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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 312 352
Rank change year-on-year -111 +40 +89
Contract jobs citing HTTP 171 179 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.74% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.39% 5.69% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 120 114
10th Percentile £304 £360 £300
25th Percentile £405 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +7.62% -9.48%
75th Percentile £588 £641 £622
90th Percentile £743 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £494 £575 £515
% change year-on-year -14.13% +11.65% -10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 8
10th Percentile £53.10 £45.75 £25.73
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.38 £41.16
Median hourly rate £66.00 £80.68 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -18.19% +75.84% -38.83%
75th Percentile £89.38 £81.35 £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.10 -
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £80.68 £45.88
% change year-on-year -18.19% +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 3,895 3,147 4,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 13.00% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,421 1,959 2,889
10th Percentile £263 £220 £210
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £497 £485 £490
% change year-on-year +2.51% -1.02% -5.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 117 388
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £36.50 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% -18.75% +122.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.15 £70.20
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +116.22%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -67 82 £525 -4.55% 21
North of England -46 41 £433 -8.08% 12
Midlands -35 35 £355 -2.20% 3
North West -16 33 £500 +5.32% 7
West Midlands -32 33 £355 -21.11%
South East -56 16 £525 +5.00% 10
Yorkshire -53 6 £418 +12.84% 5
East of England -36 5 - - 2
South West -44 5 £550 -10.57% 6
East Midlands -30 2 - - 3
North East - 2 £419 -
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 (4.09%) Confluence
2 6 (3.51%) Ethereum
2 6 (3.51%) Hyperledger
3 5 (2.92%) nginx
3 5 (2.92%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.34%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.75%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.75%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.17%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (1.17%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (1.17%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.58%) CICS
7 1 (0.58%) IIS
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (4.68%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.58%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.58%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 43 (25.15%) AWS
2 30 (17.54%) Azure
3 19 (11.11%) GCP
4 10 (5.85%) GitHub
4 10 (5.85%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.68%) SaaS
6 7 (4.09%) Akamai
6 7 (4.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.51%) Serverless
8 5 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.92%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.92%) Workato
9 4 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.34%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 73 (42.69%) DNS
2 59 (34.50%) SSL
3 58 (33.92%) TCP/IP
4 41 (23.98%) BIG-IP
5 38 (22.22%) Wireshark
6 24 (14.04%) Network Security
7 22 (12.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 21 (12.28%) HTTPS
9 19 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 19 (11.11%) Firewall
10 13 (7.60%) VPN
11 11 (6.43%) LAN
11 11 (6.43%) WAN
11 11 (6.43%) Wireless
12 10 (5.85%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (5.85%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (5.85%) IPsec
13 9 (5.26%) FTP
14 8 (4.68%) 3GPP
14 8 (4.68%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (4.68%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.09%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.34%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.34%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.75%) Metadata
5 3 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.17%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.17%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.17%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.58%) GIS
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.58%) Power BI
7 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (15.79%) Fiddler
2 15 (8.77%) Git
3 14 (8.19%) JIRA
4 10 (5.85%) GitLab
4 10 (5.85%) JUnit
5 8 (4.68%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.09%) Gatling
6 7 (4.09%) JMeter
7 6 (3.51%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (2.92%) LoadRunner
8 5 (2.92%) Postman
9 3 (1.75%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.17%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.17%) Gradle
10 2 (1.17%) Introscope
10 2 (1.17%) Maven
10 2 (1.17%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.17%) TestNG
11 1 (0.58%) Codeception
11 1 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 47 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.64%) Banking
3 30 (17.54%) Finance
4 25 (14.62%) Investment Banking
5 20 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.09%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.17%) Front Office
9 2 (1.17%) Games
9 2 (1.17%) Legal
10 1 (0.58%) Electronics
10 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Marketing
10 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (22.81%) Network Engineer
2 34 (19.88%) Web Engineer
3 31 (18.13%) Developer
4 28 (16.37%) Senior
5 18 (10.53%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 18 (10.53%) IP Network Engineer
6 16 (9.36%) Security Engineer
7 12 (7.02%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.85%) Junior
9 9 (5.26%) Junior Network Engineer
10 8 (4.68%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.68%) Senior Developer
11 7 (4.09%) Analyst
11 7 (4.09%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) Support Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) Tester
12 6 (3.51%) C++ Software Engineer
12 6 (3.51%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 6 (3.51%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 5 (2.92%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (18.13%) REST
2 22 (12.87%) SAML
3 18 (10.53%) JSON
4 15 (8.77%) LDAP
5 14 (8.19%) Kafka
6 13 (7.60%) OAuth
6 13 (7.60%) RESTful
7 11 (6.43%) .NET
7 11 (6.43%) XML
8 8 (4.68%) AngularJS
8 8 (4.68%) HTML
8 8 (4.68%) Middleware
8 8 (4.68%) SOAP
8 8 (4.68%) Spring
8 8 (4.68%) Spring Boot
8 8 (4.68%) WebSockets
9 7 (4.09%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (4.09%) gRPC
10 6 (3.51%) Spring Batch
11 5 (2.92%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.54%) Management Information System
2 18 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 10 (5.85%) Algorithms
5 9 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (5.26%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.09%) Derivative
7 6 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (3.51%) BYOD
7 6 (3.51%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.51%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.92%) CSOC
8 5 (2.92%) Cyberattack
8 5 (2.92%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.92%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (2.34%) Low-Code
9 4 (2.34%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.17%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.04%) Linux
2 16 (9.36%) Windows
3 11 (6.43%) Unix
4 6 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.51%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.92%) CatOS
5 5 (2.92%) Solaris
5 5 (2.92%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.17%) AIX
7 2 (1.17%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.58%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (26.90%) CI/CD
2 37 (21.64%) Load Balancing
3 34 (19.88%) Agile
4 27 (15.79%) Data Loss Prevention
4 27 (15.79%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 22 (12.87%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (12.28%) DevOps
6 21 (12.28%) Runbook
7 17 (9.94%) Microservices
7 17 (9.94%) Migration
8 16 (9.36%) Application Security
8 16 (9.36%) Incident Response
8 16 (9.36%) Security Operations
9 15 (8.77%) Software Engineering
10 13 (7.60%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (7.60%) High Availability
10 13 (7.60%) Test Automation
11 12 (7.02%) Analytics
11 12 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (7.02%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 49 (28.65%) Python
2 35 (20.47%) Java
3 18 (10.53%) C#
4 16 (9.36%) SQL
4 16 (9.36%) TypeScript
5 15 (8.77%) PowerShell
6 14 (8.19%) JavaScript
7 12 (7.02%) Bash
8 9 (5.26%) C++
9 7 (4.09%) PL/SQL
9 7 (4.09%) Rust
10 4 (2.34%) Perl
11 3 (1.75%) Go
11 3 (1.75%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.75%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.17%) Groovy
12 2 (1.17%) Jython
12 2 (1.17%) Korn
12 2 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.58%) XPath
Qualifications
1 24 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.02%) Degree
4 8 (4.68%) CISSP
5 6 (3.51%) CISM
5 6 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.17%) CCNA
7 2 (1.17%) CCNP
7 2 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.17%) PhD
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) CCSAM
8 1 (0.58%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.58%) GPEN
8 1 (0.58%) GXPN
8 1 (0.58%) OSCE
8 1 (0.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (5.26%) NIST
2 7 (4.09%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.51%) GDPR
3 6 (3.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.92%) QA
5 2 (1.17%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) SEPA
6 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (18.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (11.11%) VMware NSX
3 18 (10.53%) Firmware
4 17 (9.94%) Docker
5 12 (7.02%) Active Directory
6 5 (2.92%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.34%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.58%) RACF
Systems Management
1 18 (10.53%) Ansible
1 18 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.94%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (5.26%) Grafana
4 5 (2.92%) Kibana
4 5 (2.92%) Terraform
5 4 (2.34%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (1.75%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.17%) CA Wily
7 2 (1.17%) logstash
7 2 (1.17%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.17%) Puppet
7 2 (1.17%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.58%) Consul
8 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.58%) Packer
8 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 43 (25.15%) VMware
2 42 (24.56%) F5
3 30 (17.54%) Blue Coat
4 27 (15.79%) McAfee
5 23 (13.45%) Microsoft
6 18 (10.53%) NetApp
7 13 (7.60%) Cisco
8 12 (7.02%) Oracle
9 10 (5.85%) CheckPoint
9 10 (5.85%) IBM
9 10 (5.85%) Palo Alto
10 8 (4.68%) Red Hat
11 6 (3.51%) Netskope
11 6 (3.51%) Zscaler
12 5 (2.92%) AppDynamics
12 5 (2.92%) SolarWinds
13 4 (2.34%) Dynatrace
13 4 (2.34%) Ericsson
13 4 (2.34%) Huawei
13 4 (2.34%) Nokia