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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 307 387
Rank change year-on-year -113 +80 +33
Contract jobs citing HTTP 170 169 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.69% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.50% 5.23% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 115 104
10th Percentile £302 £380 £300
25th Percentile £400 £452 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £570 £481
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +18.44% -16.30%
75th Percentile £588 £653 £603
90th Percentile £738 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £488
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% -15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 8
10th Percentile £41.25 £45.75 £25.73
25th Percentile £50.25 £54.38 £41.16
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -19.43% +75.84% -38.83%
75th Percentile £83.75 £81.35 £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.10 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £45.88
% change year-on-year -19.43% +75.84% -38.83%

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 3,774 3,229 5,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.52% 13.16% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,372 2,020 3,047
10th Percentile £234 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £488
% change year-on-year +2.56% -0.15% -6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 122 401
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.93 £18.13 £17.69
Median hourly rate £48.72 £37.07 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.42% -7.32% +111.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +26.67% -6.25% +110.53%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -51 79 £525 -4.55% 26
North of England -41 46 £446 -5.61% 12
North West -10 41 £460 -1.23% 7
Midlands -38 35 £340 -13.04% 2
West Midlands -30 33 £340 -24.44% 1
South East -53 16 £525 +5.00% 12
East of England -44 5 - - 3
South West -48 5 £575 -6.50% 5
Yorkshire -61 4 £418 -44.33% 5
East Midlands -35 2 - - 1
North East - 1 £425 -
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 6 (3.53%) Ethereum
1 6 (3.53%) Hyperledger
2 5 (2.94%) Confluence
2 5 (2.94%) nginx
2 5 (2.94%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.35%) Apache
3 4 (2.35%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.76%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.18%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.18%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.18%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.18%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.59%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.59%) IIS
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (5.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.59%) InDesign
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.76%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.59%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 40 (23.53%) AWS
2 31 (18.24%) Azure
3 21 (12.35%) GCP
4 10 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 10 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (5.88%) GitHub
4 10 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (3.53%) SaaS
5 6 (3.53%) Serverless
6 5 (2.94%) Akamai
6 5 (2.94%) Apigee
6 5 (2.94%) Azure API Management
6 5 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.35%) Azure Functions
7 4 (2.35%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.35%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.35%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 67 (39.41%) DNS
2 53 (31.18%) SSL
3 52 (30.59%) TCP/IP
4 40 (23.53%) BIG-IP
5 38 (22.35%) Wireshark
6 23 (13.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 22 (12.94%) Firewall
7 22 (12.94%) Network Security
8 20 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 20 (11.76%) HTTPS
9 13 (7.65%) VPN
10 10 (5.88%) Wireless
11 9 (5.29%) FTP
11 9 (5.29%) LAN
11 9 (5.29%) SMTP
11 9 (5.29%) WAN
12 8 (4.71%) 3GPP
12 8 (4.71%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (4.71%) Ethereal
12 8 (4.71%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (4.71%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.12%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.12%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.35%) Metadata
4 4 (2.35%) Power BI
4 4 (2.35%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.76%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.18%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.59%) GIS
Development Applications
1 28 (16.47%) Fiddler
2 20 (11.76%) Git
3 16 (9.41%) JIRA
4 13 (7.65%) Jenkins
5 12 (7.06%) JUnit
6 9 (5.29%) Postman
7 8 (4.71%) GitLab
8 7 (4.12%) Gatling
8 7 (4.12%) JMeter
9 6 (3.53%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (2.94%) LoadRunner
11 4 (2.35%) Cucumber
11 4 (2.35%) SoapUI
12 3 (1.76%) Ant
12 3 (1.76%) Maven
12 3 (1.76%) Selenium
12 3 (1.76%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.76%) TestRail
12 3 (1.76%) Zephyr
13 2 (1.18%) Introscope
General
1 55 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 41 (24.12%) Banking
3 29 (17.06%) Finance
4 24 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (14.12%) Investment Banking
5 9 (5.29%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.71%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.35%) Legal
8 4 (2.35%) Marketing
9 3 (1.76%) Advertising
10 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Front Office
10 2 (1.18%) Games
11 1 (0.59%) Electronics
11 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (21.76%) Network Engineer
2 36 (21.18%) Developer
3 35 (20.59%) Web Engineer
4 23 (13.53%) Senior
5 19 (11.18%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 19 (11.18%) IP Network Engineer
6 11 (6.47%) Java Developer
7 10 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 10 (5.88%) Junior
7 10 (5.88%) Security Engineer
8 9 (5.29%) Junior Network Engineer
8 9 (5.29%) Tester
9 8 (4.71%) Analyst
9 8 (4.71%) Consultant
9 8 (4.71%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.12%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.53%) SOC Analyst
12 5 (2.94%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.47%) JSON
2 27 (15.88%) REST
3 19 (11.18%) OAuth
3 19 (11.18%) SAML
3 19 (11.18%) XML
4 18 (10.59%) RESTful
5 17 (10.00%) Kafka
6 15 (8.82%) .NET
7 14 (8.24%) HTML
8 13 (7.65%) LDAP
9 11 (6.47%) OAuth2
9 11 (6.47%) Spring
9 11 (6.47%) Spring Boot
10 10 (5.88%) SOAP
11 9 (5.29%) Middleware
12 8 (4.71%) AngularJS
13 7 (4.12%) gRPC
14 6 (3.53%) Ajax
14 6 (3.53%) Spring Batch
15 5 (2.94%) IBM Integration Bus
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.82%) Management Information System
2 12 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 7 (4.12%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.53%) BYOD
5 6 (3.53%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.53%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.94%) CSOC
6 5 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.94%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.35%) Derivative
8 3 (1.76%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.47%) Linux
2 20 (11.76%) Windows
3 16 (9.41%) Unix
4 6 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.53%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.94%) AIX
5 5 (2.94%) Solaris
5 5 (2.94%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (2.35%) CatOS
6 4 (2.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (28.82%) CI/CD
2 41 (24.12%) Agile
3 33 (19.41%) Load Balancing
4 28 (16.47%) Data Loss Prevention
4 28 (16.47%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 24 (14.12%) DevOps
6 22 (12.94%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (10.59%) Runbook
8 17 (10.00%) Microservices
8 17 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (10.00%) Security Operations
9 14 (8.24%) Application Security
9 14 (8.24%) Test Automation
10 13 (7.65%) Computer Science
11 12 (7.06%) Incident Response
11 12 (7.06%) Information Security
11 12 (7.06%) Migration
11 12 (7.06%) Scrum
12 11 (6.47%) API Management
12 11 (6.47%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 44 (25.88%) Python
2 38 (22.35%) Java
3 21 (12.35%) C#
3 21 (12.35%) JavaScript
4 18 (10.59%) SQL
5 15 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.65%) PowerShell
7 12 (7.06%) Bash
8 10 (5.88%) PL/SQL
9 7 (4.12%) Perl
10 6 (3.53%) C++
11 5 (2.94%) Korn
12 4 (2.35%) Rust
13 3 (1.76%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.76%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.76%) XPath
14 2 (1.18%) Go
14 2 (1.18%) Jython
14 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.76%) Degree
3 18 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.12%) CISSP
6 6 (3.53%) CISM
6 6 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.76%) CCNA
7 3 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.18%) CCNP
8 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.18%) OSCP
8 2 (1.18%) PhD
9 1 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.59%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.59%) GPEN
9 1 (0.59%) GXPN
9 1 (0.59%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (5.29%) NIST
2 6 (3.53%) GDPR
2 6 (3.53%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.53%) QA
2 6 (3.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.18%) SEPA
5 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (18.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (11.18%) Docker
2 19 (11.18%) Firmware
3 17 (10.00%) VMware NSX
4 10 (5.88%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.00%) Ansible
3 13 (7.65%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (3.53%) Grafana
5 5 (2.94%) Kibana
6 4 (2.35%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (2.35%) Terraform
7 2 (1.18%) CA Wily
7 2 (1.18%) logstash
7 2 (1.18%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.18%) Puppet
7 2 (1.18%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.59%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.59%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 42 (24.71%) VMware
2 41 (24.12%) F5
3 29 (17.06%) Blue Coat
4 28 (16.47%) McAfee
5 27 (15.88%) Microsoft
6 19 (11.18%) NetApp
7 13 (7.65%) Oracle
8 12 (7.06%) IBM
9 11 (6.47%) Cisco
10 8 (4.71%) CheckPoint
10 8 (4.71%) Palo Alto
10 8 (4.71%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.94%) AppDynamics
11 5 (2.94%) Splunk
12 4 (2.35%) Ericsson
12 4 (2.35%) Google
12 4 (2.35%) Huawei
12 4 (2.35%) Netskope
12 4 (2.35%) Nokia
12 4 (2.35%) SolarWinds