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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 340 351
Rank change year-on-year -110 +11 +85
Contract jobs citing HTTP 167 173 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.64% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.91% 5.05% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 106 111
10th Percentile £306 £343 £290
25th Percentile £405 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £620
90th Percentile £718 £684 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 10
10th Percentile £68.38 £45.38 £26.58
25th Percentile £79.06 £50.81 £27.00
Median hourly rate £88.75 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +41.67% -38.83%
75th Percentile £95.00 £81.35 £75.22
90th Percentile - £83.05 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £88.75 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +36.54% +41.67% -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 4,276 3,427 4,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 12.64% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,639 2,129 2,873
10th Percentile £250 £235 £215
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £607
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +4.06% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 154 385
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.46 £23.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.69 £42.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.45% -2.33% +56.36%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.03 £82.73 £74.60
UK median hourly rate £26.22 £46.25 £41.50
% change year-on-year -43.31% +11.45% +50.91%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -59 85 £500 -9.09% 23
North of England -51 38 £453 -4.68% 5
Midlands -43 32 £365 -21.08% 5
West Midlands -49 29 £355 -25.26%
North West -33 27 £553 +16.32% 2
South East -60 20 £455 -9.00% 10
Yorkshire -48 9 £439 -13.97% 2
East Midlands -21 3 £402 +10.74% 5
South West -42 2 £500 -18.53% 1
North East - 2 £419 - 1
East of England -41 1 - - 3
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 9 (5.39%) Confluence
2 8 (4.79%) nginx
2 8 (4.79%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.59%) Ethereum
3 6 (3.59%) Hyperledger
4 5 (2.99%) WebLogic
5 4 (2.40%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.80%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.20%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (1.20%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (1.20%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.60%) CICS
8 1 (0.60%) IIS
8 1 (0.60%) Mule
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.60%) Houdini
2 1 (0.60%) InDesign
2 1 (0.60%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.60%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 47 (28.14%) AWS
2 35 (20.96%) Azure
3 23 (13.77%) GCP
4 9 (5.39%) SaaS
5 8 (4.79%) Akamai
5 8 (4.79%) GitHub
6 6 (3.59%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.99%) Workato
8 4 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.40%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.40%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.80%) Datadog
9 3 (1.80%) iPaaS
9 3 (1.80%) Serverless
10 2 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.20%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 68 (40.72%) DNS
2 58 (34.73%) TCP/IP
3 51 (30.54%) SSL
4 32 (19.16%) BIG-IP
5 30 (17.96%) Wireshark
6 28 (16.77%) Network Security
7 21 (12.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 21 (12.57%) HTTPS
8 18 (10.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 18 (10.78%) Firewall
9 10 (5.99%) VPN
10 8 (4.79%) IPsec
10 8 (4.79%) LAN
10 8 (4.79%) WAN
11 7 (4.19%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (4.19%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (3.59%) 3GPP
12 6 (3.59%) Internet
12 6 (3.59%) Wireless
13 5 (2.99%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.99%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (4.19%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.40%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.40%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.80%) Metadata
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.60%) GIS
6 1 (0.60%) MySQL
6 1 (0.60%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (12.57%) Fiddler
2 15 (8.98%) Git
3 14 (8.38%) JIRA
4 10 (5.99%) JUnit
5 8 (4.79%) GitLab
5 8 (4.79%) Jenkins
5 8 (4.79%) JMeter
6 7 (4.19%) Gatling
7 6 (3.59%) Browser DevTools
7 6 (3.59%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.80%) Postman
9 2 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.20%) Gradle
9 2 (1.20%) Introscope
9 2 (1.20%) Maven
9 2 (1.20%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.20%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.20%) TestNG
10 1 (0.60%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.56%) Banking
2 31 (18.56%) Finance
3 23 (13.77%) Investment Banking
4 17 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.39%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.79%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.20%) Front Office
8 2 (1.20%) Games
8 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Legal
8 2 (1.20%) Retail
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Electronics
9 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (19.76%) Network Engineer
2 30 (17.96%) Developer
3 29 (17.37%) Senior
4 28 (16.77%) Web Engineer
5 18 (10.78%) Security Engineer
6 17 (10.18%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 17 (10.18%) IP Network Engineer
7 12 (7.19%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.39%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.79%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.19%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (4.19%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Architect
11 6 (3.59%) C++ Software Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Tester
12 5 (2.99%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (2.99%) Junior
12 5 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (20.96%) REST
2 19 (11.38%) SAML
3 17 (10.18%) RESTful
4 16 (9.58%) JSON
4 16 (9.58%) Kafka
5 11 (6.59%) OAuth
5 11 (6.59%) SOAP
6 10 (5.99%) AngularJS
7 9 (5.39%) CSS
7 9 (5.39%) Spring
7 9 (5.39%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.39%) WebSockets
7 9 (5.39%) XML
8 8 (4.79%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (4.19%) LDAP
9 7 (4.19%) Middleware
10 6 (3.59%) gRPC
10 6 (3.59%) OpenAPI
10 6 (3.59%) Spring Batch
10 6 (3.59%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.37%) Management Information System
2 22 (13.17%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (10.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 11 (6.59%) Algorithms
5 9 (5.39%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.79%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.79%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (4.79%) Derivative
7 6 (3.59%) BYOD
7 6 (3.59%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.40%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (1.20%) Blockchain
11 2 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.20%) IoT
11 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.37%) Linux
2 16 (9.58%) Windows
3 13 (7.78%) Unix
4 6 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.59%) Solaris
4 6 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.59%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.80%) CatOS
7 2 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.60%) VMS
8 1 (0.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (28.74%) CI/CD
2 35 (20.96%) Load Balancing
3 34 (20.36%) Agile
4 22 (13.17%) DevOps
5 21 (12.57%) Data Loss Prevention
5 21 (12.57%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 19 (11.38%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (10.78%) Incident Response
8 17 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (10.18%) Runbook
8 17 (10.18%) SIEM
9 16 (9.58%) Microservices
9 16 (9.58%) Test Automation
10 15 (8.98%) Application Security
10 15 (8.98%) Migration
10 15 (8.98%) Scrum
10 15 (8.98%) Software Engineering
11 14 (8.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (8.38%) Incident Management
11 14 (8.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 44 (26.35%) Python
2 40 (23.95%) Java
3 19 (11.38%) SQL
4 16 (9.58%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.19%) Bash
5 12 (7.19%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.59%) C#
6 11 (6.59%) C++
7 10 (5.99%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.79%) Rust
9 7 (4.19%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.59%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.80%) Go
11 3 (1.80%) Groovy
12 2 (1.20%) C
12 2 (1.20%) Jython
12 2 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.20%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.20%) Perl
12 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (14.97%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.99%) CISSP
4 8 (4.79%) Degree
5 6 (3.59%) CISM
6 4 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.80%) CCNA
7 3 (1.80%) CCNP
7 3 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.20%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (1.20%) GCIA
8 2 (1.20%) GCIH
8 2 (1.20%) GIAC
8 2 (1.20%) OSCP
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.60%) CCSAM
9 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.60%) GPEN
9 1 (0.60%) OSCE
9 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.59%) NIST
2 9 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.39%) PCI DSS
3 7 (4.19%) GDPR
4 6 (3.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.99%) QA
6 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.20%) NCSC
6 2 (1.20%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.20%) SLA
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 29 (17.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (11.98%) Docker
3 17 (10.18%) Firmware
4 12 (7.19%) Active Directory
5 11 (6.59%) VMware NSX
6 6 (3.59%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.40%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.60%) RACF
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (10.78%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.38%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (7.19%) Ansible
4 8 (4.79%) Grafana
5 7 (4.19%) Terraform
6 4 (2.40%) Kibana
6 4 (2.40%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.20%) CA Wily
7 2 (1.20%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.60%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.60%) Consul
8 1 (0.60%) logstash
8 1 (0.60%) Packer
8 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (20.96%) VMware
2 32 (19.16%) F5
3 25 (14.97%) Blue Coat
4 21 (12.57%) McAfee
5 20 (11.98%) Microsoft
6 17 (10.18%) NetApp
7 14 (8.38%) Oracle
8 12 (7.19%) Cisco
8 12 (7.19%) IBM
9 8 (4.79%) Red Hat
10 7 (4.19%) CheckPoint
10 7 (4.19%) Netskope
10 7 (4.19%) Palo Alto
10 7 (4.19%) Zscaler
11 5 (2.99%) AppDynamics
11 5 (2.99%) Dynatrace
11 5 (2.99%) Google
11 5 (2.99%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.99%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.40%) Huawei