HTTP Contracts in Cheshire

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring HTTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HTTP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing HTTP 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.67% - 0.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.62% - 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £428 - £492
25th Percentile £452 - £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - £550
75th Percentile £496 - £629
90th Percentile £498 - £636
North West median daily rate £466 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +33.14% -30.00% -2.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 65 77 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.48% 15.28% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 58
10th Percentile £203 £65 £248
25th Percentile £313 £199 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.81% +20.38%
75th Percentile £492 £519 £569
90th Percentile £584 £582 £630
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year - +19.55% -5.90%
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in Cheshire

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in Cheshire

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in Cheshire

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford - 3 £492 - 1
HTTP
North West

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (33.33%) NX-OS
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) Forensic Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ForgeRock
2 1 (33.33%) Arista
2 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler