Middleware
5 1 (3.03%) RESTful
5 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (54.55%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.12%) PKI
2 4 (12.12%) Taxonomies
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) FMCG
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Linux
1 5 (15.15%) Unix
2 3 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) AIX
3 1 (3.03%) Solaris
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (54.55%) Sprint Planning
2 18 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 7 (21.21%) Agile
4 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 6 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (15.15%) API Integration
5 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
5 5 (15.15%) Coaching
5 5 (15.15%) DevOps
5 5 (15.15%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (12.12%) DevSecOps
6 4 (12.12%) High Availability
6 4 (12.12%) Identity Management
6 4 (12.12%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (12.12%) Open Source
6 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (12.12%) Scrum
6 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) Bicep
2 7 (21.21%) Java
3 6 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 6 (18.18%) Python
4 5 (15.15%) ActionScript
4 5 (15.15%) ActionScript 2.0
5 3 (9.09%) Bash
6 2 (6.06%) Groovy
6 2 (6.06%) Perl
6 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.03%) Korn
7 1 (3.03%) SQL
7 1 (3.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) IBM Certification
1 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) CCDP
2 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) OpenAM
2 2 (6.06%) OpenDJ
2 2 (6.06%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 19 (57.58%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (6.06%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.03%) Nagios
4 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (57.58%) Cisco
2 18 (54.55%) CheckPoint
2 18 (54.55%) Fortinet
2 18 (54.55%) Palo Alto
3 6 (18.18%) ForgeRock
4 5 (15.15%) IBM
4 5 (15.15%) IBM Sterling
5 4 (12.12%) Ping Identity
6 1 (3.03%) Arista
6 1 (3.03%) Blue Coat
6 1 (3.03%) Citrix
6 1 (3.03%) F5
6 1 (3.03%) Juniper
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.03%) Riverbed
6 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.03%) Splunk
6 1 (3.03%) Zscaler