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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 349 360
Rank change year-on-year -117 +11 +67
Contract jobs citing HTTP 172 174 178
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.63% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.00% 5.34% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 106 95
10th Percentile £374 £328 £251
25th Percentile £408 £401 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -10.88% -4.18%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £623
90th Percentile £602 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £460 £475 £532
% change year-on-year -3.16% -10.63% +1.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 8
10th Percentile £61.13 £45.00 £25.73
25th Percentile £68.75 £45.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £85.00 £57.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% +14.43% -34.23%
75th Percentile £89.59 £75.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £84.27 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £57.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +47.83% +14.43% -34.23%

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 4,299 3,257 3,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.32% 11.81% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,542 2,041 2,316
10th Percentile £250 £225 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -3.55% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 166 207
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.06 £14.44
25th Percentile £21.33 £23.81 £23.45
Median hourly rate £43.50 £40.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -29.38% +1.52%
75th Percentile £69.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.27 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £42.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -21.44% -15.42% -11.05%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -89 86 £510 +2.00% 173
North of England -56 30 £461 -2.89% 25
South East -60 21 £460 -3.16% 37
Midlands -61 21 £450 -5.26% 27
East of England -21 20 £425 -37.50% 32
West Midlands -56 20 £450 -5.26% 13
North West -42 18 £560 +17.89% 16
Yorkshire -38 9 £439 -35.00% 8
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East Midlands -19 1 £402 +11.67% 14
South West -44 1 £475 +41.79% 10
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 (7.56%) Confluence
2 10 (5.81%) nginx
3 8 (4.65%) Tomcat
4 7 (4.07%) IIS
4 7 (4.07%) OpenStack
5 5 (2.91%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.16%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.58%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.58%) CICS
7 1 (0.58%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.58%) Mule
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.58%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.16%) Houdini
1 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.16%) NUKE
1 2 (1.16%) Windchill
2 1 (0.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.16%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (24.42%) AWS
2 37 (21.51%) Azure
3 19 (11.05%) GCP
4 11 (6.40%) Akamai
5 10 (5.81%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (5.23%) Boomi
6 9 (5.23%) iPaaS
7 7 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.07%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.07%) SaaS
8 6 (3.49%) Azure Databricks
8 6 (3.49%) GitHub
8 6 (3.49%) PowerApps
8 6 (3.49%) Workato
9 5 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.91%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.91%) Datadog
9 5 (2.91%) Serverless
10 4 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (35.47%) DNS
1 61 (35.47%) TCP/IP
2 54 (31.40%) SSL
3 26 (15.12%) Network Security
4 20 (11.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 19 (11.05%) Firewall
6 18 (10.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 17 (9.88%) BIG-IP
7 17 (9.88%) HTTPS
8 16 (9.30%) Wireshark
9 13 (7.56%) BGP
10 10 (5.81%) Internet
11 9 (5.23%) SSH
12 8 (4.65%) 5G
13 7 (4.07%) DHCP
13 7 (4.07%) SMTP
13 7 (4.07%) SNMP
14 6 (3.49%) LAN
14 6 (3.49%) OSPF
14 6 (3.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.07%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.07%) MySQL
2 7 (4.07%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.49%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.49%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.49%) Redis
4 4 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.33%) Metadata
5 2 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.16%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.16%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.16%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.58%) GIS
6 1 (0.58%) OLAP
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (9.30%) Git
1 16 (9.30%) Jenkins
2 12 (6.98%) Fiddler
3 11 (6.40%) GitLab
4 9 (5.23%) JIRA
5 6 (3.49%) Selenium
6 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.16%) JMeter
6 2 (1.16%) JUnit
6 2 (1.16%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.16%) Postman
6 2 (1.16%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (1.16%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.16%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.58%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.58%) Codeception
7 1 (0.58%) Gatling
7 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
General
1 44 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.79%) Finance
3 19 (11.05%) Banking
4 17 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.88%) Investment Banking
5 14 (8.14%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.49%) Back Office
6 6 (3.49%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.74%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.74%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.16%) Games
8 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.16%) Law
8 2 (1.16%) Retail
9 1 (0.58%) Front Office
9 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (20.35%) Developer
2 26 (15.12%) Network Engineer
3 21 (12.21%) Security Engineer
4 16 (9.30%) Web Engineer
5 15 (8.72%) Senior
6 14 (8.14%) Architect
7 12 (6.98%) Blue Coat Engineer
7 12 (6.98%) IP Network Engineer
7 12 (6.98%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.23%) Analyst
9 9 (5.23%) Integration Developer
10 7 (4.07%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 7 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.49%) Designer
11 6 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.49%) Python Developer
12 5 (2.91%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (31.98%) REST
2 31 (18.02%) JSON
3 24 (13.95%) Kafka
4 23 (13.37%) SOAP
5 20 (11.63%) XML
6 19 (11.05%) CSS
7 17 (9.88%) HTML
8 16 (9.30%) RESTful
8 16 (9.30%) SAML
9 15 (8.72%) RabbitMQ
10 14 (8.14%) LDAP
11 13 (7.56%) Middleware
11 13 (7.56%) Terraform
12 12 (6.98%) OAuth
12 12 (6.98%) OpenAPI
12 12 (6.98%) Swagger
13 10 (5.81%) GraphQL
13 10 (5.81%) JWT
14 9 (5.23%) ActiveMQ
14 9 (5.23%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.70%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (11.63%) Cyber Threat
3 18 (10.47%) Management Information System
4 17 (9.88%) Cloud Native
5 15 (8.72%) Onboarding
6 14 (8.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 9 (5.23%) Algorithms
8 8 (4.65%) Data Structures
9 7 (4.07%) Derivative
10 6 (3.49%) Distributed Applications
10 6 (3.49%) Low-Code
10 6 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.91%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (1.74%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.74%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 38 (22.09%) Linux
2 26 (15.12%) Windows
3 14 (8.14%) Unix
4 10 (5.81%) Windows Server
5 9 (5.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.91%) Solaris
6 5 (2.91%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (1.16%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.16%) VMS
9 1 (0.58%) CatOS
9 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.58%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.58%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.67%) CI/CD
2 36 (20.93%) Load Balancing
3 30 (17.44%) DevOps
4 26 (15.12%) Agile
5 25 (14.53%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (14.53%) SIEM
6 23 (13.37%) Test Automation
7 21 (12.21%) Event-Driven
8 20 (11.63%) Integration Patterns
8 20 (11.63%) Observability
9 19 (11.05%) Incident Response
10 18 (10.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 18 (10.47%) Software Engineering
11 17 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (9.88%) Scrum
12 16 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (8.72%) API Integration
13 15 (8.72%) Threat Detection
14 14 (8.14%) Runbook
15 13 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (27.33%) Python
2 29 (16.86%) Java
3 27 (15.70%) SQL
4 16 (9.30%) PowerShell
5 13 (7.56%) Bash
6 12 (6.98%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.40%) Shell Script
8 9 (5.23%) C#
9 8 (4.65%) C++
9 8 (4.65%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.07%) Rust
11 6 (3.49%) Groovy
11 6 (3.49%) Kotlin
11 6 (3.49%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.33%) Perl
13 2 (1.16%) Go
13 2 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (1.16%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.58%) Cypher
14 1 (0.58%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 37 (21.51%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.81%) Degree
3 10 (5.81%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.91%) CCNA
5 5 (2.91%) CCNP
5 5 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.91%) CISSP
6 4 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.74%) 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%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.40%) QA
2 4 (2.33%) NIST
2 4 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.74%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.16%) GDPR
4 2 (1.16%) NCSC
4 2 (1.16%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.58%) GMP
5 1 (0.58%) GRC
5 1 (0.58%) GxP
5 1 (0.58%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.58%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (17.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (13.95%) Docker
3 18 (10.47%) Active Directory
4 12 (6.98%) Firmware
5 9 (5.23%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (4.07%) Hyper-V
6 7 (4.07%) NFS
6 7 (4.07%) vSphere
7 5 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.74%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (1.74%) 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%) RACF
Systems Management
1 16 (9.30%) Grafana
2 14 (8.14%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.98%) Ansible
4 9 (5.23%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.07%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.91%) Nagios
7 3 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.16%) Consul
8 2 (1.16%) Kibana
8 2 (1.16%) Nessus
8 2 (1.16%) Packer
8 2 (1.16%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.16%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.58%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.58%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.58%) logstash
9 1 (0.58%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (22.67%) VMware
2 26 (15.12%) F5
3 21 (12.21%) IBM
3 21 (12.21%) Oracle
4 16 (9.30%) Microsoft
5 15 (8.72%) Blue Coat
6 14 (8.14%) Cisco
7 12 (6.98%) McAfee
7 12 (6.98%) NetApp
8 11 (6.40%) Google
9 10 (5.81%) MuleSoft
9 10 (5.81%) ServiceNow
10 9 (5.23%) Informatica
10 9 (5.23%) TIBCO
10 9 (5.23%) WSO2
11 8 (4.65%) SolarWinds
12 6 (3.49%) Databricks
12 6 (3.49%) Qualys
12 6 (3.49%) Red Hat
13 5 (2.91%) SAP