HTTP Contracts in England

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring HTTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HTTP over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 361 439
Rank change year-on-year +28 +78 -17
Contract jobs citing HTTP 167 194 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 0.52% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.96% 4.03% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 112 144
10th Percentile £346 £290 £366
25th Percentile £413 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -11.76% +8.18%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £675
90th Percentile £681 £650 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 7
10th Percentile £45.75 £26.58 £53.32
25th Percentile £54.38 £27.00 £69.75
Median hourly rate £80.68 £45.88 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.84% -38.83% +66.67%
75th Percentile £81.35 £75.22 £79.00
90th Percentile £82.10 £85.00 £84.42
UK median hourly rate £80.68 £45.88 £75.00
% change year-on-year +75.84% -38.83% +66.67%

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 3,368 4,819 6,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 12.95% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,079 2,868 3,973
10th Percentile £235 £214 £232
25th Percentile £363 £359 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 390 368
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.44 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.47% +101.96% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.55
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.10 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% +100.00% -22.41%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HTTP in England.

Daily rate trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HTTP in England.

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTTP in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 July 2025. 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 -1 90 £550 +4.76% 80
South East +41 16 £500 -0.25% 25
Midlands +28 16 £463 -38.33% 18
North of England -1 16 £475 -23.63% 24
South West +40 13 £615 +15.38% 6
East of England +31 12 £613 +111.21% 27
West Midlands +19 12 £475 - 15
North West +8 9 £475 +38.18% 11
Yorkshire +2 7 £510 -18.40% 10
East Midlands +4 4 £363 -51.60% 3
HTTP
UK

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (8.38%) Confluence
2 4 (2.40%) IIS
2 4 (2.40%) NetWeaver
3 3 (1.80%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (1.20%) Apache
4 2 (1.20%) CMS
4 2 (1.20%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.60%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.60%) SAS
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.99%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.80%) AutoCAD
2 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.20%) assyst
3 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.60%) SAP MRS
3 1 (0.60%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (44.31%) AWS
2 53 (31.74%) Azure
3 18 (10.78%) GCP
3 18 (10.78%) GitHub
4 17 (10.18%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (7.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (7.19%) Serverless
7 10 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (5.99%) Amazon S3
8 9 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (4.79%) npm
9 8 (4.79%) OpenShift
9 8 (4.79%) SaaS
10 7 (4.19%) Amazon ELB
10 7 (4.19%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (4.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 57 (34.13%) DNS
2 39 (23.35%) TCP/IP
3 33 (19.76%) SMTP
4 29 (17.37%) SSL
5 25 (14.97%) Firewall
6 24 (14.37%) FTP
7 17 (10.18%) Network Security
8 16 (9.58%) DHCP
9 15 (8.98%) HTTPS
10 14 (8.38%) Internet
11 11 (6.59%) SSH
12 6 (3.59%) SNMP
12 6 (3.59%) VLAN
12 6 (3.59%) VPN
13 5 (2.99%) BGP
14 4 (2.40%) IPsec
15 3 (1.80%) OSPF
15 3 (1.80%) Software-Defined Radio
15 3 (1.80%) WAN
16 2 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.58%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (5.99%) DynamoDB
2 10 (5.99%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.79%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (4.79%) Oracle Database
4 7 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.99%) MySQL
7 4 (2.40%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.40%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.40%) Power BI
8 3 (1.80%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.60%) Big Data
10 1 (0.60%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (21.56%) Git
2 31 (18.56%) Jenkins
3 30 (17.96%) JIRA
4 11 (6.59%) GitLab
5 9 (5.39%) webpack
6 6 (3.59%) Browser DevTools
6 6 (3.59%) Vagrant
7 5 (2.99%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.99%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.99%) git-flow
8 4 (2.40%) Ant
8 4 (2.40%) JUnit
8 4 (2.40%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.40%) Vite
9 3 (1.80%) GoogleTest
9 3 (1.80%) Maven
9 3 (1.80%) Mocha
9 3 (1.80%) Postman
9 3 (1.80%) Toad
9 3 (1.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.37%) Finance
3 21 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.98%) Banking
5 12 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.19%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.59%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.40%) Marketing
8 4 (2.40%) Retail
9 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.80%) Law
10 2 (1.20%) Advertising
10 2 (1.20%) Aviation
10 2 (1.20%) Legal
10 2 (1.20%) Military
11 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.60%) French Language
11 1 (0.60%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.60%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 51 (30.54%) Developer
2 21 (12.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (8.98%) Architect
3 15 (8.98%) Senior
4 14 (8.38%) Analyst
5 8 (4.79%) Angular Developer
5 8 (4.79%) Integration Developer
5 8 (4.79%) SOC Analyst
6 7 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (4.19%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (4.19%) ServiceNow Architect
7 6 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (3.59%) Java Developer
7 6 (3.59%) Node.js Developer
7 6 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (2.99%) Audio Visual Engineer
8 5 (2.99%) Consultant
8 5 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (2.99%) Network Engineer
8 5 (2.99%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (23.95%) HTML
1 40 (23.95%) REST
2 37 (22.16%) CSS
3 31 (18.56%) SOAP
4 28 (16.77%) React
5 27 (16.17%) AngularJS
5 27 (16.17%) Web Services
5 27 (16.17%) XML
6 22 (13.17%) LDAP
6 22 (13.17%) RESTful
7 19 (11.38%) JSON
8 15 (8.98%) .NET
9 14 (8.38%) Node.js
10 13 (7.78%) Jest
11 12 (7.19%) WebSockets
12 11 (6.59%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (6.59%) Middleware
13 9 (5.39%) JMS
13 9 (5.39%) Sass
13 9 (5.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.99%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.39%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (5.39%) Cyberattack
3 8 (4.79%) CMDB
3 8 (4.79%) Replication
4 7 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.19%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (3.59%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.99%) CSOC
6 5 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.40%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.40%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.80%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.80%) Digital Signage
8 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.80%) State Machine
8 3 (1.80%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 52 (31.14%) Linux
2 30 (17.96%) Windows
3 12 (7.19%) Unix
3 12 (7.19%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.59%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (3.59%) VMS
6 5 (2.99%) AIX
7 3 (1.80%) CentOS
8 2 (1.20%) Debian
8 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.60%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.60%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.74%) Agile
2 50 (29.94%) DevOps
3 34 (20.36%) CI/CD
4 32 (19.16%) Containerisation
4 32 (19.16%) Test Automation
5 29 (17.37%) Microservices
6 28 (16.77%) Scrum
7 26 (15.57%) Configuration Management
8 22 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (10.18%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (10.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (8.98%) Change Management
10 15 (8.98%) Security Operations
11 14 (8.38%) Incident Response
11 14 (8.38%) SIEM
12 13 (7.78%) API Development
12 13 (7.78%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (7.78%) SDLC
13 12 (7.19%) Service Management
13 12 (7.19%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (34.13%) Python
2 48 (28.74%) Java
3 47 (28.14%) JavaScript
4 34 (20.36%) PowerShell
5 25 (14.97%) SQL
6 19 (11.38%) Bash
7 18 (10.78%) TypeScript
8 13 (7.78%) Perl
9 10 (5.99%) C#
9 10 (5.99%) Groovy
10 7 (4.19%) Korn
10 7 (4.19%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.59%) Go
11 6 (3.59%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (3.59%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.99%) ABAP
12 5 (2.99%) T-SQL
13 4 (2.40%) PHP
14 3 (1.80%) Bicep
14 3 (1.80%) C++
Qualifications
1 45 (26.95%) Security Cleared
2 35 (20.96%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.58%) DV Cleared
4 13 (7.78%) Degree
5 11 (6.59%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (5.39%) CEH
7 8 (4.79%) CISSP
8 5 (2.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.40%) CCNP
10 2 (1.20%) CCIE
10 2 (1.20%) CCNA
10 2 (1.20%) CCSP
10 2 (1.20%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.20%) GCIH
10 2 (1.20%) OSCP
11 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.59%) Accessibility
1 6 (3.59%) GDPR
1 6 (3.59%) HIPAA
1 6 (3.59%) WCAG
2 5 (2.99%) QA
3 4 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.40%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.80%) SEPA
5 2 (1.20%) NIST
5 2 (1.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (23.95%) Docker
2 11 (6.59%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.79%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.59%) DFS Replication
6 4 (2.40%) OpenAM
6 4 (2.40%) OpenDJ
6 4 (2.40%) OpenIDM
7 2 (1.20%) Firmware
7 2 (1.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.60%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.60%) XenApp
8 1 (0.60%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 39 (23.35%) Kubernetes
2 30 (17.96%) Terraform
3 19 (11.38%) Ansible
3 19 (11.38%) Puppet
4 18 (10.78%) Grafana
5 15 (8.98%) Prometheus
6 11 (6.59%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.20%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.20%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.20%) Nagios
7 2 (1.20%) Nessus
7 2 (1.20%) SCCM
7 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.20%) WSUS
8 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.60%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.60%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.60%) Packer
8 1 (0.60%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (13.77%) ServiceNow
2 22 (13.17%) Microsoft
3 16 (9.58%) Google
3 16 (9.58%) Red Hat
4 14 (8.38%) VMware
5 9 (5.39%) Cisco
5 9 (5.39%) ForgeRock
5 9 (5.39%) Oracle
6 7 (4.19%) Arista
7 6 (3.59%) SAP
8 5 (2.99%) Blue Prism
8 5 (2.99%) IBM
8 5 (2.99%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.40%) Amplitude
9 4 (2.40%) F5
9 4 (2.40%) Imperva
9 4 (2.40%) Splunk
10 3 (1.80%) Ab Initio
10 3 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.80%) Juniper