HTTP Contracts in Scotland

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 160 143
Rank change year-on-year +46 -17 -6
Contract jobs citing HTTP 17 4 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.77% 0.14% 0.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.85% 1.14% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 11
10th Percentile £413 £470 £350
25th Percentile £440 £491 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year +10.33% +9.38% +18.52%
75th Percentile £720 £575 £603
90th Percentile £780 £605 £610
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £49.54
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
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 248 352 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.24% 12.33% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 223 194
10th Percentile £187 £160 £179
25th Percentile £363 £356 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £626 £538 £538
90th Percentile £700 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 16
10th Percentile £15.43 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.69 - £41.31
Median hourly rate £22.14 £10.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.23% -77.62% -26.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £53.89
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.75 £56.63
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in Scotland

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in Scotland

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in Scotland

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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
Glasgow +14 14 £493 -17.83% 1
Edinburgh +44 3 £675 +28.57%
HTTP
UK

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (29.41%) IBM HTTP Server
1 5 (29.41%) WebSphere
1 5 (29.41%) WebSphere Application Server
1 5 (29.41%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure API Management
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
1 1 (5.88%) IaaS
1 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) SSL
1 9 (52.94%) TCP/IP
2 7 (41.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 7 (41.18%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Git
2 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
3 5 (29.41%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Banking
2 8 (47.06%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Senior
3 5 (29.41%) Java Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Middleware Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Middleware Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Python Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Linux Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Unix Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Applications Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Java Applications Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Administrator
7 1 (5.88%) Architect
7 1 (5.88%) Deployment Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior WebSphere Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
7 1 (5.88%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) REST
2 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
2 5 (29.41%) J2EE
2 5 (29.41%) Middleware
2 5 (29.41%) Twisted
3 3 (17.65%) OAuth
4 2 (11.76%) OpenID
4 2 (11.76%) SAML
4 2 (11.76%) SOAP
5 1 (5.88%) .NET
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.88%) JSON
5 1 (5.88%) React
5 1 (5.88%) RESTful
5 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
1 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Automation
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (35.29%) Low Latency
2 6 (35.29%) Service Management
3 5 (29.41%) ITIL
3 5 (29.41%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 4 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (23.53%) Migration
4 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
5 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) API Development
6 2 (11.76%) Architecture Roadmap
6 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Java
2 9 (52.94%) Bash
2 9 (52.94%) Perl
2 9 (52.94%) Python
3 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) F5
2 5 (29.41%) IBM