HTTPS Contract Job Trends in the South East

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring HTTPS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 170 210
Rank change year-on-year -17 +40 +31
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 2 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.047% 0.13% 0.019%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% 0.69% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +289.41%
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

HTTPS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 618 720 1,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.57% 18.18% 22.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 405 625
10th Percentile £204 £221 £203
25th Percentile £329 £400 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 73
10th Percentile £18.41 £32.00 £21.20
25th Percentile £29.89 £45.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £70.16 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.26% +4.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile £86.91 £71.25 £75.25
90th Percentile £90.04 £75.00 £77.71
England median hourly rate £30.00 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -38.22% -14.04% +25.53%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HTTPS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

HTTPS job vacancy trend in the South East

HTTPS
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HTTPS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HTTPS

HTTPS
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HTTPS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HTTPS

HTTPS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTPS within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -5 2 £500 - 1
HTTPS
England

HTTPS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Rsyslog
1 2 (100.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat