HTTP Contracts in the North of England

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 181 208
Rank change year-on-year +14 +27 -45
Contract jobs citing HTTP 21 32 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.56% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.73% 4.85% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 26
10th Percentile £370 £492 £331
25th Percentile £425 - £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £624 £538 £534
90th Percentile £645 £630 £619
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.88 - -
England median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -38.83% +54.38% -2.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 563 660 876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.08% 11.56% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 450 608
10th Percentile £200 £205 £180
25th Percentile £313 £325 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £612 £574 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 27
10th Percentile £13.31 - £11.01
25th Percentile £18.89 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.94% +2.86%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.26
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £48.82
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the North of England

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 7 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
North West +18 11 £463 -7.50% 3
Yorkshire +19 9 £624 +18.76% 4
North East - 1 £450 - 1
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Apigee
2 6 (28.57%) GCP
2 6 (28.57%) GitHub
2 6 (28.57%) Kong
3 4 (19.05%) npm
3 4 (19.05%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) TCP/IP
2 7 (33.33%) DNS
3 6 (28.57%) Firewall
3 6 (28.57%) VPN
4 3 (14.29%) SSL
5 1 (4.76%) H.323
5 1 (4.76%) HTTPS
5 1 (4.76%) IPsec
5 1 (4.76%) SNMP
5 1 (4.76%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (19.05%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (61.90%) Jenkins
1 13 (61.90%) JIRA
2 11 (52.38%) Git
3 6 (28.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (28.57%) CircleCI
3 6 (28.57%) GitLab
3 6 (28.57%) Travis CI
4 4 (19.05%) Cucumber
4 4 (19.05%) Gatling
4 4 (19.05%) JMeter
4 4 (19.05%) Selenium
4 4 (19.05%) WebDriver
5 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
5 3 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Test Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Test Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Developer
6 1 (4.76%) IT Support
6 1 (4.76%) IT Support Technician
6 1 (4.76%) IT Technician
6 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Scala Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Support Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (28.57%) JSON
1 6 (28.57%) RESTful
1 6 (28.57%) XML
1 6 (28.57%) YAML
2 5 (23.81%) Kafka
2 5 (23.81%) Web Services
3 4 (19.05%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
4 3 (14.29%) JDBC
4 3 (14.29%) JPA
4 3 (14.29%) JWT
4 3 (14.29%) Spring
4 3 (14.29%) WebSockets
5 1 (4.76%) Akka
5 1 (4.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) IVR
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Mac OS X
1 4 (19.05%) Unix
2 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Agile
2 12 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (42.86%) DevOps
3 9 (42.86%) DevSecOps
4 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 6 (28.57%) API Development
5 6 (28.57%) API Integration
5 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 6 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 6 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
5 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (28.57%) Project Management
5 6 (28.57%) Scrum
5 6 (28.57%) Secure Coding
5 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (28.57%) Task Automation
5 6 (28.57%) Use Case
5 6 (28.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) Java
3 6 (28.57%) Bash
3 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 5 (23.81%) Scala
5 4 (19.05%) Groovy
5 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
5 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Grafana
1 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 7 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 6 (28.57%) Ansible
2 6 (28.57%) Docker Swarm
2 6 (28.57%) Kibana
2 6 (28.57%) logstash
2 6 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 6 (28.57%) Puppet
2 6 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Splunk
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Avaya
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.76%) Verint