HTTP Contract Job Trends in Central London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring HTTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 123 134
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +28
Contract jobs citing HTTP 4 12 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.15% 0.59% 0.087%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.92% 5.80% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £119 £388 -
25th Percentile £166 £500 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £246 £580 £800
Median % change year-on-year -57.57% -27.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £324 £600 £825
90th Percentile £370 £623 -
London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -14.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
London median hourly rate £75.00 £54.50 -
% change year-on-year +37.61% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

HTTP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 208 207 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.02% 10.11% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 144 147
10th Percentile £294 £263 £250
25th Percentile £413 £405 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +8.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £604
90th Percentile £725 £746 £744
London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £19.42 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £21.88 £33.28 £12.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% +226.72% -53.04%
75th Percentile £64.69 £55.49 £14.25
90th Percentile £76.88 £61.54 -
London median hourly rate £26.75 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -10.83% +36.36% -37.14%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HTTP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

HTTP job vacancy trend in Central London

HTTP
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing HTTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing HTTP

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in Central London over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in Central London

HTTP
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing HTTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing HTTP

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTTP in Central London over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for HTTP in Central London

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 28 July 2026. 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
City of Westminster -9 2 - -
City of London -18 2 £246 -50.78% 3
West End of London - 2 - -
HTTP
London

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (25.00%) Ethereum
2 1 (25.00%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Blockchain Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Designer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
3 2 (50.00%) Bootstrap
3 2 (50.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) gRPC
4 1 (25.00%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (25.00%) Kafka
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
4 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (25.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (25.00%) CMDB
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Service Management
3 2 (50.00%) CAD
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) ITSM
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow