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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 321 381
Rank change year-on-year -72 +60 +35
Contract jobs citing HTTP 158 164 172
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.62% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.69% 4.79% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 108 115
10th Percentile £334 £380 £305
25th Percentile £400 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £573 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% +17.44% -15.22%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £588
90th Percentile £700 £775 £681
UK median daily rate £496 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.74% +15.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £40.63 £41.55 £50.73
25th Percentile £48.31 £46.50 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.25 £56.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -16.42% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.63 £70.45 £82.00
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £56.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% -16.42% +20.50%

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 3,369 3,424 5,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.43% 12.85% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,192 1,979 3,189
10th Percentile £204 £220 £206
25th Percentile £355 £368 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% +1.52% -5.29%
75th Percentile £588 £604 £600
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 104 346
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.06 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.28 £23.34
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -36.36% +150.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £74.11 £70.88 £75.34
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% -36.36% +158.82%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -33 70 £525 -3.45% 26
Midlands -17 40 £426 +9.89% 6
North of England -20 39 £450 -7.98% 11
West Midlands -10 37 £475 +13.77% 2
North West -2 33 £414 -2.71% 7
South East -32 12 £500 -3.85% 26
East of England -30 8 - - 5
South West -26 6 £541 -11.99% 2
Yorkshire -52 6 £700 -6.67% 3
East Midlands -28 3 £360 +10.60% 4
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 16 (10.13%) Confluence
2 9 (5.70%) nginx
3 6 (3.80%) Apache
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (1.27%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.27%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (4.43%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (6.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.90%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 43 (27.22%) Azure
2 39 (24.68%) AWS
3 16 (10.13%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (9.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (8.86%) Amazon ELB
5 14 (8.86%) Amazon S3
5 14 (8.86%) AWS KMS
5 14 (8.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 13 (8.23%) GitHub
7 12 (7.59%) GCP
7 12 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (7.59%) Power Platform
8 11 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (6.96%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (6.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (5.70%) Route 53
11 8 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (5.06%) Power Automate
12 6 (3.80%) Apigee
12 6 (3.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 63 (39.87%) DNS
2 51 (32.28%) SSL
3 45 (28.48%) TCP/IP
4 37 (23.42%) Firewall
5 36 (22.78%) Wireshark
6 31 (19.62%) BIG-IP
7 24 (15.19%) SMTP
8 23 (14.56%) FTP
9 17 (10.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 17 (10.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 15 (9.49%) SSH
11 13 (8.23%) HTTPS
11 13 (8.23%) Network Security
12 11 (6.96%) VPN
13 10 (6.33%) Wireless
14 9 (5.70%) IMAP
14 9 (5.70%) LAN
14 9 (5.70%) OpenLDAP
15 7 (4.43%) WAN
16 6 (3.80%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.13%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (6.33%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.16%) Oracle Database
4 5 (3.16%) Power BI
5 4 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.90%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.63%) Big Data
7 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.63%) Impala
7 1 (0.63%) Metadata
7 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (19.62%) Git
2 26 (16.46%) Fiddler
2 26 (16.46%) Jenkins
3 23 (14.56%) JIRA
4 14 (8.86%) Vagrant
5 13 (8.23%) Postman
6 5 (3.16%) Appium
6 5 (3.16%) Charles Proxy
6 5 (3.16%) Katalon Studio
6 5 (3.16%) XCUITest
7 4 (2.53%) GitLab
7 4 (2.53%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.53%) LoadRunner
7 4 (2.53%) Selenium
7 4 (2.53%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.90%) Ant
8 3 (1.90%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.90%) JUnit
8 3 (1.90%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.90%) Zephyr
General
1 57 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.99%) Banking
3 25 (15.82%) Finance
4 24 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (11.39%) Investment Banking
5 18 (11.39%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.96%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.16%) Marketing
8 3 (1.90%) Advertising
8 3 (1.90%) Legal
9 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (22.78%) Network Engineer
2 34 (21.52%) Developer
3 23 (14.56%) Web Engineer
4 16 (10.13%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (10.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (8.86%) AWS DevOps
5 14 (8.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 14 (8.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 14 (8.86%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (7.59%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 12 (7.59%) IP Network Engineer
6 12 (7.59%) Junior
7 11 (6.96%) Analyst
7 11 (6.96%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (6.96%) Junior Network Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 9 (5.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Consultant
11 7 (4.43%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.80%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.62%) JSON
2 23 (14.56%) XML
3 21 (13.29%) LDAP
3 21 (13.29%) REST
4 16 (10.13%) HTML
4 16 (10.13%) OAuth
5 15 (9.49%) .NET
6 13 (8.23%) SOAP
7 12 (7.59%) OAuth2
8 10 (6.33%) RESTful
9 9 (5.70%) SAML
10 8 (5.06%) AngularJS
10 8 (5.06%) Middleware
11 6 (3.80%) Ajax
11 6 (3.80%) CSS
11 6 (3.80%) Kafka
11 6 (3.80%) Node.js
11 6 (3.80%) React
12 5 (3.16%) IBM Integration Bus
12 5 (3.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.46%) Management Information System
2 14 (8.86%) Replication
3 6 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.80%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.16%) CSOC
4 5 (3.16%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.16%) Cyberattack
4 5 (3.16%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.16%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (1.90%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.90%) BYOD
5 3 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.90%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.90%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.63%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 38 (24.05%) Linux
2 33 (20.89%) Windows
3 20 (12.66%) Unix
4 14 (8.86%) Amazon Linux
4 14 (8.86%) VMS
5 11 (6.96%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.16%) AIX
6 5 (3.16%) Android
6 5 (3.16%) Apple iOS
7 4 (2.53%) CatOS
8 3 (1.90%) Windows Server
9 2 (1.27%) CentOS
9 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (22.78%) DevOps
2 32 (20.25%) CI/CD
3 31 (19.62%) Load Balancing
4 30 (18.99%) Agile
5 24 (15.19%) Configuration Management
6 23 (14.56%) Data Loss Prevention
7 21 (13.29%) Test Automation
8 20 (12.66%) Change Management
8 20 (12.66%) Malware Detection/Protection
9 18 (11.39%) Computer Science
9 18 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (10.13%) API Testing
10 16 (10.13%) Cloud Security
10 16 (10.13%) Containerisation
11 14 (8.86%) Patch Management
11 14 (8.86%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (8.23%) Microservices
12 13 (8.23%) Migration
12 13 (8.23%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 60 (37.97%) Python
2 37 (23.42%) SQL
3 28 (17.72%) PowerShell
4 27 (17.09%) Java
5 19 (12.03%) C#
5 19 (12.03%) JavaScript
6 16 (10.13%) Perl
7 14 (8.86%) Groovy
8 9 (5.70%) TypeScript
9 8 (5.06%) Bash
10 6 (3.80%) Korn
11 5 (3.16%) Kotlin
11 5 (3.16%) PL/SQL
11 5 (3.16%) Shell Script
11 5 (3.16%) Swift
12 3 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.90%) XPath
13 2 (1.27%) C
13 2 (1.27%) C++
14 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (20.89%) Security Cleared
2 31 (19.62%) Degree
3 26 (16.46%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.96%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.70%) Azure Certification
6 8 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.43%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.80%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.16%) CEH
9 5 (3.16%) CISSP
10 4 (2.53%) CCNA
10 4 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.90%) CISM
11 3 (1.90%) GIAC
11 3 (1.90%) GWAPT
12 2 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.27%) OSCP
12 2 (1.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.70%) QA
2 6 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.53%) GDPR
3 4 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.90%) NIST
4 3 (1.90%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.27%) SEPA
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (19.62%) Docker
2 19 (12.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (9.49%) Active Directory
4 14 (8.86%) DFS Replication
4 14 (8.86%) VMware NSX
5 13 (8.23%) Firmware
6 9 (5.70%) Dovecot
6 9 (5.70%) Postfix
6 9 (5.70%) Squid
7 2 (1.27%) NDS
7 2 (1.27%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.63%) HDFS
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (16.46%) Ansible
1 26 (16.46%) Terraform
2 18 (11.39%) Prometheus
3 17 (10.76%) Grafana
3 17 (10.76%) Kubernetes
4 9 (5.70%) Nessus
4 9 (5.70%) Proxmox
5 7 (4.43%) Kibana
6 6 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.90%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.90%) Puppet
8 2 (1.27%) CSIRT
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.27%) Nagios
9 1 (0.63%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.63%) logstash
9 1 (0.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (25.95%) F5
2 31 (19.62%) Microsoft
3 29 (18.35%) Blue Coat
4 28 (17.72%) VMware
5 25 (15.82%) McAfee
6 18 (11.39%) ServiceNow
6 18 (11.39%) Splunk
7 17 (10.76%) NetApp
8 9 (5.70%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (5.70%) Oracle
9 8 (5.06%) CheckPoint
9 8 (5.06%) Cisco
10 6 (3.80%) Palo Alto
11 5 (3.16%) AppDynamics
11 5 (3.16%) Dynatrace
11 5 (3.16%) Google
11 5 (3.16%) IBM
12 4 (2.53%) Fortinet
12 4 (2.53%) New Relic
12 4 (2.53%) SolarWinds