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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 302 363
Rank change year-on-year -110 +61 +65
Contract jobs citing HTTP 176 177 176
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.73% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.55% 5.55% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 119 115
10th Percentile £306 £379 £300
25th Percentile £404 £434 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +14.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £653 £624
90th Percentile £738 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £488 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -15.22% +15.00% -13.04%
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 3,871 3,187 4,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.56% 13.07% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,437 1,972 2,988
10th Percentile £239 £220 £206
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £490
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.51% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 125 399
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.26 £17.35
Median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% -18.75% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.45% -8.39% +110.53%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -70 81 £525 -1.18% 22
North of England -38 45 £453 -4.68% 14
North West -8 40 £475 - 7
Midlands -41 37 £355 -9.21% 3
West Midlands -30 35 £355 -21.11% 1
South East -61 16 £525 +5.00% 14
South West -35 6 £550 -10.57% 5
East of England -49 5 - - 3
Yorkshire -58 3 £460 -38.67% 6
East Midlands -33 2 - - 2
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 6 (3.41%) Ethereum
1 6 (3.41%) Hyperledger
2 5 (2.84%) Confluence
2 5 (2.84%) nginx
2 5 (2.84%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.27%) Apache
3 4 (2.27%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.70%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.14%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.14%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.14%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.14%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.57%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.57%) IIS
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (5.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.57%) InDesign
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (5.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.70%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.57%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 43 (24.43%) AWS
2 33 (18.75%) Azure
3 21 (11.93%) GCP
4 13 (7.39%) Power Platform
5 11 (6.25%) GitHub
6 9 (5.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (5.11%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (3.98%) PowerApps
7 7 (3.98%) SaaS
7 7 (3.98%) Serverless
8 6 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.84%) Akamai
9 5 (2.84%) Azure API Management
9 5 (2.84%) Workato
10 4 (2.27%) Apigee
10 4 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.27%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 71 (40.34%) DNS
2 55 (31.25%) SSL
3 54 (30.68%) TCP/IP
4 42 (23.86%) BIG-IP
5 39 (22.16%) Wireshark
6 24 (13.64%) Firewall
7 23 (13.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 23 (13.07%) HTTPS
7 23 (13.07%) Network Security
8 20 (11.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 14 (7.95%) VPN
10 11 (6.25%) LAN
10 11 (6.25%) WAN
10 11 (6.25%) Wireless
11 10 (5.68%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (5.68%) Cisco Nexus
11 10 (5.68%) IPsec
12 9 (5.11%) FTP
13 8 (4.55%) 3GPP
13 8 (4.55%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.98%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.98%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.27%) Metadata
4 4 (2.27%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.70%) Oracle Database 10g
5 3 (1.70%) Power BI
5 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.14%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.14%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.57%) GIS
Development Applications
1 28 (15.91%) Fiddler
2 19 (10.80%) Git
3 15 (8.52%) JIRA
4 12 (6.82%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.82%) JUnit
5 10 (5.68%) GitLab
6 7 (3.98%) Gatling
6 7 (3.98%) JMeter
6 7 (3.98%) Postman
7 6 (3.41%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (2.84%) LoadRunner
9 4 (2.27%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.70%) Ant
10 3 (1.70%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.70%) Maven
11 2 (1.14%) Gradle
11 2 (1.14%) Introscope
11 2 (1.14%) Selenium
11 2 (1.14%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.14%) TestNG
General
1 53 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.30%) Banking
3 30 (17.05%) Finance
4 25 (14.20%) Investment Banking
5 21 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.11%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.11%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.70%) Marketing
9 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Front Office
9 2 (1.14%) Games
9 2 (1.14%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Electronics
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (22.16%) Developer
2 38 (21.59%) Network Engineer
3 35 (19.89%) Web Engineer
4 26 (14.77%) Senior
5 19 (10.80%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 19 (10.80%) IP Network Engineer
6 12 (6.82%) Security Engineer
7 10 (5.68%) Java Developer
7 10 (5.68%) Junior
8 9 (5.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 9 (5.11%) Junior Network Engineer
8 9 (5.11%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.55%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.55%) Tester
10 7 (3.98%) Analyst
10 7 (3.98%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.84%) Consultant
11 5 (2.84%) Security Consultant
11 5 (2.84%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.05%) REST
2 25 (14.20%) JSON
3 22 (12.50%) SAML
4 18 (10.23%) OAuth
5 17 (9.66%) Kafka
5 17 (9.66%) XML
6 15 (8.52%) LDAP
7 14 (7.95%) .NET
7 14 (7.95%) RESTful
8 10 (5.68%) HTML
8 10 (5.68%) SOAP
8 10 (5.68%) Spring
8 10 (5.68%) Spring Boot
9 9 (5.11%) Middleware
9 9 (5.11%) OAuth2
10 8 (4.55%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.98%) gRPC
12 6 (3.41%) Spring Batch
12 6 (3.41%) WebSockets
13 5 (2.84%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 8 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 7 (3.98%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.41%) BYOD
5 6 (3.41%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.84%) CSOC
6 5 (2.84%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.84%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.84%) Derivative
6 5 (2.84%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (2.84%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.27%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.61%) Linux
2 19 (10.80%) Windows
3 18 (10.23%) Unix
4 6 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.84%) AIX
5 5 (2.84%) CatOS
5 5 (2.84%) Solaris
5 5 (2.84%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.14%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (28.41%) CI/CD
2 39 (22.16%) Agile
3 35 (19.89%) Load Balancing
4 28 (15.91%) Data Loss Prevention
4 28 (15.91%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 24 (13.64%) DevOps
6 21 (11.93%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (10.80%) Runbook
8 18 (10.23%) Microservices
9 17 (9.66%) Migration
10 16 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (9.09%) Security Operations
11 14 (7.95%) Application Security
11 14 (7.95%) Test Automation
12 13 (7.39%) Observability
13 12 (6.82%) Analytics
13 12 (6.82%) High Availability
13 12 (6.82%) Incident Response
13 12 (6.82%) Performance Optimisation
13 12 (6.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 44 (25.00%) Python
2 38 (21.59%) Java
3 20 (11.36%) C#
4 17 (9.66%) JavaScript
5 16 (9.09%) SQL
5 16 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.39%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.82%) Bash
8 10 (5.68%) PL/SQL
9 7 (3.98%) C++
9 7 (3.98%) Perl
10 5 (2.84%) Korn
10 5 (2.84%) Rust
11 4 (2.27%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.70%) Go
12 3 (1.70%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.14%) Groovy
13 2 (1.14%) Jython
13 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.80%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.66%) Degree
4 6 (3.41%) CISM
4 6 (3.41%) CISSP
4 6 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.41%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.70%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.14%) CCNA
6 2 (1.14%) CCNP
6 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.14%) PhD
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.57%) CCSAM
7 1 (0.57%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.57%) GPEN
7 1 (0.57%) GXPN
7 1 (0.57%) OSCE
7 1 (0.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (5.11%) NIST
2 7 (3.98%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.41%) GDPR
3 6 (3.41%) QA
3 6 (3.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.70%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) SEPA
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (10.80%) Docker
2 19 (10.80%) Firmware
2 19 (10.80%) VMware NSX
3 12 (6.82%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.23%) Ansible
3 17 (9.66%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (3.98%) Grafana
5 5 (2.84%) Kibana
5 5 (2.84%) Terraform
6 4 (2.27%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (1.70%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.14%) CA Wily
8 2 (1.14%) logstash
8 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.14%) Puppet
8 2 (1.14%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.57%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.57%) Consul
9 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.57%) Packer
9 1 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (25.00%) VMware
2 43 (24.43%) F5
3 29 (16.48%) Blue Coat
4 28 (15.91%) McAfee
5 24 (13.64%) Microsoft
6 19 (10.80%) NetApp
7 15 (8.52%) Oracle
8 13 (7.39%) Cisco
9 12 (6.82%) IBM
10 10 (5.68%) CheckPoint
10 10 (5.68%) Palo Alto
11 8 (4.55%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.84%) AppDynamics
12 5 (2.84%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.84%) Splunk
13 4 (2.27%) Databricks
13 4 (2.27%) Dynatrace
13 4 (2.27%) Ericsson
13 4 (2.27%) Huawei
13 4 (2.27%) Nokia