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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 350 339
Rank change year-on-year -103 -11 +80
Contract jobs citing HTTP 173 166 188
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.59% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.03% 5.05% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 97 103
10th Percentile £363 £318 £292
25th Percentile £406 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £624
90th Percentile £617 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £460 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -3.16% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 6
10th Percentile £61.20 £45.00 £27.00
25th Percentile £68.75 £45.38 £38.06
Median hourly rate £85.00 £57.50 £76.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -24.59% +11.31%
75th Percentile £88.74 £78.18 £85.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £57.50 £76.25
% change year-on-year +47.83% -24.59% +11.31%

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 4,298 3,289 3,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.30% 11.71% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,537 2,090 2,254
10th Percentile £261 £216 £237
25th Percentile £400 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 172 160
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £21.33 £20.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 £34.00 £57.43
Median % change year-on-year +13.88% -40.79% +1.66%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £67.14
90th Percentile £92.53 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% -28.57% -13.26%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -95 79 £513 -2.38% 110
North of England -50 34 £473 -3.91% 36
East of England -19 23 £425 -37.50% 16
South East -58 21 £460 -5.64% 22
Midlands -60 20 £450 -5.26% 27
West Midlands -57 19 £450 -5.26% 20
North West -46 18 £560 +17.89% 31
Yorkshire -27 13 £472 -32.64% 5
North East - 3 £425 -
East Midlands -23 1 £402 +11.67% 7
South West -35 1 £475 +41.79% 6
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 13 (7.51%) nginx
2 11 (6.36%) Confluence
2 11 (6.36%) Tomcat
3 9 (5.20%) WebLogic
4 7 (4.05%) IIS
5 6 (3.47%) WebSphere
6 5 (2.89%) Apache
6 5 (2.89%) IBM HTTP Server
6 5 (2.89%) OpenStack
6 5 (2.89%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 5 (2.89%) WebLogic Portal
6 5 (2.89%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (2.89%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.58%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.58%) CICS
7 1 (0.58%) Mule
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Windchill
2 2 (1.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.16%) Houdini
2 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.16%) NUKE
3 1 (0.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.73%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (26.01%) AWS
2 37 (21.39%) Azure
3 21 (12.14%) GCP
4 11 (6.36%) Akamai
5 10 (5.78%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (5.20%) Boomi
6 9 (5.20%) iPaaS
7 8 (4.62%) Power Platform
8 7 (4.05%) GitHub
8 7 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.47%) Azure Databricks
9 6 (3.47%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.47%) Serverless
9 6 (3.47%) Workato
10 5 (2.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.89%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.89%) Datadog
10 5 (2.89%) SaaS
11 4 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 59 (34.10%) TCP/IP
2 57 (32.95%) DNS
3 53 (30.64%) SSL
4 27 (15.61%) Network Security
5 19 (10.98%) Firewall
6 18 (10.40%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 18 (10.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 16 (9.25%) BGP
7 16 (9.25%) Wireshark
8 15 (8.67%) BIG-IP
8 15 (8.67%) HTTPS
9 13 (7.51%) Internet
10 9 (5.20%) LAN
10 9 (5.20%) OSPF
10 9 (5.20%) SSH
11 8 (4.62%) HSRP
11 8 (4.62%) VRRP
12 7 (4.05%) DHCP
12 7 (4.05%) SMTP
12 7 (4.05%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.05%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.05%) MySQL
2 7 (4.05%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.47%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.47%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.47%) Redis
4 4 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.31%) Metadata
5 3 (1.73%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.16%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.16%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.58%) GIS
7 1 (0.58%) OLAP
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (9.83%) Git
2 16 (9.25%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.36%) Fiddler
3 11 (6.36%) GitLab
4 7 (4.05%) JIRA
5 6 (3.47%) Selenium
6 4 (2.31%) JMeter
6 4 (2.31%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.73%) Gatling
7 3 (1.73%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.16%) JUnit
8 2 (1.16%) Postman
8 2 (1.16%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.16%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.16%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.58%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
General
1 44 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.14%) Finance
3 20 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.40%) Banking
5 16 (9.25%) Investment Banking
6 10 (5.78%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.05%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.47%) Back Office
9 5 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.73%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Law
12 2 (1.16%) Retail
13 1 (0.58%) Marketing
13 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (19.08%) Developer
2 29 (16.76%) Network Engineer
3 20 (11.56%) Security Engineer
4 16 (9.25%) Architect
5 15 (8.67%) Senior
6 13 (7.51%) Web Engineer
7 12 (6.94%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.36%) Blue Coat Engineer
8 11 (6.36%) IP Network Engineer
8 11 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.20%) Analyst
9 9 (5.20%) Integration Developer
10 7 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.47%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.47%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (2.89%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 5 (2.89%) Java Engineer
12 5 (2.89%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (31.21%) REST
2 31 (17.92%) JSON
3 24 (13.87%) Kafka
4 22 (12.72%) SOAP
5 21 (12.14%) XML
6 17 (9.83%) CSS
6 17 (9.83%) Middleware
7 16 (9.25%) HTML
8 15 (8.67%) RESTful
9 14 (8.09%) LDAP
9 14 (8.09%) RabbitMQ
9 14 (8.09%) SAML
9 14 (8.09%) Terraform
10 12 (6.94%) OpenAPI
10 12 (6.94%) Swagger
11 11 (6.36%) OAuth
12 10 (5.78%) GraphQL
12 10 (5.78%) JWT
13 9 (5.20%) ActiveMQ
13 9 (5.20%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.34%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (11.56%) Cyber Threat
3 16 (9.25%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.25%) Management Information System
3 16 (9.25%) Onboarding
4 13 (7.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 9 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (4.62%) Data Structures
7 7 (4.05%) Algorithms
7 7 (4.05%) Derivative
8 6 (3.47%) Distributed Applications
8 6 (3.47%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.89%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.73%) CMDB
10 3 (1.73%) Cyberattack
10 3 (1.73%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.73%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.73%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.97%) Linux
2 26 (15.03%) Windows
3 13 (7.51%) Unix
4 12 (6.94%) Windows Server
5 10 (5.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.73%) Solaris
6 3 (1.73%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (1.16%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.16%) VMS
7 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.58%) CatOS
8 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.58%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (21.97%) CI/CD
2 36 (20.81%) Load Balancing
3 32 (18.50%) DevOps
4 25 (14.45%) SIEM
5 24 (13.87%) Agile
6 23 (13.29%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (13.29%) Test Automation
7 22 (12.72%) Event-Driven
8 21 (12.14%) Observability
9 20 (11.56%) Incident Response
9 20 (11.56%) Integration Patterns
10 19 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (10.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 18 (10.40%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (10.40%) Software Engineering
12 15 (8.67%) API Integration
12 15 (8.67%) Runbook
12 15 (8.67%) Scrum
12 15 (8.67%) Threat Detection
13 13 (7.51%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 46 (26.59%) Python
2 28 (16.18%) Java
3 27 (15.61%) SQL
4 13 (7.51%) JavaScript
4 13 (7.51%) PowerShell
4 13 (7.51%) Shell Script
5 11 (6.36%) Bash
6 10 (5.78%) C#
7 8 (4.62%) C++
7 8 (4.62%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.47%) Groovy
8 6 (3.47%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.47%) Rust
9 4 (2.31%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.73%) Perl
11 2 (1.16%) Go
11 2 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.16%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.58%) Cypher
12 1 (0.58%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 39 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.87%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.51%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.20%) Degree
5 7 (4.05%) CCNA
5 7 (4.05%) CCNP
5 7 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (4.05%) CISSP
6 6 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.73%) OSCP
8 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.16%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (1.16%) ECSA
8 2 (1.16%) GCIA
8 2 (1.16%) GCIH
8 2 (1.16%) GIAC
8 2 (1.16%) SANS
9 1 (0.58%) CCSAM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.36%) QA
2 3 (1.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.73%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.16%) NCSC
3 2 (1.16%) NIST
3 2 (1.16%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
4 1 (0.58%) GMP
4 1 (0.58%) GRC
4 1 (0.58%) GxP
4 1 (0.58%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.58%) SLA
4 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (17.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (13.29%) Docker
3 21 (12.14%) Active Directory
4 11 (6.36%) Firmware
5 10 (5.78%) vSphere
6 9 (5.20%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (4.05%) Hyper-V
7 7 (4.05%) NFS
8 3 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.73%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.16%) DFS Replication
9 2 (1.16%) Dovecot
9 2 (1.16%) Postfix
9 2 (1.16%) Squid
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.58%) RACF
Systems Management
1 18 (10.40%) Grafana
2 14 (8.09%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.36%) Ansible
4 9 (5.20%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.62%) Nagios
6 6 (3.47%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.31%) Kibana
8 2 (1.16%) Consul
8 2 (1.16%) Nessus
8 2 (1.16%) Packer
8 2 (1.16%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.16%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.58%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.58%) logstash
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (22.54%) VMware
2 24 (13.87%) F5
2 24 (13.87%) IBM
3 23 (13.29%) Oracle
4 15 (8.67%) Cisco
4 15 (8.67%) Microsoft
5 14 (8.09%) Blue Coat
6 13 (7.51%) Google
7 11 (6.36%) McAfee
7 11 (6.36%) NetApp
7 11 (6.36%) SolarWinds
8 10 (5.78%) MuleSoft
9 9 (5.20%) Informatica
9 9 (5.20%) TIBCO
9 9 (5.20%) WSO2
10 8 (4.62%) ServiceNow
11 6 (3.47%) Dynatrace
11 6 (3.47%) Qualys
11 6 (3.47%) SAP
11 6 (3.47%) Splunk