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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 313 384
Rank change year-on-year -88 +71 +55
Contract jobs citing HTTP 160 174 162
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.68% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.48% 5.14% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 118 108
10th Percentile £304 £384 £300
25th Percentile £400 £475 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £494
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +16.46% -14.13%
75th Percentile £588 £656 £588
90th Percentile £688 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £496 £598 £500
% change year-on-year -16.99% +19.50% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £41.25 £41.25 -
25th Percentile £50.25 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +58.02% -35.38%
75th Percentile £83.75 £81.01 £48.91
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.67 £54.36
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -10.34% +58.02% -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 3,572 3,383 5,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.09% 13.25% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,308 2,031 3,212
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
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 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -3.75% +4.17% -7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 102 368
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.23 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.46 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -13.82% +109.36%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +1.43% -12.50% +105.13%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -54 61 £525 -6.25% 15
North of England -24 48 £460 -2.49% 24
North West -1 44 £446 -3.26% 15
Midlands -30 33 £358 -7.86% 1
West Midlands -28 31 £358 -14.37% 1
South East -37 18 £488 -8.88% 9
East of England -44 7 - - 6
South West -40 6 £550 -10.57%
Yorkshire -68 4 £700 -8.50% 6
East Midlands -24 2 - -
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 (3.75%) Apache
1 6 (3.75%) Confluence
1 6 (3.75%) Ethereum
1 6 (3.75%) Hyperledger
2 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.50%) Tomcat
2 4 (2.50%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.88%) nginx
4 2 (1.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.63%) IIS
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.38%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.63%) InDesign
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 10 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.88%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.63%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 40 (25.00%) Azure
2 37 (23.13%) AWS
3 18 (11.25%) GCP
4 13 (8.13%) GitHub
5 12 (7.50%) Power Platform
6 11 (6.88%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (4.38%) Akamai
10 6 (3.75%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.75%) Serverless
11 5 (3.13%) Apigee
11 5 (3.13%) Azure API Management
11 5 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.13%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.13%) PowerApps
12 4 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.50%) Cloudflare
12 4 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (38.75%) DNS
2 50 (31.25%) SSL
3 47 (29.38%) TCP/IP
4 42 (26.25%) Wireshark
5 38 (23.75%) BIG-IP
6 23 (14.38%) Firewall
7 21 (13.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 21 (13.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 16 (10.00%) Network Security
9 13 (8.13%) FTP
9 13 (8.13%) HTTPS
9 13 (8.13%) SMTP
10 10 (6.25%) VPN
11 8 (5.00%) Wireless
12 7 (4.38%) LAN
12 7 (4.38%) WAN
13 6 (3.75%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (3.75%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (3.75%) Ethereal
13 6 (3.75%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.88%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.38%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.38%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.38%) Oracle Database
3 5 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.13%) Power BI
4 4 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.88%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.63%) GIS
7 1 (0.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (20.00%) Fiddler
2 25 (15.63%) Git
3 17 (10.63%) JIRA
4 13 (8.13%) Postman
5 12 (7.50%) Jenkins
6 11 (6.88%) JUnit
7 6 (3.75%) Gatling
7 6 (3.75%) GitLab
7 6 (3.75%) JMeter
8 4 (2.50%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.50%) Selenium
8 4 (2.50%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.88%) Ant
9 3 (1.88%) Appium
9 3 (1.88%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (1.88%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.88%) Maven
9 3 (1.88%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.88%) TestRail
9 3 (1.88%) Zephyr
General
1 47 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.50%) Banking
3 23 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.75%) Finance
5 21 (13.13%) Investment Banking
6 11 (6.88%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.50%) Legal
7 4 (2.50%) Marketing
8 3 (1.88%) Advertising
8 3 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.63%) Front Office
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (24.38%) Network Engineer
2 37 (23.13%) Developer
3 30 (18.75%) Web Engineer
4 17 (10.63%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 17 (10.63%) IP Network Engineer
5 16 (10.00%) Senior
6 13 (8.13%) Junior
7 12 (7.50%) Junior Network Engineer
8 11 (6.88%) Analyst
9 10 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 10 (6.25%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.63%) Consultant
11 8 (5.00%) Security Engineer
12 7 (4.38%) Tester
13 6 (3.75%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.75%) SOC Analyst
13 6 (3.75%) Support Engineer
13 6 (3.75%) Technical Engineer
13 6 (3.75%) Technical Support
13 6 (3.75%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (21.25%) JSON
2 28 (17.50%) REST
3 24 (15.00%) XML
4 17 (10.63%) .NET
4 17 (10.63%) OAuth
5 16 (10.00%) RESTful
6 14 (8.75%) HTML
7 13 (8.13%) Kafka
7 13 (8.13%) LDAP
8 12 (7.50%) OAuth2
8 12 (7.50%) SOAP
9 11 (6.88%) AngularJS
9 11 (6.88%) Middleware
9 11 (6.88%) Spring
9 11 (6.88%) Spring Boot
10 10 (6.25%) SAML
11 7 (4.38%) gRPC
11 7 (4.38%) SignalR
12 6 (3.75%) Spring Batch
12 6 (3.75%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.38%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.75%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.13%) BYOD
3 5 (3.13%) CSOC
3 5 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (3.13%) Cyberattack
3 5 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.88%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.88%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.88%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.25%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.25%) Media Streaming
6 2 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.88%) Linux
2 24 (15.00%) Windows
3 15 (9.38%) Unix
4 6 (3.75%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.13%) AIX
6 4 (2.50%) CatOS
6 4 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.88%) Android
7 3 (1.88%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.88%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.25%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (1.25%) CentOS
8 2 (1.25%) Solaris
8 2 (1.25%) VMS
8 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (28.13%) CI/CD
2 38 (23.75%) Agile
3 34 (21.25%) Load Balancing
4 28 (17.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 28 (17.50%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 25 (15.63%) DevOps
6 20 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (11.88%) Microservices
8 15 (9.38%) Computer Science
8 15 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (9.38%) Security Operations
8 15 (9.38%) Test Automation
9 12 (7.50%) API Testing
9 12 (7.50%) Containerisation
9 12 (7.50%) Customer Engagement
9 12 (7.50%) Information Security
10 11 (6.88%) API Management
10 11 (6.88%) Application Security
10 11 (6.88%) CRM
10 11 (6.88%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 46 (28.75%) Python
2 34 (21.25%) Java
3 23 (14.38%) SQL
4 20 (12.50%) C#
5 16 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 15 (9.38%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.75%) PowerShell
8 8 (5.00%) Bash
8 8 (5.00%) PL/SQL
9 7 (4.38%) Perl
10 6 (3.75%) Korn
11 3 (1.88%) C++
11 3 (1.88%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.88%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.88%) Swift
11 3 (1.88%) XPath
12 2 (1.25%) C
12 2 (1.25%) Go
12 2 (1.25%) Groovy
12 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.75%) Degree
3 19 (11.88%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.75%) CISSP
5 6 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.13%) CISM
6 5 (3.13%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.88%) CEH
8 2 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.25%) CCNA
8 2 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.25%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (1.25%) GIAC
8 2 (1.25%) GWAPT
8 2 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.25%) PhD
8 2 (1.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.00%) QA
2 6 (3.75%) GDPR
2 6 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (3.13%) NIST
3 5 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.25%) SEPA
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
System Software
1 26 (16.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (13.13%) Docker
3 17 (10.63%) Firmware
3 17 (10.63%) VMware NSX
4 13 (8.13%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.25%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.25%) NDS
5 2 (1.25%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 2 (1.25%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.63%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.63%) Postfix
6 1 (0.63%) Squid
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (13.13%) Ansible
2 20 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.63%) Terraform
4 7 (4.38%) Grafana
5 6 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.50%) Kibana
7 3 (1.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.25%) Nagios
8 2 (1.25%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.25%) Puppet
9 1 (0.63%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.63%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.63%) logstash
9 1 (0.63%) Nessus
9 1 (0.63%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (26.25%) F5
2 38 (23.75%) VMware
3 32 (20.00%) Blue Coat
4 31 (19.38%) McAfee
5 29 (18.13%) Microsoft
6 20 (12.50%) NetApp
7 12 (7.50%) Oracle
8 11 (6.88%) Splunk
9 7 (4.38%) IBM
10 6 (3.75%) CheckPoint
10 6 (3.75%) Cisco
10 6 (3.75%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.50%) Google
11 4 (2.50%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.88%) AppDynamics
12 3 (1.88%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.88%) Imperva
12 3 (1.88%) Red Hat
13 2 (1.25%) MuleSoft
13 2 (1.25%) SolarWinds