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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £537 £612 £613
% change year-on-year -12.25% -0.08% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £51.50 - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 600 842 1,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.23% 18.34% 19.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 456 654
10th Percentile £204 £252 £207
25th Percentile £329 £400 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £588
90th Percentile £638 £672 £675
England median daily rate £490 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +1.50% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 84 72
10th Percentile £15.22 £27.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £31.58 £53.40 £32.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -5.98% +35.56%
75th Percentile £70.87 £70.94 £75.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.24 £77.90
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%

HTTPS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing HTTPS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for HTTPS 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 17 September 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 - 7 £500 - 1
HTTPS
England

HTTPS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 4 (57.14%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
1 4 (57.14%) REST
1 4 (57.14%) RESTful
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
1 4 (57.14%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) JSF
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
2 4 (57.14%) Issue Tracking
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) SysML
2 4 (57.14%) UML
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) API Development
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
5 1 (14.29%) Secure Coding
5 1 (14.29%) Service Design
5 1 (14.29%) Software Distribution
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Rsyslog
1 2 (28.57%) SCOM
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat