HTTPS Job Trends in England

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring HTTPS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 671 620 797
Rank change year-on-year -51 +177 +85
Permanent jobs citing HTTPS 12 19 33
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.015% 0.049% 0.039%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.15% 0.32% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 29
10th Percentile £43,600 - £36,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £44,000 £37,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £74,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +27.35% -11.36%
75th Percentile £68,750 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile - - £87,500
UK median annual salary £54,250 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.63% +22.73% -20.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

HTTPS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,116 5,964 11,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.02% 15.31% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,672 3,386 8,509
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £69,821 £68,188 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing HTTPS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

HTTPS job vacancy trend in England

HTTPS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing HTTPS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing HTTPS

HTTPS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing HTTPS in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for HTTPS in England

HTTPS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HTTPS within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -20 8 - - 3
North of England -35 3 £62,500 -16.11% 1
North West -3 2 £62,500 -16.11% 1
South East -28 1 £46,000 -40.65%
Yorkshire -53 1 £45,000 -
HTTPS
UK

HTTPS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 4 (33.33%) SaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) DNS
1 9 (75.00%) Firewall
2 8 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) HTTP
3 1 (8.33%) SMTP
3 1 (8.33%) SSL
3 1 (8.33%) VLAN
3 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Bitbucket
2 4 (33.33%) Metasploit
3 3 (25.00%) Git
4 2 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 2 (16.67%) C# Software Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior C# Software Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (16.67%) ADO.NET
1 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) CSS3
1 2 (16.67%) Entity Framework
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) HTML5
1 2 (16.67%) JSON
1 2 (16.67%) JWT
1 2 (16.67%) LINQ
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
1 2 (16.67%) OAuth
1 2 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 2 (16.67%) OpenAPI
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
2 4 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
2 8 (66.67%) Unix
2 8 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (33.33%) Kali Linux
4 1 (8.33%) FreeBSD
4 1 (8.33%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Blue Team
2 8 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 8 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 8 (66.67%) SIEM
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Analysis
5 4 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
5 4 (33.33%) Information Security
5 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Red Team
5 4 (33.33%) SDLC
5 4 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 4 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
5 4 (33.33%) Threat Detection
5 4 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) Tradecraft
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Bash
1 9 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) ActionScript
3 1 (8.33%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 4 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) KVM
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Ansible
2 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Proxmox
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) TOWER Software
3 2 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) Ariba
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Remedy
4 1 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (8.33%) VMware