HTTP Contracts in the East of England

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 103 116
Rank change year-on-year +26 +13 +14
Contract jobs citing HTTP 12 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.07% 0.52% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.78% 3.47% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile £549 - £315
25th Percentile £566 £290 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £320 £400
Median % change year-on-year +91.41% -20.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £653 £350 £513
90th Percentile £681 £361 £585
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £80.34 - -
25th Percentile £80.59 - -
Median hourly rate £81.35 - -
75th Percentile £81.91 - -
90th Percentile £83.05 - -
England median hourly rate £80.68 £45.88 £75.00
% change year-on-year +75.84% -38.83% +66.67%

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 251 288 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.47% 14.99% 18.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 137 219
10th Percentile £225 £200 £209
25th Percentile £334 £260 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £621
90th Percentile £613 £575 £700
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 97 39
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £19.64 £16.30 £16.77
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.45% -57.69% +306.63%
75th Percentile £81.10 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.00 - £74.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -18.27% +121.59% -17.18%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the East of England

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HTTP in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for HTTP in the East of England

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HTTP in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 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 +29 10 £613 +111.21% 6
Cambridgeshire - 2 £613 - 1
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (8.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) npm
2 1 (8.33%) Akamai
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) DNS
1 10 (83.33%) SSL
2 9 (75.00%) FTP
2 9 (75.00%) SMTP
3 8 (66.67%) Network Security
4 1 (8.33%) BGP
4 1 (8.33%) DHCP
4 1 (8.33%) DMVPN
4 1 (8.33%) DWDM
4 1 (8.33%) GLBP
4 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
4 1 (8.33%) IGRP
4 1 (8.33%) Internet
4 1 (8.33%) LAN
4 1 (8.33%) MPLS
4 1 (8.33%) NetScaler
4 1 (8.33%) OSPF
4 1 (8.33%) SNMP
4 1 (8.33%) VPN
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Law
4 2 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (8.33%) Aviation
5 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Analyst
2 7 (58.33%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Angular Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Junior
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) LDAP
2 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (16.67%) Express.js
2 2 (16.67%) NgRx
2 2 (16.67%) Playwright
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) RxJS
3 1 (8.33%) 802.1X
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Cyberattack
2 7 (58.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (41.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (41.67%) CSOC
3 5 (41.67%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (16.67%) YARA
6 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (8.33%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (58.33%) Threat Detection
3 6 (50.00%) Network Packet Capture
3 6 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
4 5 (41.67%) Information Management
4 5 (41.67%) Information Security
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Behavioural Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (25.00%) SIEM
5 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Product Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) User Experience
6 2 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) CCDP
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Arista
1 1 (8.33%) Blue Coat
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco
1 1 (8.33%) Citrix
1 1 (8.33%) Darktrace
1 1 (8.33%) F5
1 1 (8.33%) FireEye
1 1 (8.33%) IronPort
1 1 (8.33%) Juniper
1 1 (8.33%) LogRhythm
1 1 (8.33%) Riverbed
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk
1 1 (8.33%) Symantec
1 1 (8.33%) Twitter
1 1 (8.33%) Zscaler