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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 324 393
Rank change year-on-year -73 +69 +43
Contract jobs citing HTTP 154 166 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.64% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.42% 4.94% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 111 112
10th Percentile £289 £380 £300
25th Percentile £384 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% -15.22%
75th Percentile £591 £650 £588
90th Percentile £691 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £492 £586 £500
% change year-on-year -16.08% +17.25% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £41.25 £39.75 -
25th Percentile £50.25 £42.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% +18.79% -35.08%
75th Percentile £83.75 £68.50 £48.91
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.65 £54.36
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +19.27% +18.79% -31.52%

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 3,487 3,363 5,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.29% 12.98% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,275 1,961 3,187
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £356 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 101 384
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.48
25th Percentile £18.78 £20.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.44 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% -26.32% +137.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £71.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.44 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -9.42% -31.58% +137.50%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 63 £513 -7.66% 22
North of England -25 43 £450 -7.98% 16
North West +8 38 £414 -2.71% 11
Midlands -32 38 £400 +3.09% 4
West Midlands -23 36 £388 -7.19% 3
South East -41 15 £419 -23.52% 20
East of England -32 7 - - 7
South West -37 5 £575 -6.50% 2
Yorkshire -59 5 £700 -6.67% 4
East Midlands -24 2 £403 +23.73% 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 11 (7.14%) Confluence
2 6 (3.90%) Apache
2 6 (3.90%) Ethereum
2 6 (3.90%) Hyperledger
2 6 (3.90%) nginx
3 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (1.30%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.30%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.65%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.55%) MS Visio
2 6 (3.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (6.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.95%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.65%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (25.32%) Azure
2 34 (22.08%) AWS
3 12 (7.79%) GitHub
3 12 (7.79%) Power Platform
4 11 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (7.14%) GCP
5 10 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (6.49%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (5.19%) Amazon ELB
7 8 (5.19%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.19%) AWS KMS
7 8 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (3.90%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.90%) Route 53
8 6 (3.90%) Serverless
9 5 (3.25%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 64 (41.56%) DNS
2 49 (31.82%) SSL
3 44 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 42 (27.27%) Wireshark
5 37 (24.03%) BIG-IP
6 31 (20.13%) Firewall
7 20 (12.99%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 20 (12.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 20 (12.99%) FTP
8 18 (11.69%) SMTP
9 14 (9.09%) HTTPS
10 13 (8.44%) Network Security
11 11 (7.14%) VPN
12 10 (6.49%) SSH
12 10 (6.49%) Wireless
13 9 (5.84%) LAN
14 7 (4.55%) WAN
15 6 (3.90%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (3.90%) IPsec
15 6 (3.90%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (6.49%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.25%) Oracle Database
4 5 (3.25%) Power BI
5 4 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.95%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (1.30%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 31 (20.13%) Fiddler
2 30 (19.48%) Git
3 22 (14.29%) JIRA
4 19 (12.34%) Jenkins
5 14 (9.09%) Postman
6 10 (6.49%) JUnit
7 8 (5.19%) Vagrant
8 5 (3.25%) Appium
8 5 (3.25%) Charles Proxy
8 5 (3.25%) Katalon Studio
8 5 (3.25%) XCUITest
9 4 (2.60%) GitLab
9 4 (2.60%) IntelliJ
9 4 (2.60%) Selenium
9 4 (2.60%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.95%) Ant
10 3 (1.95%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.95%) SpecFlow
10 3 (1.95%) TestRail
10 3 (1.95%) Zephyr
General
1 53 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.38%) Banking
3 23 (14.94%) Finance
4 22 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (12.99%) Investment Banking
6 12 (7.79%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.25%) Marketing
9 4 (2.60%) Legal
10 3 (1.95%) Advertising
11 2 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.65%) Front Office
12 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (25.32%) Network Engineer
2 36 (23.38%) Developer
3 27 (17.53%) Web Engineer
4 15 (9.74%) Junior
5 14 (9.09%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 14 (9.09%) IP Network Engineer
5 14 (9.09%) Junior Network Engineer
6 13 (8.44%) Senior
7 11 (7.14%) Analyst
8 10 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (6.49%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 10 (6.49%) Java Developer
9 9 (5.84%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.19%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (5.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.19%) Consultant
10 8 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.43%) JSON
2 28 (18.18%) REST
3 22 (14.29%) XML
4 18 (11.69%) LDAP
5 16 (10.39%) OAuth
5 16 (10.39%) RESTful
6 15 (9.74%) .NET
6 15 (9.74%) HTML
7 12 (7.79%) AngularJS
7 12 (7.79%) Kafka
7 12 (7.79%) SOAP
8 11 (7.14%) OAuth2
8 11 (7.14%) Spring
8 11 (7.14%) Spring Boot
9 10 (6.49%) SAML
10 8 (5.19%) Middleware
11 7 (4.55%) gRPC
12 6 (3.90%) Ajax
12 6 (3.90%) Spring Batch
12 6 (3.90%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.19%) Replication
3 6 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.25%) CSOC
4 5 (3.25%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.25%) Cyberattack
4 5 (3.25%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.25%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (2.60%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.95%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.95%) BYOD
6 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.95%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.30%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.30%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.83%) Linux
2 28 (18.18%) Windows
3 16 (10.39%) Unix
4 8 (5.19%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (5.19%) Ubuntu
4 8 (5.19%) VMS
5 5 (3.25%) AIX
5 5 (3.25%) Android
5 5 (3.25%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.60%) CatOS
6 4 (2.60%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.30%) CentOS
7 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (24.68%) CI/CD
2 35 (22.73%) Agile
3 33 (21.43%) Load Balancing
4 29 (18.83%) DevOps
5 25 (16.23%) Data Loss Prevention
5 25 (16.23%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 18 (11.69%) Microservices
6 18 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (11.04%) Computer Science
7 17 (11.04%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (9.74%) Test Automation
9 14 (9.09%) API Testing
9 14 (9.09%) Change Management
9 14 (9.09%) Configuration Management
10 12 (7.79%) Containerisation
10 12 (7.79%) Customer Engagement
10 12 (7.79%) Security Operations
11 11 (7.14%) CRM
11 11 (7.14%) Scrum
11 11 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 48 (31.17%) Python
2 33 (21.43%) Java
3 27 (17.53%) SQL
4 20 (12.99%) PowerShell
5 18 (11.69%) C#
6 16 (10.39%) JavaScript
7 15 (9.74%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.19%) Groovy
8 8 (5.19%) Perl
9 7 (4.55%) Bash
10 6 (3.90%) Korn
11 5 (3.25%) Kotlin
11 5 (3.25%) PL/SQL
11 5 (3.25%) Swift
12 3 (1.95%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.95%) XPath
13 2 (1.30%) C
13 2 (1.30%) C++
13 2 (1.30%) Go
13 2 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 27 (17.53%) Degree
2 25 (16.23%) Security Cleared
3 18 (11.69%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.19%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.90%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.90%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.60%) CEH
7 4 (2.60%) CISSP
8 3 (1.95%) CCNA
8 3 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.95%) CISM
8 3 (1.95%) GIAC
8 3 (1.95%) GWAPT
9 2 (1.30%) CCNP
9 2 (1.30%) CCSA
9 2 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.84%) QA
2 6 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.60%) GDPR
3 4 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.95%) NIST
4 3 (1.95%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.30%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.30%) SEPA
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (16.23%) Docker
2 21 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (11.04%) VMware NSX
4 14 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 14 (9.09%) Firmware
5 8 (5.19%) DFS Replication
6 6 (3.90%) Dovecot
6 6 (3.90%) Postfix
6 6 (3.90%) Squid
7 2 (1.30%) NDS
7 2 (1.30%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (14.94%) Ansible
2 19 (12.34%) Kubernetes
3 14 (9.09%) Terraform
4 12 (7.79%) Prometheus
5 11 (7.14%) Grafana
6 6 (3.90%) Nessus
6 6 (3.90%) Proxmox
6 6 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.95%) Kibana
8 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.30%) Nagios
8 2 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.30%) Puppet
9 1 (0.65%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.65%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.65%) logstash
9 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (27.27%) F5
2 33 (21.43%) VMware
3 31 (20.13%) Blue Coat
4 30 (19.48%) McAfee
5 28 (18.18%) Microsoft
6 19 (12.34%) NetApp
7 14 (9.09%) Splunk
8 10 (6.49%) ServiceNow
9 9 (5.84%) Oracle
10 8 (5.19%) CheckPoint
10 8 (5.19%) Cisco
11 6 (3.90%) Jaspersoft
11 6 (3.90%) Palo Alto
12 5 (3.25%) IBM
13 4 (2.60%) Imperva
13 4 (2.60%) SolarWinds
14 3 (1.95%) Google
15 2 (1.30%) Fortinet
15 2 (1.30%) NetIQ
15 2 (1.30%) Salesforce