HTTP Contract Job Trends in the East of England

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring HTTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 77 112
Rank change year-on-year -9 +35 +27
Contract jobs citing HTTP 14 14 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.99% 1.06% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.03% 5.81% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile £616 £290 -
25th Percentile £640 £466 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £563 £375
Median % change year-on-year +20.89% +50.00% -36.01%
75th Percentile £690 £600 £531
90th Percentile £696 - £588
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £71.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% - -
75th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
England median hourly rate £54.50 £33.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +61.48% -51.79% +32.58%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 232 241 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.36% 18.19% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 114 213
10th Percentile £181 £220 £225
25th Percentile £250 £290 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +4.17% +7.46%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £686 £600 £638
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 39 68
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £28.13 £50.94
Median hourly rate £49.75 £52.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -19.23% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.56 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £83.50 £69.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £55.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -38.18% -2.64% +36.12%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

HTTP job vacancy trend in the East of England

HTTP
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing HTTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing HTTP

HTTP
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing HTTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing HTTP

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTTP in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HTTP in the East of England

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Hertfordshire -13 10 £680 +20.89% 7
Suffolk - 2 - -
Cambridgeshire - 2 £650 -
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) SSL
2 10 (71.43%) DNS
2 10 (71.43%) FTP
2 10 (71.43%) Network Security
2 10 (71.43%) SMTP
3 1 (7.14%) Bluetooth
3 1 (7.14%) MQTT
3 1 (7.14%) UWB
3 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (7.14%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Analyst
1 10 (71.43%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Angular Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) PCB Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) LDAP
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (14.29%) LINQ
3 2 (14.29%) Middleware
4 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.14%) Express.js
4 1 (7.14%) NgRx
4 1 (7.14%) Playwright
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Cyberattack
2 8 (57.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (57.14%) CSOC
2 8 (57.14%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (57.14%) Management Information System
2 8 (57.14%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (71.43%) Information Security
1 10 (71.43%) Network Packet Capture
2 9 (64.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (64.29%) SIEM
3 8 (57.14%) AI
3 8 (57.14%) Analytics
3 8 (57.14%) Behavioural Analytics
3 8 (57.14%) Incident Response
3 8 (57.14%) Information Management
3 8 (57.14%) Machine Learning
3 8 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
3 8 (57.14%) Runbook
3 8 (57.14%) Security Operations
3 8 (57.14%) SOAR
3 8 (57.14%) Threat Detection
4 7 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 2 (14.29%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) C
4 1 (7.14%) C++
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (7.14%) Firmware