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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 627 682
Rank change year-on-year +90 +55 -53
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 34 60 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.63% 0.85% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 38 119
10th Percentile £363 £420 £421
25th Percentile £513 £480 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +26.37%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £638
90th Percentile £875 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £543 £500
% change year-on-year +5.99% +8.50% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £61.63
75th Percentile £57.50 - £63.69
90th Percentile - - £65.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.25
% change year-on-year - - -4.17%

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 5,394 7,081 9,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.67% 12.44% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,577 6,274
10th Percentile £205 £235 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 458 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.21 £50.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.65 £65.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -7.37%

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 18 May 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 18 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
England +93 32 £550 -4.35% 16
London +86 21 £550 -4.35% 7
UK excluding London +48 11 £575 +5.99% 10
Work from Home +93 10 £594 +7.91% 9
North of England +38 6 £594 +19.30% 2
South West +11 5 £488 -11.36% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £612 - 2
North West +21 1 £225 -54.77%

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%) MQSeries
2 4 (11.76%) nginx
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.94%) Apache
4 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 18 (52.94%) GCP
2 15 (44.12%) Azure
3 12 (35.29%) 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%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (50.00%) Firewall
2 16 (47.06%) IPsec
3 13 (38.24%) HTTP
4 12 (35.29%) TCP/IP
5 10 (29.41%) DNS
6 7 (20.59%) Network Security
7 6 (17.65%) VPN
8 5 (14.71%) FTP
9 4 (11.76%) tcpdump
9 4 (11.76%) Wireshark
10 3 (8.82%) BIG-IP
10 3 (8.82%) SNMP
10 3 (8.82%) SSL
11 2 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (5.88%) LAN
11 2 (5.88%) VLAN
12 1 (2.94%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (2.94%) SSH
12 1 (2.94%) Wireless
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%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
1 6 (17.65%) JIRA
2 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Finance
4 4 (11.76%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Local Government
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Architect
2 5 (14.71%) Senior
3 4 (11.76%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Network Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Security Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Unix Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Web Applications Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Web Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) LDAP
2 5 (14.71%) 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 1 (2.94%) React
5 1 (2.94%) Web Services
5 1 (2.94%) WebSockets
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%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (8.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
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 12 (35.29%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Windows
3 5 (14.71%) Unix
4 4 (11.76%) CentOS
5 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Agile
2 13 (38.24%) Information Security
3 11 (32.35%) Application Security
3 11 (32.35%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (32.35%) Identity Access Management
4 10 (29.41%) DevOps
4 10 (29.41%) DevSecOps
4 10 (29.41%) Service Management
5 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (26.47%) Migration
6 8 (23.53%) Configuration Management
6 8 (23.53%) Microservices
7 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
9 5 (14.71%) High Availability
9 5 (14.71%) Observability
10 4 (11.76%) Customer Service
10 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
10 4 (11.76%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) Java
1 4 (11.76%) PHP
1 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 4 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) C
2 1 (2.94%) Rust
2 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
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%) Active Directory
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
2 4 (11.76%) Samba
2 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.94%) NFS
3 1 (2.94%) vSphere
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%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Cisco
2 4 (11.76%) CheckPoint
2 4 (11.76%) Google
2 4 (11.76%) Palo Alto
2 4 (11.76%) Red Hat
2 4 (11.76%) VMware
3 3 (8.82%) Dynatrace
3 3 (8.82%) F5
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) New Relic
3 3 (8.82%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.94%) Zscaler