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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 311 390
Rank change year-on-year -110 +79 +34
Contract jobs citing HTTP 167 165 158
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.68% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.44% 5.13% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 118 100
10th Percentile £306 £379 £300
25th Percentile £402 £451 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +23.24% -19.57%
75th Percentile £588 £653 £578
90th Percentile £689 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £570 £488
% change year-on-year -12.28% +16.92% -15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 4
10th Percentile £41.25 £33.03 -
25th Percentile £50.25 £43.88 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -19.43% +75.84% -38.83%
75th Percentile £83.75 £81.54 £48.91
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.67 £54.36
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 3,762 3,218 5,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.91% 13.27% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,409 2,010 3,174
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £385 £363 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +1.54% +2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 120 378
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.91 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.09 £21.31 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.02 £35.75 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -8.92% +106.58%
75th Percentile £66.94 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.89% +96.89%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -57 71 £525 +5.00% 24
North of England -37 46 £460 -1.23% 14
North West -1 43 £460 -0.05% 4
Midlands -51 32 £340 -13.04% 2
West Midlands -33 30 £340 -24.44% 1
South East -53 19 £500 -3.85% 5
East of England -43 7 - - 8
South West -35 5 £575 -6.50% 1
Yorkshire -61 3 £538 -28.33% 7
East Midlands -33 2 - - 1
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 (3.59%) Ethereum
1 6 (3.59%) Hyperledger
2 4 (2.40%) Apache
3 3 (1.80%) Confluence
3 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.80%) nginx
3 3 (1.80%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.80%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.20%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (1.20%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (1.20%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.20%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.20%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.60%) IIS
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (4.79%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.60%) InDesign
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (5.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.80%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.60%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 41 (24.55%) AWS
2 37 (22.16%) Azure
3 21 (12.57%) GCP
4 14 (8.38%) GitHub
5 10 (5.99%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (5.99%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (5.99%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.59%) Akamai
6 6 (3.59%) Serverless
7 5 (2.99%) Apigee
7 5 (2.99%) Azure API Management
7 5 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (2.99%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.99%) SaaS
8 4 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.40%) Azure Functions
8 4 (2.40%) Power Automate
8 4 (2.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 69 (41.32%) DNS
2 55 (32.93%) TCP/IP
3 54 (32.34%) SSL
4 41 (24.55%) BIG-IP
5 40 (23.95%) Wireshark
6 23 (13.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 21 (12.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 21 (12.57%) Firewall
7 21 (12.57%) Network Security
8 18 (10.78%) HTTPS
9 12 (7.19%) VPN
10 9 (5.39%) FTP
10 9 (5.39%) SMTP
10 9 (5.39%) Wireless
11 8 (4.79%) LAN
11 8 (4.79%) WAN
12 7 (4.19%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (4.19%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (4.19%) Ethereal
12 7 (4.19%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (4.19%) MongoDB
1 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
1 7 (4.19%) Oracle Database
1 7 (4.19%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.40%) Power BI
3 4 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.80%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.60%) GIS
6 1 (0.60%) Metadata
6 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (18.56%) Fiddler
2 22 (13.17%) Git
3 15 (8.98%) JIRA
4 13 (7.78%) Jenkins
5 12 (7.19%) JUnit
6 11 (6.59%) Postman
7 8 (4.79%) GitLab
8 7 (4.19%) Gatling
8 7 (4.19%) JMeter
9 6 (3.59%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (2.99%) LoadRunner
11 4 (2.40%) Cucumber
11 4 (2.40%) SoapUI
12 3 (1.80%) Ant
12 3 (1.80%) Maven
12 3 (1.80%) Selenium
12 3 (1.80%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.80%) TestRail
12 3 (1.80%) Zephyr
13 2 (1.20%) Introscope
General
1 50 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 38 (22.75%) Banking
3 29 (17.37%) Finance
4 25 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (13.17%) Investment Banking
6 10 (5.99%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.59%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.40%) Legal
9 4 (2.40%) Marketing
10 3 (1.80%) Advertising
11 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Front Office
12 1 (0.60%) Electronics
12 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (23.35%) Network Engineer
2 38 (22.75%) Web Engineer
3 37 (22.16%) Developer
4 20 (11.98%) Senior
5 19 (11.38%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 19 (11.38%) IP Network Engineer
6 12 (7.19%) Junior
7 11 (6.59%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.59%) Junior Network Engineer
8 10 (5.99%) Analyst
8 10 (5.99%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 10 (5.99%) Security Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) Consultant
9 8 (4.79%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) Tester
10 7 (4.19%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.59%) Integration Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) SOC Analyst
12 5 (2.99%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (2.99%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (19.16%) JSON
2 27 (16.17%) REST
3 21 (12.57%) XML
4 20 (11.98%) OAuth
5 18 (10.78%) SAML
6 17 (10.18%) .NET
6 17 (10.18%) RESTful
7 16 (9.58%) Kafka
8 12 (7.19%) HTML
8 12 (7.19%) LDAP
9 11 (6.59%) Middleware
9 11 (6.59%) OAuth2
9 11 (6.59%) Spring
9 11 (6.59%) Spring Boot
10 10 (5.99%) AngularJS
11 9 (5.39%) SOAP
12 7 (4.19%) gRPC
12 7 (4.19%) SignalR
12 7 (4.19%) WebSockets
13 6 (3.59%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.76%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.19%) BYOD
3 7 (4.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (3.59%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.99%) CSOC
5 5 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.99%) Cyberattack
5 5 (2.99%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (2.40%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.40%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.80%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.80%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.20%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.97%) Linux
2 18 (10.78%) Windows
3 13 (7.78%) Unix
4 6 (3.59%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.99%) AIX
5 5 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.40%) CatOS
7 3 (1.80%) Solaris
7 3 (1.80%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (1.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.60%) Android
9 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (29.94%) CI/CD
2 41 (24.55%) Agile
3 35 (20.96%) Load Balancing
4 30 (17.96%) Data Loss Prevention
4 30 (17.96%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 22 (13.17%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (13.17%) DevOps
6 21 (12.57%) Microservices
7 19 (11.38%) Security Operations
8 18 (10.78%) Runbook
9 17 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (8.38%) Application Security
10 14 (8.38%) Computer Science
10 14 (8.38%) Test Automation
11 12 (7.19%) Containerisation
11 12 (7.19%) CRM
11 12 (7.19%) Incident Response
11 12 (7.19%) Information Security
11 12 (7.19%) Waterfall
12 11 (6.59%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (26.95%) Python
2 33 (19.76%) Java
3 21 (12.57%) C#
4 20 (11.98%) SQL
5 16 (9.58%) JavaScript
5 16 (9.58%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.78%) Bash
7 12 (7.19%) PowerShell
8 9 (5.39%) PL/SQL
9 8 (4.79%) Perl
10 5 (2.99%) Korn
11 4 (2.40%) C++
12 3 (1.80%) XPath
13 2 (1.20%) C
13 2 (1.20%) Go
13 2 (1.20%) Jython
13 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.60%) Scala
14 1 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.57%) Degree
3 16 (9.58%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.79%) CISSP
4 8 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.19%) CISM
6 6 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.80%) CCNA
7 3 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.20%) CCNP
8 2 (1.20%) CEH
8 2 (1.20%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (1.20%) PhD
9 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.60%) GWAPT
9 1 (0.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (5.99%) NIST
2 7 (4.19%) GDPR
2 7 (4.19%) PCI DSS
2 7 (4.19%) QA
2 7 (4.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.20%) SEPA
4 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (17.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (11.38%) Firmware
3 18 (10.78%) VMware NSX
4 17 (10.18%) Docker
5 10 (5.99%) Active Directory
6 3 (1.80%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (11.38%) Ansible
1 19 (11.38%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.19%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (3.59%) Grafana
4 5 (2.99%) Kibana
5 4 (2.40%) Terraform
6 3 (1.80%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.20%) CA Wily
7 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.20%) Puppet
7 2 (1.20%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.60%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.60%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.60%) logstash
Vendors
1 43 (25.75%) F5
2 42 (25.15%) VMware
3 32 (19.16%) Blue Coat
4 31 (18.56%) McAfee
5 26 (15.57%) Microsoft
6 20 (11.98%) NetApp
7 11 (6.59%) Oracle
8 10 (5.99%) IBM
9 8 (4.79%) Cisco
10 7 (4.19%) CheckPoint
10 7 (4.19%) Palo Alto
10 7 (4.19%) Splunk
11 6 (3.59%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.99%) AppDynamics
13 4 (2.40%) Google
13 4 (2.40%) Netskope
13 4 (2.40%) Zscaler
14 3 (1.80%) Dynatrace
14 3 (1.80%) Forcepoint
14 3 (1.80%) Salesforce