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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 347 358
Rank change year-on-year -100 +11 +72
Contract jobs citing HTTP 164 178 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.64% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.85% 5.17% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 111 92
10th Percentile £365 £335 £230
25th Percentile £411 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £555 £631 £620
90th Percentile £630 £694 £638
UK median daily rate £466 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -6.75% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 7
10th Percentile £63.75 £45.00 £25.30
25th Percentile £67.50 £49.13 £27.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +132.14% -62.67%
75th Percentile £82.50 £81.35 £85.00
90th Percentile £86.25 £84.20 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% +132.14% -62.67%

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 4,264 3,441 4,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.37% 12.45% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,581 2,138 2,580
10th Percentile £263 £241 £240
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 162 291
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £45.00 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% -18.00% +5.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £50.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -46.68% +5.26% -5.79%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -68 87 £500 -9.09% 74
North of England -50 35 £460 -3.16% 11
Midlands -45 27 £400 -15.79% 7
West Midlands -46 24 £378 -20.53% 3
North West -37 23 £553 +16.32% 9
South East -52 22 £460 -8.00% 9
Yorkshire -45 9 £439 -13.97% 2
East of England -35 4 £425 -34.62% 2
East Midlands -9 3 £402 +11.67% 4
North East - 3 £425 -
South West -50 2 £500 +49.25% 5
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 11 (6.71%) Confluence
2 8 (4.88%) nginx
2 8 (4.88%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.66%) OpenStack
4 5 (3.05%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.83%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.22%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (1.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (1.22%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (1.22%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.61%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.61%) CICS
7 1 (0.61%) IIS
7 1 (0.61%) Mule
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.22%) Houdini
2 2 (1.22%) NUKE
3 1 (0.61%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (31.10%) AWS
2 40 (24.39%) Azure
3 26 (15.85%) GCP
4 10 (6.10%) Akamai
5 9 (5.49%) SaaS
6 8 (4.88%) GitHub
7 7 (4.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (4.27%) iPaaS
8 6 (3.66%) Boomi
8 6 (3.66%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.05%) Datadog
9 5 (3.05%) Serverless
9 5 (3.05%) Workato
10 4 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.44%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 68 (41.46%) DNS
2 64 (39.02%) TCP/IP
3 52 (31.71%) SSL
4 29 (17.68%) Network Security
5 24 (14.63%) BIG-IP
6 22 (13.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 22 (13.41%) Wireshark
7 19 (11.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 18 (10.98%) HTTPS
9 15 (9.15%) Firewall
10 8 (4.88%) BGP
10 8 (4.88%) VPN
11 7 (4.27%) 5G
12 6 (3.66%) 3GPP
12 6 (3.66%) Internet
13 5 (3.05%) IPsec
13 5 (3.05%) LAN
13 5 (3.05%) WAN
14 4 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (2.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.05%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.44%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.44%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.44%) MySQL
4 3 (1.83%) Metadata
4 3 (1.83%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.83%) Redis
5 2 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.22%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.22%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.22%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.22%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.61%) GIS
6 1 (0.61%) OLAP
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (10.37%) Fiddler
2 12 (7.32%) Git
2 12 (7.32%) GitLab
2 12 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.88%) JIRA
3 8 (4.88%) JMeter
4 7 (4.27%) Gatling
5 6 (3.66%) Browser DevTools
5 6 (3.66%) LoadRunner
6 4 (2.44%) JUnit
7 3 (1.83%) Postman
8 2 (1.22%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.22%) Gradle
8 2 (1.22%) Introscope
8 2 (1.22%) Maven
8 2 (1.22%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.22%) Selenium
8 2 (1.22%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.22%) TestNG
General
1 39 (23.78%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.68%) Finance
3 25 (15.24%) Banking
4 22 (13.41%) Investment Banking
5 21 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (8.54%) Telecoms
7 10 (6.10%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.22%) Games
9 2 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.22%) Retail
10 1 (0.61%) Electronics
10 1 (0.61%) Front Office
10 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (15.85%) Developer
1 26 (15.85%) Network Engineer
2 24 (14.63%) Web Engineer
3 21 (12.80%) Senior
4 17 (10.37%) Security Engineer
5 16 (9.76%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 16 (9.76%) IP Network Engineer
6 12 (7.32%) Architect
7 11 (6.71%) Software Engineer
8 7 (4.27%) Designer
8 7 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.66%) C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (3.66%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (3.66%) Support Engineer
9 6 (3.66%) Tester
10 5 (3.05%) Consultant
10 5 (3.05%) Performance Tester
10 5 (3.05%) Security Consultant
10 5 (3.05%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (22.56%) REST
2 19 (11.59%) SAML
3 18 (10.98%) JSON
4 17 (10.37%) SOAP
5 16 (9.76%) CSS
5 16 (9.76%) Kafka
5 16 (9.76%) XML
6 13 (7.93%) OAuth
6 13 (7.93%) RESTful
7 12 (7.32%) HTML
8 11 (6.71%) Middleware
9 10 (6.10%) OpenAPI
9 10 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (6.10%) Swagger
10 8 (4.88%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (4.88%) WebSockets
11 7 (4.27%) GraphQL
11 7 (4.27%) Web Services
12 6 (3.66%) JWT
13 5 (3.05%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.85%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (14.63%) Management Information System
3 20 (12.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 11 (6.71%) Algorithms
4 11 (6.71%) Cloud Native
5 10 (6.10%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (4.88%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.88%) Derivative
6 8 (4.88%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.66%) BYOD
7 6 (3.66%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (3.05%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.44%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.83%) CMDB
10 3 (1.83%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.22%) Motion Graphics
11 2 (1.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 30 (18.29%) Linux
2 15 (9.15%) Unix
3 14 (8.54%) Windows
4 6 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.66%) Solaris
4 6 (3.66%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (1.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.61%) CatOS
7 1 (0.61%) VMS
7 1 (0.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (28.05%) CI/CD
2 36 (21.95%) Load Balancing
3 31 (18.90%) Agile
4 25 (15.24%) DevOps
5 20 (12.20%) Incident Response
5 20 (12.20%) Runbook
6 19 (11.59%) SIEM
6 19 (11.59%) Test Automation
7 17 (10.37%) Data Loss Prevention
7 17 (10.37%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 17 (10.37%) Observability
7 17 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (9.76%) Application Security
8 16 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (9.76%) Incident Management
9 15 (9.15%) DDoS Mitigation
9 15 (9.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (9.15%) Integration Patterns
9 15 (9.15%) Migration
9 15 (9.15%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (28.66%) Python
2 29 (17.68%) Java
3 21 (12.80%) SQL
4 15 (9.15%) Bash
5 13 (7.93%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.71%) C#
7 10 (6.10%) C++
7 10 (6.10%) PowerShell
7 10 (6.10%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.49%) Shell Script
9 8 (4.88%) Rust
10 7 (4.27%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.66%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.44%) Groovy
12 4 (2.44%) Perl
13 2 (1.22%) Go
13 2 (1.22%) Jython
13 2 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (1.22%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.71%) Degree
4 10 (6.10%) CISSP
5 6 (3.66%) CISM
6 4 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.83%) CCNA
7 3 (1.83%) CCNP
7 3 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.22%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (1.22%) GCIA
8 2 (1.22%) GCIH
8 2 (1.22%) GIAC
8 2 (1.22%) OSCP
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.61%) OSCE
9 1 (0.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.71%) NIST
2 9 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.49%) PCI DSS
3 7 (4.27%) GDPR
3 7 (4.27%) QA
4 6 (3.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.22%) NCSC
5 2 (1.22%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.22%) SLA
6 1 (0.61%) GRC
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 27 (16.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (12.20%) Docker
3 16 (9.76%) Firmware
4 7 (4.27%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.66%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.05%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (1.22%) vSphere
9 1 (0.61%) RACF
9 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.93%) Ansible
2 13 (7.93%) Grafana
3 12 (7.32%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (6.71%) Terraform
5 4 (2.44%) Kibana
5 4 (2.44%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.22%) CA Wily
6 2 (1.22%) Consul
6 2 (1.22%) Packer
6 2 (1.22%) Tivoli
6 2 (1.22%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.61%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.61%) logstash
Vendors
1 31 (18.90%) VMware
2 29 (17.68%) F5
3 21 (12.80%) Blue Coat
4 18 (10.98%) Oracle
5 17 (10.37%) McAfee
6 16 (9.76%) IBM
6 16 (9.76%) NetApp
7 15 (9.15%) Microsoft
8 11 (6.71%) Cisco
9 9 (5.49%) Google
10 8 (4.88%) Red Hat
10 8 (4.88%) ServiceNow
11 7 (4.27%) MuleSoft
11 7 (4.27%) Netskope
11 7 (4.27%) Zscaler
12 6 (3.66%) Dynatrace
13 5 (3.05%) AppDynamics
13 5 (3.05%) Informatica
13 5 (3.05%) TIBCO
13 5 (3.05%) WSO2