HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring HTTPS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited HTTPS over the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 712 798 927
Rank change year-on-year +86 +129 -26
Permanent jobs citing HTTPS 33 24 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.031% 0.078%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% 0.22% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 23 19 64
10th Percentile £21,000 £36,250 £45,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £39,375 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £58,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -24.52% +55.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,234 £91,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,375 £95,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £55,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +29.55% -2.22% +12.50%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,179 10,777 14,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.28% 13.89% 13.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,597 8,474 9,149
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -6.67% +1.94%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +16.28% -4.44% -

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing HTTPS.

Salary trend for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HTTPS over the 6 months to 17 February 2025.

Salary histogram for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HTTPS within the UK over the 6 months to 17 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +81 32 £75,000 +28.21% 23
UK excluding London +89 26 £71,250 +29.55% 13
Work from Home +121 23 £77,500 +32.48% 50
South East +51 12 £67,500 +80.00% 5
London +39 5 £87,500 +7.69% 11
North of England +31 4 £70,000 +11.50% 2
South West +47 3 £77,500 +40.91% 1
Midlands +11 3 £60,000 +2.56% 2
East of England +11 3 - - 1
North West -1 3 £70,000 +11.50% 1
West Midlands -3 3 £60,000 +2.56% 2
Yorkshire +61 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £85,000 -

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 12 (36.36%) Apache Solr
1 12 (36.36%) nginx
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.06%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (15.15%) GCP
4 3 (9.09%) AWS
4 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.06%) IaaS
5 2 (6.06%) SaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.03%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 24 (72.73%) DNS
2 15 (45.45%) TCP/IP
3 12 (36.36%) IPsec
4 11 (33.33%) HTTP
5 8 (24.24%) Firewall
6 6 (18.18%) SMTP
6 6 (18.18%) SSL
7 5 (15.15%) FTP
8 4 (12.12%) Network Security
8 4 (12.12%) WAN
9 3 (9.09%) DHCP
9 3 (9.09%) IMAP
9 3 (9.09%) LAN
9 3 (9.09%) POP3
9 3 (9.09%) SD-WAN
9 3 (9.09%) Wireless
10 2 (6.06%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (6.06%) MQTT
10 2 (6.06%) SSH
10 2 (6.06%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (45.45%) MySQL
2 12 (36.36%) Couchbase
2 12 (36.36%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
3 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
4 3 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.06%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Law
4 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Cantonese Language
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (54.55%) Senior
2 11 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (24.24%) Senior DevOps
3 8 (24.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) GCP DevOps
5 6 (18.18%) Developer
6 5 (15.15%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 5 (15.15%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) ERP Developer
7 4 (12.12%) Graduate
7 4 (12.12%) Graduate Developer
7 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) Lead
7 4 (12.12%) Lead DevOps
7 4 (12.12%) Software Engineer
8 3 (9.09%) Architect
8 3 (9.09%) Network Engineer
8 3 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (36.36%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (18.18%) REST
3 4 (12.12%) React
4 3 (9.09%) LDAP
4 3 (9.09%) Web Services
5 2 (6.06%) .NET
5 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.06%) EDI
5 2 (6.06%) Kendo UI
5 2 (6.06%) LAMP
5 2 (6.06%) Loki
5 2 (6.06%) SAML
5 2 (6.06%) XML
6 1 (3.03%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (3.03%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 5 (15.15%) Replication
4 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
5 2 (6.06%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (6.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (6.06%) Life Science
5 2 (6.06%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Linux
2 7 (21.21%) Windows
3 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
4 3 (9.09%) Unix
5 2 (6.06%) AIX
5 2 (6.06%) CentOS
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (57.58%) DevOps
3 18 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (45.45%) CI/CD
5 12 (36.36%) E-Commerce
5 12 (36.36%) Software Delivery
6 9 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 7 (21.21%) Agile
7 7 (21.21%) Load Balancing
8 6 (18.18%) Computer Science
9 5 (15.15%) API Development
9 5 (15.15%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (15.15%) Machine Learning
10 4 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (12.12%) Identity Management
10 4 (12.12%) Penetration Testing
10 4 (12.12%) Presales
10 4 (12.12%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) PHP
2 11 (33.33%) Python
3 10 (30.30%) SQL
4 6 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 4 (12.12%) Java
5 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.06%) AWK
6 2 (6.06%) C
6 2 (6.06%) C#
6 2 (6.06%) C++
6 2 (6.06%) Korn
6 2 (6.06%) Perl
7 1 (3.03%) ActionScript
7 1 (3.03%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.03%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Degree
2 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) CISSP
3 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CCNA
4 1 (3.03%) CCNP
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) GDPR
1 2 (6.06%) HIPAA
1 2 (6.06%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.15%) Docker
3 2 (6.06%) KVM
3 2 (6.06%) Postfix
3 2 (6.06%) Sendmail
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (51.52%) Kubernetes
1 17 (51.52%) Terraform
2 16 (48.48%) Ansible
3 4 (12.12%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (6.06%) Grafana
5 2 (6.06%) Nagios
5 2 (6.06%) Nessus
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Oracle
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.15%) Zscaler
4 3 (9.09%) Cisco
4 3 (9.09%) IBM
4 3 (9.09%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.06%) CheckPoint
5 2 (6.06%) Google
5 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.06%) SAP
5 2 (6.06%) Telerik
6 1 (3.03%) AppDynamics
6 1 (3.03%) F5
6 1 (3.03%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (3.03%) Splunk
6 1 (3.03%) VMware