HTTPS Contracts in England

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for HTTPS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HTTPS over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 599 653
Rank change year-on-year +94 +54 -75
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 32 48 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.088% 0.100% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.67% 0.81% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 29 95
10th Percentile £360 £388 £394
25th Percentile £513 £496 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +21.05%
75th Percentile £653 £738 £631
90th Percentile £875 £763 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +26.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £60.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £63.25
75th Percentile £57.50 - £64.56
90th Percentile - - £66.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £61.63
% change year-on-year - - -6.63%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,790 5,906 7,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.14% 12.27% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,878 3,863 5,177
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £394 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.05%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 423 313
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.90
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.01 £48.45
90th Percentile £70.13 £75.00 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +13.64%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing HTTPS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for HTTPS in England

HTTPS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HTTPS in England.

Daily rate trend for HTTPS in England

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTPS in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTPS in England

HTTPS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HTTPS in England.

Hourly rate trend for HTTPS in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTPS within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +72 21 £550 -4.35% 6
North of England +32 6 £594 +19.30% 2
South West +6 5 £488 -11.36% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £612 - 2
North West +17 1 £225 -54.77%
HTTPS
UK

HTTPS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (15.63%) Confluence
2 4 (12.50%) Apache Solr
2 4 (12.50%) MQSeries
2 4 (12.50%) nginx
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.13%) Apache
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) GCP
2 15 (46.88%) Azure
3 11 (34.38%) AWS
4 5 (15.63%) SaaS
5 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (6.25%) Akamai
7 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (50.00%) Firewall
1 16 (50.00%) IPsec
2 13 (40.63%) HTTP
3 12 (37.50%) TCP/IP
4 10 (31.25%) DNS
5 7 (21.88%) Network Security
6 6 (18.75%) VPN
7 5 (15.63%) FTP
8 4 (12.50%) tcpdump
8 4 (12.50%) Wireshark
9 3 (9.38%) BIG-IP
9 3 (9.38%) SNMP
9 3 (9.38%) SSL
10 2 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (6.25%) LAN
10 2 (6.25%) VLAN
11 1 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (3.13%) SSH
11 1 (3.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) MySQL
2 4 (12.50%) Couchbase
2 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) JIRA
2 5 (15.63%) Git
3 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Finance
4 4 (12.50%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Architect
2 5 (15.63%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Java Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Security Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Web Applications Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Web Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) JSON
1 5 (15.63%) LDAP
1 5 (15.63%) RESTful
1 5 (15.63%) YAML
2 4 (12.50%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (9.38%) SAML
4 1 (3.13%) Web Services
4 1 (3.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
3 5 (15.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (9.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (9.38%) PKI
6 1 (3.13%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Linux
2 6 (18.75%) Windows
3 5 (15.63%) Unix
4 4 (12.50%) CentOS
5 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Agile
2 13 (40.63%) Information Security
3 11 (34.38%) Application Security
3 11 (34.38%) Identity Access Management
4 10 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (31.25%) DevSecOps
4 10 (31.25%) Service Management
5 9 (28.13%) DevOps
5 9 (28.13%) Migration
6 8 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (25.00%) Microservices
7 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
8 5 (15.63%) High Availability
8 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
9 4 (12.50%) Customer Service
9 4 (12.50%) Observability
9 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) Java
1 4 (12.50%) PHP
1 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 4 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (3.13%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) CCNP
1 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.38%) CCIE
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) CEH
4 1 (3.13%) CISSP
4 1 (3.13%) GCIA
4 1 (3.13%) GCIH
4 1 (3.13%) GIAC
4 1 (3.13%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 4 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 4 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
1 4 (12.50%) Samba
1 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (21.88%) Terraform
3 5 (15.63%) Ansible
3 5 (15.63%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Cisco
2 4 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 4 (12.50%) Google
2 4 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 4 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 4 (12.50%) VMware
3 3 (9.38%) Dynatrace
3 3 (9.38%) F5
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) New Relic
3 3 (9.38%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.13%) Zscaler