HTTP Contracts in the City of London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 119 156
Rank change year-on-year +10 +37 +1
Contract jobs citing HTTP 11 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.63% 0.23% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.55% 2.36% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 11
10th Percentile £388 - £365
25th Percentile £500 £775 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £850 £738
Median % change year-on-year -31.18% +15.25% +9.26%
75th Percentile £638 £925 £816
90th Percentile £660 - £820
Central London median daily rate £585 £850 £738
% change year-on-year -31.18% +15.25% +10.28%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 168 212 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.61% 9.76% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 142 252
10th Percentile £258 £207 £233
25th Percentile £466 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.06% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £634 £675
90th Percentile £741 £773 £750
Central London median daily rate £539 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.72% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -48.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HTTP in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for HTTP in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HTTP in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (18.18%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) Anypoint
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (27.27%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 3 (27.27%) DNS
2 3 (27.27%) Firewall
3 2 (18.18%) FTP
3 2 (18.18%) SMTP
3 2 (18.18%) SSL
3 2 (18.18%) VPN
4 1 (9.09%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
4 1 (9.09%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) JMeter
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
2 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 3 (27.27%) Banking
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) Consultant
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Lead
1 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) Web Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft Developer
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
2 2 (18.18%) OAuth
2 2 (18.18%) WebSockets
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) JWT
3 1 (9.09%) LDAP
3 1 (9.09%) MUnit
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
3 1 (9.09%) RAML
3 1 (9.09%) SAML
3 1 (9.09%) SOAP
3 1 (9.09%) Swagger
3 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
1 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
2 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
2 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 2 (18.18%) API Development
3 2 (18.18%) API Integration
3 2 (18.18%) Chaos Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
3 2 (18.18%) Open Source
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (18.18%) SDLC
3 2 (18.18%) SIEM
3 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Threat Detection
3 2 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
4 2 (18.18%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) C++
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) Groovy
5 1 (9.09%) Perl
5 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) BitLocker
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (9.09%) OpenAM
1 1 (9.09%) OpenDJ
1 1 (9.09%) OpenIDM
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) XenApp
1 1 (9.09%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) CloudHub
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
1 1 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Citrix
2 1 (9.09%) ForgeRock
2 1 (9.09%) HP
2 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) VMware