HTTP Contract Job Trends in England

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring HTTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 327 367
Rank change year-on-year -143 +40 +69
Contract jobs citing HTTP 161 179 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.65% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.79% 5.21% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 110 93
10th Percentile £363 £349 £235
25th Percentile £410 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £561 £634 £622
90th Percentile £638 £694 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -6.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 20 8
10th Percentile £63.75 £45.00 £25.73
25th Percentile £67.50 £45.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £61.25 £36.94
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% +65.81% -50.75%
75th Percentile £82.50 £81.35 £85.00
90th Percentile £86.25 £84.10 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £61.25 £36.94
% change year-on-year +22.45% +65.81% -50.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,249 3,433 4,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.35% 12.43% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,574 2,133 2,592
10th Percentile £263 £235 £240
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 162 291
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.94 £45.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.91% -12.62% -0.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £50.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -46.68% +5.26% -5.79%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

HTTP job vacancy trend in England

HTTP
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HTTP

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in England over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in England

HTTP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HTTP

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTTP in England over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
London -63 86 £500 -9.91% 76
North of England -42 34 £453 -4.68% 11
Midlands -49 27 £400 -15.79% 10
West Midlands -48 24 £378 -20.53% 6
North West -37 23 £553 +16.32% 9
South East -64 21 £460 -8.00% 8
Yorkshire -44 9 £439 -13.97% 2
East of England -31 4 £425 -34.62% 2
East Midlands -11 3 £402 +11.67% 4
South West -51 2 £500 +49.25% 7
North East - 2 £419 -
HTTP
UK

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (6.83%) Confluence
2 8 (4.97%) nginx
2 8 (4.97%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.73%) OpenStack
4 5 (3.11%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.86%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.24%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (1.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (1.24%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (1.24%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.62%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.62%) CICS
7 1 (0.62%) IIS
7 1 (0.62%) Mule
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.86%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.24%) Houdini
2 2 (1.24%) NUKE
3 1 (0.62%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.62%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.62%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (30.43%) AWS
2 39 (24.22%) Azure
3 25 (15.53%) GCP
4 10 (6.21%) Akamai
5 9 (5.59%) SaaS
6 7 (4.35%) GitHub
7 6 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (3.73%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.73%) iPaaS
7 6 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.11%) Boomi
8 5 (3.11%) Datadog
8 5 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.11%) Workato
9 4 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.48%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.48%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.48%) Serverless
10 3 (1.86%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 67 (41.61%) DNS
2 62 (38.51%) TCP/IP
3 50 (31.06%) SSL
4 29 (18.01%) Network Security
5 24 (14.91%) BIG-IP
6 22 (13.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 22 (13.66%) Wireshark
7 19 (11.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 18 (11.18%) HTTPS
9 15 (9.32%) Firewall
10 8 (4.97%) BGP
10 8 (4.97%) VPN
11 7 (4.35%) 5G
12 6 (3.73%) 3GPP
12 6 (3.73%) Internet
13 5 (3.11%) IPsec
13 5 (3.11%) LAN
13 5 (3.11%) WAN
14 4 (2.48%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (2.48%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.21%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.11%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.48%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.48%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.48%) MySQL
4 3 (1.86%) Metadata
4 3 (1.86%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.86%) Redis
5 2 (1.24%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.24%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.24%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.24%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.62%) GIS
6 1 (0.62%) OLAP
6 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (10.56%) Fiddler
2 12 (7.45%) Git
3 11 (6.83%) GitLab
3 11 (6.83%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.97%) JIRA
4 8 (4.97%) JMeter
5 7 (4.35%) Gatling
6 6 (3.73%) Browser DevTools
6 6 (3.73%) LoadRunner
7 4 (2.48%) JUnit
8 3 (1.86%) Postman
9 2 (1.24%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.24%) Gradle
9 2 (1.24%) Introscope
9 2 (1.24%) Maven
9 2 (1.24%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.24%) Selenium
9 2 (1.24%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.24%) TestNG
10 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
General
1 38 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.39%) Finance
3 25 (15.53%) Banking
4 22 (13.66%) Investment Banking
5 20 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (8.70%) Telecoms
7 9 (5.59%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.24%) Games
9 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Retail
10 1 (0.62%) Electronics
10 1 (0.62%) Front Office
10 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (16.15%) Developer
1 26 (16.15%) Network Engineer
2 24 (14.91%) Web Engineer
3 21 (13.04%) Senior
4 17 (10.56%) Security Engineer
5 16 (9.94%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 16 (9.94%) IP Network Engineer
6 11 (6.83%) Architect
6 11 (6.83%) Software Engineer
7 7 (4.35%) Designer
7 7 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) C++ Software Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.73%) Support Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) Tester
9 5 (3.11%) Consultant
9 5 (3.11%) Performance Tester
9 5 (3.11%) Security Consultant
9 5 (3.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (22.36%) REST
2 17 (10.56%) JSON
2 17 (10.56%) SAML
3 16 (9.94%) CSS
3 16 (9.94%) SOAP
4 15 (9.32%) Kafka
4 15 (9.32%) XML
5 13 (8.07%) RESTful
6 12 (7.45%) HTML
6 12 (7.45%) OAuth
7 10 (6.21%) Middleware
8 9 (5.59%) OpenAPI
8 9 (5.59%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (5.59%) Swagger
9 8 (4.97%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (4.97%) WebSockets
10 7 (4.35%) Web Services
11 6 (3.73%) GraphQL
12 5 (3.11%) JWT
12 5 (3.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.53%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (14.91%) Management Information System
3 20 (12.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 11 (6.83%) Algorithms
5 10 (6.21%) Cloud Native
5 10 (6.21%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (4.97%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.97%) Derivative
6 8 (4.97%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.73%) BYOD
7 6 (3.73%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.48%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.48%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.86%) CMDB
10 3 (1.86%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.24%) Clustering
11 2 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.24%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 28 (17.39%) Linux
2 14 (8.70%) Windows
3 13 (8.07%) Unix
4 6 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.73%) Solaris
4 6 (3.73%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.24%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (1.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.62%) CatOS
7 1 (0.62%) VMS
7 1 (0.62%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.33%) CI/CD
2 35 (21.74%) Load Balancing
3 31 (19.25%) Agile
4 23 (14.29%) DevOps
5 20 (12.42%) Incident Response
5 20 (12.42%) Runbook
6 19 (11.80%) SIEM
7 18 (11.18%) Test Automation
8 17 (10.56%) Data Loss Prevention
8 17 (10.56%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 17 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (9.94%) Application Security
9 16 (9.94%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (9.94%) Incident Management
9 16 (9.94%) Observability
10 15 (9.32%) DDoS Mitigation
10 15 (9.32%) Migration
11 14 (8.70%) Integration Patterns
11 14 (8.70%) Security Operations
11 14 (8.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (27.95%) Python
2 29 (18.01%) Java
3 21 (13.04%) SQL
4 14 (8.70%) Bash
5 13 (8.07%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.83%) C#
7 10 (6.21%) C++
7 10 (6.21%) PowerShell
7 10 (6.21%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.97%) Rust
8 8 (4.97%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.35%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.73%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.86%) Groovy
11 3 (1.86%) Perl
12 2 (1.24%) Jython
12 2 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.24%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.62%) Bicep
13 1 (0.62%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 27 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.80%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.83%) Degree
4 10 (6.21%) CISSP
5 6 (3.73%) CISM
6 4 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.86%) CCNA
7 3 (1.86%) CCNP
7 3 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.24%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (1.24%) GCIA
8 2 (1.24%) GCIH
8 2 (1.24%) GIAC
8 2 (1.24%) OSCP
9 1 (0.62%) CCSAM
9 1 (0.62%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.62%) GPEN
9 1 (0.62%) OSCE
9 1 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.83%) NIST
2 9 (5.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.59%) PCI DSS
3 7 (4.35%) GDPR
3 7 (4.35%) QA
4 6 (3.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.24%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.24%) NCSC
5 2 (1.24%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.24%) SLA
6 1 (0.62%) GRC
6 1 (0.62%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 27 (16.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (11.80%) Docker
3 16 (9.94%) Firmware
4 7 (4.35%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.73%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.11%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.48%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (1.24%) vSphere
9 1 (0.62%) RACF
9 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (8.07%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.45%) Grafana
3 11 (6.83%) Ansible
3 11 (6.83%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (5.59%) Terraform
5 4 (2.48%) Kibana
5 4 (2.48%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (1.86%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.24%) CA Wily
7 2 (1.24%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.62%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.62%) Consul
8 1 (0.62%) logstash
8 1 (0.62%) Packer
8 1 (0.62%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (19.25%) VMware
2 28 (17.39%) F5
3 21 (13.04%) Blue Coat
4 17 (10.56%) McAfee
4 17 (10.56%) Oracle
5 16 (9.94%) NetApp
6 15 (9.32%) IBM
6 15 (9.32%) Microsoft
7 11 (6.83%) Cisco
8 8 (4.97%) Google
8 8 (4.97%) Red Hat
8 8 (4.97%) ServiceNow
9 7 (4.35%) Netskope
9 7 (4.35%) Zscaler
10 6 (3.73%) MuleSoft
11 5 (3.11%) AppDynamics
11 5 (3.11%) Dynatrace
12 4 (2.48%) Palo Alto
12 4 (2.48%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.48%) WSO2