HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for HTTPS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited HTTPS over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 724 934 900
Rank change year-on-year +210 -34 -227
Permanent jobs citing HTTPS 20 151 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.25% 0.97% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15 93 129
10th Percentile £48,500 £42,500 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £69,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.32% +31.43% -12.86%
75th Percentile £89,375 £91,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £108,500 £96,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

HTTPS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,107 15,627 16,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.10% 12.47% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 6,375 10,479 11,518
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,126 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.51% +4.72% -

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 December 2023.

Salary histogram for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Top 10 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 December 2023. 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 +195 19 £78,750 +17.54% 26
Work from Home +193 13 £80,000 +14.29% 16
London +216 12 £80,000 +1.59% 8
UK excluding London +197 8 £55,000 +4.76% 17
North of England +135 3 £62,500 +13.64% 8
South East +118 2 £56,250 +7.14% 1
Yorkshire +93 2 £50,000 +37.46% 4
South West +76 2 £80,000 - 5
Wales - 1 £50,000 -
North East - 1 £75,000 - 2

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 5 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Solr
2 1 (5.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (5.00%) Mule
2 1 (5.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) GCP
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Storage
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Functions
4 4 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (70.00%) HTTP
2 13 (65.00%) TCP/IP
3 10 (50.00%) Firewall
4 5 (25.00%) DNS
4 5 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (25.00%) Kerberos
4 5 (25.00%) SSL
5 3 (15.00%) SSH
5 3 (15.00%) VPN
6 2 (10.00%) DHCP
6 2 (10.00%) IPsec
6 2 (10.00%) Network Security
6 2 (10.00%) VLAN
7 1 (5.00%) FTP
7 1 (5.00%) Unified Communications
7 1 (5.00%) VoIP
7 1 (5.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) MySQL
2 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Couchbase
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Burp Suite
2 2 (10.00%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (65.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Advertising
3 2 (10.00%) Aeronautics
3 2 (10.00%) Automotive
3 2 (10.00%) Law
3 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Security Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Unix Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Unix Security Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) IT Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) IT Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Penetration Tester
5 2 (10.00%) Presales Solution Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Team Leader
5 2 (10.00%) Tester
5 2 (10.00%) Unix Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) JSON
1 5 (25.00%) RESTful
1 5 (25.00%) YAML
2 3 (15.00%) Web Services
3 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.00%) EDI
4 1 (5.00%) Middleware
4 1 (5.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (10.00%) IoT
2 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) Windows
3 6 (30.00%) Unix
4 2 (10.00%) Mac OS X
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) SIEM
3 7 (35.00%) Application Security
3 7 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 5 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 5 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 5 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (25.00%) Information Security
5 5 (25.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
5 5 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 5 (25.00%) Secrets Management
5 5 (25.00%) Secure Coding
5 5 (25.00%) Sprint Backlog
5 5 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
6 4 (20.00%) Code Coverage
6 4 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 4 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) C#
3 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) SQL
5 2 (10.00%) Go
6 1 (5.00%) PHP
6 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) CHECK Team Leader
3 2 (10.00%) CHECK Team Member
3 2 (10.00%) CREST Certified
3 2 (10.00%) SANS
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) NIST
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Control-M
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Nessus
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (20.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) SonicWALL
4 1 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft