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 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 664 856 930
Rank change year-on-year +192 +74 +33
Permanent jobs citing HTTPS 28 40 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.041% 0.057%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.40% 0.29% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 22 36 40
10th Percentile £44,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,938 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £55,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% -20.86% +20.87%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £87,813
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% +25.00% -20.00%

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 6,964 13,635 16,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.38% 13.84% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,270 9,518 8,181
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,063 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,625 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.31% -3.06% -

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Top 11 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 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +197 24 £71,250 +42.50% 39
England +165 23 £75,000 +23.68% 43
UK excluding London +213 22 £75,000 +50.00% 26
South East +117 9 £75,000 +87.50% 8
Midlands +84 5 £46,000 -21.37% 3
West Midlands +52 5 £46,000 -21.37% 2
North of England +86 4 £70,000 +11.50% 9
South West +107 3 £77,500 +40.91% 2
North West +34 3 £70,000 +11.50% 8
Yorkshire - 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 (42.86%) Apache Solr
1 12 (42.86%) nginx
2 2 (7.14%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 6 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (14.29%) AWS
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (14.29%) Route 53
5 4 (14.29%) SaaS
6 3 (10.71%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (57.14%) TCP/IP
2 14 (50.00%) DNS
3 12 (42.86%) IPsec
4 6 (21.43%) HTTP
5 4 (14.29%) Firewall
5 4 (14.29%) SD-WAN
5 4 (14.29%) VLAN
5 4 (14.29%) VPN
5 4 (14.29%) WAN
6 2 (7.14%) FTP
6 2 (7.14%) SSH
6 2 (7.14%) SSL
7 1 (3.57%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (50.00%) MySQL
2 12 (42.86%) Couchbase
2 12 (42.86%) NoSQL
3 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Visual Studio
1 4 (14.29%) WiX
2 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Cantonese Language
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Senior
2 11 (39.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
3 8 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 7 (25.00%) GCP DevOps
5 5 (17.86%) Developer
5 5 (17.86%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) C# Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Mobile Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Security Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Senior Security Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) Lead
7 3 (10.71%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (17.86%) .NET
2 5 (17.86%) REST
3 4 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 4 (14.29%) Blazor
3 4 (14.29%) COM
3 4 (14.29%) Entity Framework
3 4 (14.29%) LDAP
3 4 (14.29%) SOAP
4 2 (7.14%) EDI
4 2 (7.14%) LAMP
4 2 (7.14%) Loki
4 2 (7.14%) XML
5 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.57%) Kendo UI
5 1 (3.57%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (3.57%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 4 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (14.29%) Wiki
2 3 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.14%) Life Science
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (7.14%) Replication
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) Android
2 4 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 4 (14.29%) Mac OS
2 4 (14.29%) Windows 10
2 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.71%) Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Unix
4 2 (7.14%) AIX
4 2 (7.14%) CentOS
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) DevOps
2 15 (53.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (42.86%) E-Commerce
4 12 (42.86%) Software Delivery
5 9 (32.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (21.43%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (17.86%) Problem Management
8 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 4 (14.29%) Cryptography
8 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (14.29%) Identity Management
8 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Load Balancing
8 4 (14.29%) Migration
8 4 (14.29%) Privileged Identity Management
8 4 (14.29%) Proactive Management
8 4 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) PHP
2 10 (35.71%) C++
3 8 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 6 (21.43%) C
5 5 (17.86%) C#
5 5 (17.86%) Java
6 4 (14.29%) Bash
6 4 (14.29%) Kotlin
6 4 (14.29%) Objective-C
7 2 (7.14%) AWK
7 2 (7.14%) Korn
7 2 (7.14%) Perl
7 2 (7.14%) Python
7 2 (7.14%) SQL
8 1 (3.57%) ActionScript
8 1 (3.57%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.57%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 4 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 4 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.14%) KVM
3 2 (7.14%) Postfix
3 2 (7.14%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 12 (42.86%) Terraform
2 11 (39.29%) Ansible
3 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (7.14%) Grafana
4 2 (7.14%) Nagios
4 2 (7.14%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) IBM
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 2 (7.14%) Tenable
4 1 (3.57%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.57%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Telerik