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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 318 356
Rank change year-on-year -121 +38 +94
Contract jobs citing HTTP 160 166 187
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.68% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.99% 5.26% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 107 109
10th Percentile £306 £359 £300
25th Percentile £406 £434 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £622
90th Percentile £738 £706 £650
UK median daily rate £488 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -15.22% +15.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 10
10th Percentile - £45.75 £26.58
25th Percentile £85.00 £54.38 £27.00
Median hourly rate £90.00 £80.68 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +11.56% +75.84% -38.83%
75th Percentile £95.00 £81.35 £75.22
90th Percentile - £82.10 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £80.68 £45.88
% change year-on-year +11.56% +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 4,012 3,158 4,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 12.91% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,490 1,978 2,892
10th Percentile £263 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £498
% change year-on-year +3.09% -2.51% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 123 390
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.30 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £16.44
Median hourly rate £29.04 £39.32 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.14% -1.70% +122.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.95 £72.54
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.50% +10.00% +113.73%

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 10 June 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
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 10 June 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 -74 82 £525 +1.20% 25
North of England -50 39 £439 -7.58% 11
Midlands -47 32 £355 -9.21% 3
North West -16 30 £555 +16.84% 7
West Midlands -33 30 £355 -25.26% 2
South East -70 17 £450 -10.00% 10
Yorkshire -55 7 £418 +12.84% 3
East Midlands -30 2 - - 1
South West -36 2 £500 -18.70% 1
North East - 2 £419 - 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 7 (4.38%) Confluence
1 7 (4.38%) nginx
1 7 (4.38%) Tomcat
2 6 (3.75%) Ethereum
2 6 (3.75%) Hyperledger
3 4 (2.50%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.50%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.88%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.25%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.25%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.25%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.63%) CICS
6 1 (0.63%) IIS
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.63%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.63%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.63%) AWS
2 29 (18.13%) Azure
3 20 (12.50%) GCP
4 8 (5.00%) Akamai
4 8 (5.00%) GitHub
4 8 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.38%) SaaS
6 5 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (3.13%) Workato
7 4 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.50%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.88%) Datadog
8 3 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.88%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.88%) Serverless
9 2 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 65 (40.63%) DNS
2 56 (35.00%) TCP/IP
3 52 (32.50%) SSL
4 36 (22.50%) BIG-IP
5 34 (21.25%) Wireshark
6 26 (16.25%) Network Security
7 22 (13.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 19 (11.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 19 (11.88%) HTTPS
9 17 (10.63%) Firewall
10 9 (5.63%) VPN
11 8 (5.00%) 3GPP
11 8 (5.00%) IPsec
11 8 (5.00%) LAN
11 8 (5.00%) WAN
11 8 (5.00%) Wireless
12 7 (4.38%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (4.38%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (3.75%) Kerberos
14 5 (3.13%) Ethereal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (4.38%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.38%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.50%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.88%) Metadata
4 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.25%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.25%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.63%) GIS
6 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (15.63%) Fiddler
2 13 (8.13%) Git
3 12 (7.50%) JIRA
4 10 (6.25%) JUnit
5 8 (5.00%) GitLab
5 8 (5.00%) JMeter
6 7 (4.38%) Gatling
6 7 (4.38%) Jenkins
7 6 (3.75%) Browser DevTools
7 6 (3.75%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.88%) Postman
9 2 (1.25%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.25%) Gradle
9 2 (1.25%) Introscope
9 2 (1.25%) Maven
9 2 (1.25%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.25%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.25%) TestNG
10 1 (0.63%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.63%) Banking
3 31 (19.38%) Finance
4 24 (15.00%) Investment Banking
5 14 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.63%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.38%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.25%) Front Office
9 2 (1.25%) Games
9 2 (1.25%) Legal
10 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Electronics
10 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (23.13%) Network Engineer
2 32 (20.00%) Web Engineer
3 28 (17.50%) Senior
4 27 (16.88%) Developer
5 18 (11.25%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 18 (11.25%) IP Network Engineer
5 18 (11.25%) Security Engineer
6 11 (6.88%) Software Engineer
7 8 (5.00%) Java Developer
7 8 (5.00%) Junior
7 8 (5.00%) Senior Developer
8 7 (4.38%) Junior Network Engineer
8 7 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (4.38%) Support Engineer
9 6 (3.75%) C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (3.75%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (3.75%) Tester
10 5 (3.13%) Consultant
10 5 (3.13%) Performance Tester
10 5 (3.13%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.75%) REST
2 19 (11.88%) SAML
3 15 (9.38%) JSON
4 13 (8.13%) Kafka
4 13 (8.13%) RESTful
5 12 (7.50%) OAuth
6 8 (5.00%) .NET
6 8 (5.00%) AngularJS
6 8 (5.00%) Spring
6 8 (5.00%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.00%) WebSockets
7 7 (4.38%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (4.38%) LDAP
8 6 (3.75%) gRPC
8 6 (3.75%) HTML
8 6 (3.75%) Middleware
8 6 (3.75%) SOAP
8 6 (3.75%) Spring Batch
8 6 (3.75%) XML
9 5 (3.13%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 20 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 10 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 8 (5.00%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.38%) Derivative
7 6 (3.75%) BYOD
7 6 (3.75%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.75%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (3.75%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (3.75%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.50%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.25%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.25%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.25%) IoT
10 2 (1.25%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.13%) Linux
2 14 (8.75%) Windows
3 9 (5.63%) Unix
4 6 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.75%) Solaris
4 6 (3.75%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.75%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.88%) CatOS
7 2 (1.25%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.50%) CI/CD
2 37 (23.13%) Load Balancing
3 29 (18.13%) Agile
4 25 (15.63%) Data Loss Prevention
4 25 (15.63%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 17 (10.63%) DevOps
5 17 (10.63%) Migration
5 17 (10.63%) Runbook
6 16 (10.00%) Application Security
6 16 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (10.00%) Microservices
7 15 (9.38%) Incident Response
8 14 (8.75%) Software Engineering
8 14 (8.75%) Test Automation
9 12 (7.50%) DDoS Mitigation
9 12 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (7.50%) High Availability
9 12 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (7.50%) SIEM
10 11 (6.88%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 44 (27.50%) Python
2 36 (22.50%) Java
3 16 (10.00%) SQL
4 15 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 14 (8.75%) C#
6 12 (7.50%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.88%) Bash
8 9 (5.63%) C++
8 9 (5.63%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.38%) Rust
10 6 (3.75%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.88%) Go
11 3 (1.88%) Groovy
11 3 (1.88%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.25%) Jython
12 2 (1.25%) Perl
12 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.63%) C
13 1 (0.63%) PHP
13 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.25%) Degree
4 9 (5.63%) CISSP
5 6 (3.75%) CISM
6 4 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.25%) CCNA
7 2 (1.25%) CCNP
7 2 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.25%) PhD
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) CCSAM
8 1 (0.63%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.63%) GPEN
8 1 (0.63%) GXPN
8 1 (0.63%) OSCE
8 1 (0.63%) OSCP
8 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.63%) NIST
2 8 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.38%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.75%) GDPR
4 6 (3.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (2.50%) QA
6 2 (1.25%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (18.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (11.25%) Firmware
3 16 (10.00%) Docker
4 14 (8.75%) VMware NSX
5 10 (6.25%) Active Directory
6 6 (3.75%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.50%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.63%) RACF
Systems Management
1 15 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.75%) Ansible
2 14 (8.75%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (4.38%) Grafana
4 5 (3.13%) Terraform
5 4 (2.50%) Kibana
5 4 (2.50%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.25%) CA Wily
6 2 (1.25%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.63%) Consul
7 1 (0.63%) logstash
7 1 (0.63%) Packer
7 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (23.75%) VMware
2 36 (22.50%) F5
3 29 (18.13%) Blue Coat
4 25 (15.63%) McAfee
5 22 (13.75%) Microsoft
6 18 (11.25%) NetApp
7 12 (7.50%) Oracle
8 11 (6.88%) Cisco
9 10 (6.25%) IBM
10 8 (5.00%) Red Hat
11 7 (4.38%) CheckPoint
11 7 (4.38%) Netskope
11 7 (4.38%) Palo Alto
11 7 (4.38%) Zscaler
12 5 (3.13%) AppDynamics
12 5 (3.13%) Dynatrace
12 5 (3.13%) SolarWinds
13 4 (2.50%) Databricks
13 4 (2.50%) Ericsson
13 4 (2.50%) Nokia