HTTP Contracts in the UK excluding London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 387 341
Rank change year-on-year +68 -46 -57
Contract jobs citing HTTP 66 69 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.29% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.98% 1.97% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 52 102
10th Percentile £338 £363 £325
25th Percentile £381 £442 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £629 £591 £548
90th Percentile £655 £649 £607
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £25.73 - £49.84
25th Percentile £41.16 - £50.28
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £52.27
75th Percentile £85.00 - £55.51
90th Percentile - - £56.70
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,339 3,500 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.27% 14.89% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,213 2,635
10th Percentile £200 £213 £185
25th Percentile £343 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £544
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 323 238
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.63
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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 of England +18 21 £463 -7.50% 7
Scotland +52 12 £536 +2.14% 4
North West +19 11 £463 -7.50% 3
South East +12 10 £565 +36.97% 13
Yorkshire +20 9 £624 +18.76% 4
East of England +7 8 £350 -15.15% 1
South West +17 7 £569 -9.00% 9
Northern Ireland +12 6 - - 8
Midlands +23 1 - - 7
West Midlands +20 1 - - 4
Wales +14 1 - -
North East - 1 £450 - 1
HTTP
UK

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (12.12%) Apache
2 6 (9.09%) Confluence
3 5 (7.58%) IBM HTTP Server
3 5 (7.58%) IIS
3 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (7.58%) SharePoint
3 5 (7.58%) Tomcat
3 5 (7.58%) WebSphere
3 5 (7.58%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (7.58%) WebSphere Portal
4 3 (4.55%) CMS
4 3 (4.55%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.52%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.52%) InfoPath
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.15%) GCP
2 9 (13.64%) AWS
2 9 (13.64%) Azure
3 7 (10.61%) GitHub
4 6 (9.09%) Apigee
4 6 (9.09%) Kong
5 5 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (7.58%) npm
5 5 (7.58%) Serverless
6 2 (3.03%) Google App Engine
7 1 (1.52%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.52%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.52%) Boomi
7 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 24 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 16 (24.24%) DNS
3 12 (18.18%) SSL
4 7 (10.61%) Firewall
4 7 (10.61%) VPN
5 6 (9.09%) FTP
6 5 (7.58%) H.323
7 4 (6.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (6.06%) NetScaler
7 4 (6.06%) SMTP
8 3 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (4.55%) Skype
9 2 (3.03%) HTTPS
9 2 (3.03%) IPsec
9 2 (3.03%) SNMP
9 2 (3.03%) SSH
10 1 (1.52%) Internet
10 1 (1.52%) RNC
10 1 (1.52%) SS7
10 1 (1.52%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.58%) SQLite
3 4 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.55%) BigQuery
4 3 (4.55%) MariaDB
4 3 (4.55%) MySQL
5 1 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.52%) GIS
5 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.52%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 22 (33.33%) Git
2 17 (25.76%) Jenkins
3 14 (21.21%) JIRA
4 7 (10.61%) GitLab
5 6 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (9.09%) CircleCI
5 6 (9.09%) Travis CI
6 5 (7.58%) Checkstyle
6 5 (7.58%) IBM UrbanCode
6 5 (7.58%) SonarQube
7 4 (6.06%) Cucumber
7 4 (6.06%) Gatling
7 4 (6.06%) JMeter
7 4 (6.06%) Selenium
7 4 (6.06%) WebDriver
8 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket
8 3 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (19.70%) Finance
4 11 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 10 (15.15%) Public Sector
6 7 (10.61%) Banking
7 6 (9.09%) Legal
8 5 (7.58%) Manufacturing
9 4 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (6.06%) Electronics
9 4 (6.06%) Marketing
10 2 (3.03%) German Language
11 1 (1.52%) Automotive
11 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.52%) Publishing
11 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (19.70%) Software Engineer
2 12 (18.18%) Developer
3 11 (16.67%) Senior
4 6 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Middleware Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Senior Middleware Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Technical Support
6 4 (6.06%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Junior
7 3 (4.55%) Junior Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) SOC Analyst
8 2 (3.03%) Coordinator
8 2 (3.03%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (27.27%) XML
2 16 (24.24%) REST
3 12 (18.18%) JSON
4 11 (16.67%) RESTful
5 9 (13.64%) AngularJS
6 8 (12.12%) CSS
6 8 (12.12%) Kafka
6 8 (12.12%) LDAP
7 6 (9.09%) .NET
7 6 (9.09%) .NET Core
7 6 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (9.09%) YAML
8 5 (7.58%) .NET Framework
8 5 (7.58%) J2EE
8 5 (7.58%) Middleware
8 5 (7.58%) Web Services
9 4 (6.06%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (6.06%) HTML
10 3 (4.55%) JDBC
10 3 (4.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.58%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (7.58%) IVR
2 5 (7.58%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.55%) Cyberattack
3 3 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.76%) Linux
2 12 (18.18%) Windows
3 11 (16.67%) Unix
4 5 (7.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.06%) Mac OS X
6 2 (3.03%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.52%) Solaris
7 1 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.36%) Agile
2 17 (25.76%) Software Engineering
3 15 (22.73%) DevOps
4 12 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 12 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (15.15%) ITIL
6 9 (13.64%) API Integration
6 9 (13.64%) DevSecOps
6 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (13.64%) Test Automation
7 8 (12.12%) API Development
7 8 (12.12%) Containerisation
7 8 (12.12%) Project Management
8 7 (10.61%) Task Automation
9 6 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
9 6 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (9.09%) Design Patterns
9 6 (9.09%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.24%) Python
2 15 (22.73%) Java
3 12 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 10 (15.15%) Bash
5 8 (12.12%) PowerShell
6 7 (10.61%) TypeScript
7 6 (9.09%) C#
7 6 (9.09%) Scala
8 5 (7.58%) Shell Script
9 4 (6.06%) Groovy
9 4 (6.06%) Perl
10 3 (4.55%) PHP
10 3 (4.55%) SQL
11 2 (3.03%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 19 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) Degree
4 4 (6.06%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.03%) HND
5 2 (3.03%) MCSD
5 2 (3.03%) MCSE
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.52%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.52%) NFS
3 1 (1.52%) Samba
3 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.61%) Grafana
2 7 (10.61%) Prometheus
2 7 (10.61%) Terraform
3 6 (9.09%) Ansible
3 6 (9.09%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (9.09%) Kibana
3 6 (9.09%) logstash
3 6 (9.09%) Progress Chef
3 6 (9.09%) Puppet
4 2 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (25.76%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.64%) Splunk
3 7 (10.61%) IBM
3 7 (10.61%) SAP
4 6 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 5 (7.58%) Avaya
5 5 (7.58%) Verint
6 4 (6.06%) F5
6 4 (6.06%) Oracle
7 3 (4.55%) Darktrace
7 3 (4.55%) FireEye
7 3 (4.55%) Google
7 3 (4.55%) IronPort
7 3 (4.55%) LogRhythm
7 3 (4.55%) Symantec
8 2 (3.03%) Nokia
9 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.52%) Ericsson
9 1 (1.52%) Mapinfo
9 1 (1.52%) VMware