HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring HTTPS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 693 627 845
Rank change year-on-year -66 +218 +59
Permanent jobs citing HTTPS 18 28 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.064% 0.041%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.20% 0.44% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5 22 36
10th Percentile £42,700 £44,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £55,000 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £74,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.26% +35.45% -20.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £84,250 £82,500
90th Percentile - £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £74,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -38.46% +49.50% +25.00%

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 8,905 6,382 12,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 14.54% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,037 3,824 9,414
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,533 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £77,715
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

HTTPS job vacancy trend in the UK

HTTPS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HTTPS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HTTPS

HTTPS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HTTPS over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Top 8 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 11 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
England -52 13 £46,000 -38.67% 6
London -10 8 - - 2
UK excluding London -78 5 £46,000 -38.46% 3
Work from Home +4 3 £45,000 -33.33% 2
North of England -51 3 £62,500 -16.11% 1
North West -10 2 £62,500 -16.11% 1
South East -26 2 £45,500 -39.33% 1
Yorkshire -49 1 £45,000 -

HTTPS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) GitHub
3 4 (22.22%) SaaS
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) DNS
1 9 (50.00%) Firewall
2 8 (44.44%) TCP/IP
3 4 (22.22%) HTTP
4 3 (16.67%) SNMP
4 3 (16.67%) WAN
5 2 (11.11%) SSL
6 1 (5.56%) SMTP
6 1 (5.56%) VLAN
6 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Bitbucket
2 4 (22.22%) Metasploit
3 3 (16.67%) Git
4 2 (11.11%) GitLab
4 2 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Aerospace
3 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Analyst
1 4 (22.22%) Cyber Threat Analyst
1 4 (22.22%) Cyber Threat Specialist
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 2 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior C# Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior C# Software Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) E-Commerce Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) REST
2 3 (16.67%) JSON
2 3 (16.67%) NETCONF
2 3 (16.67%) OAuth
2 3 (16.67%) RESTCONF
3 2 (11.11%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 2 (11.11%) ADO.NET
3 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (11.11%) CSS
3 2 (11.11%) CSS3
3 2 (11.11%) Entity Framework
3 2 (11.11%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) HTML5
3 2 (11.11%) LINQ
3 2 (11.11%) Middleware
3 2 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 2 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (22.22%) Cyber Defence
2 4 (22.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 8 (44.44%) Unix
2 8 (44.44%) Windows
3 4 (22.22%) Kali Linux
4 1 (5.56%) FreeBSD
4 1 (5.56%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 8 (44.44%) Blue Team
2 8 (44.44%) Data Loss Prevention
2 8 (44.44%) Incident Response
2 8 (44.44%) SIEM
3 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
3 7 (38.89%) DevOps
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (27.78%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (27.78%) RBAC
5 5 (27.78%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Cyber Threat Analysis
6 4 (22.22%) Digital Forensics
6 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 4 (22.22%) Offensive Security
6 4 (22.22%) Red Team
6 4 (22.22%) SOAR
6 4 (22.22%) Tradecraft
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Bash
1 9 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) ActionScript
4 1 (5.56%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) Master's Degree
3 4 (22.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 4 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (22.22%) OSCP
4 3 (16.67%) CCIE
4 3 (16.67%) CCNP
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (11.11%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) KVM
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
2 9 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Proxmox
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) SAP
2 4 (22.22%) TOWER Software
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (11.11%) Splunk
5 1 (5.56%) Ariba
5 1 (5.56%) Remedy
5 1 (5.56%) VMware