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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 313 390
Rank change year-on-year -84 +77 +56
Contract jobs citing HTTP 155 172 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.67% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.39% 5.03% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 115 112
10th Percentile £296 £382 £300
25th Percentile £378 £464 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £570 £481
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +18.44% -16.30%
75th Percentile £597 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £488 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -15.22% +15.00% -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% -31.52%
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% -25.15%

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 3,533 3,417 5,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.16% 13.22% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,277 2,028 3,166
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £356 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% -6.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 101 375
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.69 £20.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.49% -26.32% +138.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -11.14% -31.58% +141.24%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -48 62 £525 -4.55% 13
North of England -31 44 £450 -4.66% 24
North West +7 39 £414 -9.12% 17
Midlands -27 36 £388 -0.13% 3
West Midlands -36 35 £388 -7.19% 2
South East -31 16 £350 -34.58% 11
East of England -40 7 - - 6
South West -39 5 £575 -6.50% 1
Yorkshire -63 5 £700 -6.67% 4
East Midlands -28 1 - - 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 8 (5.16%) Confluence
2 6 (3.87%) Apache
2 6 (3.87%) Ethereum
2 6 (3.87%) Hyperledger
3 5 (3.23%) nginx
4 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.58%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.58%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.65%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.52%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.94%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.65%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.87%) Azure
2 34 (21.94%) AWS
3 12 (7.74%) GCP
3 12 (7.74%) GitHub
3 12 (7.74%) Power Platform
4 11 (7.10%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.87%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.87%) Serverless
9 5 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.23%) Apigee
9 5 (3.23%) AWS KMS
9 5 (3.23%) Azure API Management
9 5 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (3.23%) PowerApps
9 5 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 62 (40.00%) DNS
2 50 (32.26%) SSL
3 45 (29.03%) TCP/IP
4 43 (27.74%) Wireshark
5 38 (24.52%) BIG-IP
6 28 (18.06%) Firewall
7 21 (13.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 21 (13.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 17 (10.97%) FTP
9 15 (9.68%) SMTP
10 14 (9.03%) HTTPS
11 13 (8.39%) Network Security
12 11 (7.10%) VPN
13 10 (6.45%) Wireless
14 9 (5.81%) LAN
15 7 (4.52%) SSH
15 7 (4.52%) WAN
16 6 (3.87%) Cisco ASA
16 6 (3.87%) Ethereal
16 6 (3.87%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.52%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.52%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.52%) Oracle Database
3 6 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.23%) Power BI
5 4 (2.58%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.94%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (20.65%) Fiddler
2 27 (17.42%) Git
3 19 (12.26%) JIRA
4 16 (10.32%) Jenkins
5 12 (7.74%) Postman
6 10 (6.45%) JUnit
7 5 (3.23%) Vagrant
8 4 (2.58%) GitLab
8 4 (2.58%) Selenium
8 4 (2.58%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.94%) Ant
9 3 (1.94%) Appium
9 3 (1.94%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (1.94%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.94%) Gatling
9 3 (1.94%) JMeter
9 3 (1.94%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (1.94%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.94%) TestRail
9 3 (1.94%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.23%) Banking
3 22 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (13.55%) Finance
4 21 (13.55%) Investment Banking
5 12 (7.74%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.23%) Marketing
6 5 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.58%) Legal
8 3 (1.94%) Advertising
9 2 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.65%) Front Office
10 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (25.81%) Network Engineer
2 36 (23.23%) Developer
3 29 (18.71%) Web Engineer
4 16 (10.32%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 16 (10.32%) IP Network Engineer
5 14 (9.03%) Junior
6 13 (8.39%) Junior Network Engineer
7 12 (7.74%) Senior
8 11 (7.10%) Analyst
9 10 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 10 (6.45%) Java Developer
10 8 (5.16%) Consultant
11 7 (4.52%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) Support Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) Technical Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) Technical Support
11 7 (4.52%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (21.94%) JSON
2 28 (18.06%) REST
3 24 (15.48%) XML
4 17 (10.97%) OAuth
5 16 (10.32%) .NET
5 16 (10.32%) RESTful
6 15 (9.68%) HTML
6 15 (9.68%) LDAP
7 13 (8.39%) Kafka
7 13 (8.39%) SOAP
8 12 (7.74%) AngularJS
8 12 (7.74%) OAuth2
9 11 (7.10%) Middleware
9 11 (7.10%) Spring
9 11 (7.10%) Spring Boot
10 10 (6.45%) SAML
11 7 (4.52%) gRPC
12 6 (3.87%) SignalR
12 6 (3.87%) Spring Batch
12 6 (3.87%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.71%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.87%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (3.87%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.23%) CSOC
3 5 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (3.23%) Cyberattack
3 5 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.23%) Replication
3 5 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (2.58%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.94%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.94%) BYOD
5 3 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.94%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.94%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.29%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.29%) Media Streaming
6 2 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.06%) Linux
2 27 (17.42%) Windows
3 16 (10.32%) Unix
4 6 (3.87%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.23%) AIX
5 5 (3.23%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 5 (3.23%) VMS
6 4 (2.58%) CatOS
6 4 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.94%) Android
7 3 (1.94%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.29%) CentOS
8 2 (1.29%) Solaris
8 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (26.45%) CI/CD
2 36 (23.23%) Agile
3 34 (21.94%) Load Balancing
4 28 (18.06%) DevOps
5 27 (17.42%) Data Loss Prevention
5 27 (17.42%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 19 (12.26%) Microservices
7 18 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (10.97%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (9.68%) Computer Science
10 14 (9.03%) Test Automation
11 12 (7.74%) Containerisation
11 12 (7.74%) Customer Engagement
11 12 (7.74%) Security Operations
12 11 (7.10%) API Management
12 11 (7.10%) API Testing
12 11 (7.10%) Change Management
12 11 (7.10%) Configuration Management
12 11 (7.10%) CRM
12 11 (7.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 44 (28.39%) Python
2 33 (21.29%) Java
3 25 (16.13%) SQL
4 19 (12.26%) C#
5 17 (10.97%) PowerShell
6 16 (10.32%) JavaScript
7 15 (9.68%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.16%) Perl
9 7 (4.52%) Bash
9 7 (4.52%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.87%) Korn
11 5 (3.23%) Groovy
12 3 (1.94%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.94%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.94%) Swift
12 3 (1.94%) XPath
13 2 (1.29%) C
13 2 (1.29%) C++
13 2 (1.29%) Go
13 2 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 27 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.19%) Degree
3 20 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.23%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.58%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.58%) CEH
7 4 (2.58%) CISSP
8 3 (1.94%) CCNA
8 3 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.94%) CISM
8 3 (1.94%) GIAC
8 3 (1.94%) GWAPT
9 2 (1.29%) CCNP
9 2 (1.29%) CCSA
9 2 (1.29%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.29%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.52%) QA
2 4 (2.58%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.58%) GDPR
2 4 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.94%) NIST
3 3 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.29%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.29%) SEPA
5 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (15.48%) Docker
3 17 (10.97%) VMware NSX
4 16 (10.32%) Firmware
5 14 (9.03%) Active Directory
6 5 (3.23%) DFS Replication
7 3 (1.94%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.94%) Postfix
7 3 (1.94%) Squid
8 2 (1.29%) NDS
8 2 (1.29%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 2 (1.29%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (14.19%) Ansible
2 19 (12.26%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.10%) Terraform
4 9 (5.81%) Grafana
4 9 (5.81%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.87%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.94%) Kibana
6 3 (1.94%) Nessus
6 3 (1.94%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.29%) Nagios
7 2 (1.29%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.29%) Puppet
8 1 (0.65%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.65%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.65%) logstash
8 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (27.74%) F5
2 37 (23.87%) VMware
3 32 (20.65%) Blue Coat
4 31 (20.00%) McAfee
5 28 (18.06%) Microsoft
6 20 (12.90%) NetApp
7 11 (7.10%) Oracle
7 11 (7.10%) Splunk
8 8 (5.16%) CheckPoint
8 8 (5.16%) Cisco
9 7 (4.52%) IBM
9 7 (4.52%) ServiceNow
10 6 (3.87%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.58%) Imperva
11 4 (2.58%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.94%) Google
12 3 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
12 3 (1.94%) Red Hat
13 2 (1.29%) Fortinet
13 2 (1.29%) Salesforce