HTTP Contracts in the North West

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 137 159
Rank change year-on-year +15 +22 -35
Contract jobs citing HTTP 15 23 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.54% 0.72% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.11% 5.45% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 14
10th Percentile £313 £494 £351
25th Percentile - - £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -2.44% -19.29%
75th Percentile £469 £525 £597
90th Percentile - £630 £635
England median daily rate £500 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% +8.00%
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 West

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 West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 365 422 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.21% 13.21% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 299 354
10th Percentile £199 £288 £183
25th Percentile £322 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% +21.62%
75th Percentile £651 £575 £585
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 13
10th Percentile - £17.92 £12.07
25th Percentile £17.72 £19.17 £16.23
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +68.92% -63.16%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £42.20
90th Percentile £89.18 £52.13 £63.75
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.82 £23.91
% change year-on-year +108.55% -21.29% -4.36%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Manchester +8 12 £350 -30.00% 2
Lancashire - 3 - -
HTTP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (40.00%) Apache
1 6 (40.00%) IIS
1 6 (40.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) npm
1 4 (26.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) H.323
1 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (13.33%) Gatling
3 2 (13.33%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) JMeter
3 2 (13.33%) Selenium
3 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Legal
4 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Electronics
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Support Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Avaya Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Avaya Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Support
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (26.67%) RESTful
2 3 (20.00%) JDBC
2 3 (20.00%) JPA
2 3 (20.00%) JWT
2 3 (20.00%) Spring
2 3 (20.00%) WebSockets
3 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (13.33%) Kafka
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) IVR
2 5 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
1 6 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Mac OS X
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Change Management
2 5 (33.33%) WFM
2 5 (33.33%) Workforce Optimisation
3 4 (26.67%) Capacity Management
3 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
3 4 (26.67%) Front End Development
4 3 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (20.00%) Kanban
4 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (20.00%) Microservices
4 3 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
5 2 (13.33%) TDD
5 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
3 2 (13.33%) Groovy
3 2 (13.33%) Scala
3 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Avaya
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (33.33%) Verint
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) SAP