HTTP Contracts in England

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for HTTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HTTP over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 422 412
Rank change year-on-year +46 -10 -56
Contract jobs citing HTTP 167 234 434
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.47% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.40% 3.82% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 172 281
10th Percentile £300 £372 £400
25th Percentile £363 £493 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £622 £691 £650
90th Percentile £650 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 7
10th Percentile £25.73 £50.52 £40.09
25th Percentile £41.16 £67.13 £42.41
Median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -38.83% +54.38% -2.84%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £66.25
90th Percentile - £79.00 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £49.06
% change year-on-year -38.83% +52.87% -6.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

HTTP 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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,910 6,122 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.32% 12.24% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,964 4,025 5,192
10th Percentile £206 £240 £223
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 435 302
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £16.93 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.24
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTTP in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
London +58 109 £525 -15.32% 37
North of England +12 21 £463 -7.50% 8
North West +11 11 £463 -7.50% 3
South East +22 9 £565 +36.97% 13
Yorkshire +14 9 £624 +18.76% 5
East of England +13 9 £350 -15.15%
South West +20 7 £569 -12.50% 10
Midlands +22 2 - - 7
East Midlands +22 1 - - 2
West Midlands +19 1 - - 5
North East - 1 £450 - 1
HTTP
UK

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (7.78%) Apache
2 12 (7.19%) Confluence
3 7 (4.19%) IIS
3 7 (4.19%) Tomcat
4 6 (3.59%) CMS
5 4 (2.40%) MQSeries
6 3 (1.80%) nginx
7 2 (1.20%) Headless CMS
7 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.60%) Drupal
8 1 (0.60%) govService
8 1 (0.60%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.60%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.60%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 9 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.20%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 52 (31.14%) AWS
2 45 (26.95%) GCP
3 31 (18.56%) Azure
4 12 (7.19%) Serverless
5 11 (6.59%) GitHub
6 9 (5.39%) Apigee
6 9 (5.39%) SaaS
7 7 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (4.19%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.19%) npm
8 6 (3.59%) Kong
9 5 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.99%) PaaS
10 4 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.40%) Google App Engine
11 3 (1.80%) Akamai
11 3 (1.80%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 56 (33.53%) TCP/IP
2 35 (20.96%) DNS
3 30 (17.96%) Firewall
4 26 (15.57%) SSL
5 20 (11.98%) VPN
6 16 (9.58%) FTP
7 13 (7.78%) DHCP
7 13 (7.78%) SMTP
8 12 (7.19%) Internet
8 12 (7.19%) Network Security
8 12 (7.19%) SSH
9 11 (6.59%) HTTPS
9 11 (6.59%) IPsec
10 9 (5.39%) SNMP
11 8 (4.79%) Wireshark
12 7 (4.19%) H.323
13 6 (3.59%) BGP
13 6 (3.59%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (3.59%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (3.59%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.37%) Apache Cassandra
2 10 (5.99%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.59%) MySQL
5 5 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.99%) SQLite
6 4 (2.40%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.40%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.40%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.80%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.80%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.60%) GIS
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.60%) Redis
8 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.60%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 25 (14.97%) Jenkins
2 23 (13.77%) Git
3 21 (12.57%) JIRA
4 8 (4.79%) GitLab
4 8 (4.79%) Postman
5 6 (3.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (3.59%) CircleCI
5 6 (3.59%) JMeter
5 6 (3.59%) Selenium
5 6 (3.59%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (3.59%) Travis CI
6 5 (2.99%) Checkstyle
6 5 (2.99%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.40%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.40%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.40%) Gatling
7 4 (2.40%) WebDriver
8 3 (1.80%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.80%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.20%) Appium
General
1 25 (14.97%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.17%) Finance
3 21 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.18%) Telecoms
5 12 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.79%) Banking
7 6 (3.59%) Legal
7 6 (3.59%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.99%) Electronics
8 5 (2.99%) German Language
8 5 (2.99%) Marketing
9 2 (1.20%) Advertising
9 2 (1.20%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Automotive
10 1 (0.60%) Billing
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Local Government
10 1 (0.60%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.60%) Publishing
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (29.94%) Developer
2 28 (16.77%) Scala Developer
3 16 (9.58%) Software Engineer
4 15 (8.98%) Linux Engineer
5 14 (8.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (6.59%) Linux Server Engineer
6 11 (6.59%) Network Engineer
6 11 (6.59%) Server Engineer
7 10 (5.99%) Senior
8 7 (4.19%) Architect
8 7 (4.19%) Support Engineer
9 6 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (3.59%) Consultant
9 6 (3.59%) Security Engineer
10 5 (2.99%) Analyst
10 5 (2.99%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (2.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.99%) DevOps Automation Engineer
10 5 (2.99%) Python Developer
10 5 (2.99%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (26.35%) RESTful
2 35 (20.96%) Kafka
3 29 (17.37%) Akka
4 28 (16.77%) REST
5 26 (15.57%) JSON
6 20 (11.98%) CSS
7 18 (10.78%) HTML
8 17 (10.18%) LDAP
9 15 (8.98%) XML
10 13 (7.78%) .NET
10 13 (7.78%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (7.19%) AngularJS
12 10 (5.99%) Node.js
12 10 (5.99%) YAML
13 9 (5.39%) OAuth
13 9 (5.39%) OpenID
13 9 (5.39%) SAML
13 9 (5.39%) Web Services
14 8 (4.79%) SOAP
15 7 (4.19%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.78%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 7 (4.19%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (4.19%) IVR
3 7 (4.19%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.59%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.99%) Clustering
5 5 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.80%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.80%) PKI
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.60%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 40 (23.95%) Linux
2 21 (12.57%) Unix
3 19 (11.38%) Windows
4 7 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.40%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.20%) Android
6 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.60%) Solaris
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (36.53%) Agile
2 53 (31.74%) DevOps
3 38 (22.75%) Microservices
4 32 (19.16%) TDD
5 29 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (16.77%) CI/CD
7 27 (16.17%) Pair Programming
8 25 (14.97%) Clean Code
8 25 (14.97%) GitOps
9 23 (13.77%) Machine Learning
9 23 (13.77%) Personalization
10 21 (12.57%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (11.98%) Software Engineering
12 16 (9.58%) Test Automation
13 15 (8.98%) Coaching
13 15 (8.98%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (8.38%) Use Case
15 13 (7.78%) High Availability
15 13 (7.78%) Workflow
16 12 (7.19%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.36%) Python
2 33 (19.76%) Scala
3 25 (14.97%) JavaScript
4 21 (12.57%) PowerShell
5 20 (11.98%) Java
6 15 (8.98%) C#
7 13 (7.78%) TypeScript
8 12 (7.19%) SQL
9 9 (5.39%) Bash
10 8 (4.79%) PHP
11 5 (2.99%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.40%) Groovy
13 3 (1.80%) Ruby
14 2 (1.20%) ABAP
14 2 (1.20%) Go
14 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.20%) Swift
15 1 (0.60%) C++
15 1 (0.60%) Perl
15 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (19.16%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.98%) DV Cleared
3 13 (7.78%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.59%) CCNP
4 11 (6.59%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (5.39%) Degree
6 5 (2.99%) CCDP
7 3 (1.80%) CCIE
8 2 (1.20%) CEH
8 2 (1.20%) CISSP
8 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.20%) GCIA
8 2 (1.20%) GCIH
8 2 (1.20%) GIAC
8 2 (1.20%) HND
8 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.60%) CHFI
9 1 (0.60%) GCFA
9 1 (0.60%) GSEC
9 1 (0.60%) GSNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.59%) QA
2 4 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.20%) HL7
4 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.60%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.60%) NCSC
4 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (12.57%) Docker
2 9 (5.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.40%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.40%) NFS
3 4 (2.40%) Samba
3 4 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.20%) XenApp
5 1 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (25.15%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.18%) Progress Chef
2 17 (10.18%) Puppet
3 15 (8.98%) Terraform
4 13 (7.78%) Kibana
5 11 (6.59%) Ansible
6 10 (5.99%) logstash
7 7 (4.19%) Grafana
7 7 (4.19%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.59%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.99%) FortiGate
10 4 (2.40%) QRadar
11 3 (1.80%) PingFederate
12 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.60%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.60%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.60%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.60%) Oracle Flashback
13 1 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 29 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.38%) Typelevel
3 18 (10.78%) Splunk
4 11 (6.59%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.99%) Cisco
5 10 (5.99%) Google
5 10 (5.99%) Oracle
6 9 (5.39%) Palo Alto
6 9 (5.39%) SAP
7 8 (4.79%) Zscaler
8 7 (4.19%) Avaya
9 6 (3.59%) Verint
10 5 (2.99%) Arista
10 5 (2.99%) Aruba
10 5 (2.99%) Symantec
11 4 (2.40%) ArcSight
11 4 (2.40%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.40%) VMware
12 3 (1.80%) F5
12 3 (1.80%) SolarWinds