HTTPS Contracts

HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 634 678
Rank change year-on-year +69 +44 -36
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 34 57 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.63% 0.80% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 38 129
10th Percentile £358 £433 £400
25th Percentile £513 £497 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £612 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% -4.35% +22.99%
75th Percentile £680 £683 £619
90th Percentile £875 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £594 £546 £500
% change year-on-year +8.65% +9.25% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £63.25
75th Percentile £57.50 - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.25

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,408 7,081 9,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.49% 12.71% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,205 4,558 6,498
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.00% +5.56% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 447 371
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -28.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.76% -13.95% -2.27%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTPS over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTPS in the UK

HTTPS
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTPS within the UK over the 6 months to 8 June 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
England +80 32 £612 +6.43% 10
London +64 19 £550 -4.35% 3
Work from Home +94 13 £615 +9.33% 5
UK excluding London +27 11 £594 +8.65% 9
North of England +31 7 £594 +19.30% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £612 -
South West - 4 - - 1
North West +18 2 £225 -54.77% 1

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 (14.71%) Confluence
2 4 (11.76%) Apache Solr
2 4 (11.76%) nginx
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.94%) Apache
4 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.94%) Jetty
4 1 (2.94%) MQSeries
4 1 (2.94%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 20 (58.82%) GCP
2 17 (50.00%) Azure
3 14 (41.18%) AWS
4 5 (14.71%) SaaS
5 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (5.88%) Akamai
7 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.94%) Boomi
8 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (38.24%) Firewall
1 13 (38.24%) IPsec
2 12 (35.29%) HTTP
3 10 (29.41%) DNS
4 9 (26.47%) TCP/IP
5 4 (11.76%) BIG-IP
5 4 (11.76%) FTP
5 4 (11.76%) Network Security
6 3 (8.82%) SNMP
6 3 (8.82%) SSL
6 3 (8.82%) VPN
7 2 (5.88%) Internet
7 2 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (5.88%) LAN
7 2 (5.88%) SSH
7 2 (5.88%) VLAN
8 1 (2.94%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (2.94%) MPLS
8 1 (2.94%) Wireless
8 1 (2.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) MySQL
2 4 (11.76%) Couchbase
2 4 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Big Data
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
1 6 (17.65%) JIRA
2 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 14 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Finance
4 4 (11.76%) Legal
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) Architect
3 5 (14.71%) Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Network Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Security Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Web Applications Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Web Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Programmer
7 1 (2.94%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) JSON
2 5 (14.71%) RESTful
2 5 (14.71%) YAML
3 4 (11.76%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (8.82%) SAML
5 2 (5.88%) LDAP
5 2 (5.88%) Web Services
6 1 (2.94%) EDI
6 1 (2.94%) J2EE
6 1 (2.94%) Middleware
6 1 (2.94%) React
6 1 (2.94%) REST
6 1 (2.94%) SOAP
6 1 (2.94%) Spring
6 1 (2.94%) WebSockets
6 1 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 6 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
3 5 (14.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (11.76%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (11.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (8.82%) PKI
6 1 (2.94%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Windows
3 4 (11.76%) CentOS
4 2 (5.88%) Unix
5 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Agile
2 13 (38.24%) Application Security
2 13 (38.24%) Identity Access Management
2 13 (38.24%) Information Security
3 12 (35.29%) DevSecOps
4 11 (32.35%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (32.35%) Service Management
5 10 (29.41%) DevOps
6 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (26.47%) Migration
7 8 (23.53%) Microservices
8 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
9 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (14.71%) Configuration Management
10 5 (14.71%) High Availability
10 5 (14.71%) Observability
11 4 (11.76%) Cost Reduction
11 4 (11.76%) SDLC
11 4 (11.76%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) Java
2 4 (11.76%) PHP
2 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) ActionScript
3 1 (2.94%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (2.94%) C
3 1 (2.94%) Rust
3 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.94%) SQL
3 1 (2.94%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) CCNP
1 5 (14.71%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.82%) CCIE
2 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.82%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.94%) CEH
3 1 (2.94%) CISSP
3 1 (2.94%) GCIA
3 1 (2.94%) GCIH
3 1 (2.94%) GIAC
3 1 (2.94%) GSEC
3 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 4 (11.76%) GDPR
2 4 (11.76%) HIPAA
2 4 (11.76%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
2 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) NFS
3 1 (2.94%) Samba
3 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
2 8 (23.53%) Terraform
3 5 (14.71%) Ansible
3 5 (14.71%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.94%) CSIRT
4 1 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Cisco
2 4 (11.76%) F5
2 4 (11.76%) Google
2 4 (11.76%) Palo Alto
3 3 (8.82%) Dynatrace
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) New Relic
3 3 (8.82%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.88%) SAP
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.94%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.94%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) Zscaler