HTTP Contracts in London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 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 281 355 372
Rank change year-on-year +74 +17 -75
Contract jobs citing HTTP 115 140 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.66% 0.54% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.92% 5.43% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 103 162
10th Percentile £300 £412 £425
25th Percentile £400 £538 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +3.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £622 £769 £688
90th Percentile £650 £800 £713
England median daily rate £525 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 5
10th Percentile - £50.52 £39.48
25th Percentile - £67.13 £41.32
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +66.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile - - £48.58
90th Percentile - £79.00 £64.43
England median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £46.79
% change year-on-year -38.83% +60.29% -6.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,663 2,577 3,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 9.96% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,810 2,529
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +3.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 84
10th Percentile £14.46 £19.25 £20.92
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £36.27 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.28% +7.47% -32.03%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.00 £47.69
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +0.41%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in London

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in London

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in London

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in London

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the London region 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
West London +29 14 £425 -3.41%
Central London +44 6 £850 +27.10% 4
East London -6 1 - - 20
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (6.09%) Confluence
2 5 (4.35%) Apache
3 3 (2.61%) CMS
3 3 (2.61%) Headless CMS
3 3 (2.61%) MQSeries
3 3 (2.61%) nginx
4 1 (0.87%) Drupal
4 1 (0.87%) govService
4 1 (0.87%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.87%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.87%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.87%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 50 (43.48%) AWS
2 38 (33.04%) GCP
3 22 (19.13%) Azure
4 7 (6.09%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (5.22%) GitHub
5 6 (5.22%) Serverless
6 5 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.35%) PaaS
6 5 (4.35%) SaaS
7 4 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.48%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.61%) Akamai
8 3 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.61%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.61%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.61%) Datadog
8 3 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (37.39%) TCP/IP
2 26 (22.61%) DNS
3 23 (20.00%) Firewall
4 18 (15.65%) SSL
5 12 (10.43%) Network Security
5 12 (10.43%) VPN
6 11 (9.57%) DHCP
6 11 (9.57%) FTP
6 11 (9.57%) HTTPS
6 11 (9.57%) SSH
7 10 (8.70%) IPsec
8 9 (7.83%) Internet
9 8 (6.96%) BGP
9 8 (6.96%) OSPF
9 8 (6.96%) SMTP
9 8 (6.96%) SNMP
10 7 (6.09%) Wireshark
11 6 (5.22%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (5.22%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (3.48%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.74%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.61%) MySQL
4 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.74%) Triplestore
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.87%) Redis
6 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (10.43%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.09%) JIRA
3 6 (5.22%) Git
3 6 (5.22%) Postman
4 3 (2.61%) Burp Suite
4 3 (2.61%) GitLab
4 3 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.74%) Appium
5 2 (1.74%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.74%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.74%) JMeter
5 2 (1.74%) JUnit
5 2 (1.74%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (1.74%) Selenium
5 2 (1.74%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 1 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 15 (13.04%) Finance
2 12 (10.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.83%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.96%) Banking
5 7 (6.09%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.35%) Electronics
7 5 (4.35%) Marketing
8 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Advertising
9 1 (0.87%) Local Government
9 1 (0.87%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.87%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 45 (39.13%) Developer
2 30 (26.09%) Scala Developer
3 14 (12.17%) Linux Engineer
4 11 (9.57%) Linux Server Engineer
4 11 (9.57%) Network Engineer
4 11 (9.57%) Server Engineer
5 10 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.22%) Architect
6 6 (5.22%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) ArcSight Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Network Architect
8 4 (3.48%) Python Developer
8 4 (3.48%) Senior
8 4 (3.48%) SIEM Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (2.61%) Security Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Unix Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (31.30%) RESTful
2 34 (29.57%) Kafka
3 32 (27.83%) Akka
4 14 (12.17%) CSS
4 14 (12.17%) JSON
5 13 (11.30%) REST
6 11 (9.57%) HTML
7 9 (7.83%) LDAP
8 7 (6.09%) .NET
8 7 (6.09%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (5.22%) Web Services
10 5 (4.35%) GraphQL
10 5 (4.35%) Jest
10 5 (4.35%) SAML
10 5 (4.35%) SOAP
11 4 (3.48%) Next.js
11 4 (3.48%) OAuth
11 4 (3.48%) OpenID
11 4 (3.48%) React
11 4 (3.48%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.65%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (5.22%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.35%) Clustering
4 5 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.61%) PKI
7 2 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.87%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.48%) Linux
2 13 (11.30%) Unix
3 7 (6.09%) Windows
4 2 (1.74%) Android
4 2 (1.74%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (36.52%) Agile
1 42 (36.52%) DevOps
2 37 (32.17%) Microservices
3 30 (26.09%) TDD
4 28 (24.35%) Pair Programming
5 27 (23.48%) GitOps
6 26 (22.61%) Clean Code
7 24 (20.87%) Machine Learning
7 24 (20.87%) Personalization
8 22 (19.13%) CI/CD
9 16 (13.91%) Coaching
10 15 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (11.30%) High Availability
12 10 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (8.70%) Migration
12 10 (8.70%) SIEM
13 9 (7.83%) Computer Science
13 9 (7.83%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (6.96%) Load Balancing
14 8 (6.96%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (27.83%) Scala
2 19 (16.52%) JavaScript
3 16 (13.91%) Python
4 14 (12.17%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.96%) Java
6 7 (6.09%) C#
7 5 (4.35%) SQL
8 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.61%) Bash
10 2 (1.74%) Go
10 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.74%) PHP
10 2 (1.74%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.74%) Swift
11 1 (0.87%) C
11 1 (0.87%) C++
11 1 (0.87%) Perl
11 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.57%) CCNP
2 11 (9.57%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (9.57%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.22%) Degree
4 5 (4.35%) CCDP
5 3 (2.61%) CCIE
5 3 (2.61%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.74%) CEH
6 2 (1.74%) CISSP
6 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.74%) GCIA
6 2 (1.74%) GCIH
6 2 (1.74%) GIAC
6 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.87%) CCNA
7 1 (0.87%) CHFI
7 1 (0.87%) GCFA
7 1 (0.87%) GSEC
7 1 (0.87%) GSNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.48%) QA
2 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.74%) HL7
3 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (13.04%) Docker
2 6 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.48%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.48%) NFS
4 3 (2.61%) Samba
4 3 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.74%) XenApp
6 1 (0.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (33.91%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.57%) Progress Chef
2 11 (9.57%) Puppet
3 8 (6.96%) Terraform
4 7 (6.09%) Kibana
5 5 (4.35%) Ansible
5 5 (4.35%) FortiGate
6 4 (3.48%) logstash
6 4 (3.48%) QRadar
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.74%) PingFederate
7 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.87%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.87%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.87%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 20 (17.39%) Typelevel
2 11 (9.57%) Palo Alto
3 10 (8.70%) Cisco
3 10 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.83%) Splunk
5 8 (6.96%) Zscaler
6 5 (4.35%) Arista
6 5 (4.35%) Aruba
6 5 (4.35%) Google
6 5 (4.35%) Oracle
6 5 (4.35%) SAP
7 4 (3.48%) ArcSight
8 3 (2.61%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.61%) F5
8 3 (2.61%) Infoblox
8 3 (2.61%) Meraki
8 3 (2.61%) New Relic
8 3 (2.61%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.61%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.61%) VMware