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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 320 396
Rank change year-on-year -91 +76 +34
Contract jobs citing HTTP 155 173 162
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.68% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.32% 5.08% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 116 109
10th Percentile £296 £383 £300
25th Percentile £378 £465 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £573 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% +17.44% -15.22%
75th Percentile £597 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £496 £579 £500
% change year-on-year -14.34% +15.80% -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 3,590 3,405 5,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.18% 13.31% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,318 2,028 3,143
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £358 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £478 £500 £483
% change year-on-year -4.45% +3.63% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 101 362
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £19.99
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -22.22% +130.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% -27.78% +131.96%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -63 62 £525 -4.55% 14
North of England -31 44 £450 -5.86% 20
North West -4 39 £414 -10.21% 14
Midlands -36 34 £358 -7.86% 3
West Midlands -31 33 £358 -14.37% 2
South East -38 18 £488 -8.88% 11
East of England -37 7 - - 5
South West -42 5 £575 -6.50% 1
Yorkshire -62 5 £700 -6.67% 3
East Midlands -29 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 7 (4.52%) 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 6 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.87%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.87%) Serverless
8 5 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.23%) Apigee
8 5 (3.23%) Azure API Management
8 5 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (3.23%) Cloudflare
8 5 (3.23%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.58%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (38.71%) DNS
2 50 (32.26%) SSL
3 44 (28.39%) TCP/IP
4 43 (27.74%) Wireshark
5 38 (24.52%) BIG-IP
6 26 (16.77%) Firewall
7 21 (13.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 21 (13.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 16 (10.32%) FTP
9 15 (9.68%) Network Security
10 14 (9.03%) HTTPS
10 14 (9.03%) SMTP
11 10 (6.45%) VPN
12 9 (5.81%) Wireless
13 8 (5.16%) LAN
14 7 (4.52%) WAN
15 6 (3.87%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (3.87%) Ethereal
15 6 (3.87%) IPsec
15 6 (3.87%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.52%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.52%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.52%) Oracle Database
3 6 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
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 26 (16.77%) Git
3 18 (11.61%) JIRA
4 15 (9.68%) Jenkins
5 12 (7.74%) Postman
6 10 (6.45%) JUnit
7 4 (2.58%) GitLab
7 4 (2.58%) Selenium
7 4 (2.58%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.58%) Vagrant
8 3 (1.94%) Appium
8 3 (1.94%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (1.94%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.94%) Gatling
8 3 (1.94%) JMeter
8 3 (1.94%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (1.94%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.94%) TestRail
8 3 (1.94%) XCUITest
8 3 (1.94%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.23%) Banking
3 21 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (13.55%) Finance
3 21 (13.55%) Investment Banking
4 11 (7.10%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.23%) Marketing
5 5 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.58%) Legal
7 3 (1.94%) Advertising
8 2 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.65%) Front Office
9 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (25.16%) 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%) Analyst
7 12 (7.74%) Senior
8 10 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 10 (6.45%) Java Developer
9 9 (5.81%) Consultant
10 7 (4.52%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) Support Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) Technical Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) Technical Support
10 7 (4.52%) Technical Support Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) SOC Analyst
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 31 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.87%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (3.87%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.23%) BYOD
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%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (2.58%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.58%) Replication
5 3 (1.94%) AI Agents
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%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.29%) Media Streaming
6 2 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 27 (17.42%) Linux
2 26 (16.77%) Windows
3 16 (10.32%) Unix
4 6 (3.87%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.23%) AIX
5 5 (3.23%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.58%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (2.58%) CatOS
6 4 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.58%) VMS
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 38 (24.52%) Agile
3 34 (21.94%) Load Balancing
4 27 (17.42%) Data Loss Prevention
4 27 (17.42%) DevOps
4 27 (17.42%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 19 (12.26%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (12.26%) Microservices
6 17 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (9.68%) Computer Science
8 14 (9.03%) Security Operations
8 14 (9.03%) Test Automation
9 12 (7.74%) Change Management
9 12 (7.74%) Containerisation
9 12 (7.74%) Customer Engagement
9 12 (7.74%) Information Security
10 11 (7.10%) Application Security
10 11 (7.10%) CRM
10 11 (7.10%) Incident Management
10 11 (7.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 43 (27.74%) Python
2 32 (20.65%) Java
3 25 (16.13%) SQL
4 19 (12.26%) C#
5 16 (10.32%) JavaScript
5 16 (10.32%) PowerShell
6 15 (9.68%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.52%) Bash
7 7 (4.52%) Perl
7 7 (4.52%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.87%) Korn
9 4 (2.58%) Groovy
10 3 (1.94%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.94%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.94%) Swift
10 3 (1.94%) XPath
11 2 (1.29%) C
11 2 (1.29%) C++
11 2 (1.29%) Go
11 2 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 26 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.48%) Degree
3 19 (12.26%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.87%) CISSP
5 6 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.23%) CISM
6 5 (3.23%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.58%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.58%) CEH
8 3 (1.94%) GIAC
8 3 (1.94%) GWAPT
9 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.29%) CCNA
9 2 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.29%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.29%) PhD
9 2 (1.29%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.52%) QA
2 6 (3.87%) GDPR
2 6 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (3.23%) NIST
3 5 (3.23%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.29%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.29%) SEPA
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (14.84%) Docker
3 17 (10.97%) VMware NSX
4 16 (10.32%) Firmware
5 13 (8.39%) Active Directory
6 4 (2.58%) 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 10 (6.45%) Terraform
4 8 (5.16%) Grafana
4 8 (5.16%) 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 7 (4.52%) CheckPoint
8 7 (4.52%) Cisco
8 7 (4.52%) IBM
9 6 (3.87%) Palo Alto
9 6 (3.87%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.58%) Imperva
11 3 (1.94%) Google
11 3 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
11 3 (1.94%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.94%) SolarWinds
12 2 (1.29%) NetIQ
12 2 (1.29%) Salesforce