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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 158 -
Rank change year-on-year -55 - -
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 8 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.12% 0.17% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.11% 1.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £389 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £513 £550 £615
% change year-on-year -6.82% -10.57% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £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 718 600 789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.03% 16.90% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 428 439
10th Percentile £275 £204 £237
25th Percentile £400 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% -3.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £608
90th Percentile £650 £638 £665
England median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 22 51
10th Percentile £19.34 £22.40 £27.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £50.63 £52.23
Median hourly rate £52.43 £56.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £65.22 £80.50 £74.38
90th Percentile £96.00 £89.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.75 £35.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +19.29% -38.97% +1.52%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTPS in the South East over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HTTPS in the South East

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 5 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -37 4 - - 5
Thames Valley - 4 £538 -
Berkshire - 2 £413 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £625 -
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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Table
2 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) BGP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) IPsec
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) MPLS
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) OSPF
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) JMeter
2 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
2 1 (12.50%) NeoLoad
General
1 3 (37.50%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) REST
1 5 (62.50%) RESTful
2 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (50.00%) Spring
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (25.00%) JSON
4 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
2 4 (50.00%) SDLC
2 4 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 4 (50.00%) SysML
2 4 (50.00%) UML
3 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Test Harness
4 1 (12.50%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Groovy
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Parasoft
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds