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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 305 361
Rank change year-on-year -118 +56 +83
Contract jobs citing HTTP 168 167 182
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.70% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.20% 5.35% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 107 109
10th Percentile £303 £359 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +6.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £622
90th Percentile £738 £725 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 10
10th Percentile £53.10 £45.75 £26.58
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.38 £27.00
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 £75.22
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.10 £85.00
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 3,996 3,119 4,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.58% 13.03% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,471 1,956 2,897
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £697
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 121 389
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.32 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.34% -1.70% +134.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.10 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £28.96 £41.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -29.37% +2.50% +118.16%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -84 81 £525 +2.44% 41
North of England -52 39 £439 -7.58% 17
Midlands -36 33 £355 -3.53% 6
West Midlands -35 31 £355 -23.24% 1
North West -13 30 £555 +16.84% 11
South East -62 17 £450 -10.00% 13
Yorkshire -59 7 £418 +12.84% 5
South West -38 5 £550 -10.57% 5
East of England -42 5 - - 4
East Midlands -30 2 - - 5
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 8 (4.76%) Confluence
2 6 (3.57%) Ethereum
2 6 (3.57%) Hyperledger
2 6 (3.57%) nginx
2 6 (3.57%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.38%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.79%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.79%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.19%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.19%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.19%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.19%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.60%) CICS
6 1 (0.60%) IIS
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (4.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.60%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.60%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 45 (26.79%) AWS
2 29 (17.26%) Azure
3 19 (11.31%) GCP
4 9 (5.36%) GitHub
4 9 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.76%) Akamai
5 8 (4.76%) SaaS
6 6 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.98%) Serverless
7 5 (2.98%) Workato
8 4 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.38%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.38%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.79%) Datadog
9 3 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 71 (42.26%) DNS
2 58 (34.52%) SSL
3 57 (33.93%) TCP/IP
4 37 (22.02%) BIG-IP
5 35 (20.83%) Wireshark
6 29 (17.26%) Network Security
7 22 (13.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 20 (11.90%) HTTPS
9 19 (11.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 19 (11.31%) Firewall
10 12 (7.14%) VPN
11 10 (5.95%) LAN
11 10 (5.95%) WAN
12 9 (5.36%) FTP
12 9 (5.36%) IPsec
12 9 (5.36%) Wireless
13 8 (4.76%) 3GPP
13 8 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (4.76%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.38%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.79%) Metadata
5 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.19%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.19%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.19%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.19%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.60%) GIS
Development Applications
1 25 (14.88%) Fiddler
2 14 (8.33%) Git
3 13 (7.74%) JIRA
4 10 (5.95%) GitLab
5 9 (5.36%) JUnit
6 8 (4.76%) JMeter
7 7 (4.17%) Gatling
8 6 (3.57%) Browser DevTools
8 6 (3.57%) Jenkins
8 6 (3.57%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.79%) Postman
10 2 (1.19%) Gradle
10 2 (1.19%) Introscope
10 2 (1.19%) Maven
10 2 (1.19%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.19%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.19%) TestNG
11 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.60%) Travis CI
General
1 45 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.24%) Banking
3 30 (17.86%) Finance
4 24 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 20 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.36%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.19%) Front Office
9 2 (1.19%) Games
9 2 (1.19%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Electronics
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (22.02%) Network Engineer
2 32 (19.05%) Web Engineer
3 28 (16.67%) Senior
4 27 (16.07%) Developer
5 18 (10.71%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 18 (10.71%) IP Network Engineer
5 18 (10.71%) Security Engineer
6 12 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 8 (4.76%) Junior
7 8 (4.76%) Senior Developer
8 7 (4.17%) Analyst
8 7 (4.17%) Java Developer
8 7 (4.17%) Junior Network Engineer
8 7 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (4.17%) Support Engineer
9 6 (3.57%) C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (3.57%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (3.57%) Tester
10 5 (2.98%) Consultant
10 5 (2.98%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.86%) REST
2 20 (11.90%) SAML
3 16 (9.52%) JSON
4 13 (7.74%) LDAP
4 13 (7.74%) RESTful
5 12 (7.14%) Kafka
6 11 (6.55%) OAuth
7 10 (5.95%) .NET
8 8 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 8 (4.76%) WebSockets
9 7 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (4.17%) gRPC
9 7 (4.17%) HTML
9 7 (4.17%) Spring
9 7 (4.17%) Spring Boot
9 7 (4.17%) XML
10 6 (3.57%) Middleware
10 6 (3.57%) SOAP
10 6 (3.57%) Spring Batch
11 5 (2.98%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.26%) Management Information System
2 19 (11.31%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 11 (6.55%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (5.95%) Algorithms
6 9 (5.36%) Data Structures
7 7 (4.17%) Derivative
8 6 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (3.57%) BYOD
8 6 (3.57%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (3.57%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.98%) CSOC
9 5 (2.98%) Cyberattack
9 5 (2.98%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.98%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (2.38%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.79%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.10%) Linux
2 15 (8.93%) Windows
3 9 (5.36%) Unix
4 6 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.57%) Solaris
4 6 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.79%) CatOS
7 2 (1.19%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (27.38%) CI/CD
2 36 (21.43%) Load Balancing
3 31 (18.45%) Agile
4 25 (14.88%) Data Loss Prevention
4 25 (14.88%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 22 (13.10%) Runbook
6 21 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (11.31%) DevOps
7 19 (11.31%) Incident Response
8 17 (10.12%) Application Security
8 17 (10.12%) Migration
9 16 (9.52%) Microservices
9 16 (9.52%) Security Operations
10 15 (8.93%) SIEM
10 15 (8.93%) Software Engineering
11 14 (8.33%) Test Automation
12 13 (7.74%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (7.74%) High Availability
13 12 (7.14%) Analytics
13 12 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 49 (29.17%) Python
2 33 (19.64%) Java
3 16 (9.52%) C#
4 15 (8.93%) PowerShell
4 15 (8.93%) SQL
4 15 (8.93%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.74%) Bash
5 13 (7.74%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.36%) C++
7 7 (4.17%) Rust
8 5 (2.98%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.79%) Go
9 3 (1.79%) Groovy
9 3 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.19%) Jython
10 2 (1.19%) Perl
10 2 (1.19%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.19%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.31%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.95%) Degree
4 9 (5.36%) CISSP
5 6 (3.57%) CISM
5 6 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.79%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.19%) CCNA
7 2 (1.19%) CCNP
7 2 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.19%) PhD
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.60%) CCSAM
8 1 (0.60%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.60%) GPEN
8 1 (0.60%) GXPN
8 1 (0.60%) OSCE
8 1 (0.60%) OSCP
8 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (5.36%) NIST
2 7 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.57%) GDPR
3 6 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.98%) QA
5 2 (1.19%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (10.71%) Firmware
3 17 (10.12%) Docker
4 15 (8.93%) VMware NSX
5 10 (5.95%) Active Directory
6 6 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.38%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.60%) RACF
Systems Management
1 17 (10.12%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.52%) Ansible
3 15 (8.93%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (5.36%) Grafana
5 6 (3.57%) Terraform
6 5 (2.98%) Kibana
7 4 (2.38%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.19%) CA Wily
8 2 (1.19%) logstash
8 2 (1.19%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.19%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.60%) Consul
9 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.60%) Packer
9 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.60%) Puppet
9 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (23.81%) VMware
2 38 (22.62%) F5
3 29 (17.26%) Blue Coat
4 25 (14.88%) McAfee
5 23 (13.69%) Microsoft
6 18 (10.71%) NetApp
7 12 (7.14%) Cisco
8 11 (6.55%) Oracle
9 9 (5.36%) IBM
10 8 (4.76%) CheckPoint
10 8 (4.76%) Palo Alto
10 8 (4.76%) Red Hat
11 7 (4.17%) Netskope
11 7 (4.17%) Zscaler
12 6 (3.57%) SolarWinds
13 5 (2.98%) AppDynamics
13 5 (2.98%) Dynatrace
14 4 (2.38%) Ericsson
14 4 (2.38%) Huawei
14 4 (2.38%) Nokia