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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 330 357
Rank change year-on-year -130 +27 +69
Contract jobs citing HTTP 164 179 169
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.65% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.79% 5.32% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 109 92
10th Percentile £375 £333 £230
25th Percentile £413 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £620
90th Percentile £599 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £484 £525
% change year-on-year -2.79% -7.90% -4.55%
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 4,331 3,362 4,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.47% 12.19% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,620 2,072 2,571
10th Percentile £264 £250 £250
25th Percentile £401 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £681 £687 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 170 279
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.42 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.72 £44.50 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -39.96% -18.91% -0.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -45.26% -3.06% -10.91%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -85 88 £500 -4.76% 88
North of England -60 33 £460 -3.16% 13
Midlands -42 24 £379 -20.32% 9
South East -61 24 £460 -8.00% 16
West Midlands -53 22 £355 -25.26% 2
North West -39 21 £553 +16.32% 9
Yorkshire -41 9 £439 -13.97% 4
East of England -44 4 £425 -34.62% 3
North East - 3 £425 -
East Midlands -19 2 £402 +11.67% 7
South West -48 2 £500 +49.25% 6
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 10 (6.10%) 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 4 (2.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (31.10%) AWS
2 41 (25.00%) Azure
3 26 (15.85%) GCP
4 12 (7.32%) Akamai
5 8 (4.88%) SaaS
6 7 (4.27%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (4.27%) GitHub
6 7 (4.27%) iPaaS
7 6 (3.66%) Boomi
7 6 (3.66%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.66%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.66%) Workato
8 5 (3.05%) Datadog
8 5 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.05%) PowerApps
8 5 (3.05%) Serverless
9 4 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 66 (40.24%) DNS
2 63 (38.41%) TCP/IP
3 51 (31.10%) SSL
4 29 (17.68%) Network Security
5 22 (13.41%) BIG-IP
6 21 (12.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 19 (11.59%) Wireshark
8 18 (10.98%) 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
11 7 (4.27%) Internet
12 5 (3.05%) IPsec
12 5 (3.05%) LAN
12 5 (3.05%) WAN
13 4 (2.44%) 3GPP
13 4 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (2.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (3.66%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.05%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.44%) Metadata
4 4 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.44%) MySQL
5 3 (1.83%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.83%) Redis
6 2 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.22%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.22%) GIS
6 2 (1.22%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.22%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.61%) OLAP
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (9.15%) Fiddler
2 12 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.71%) Git
3 11 (6.71%) GitLab
4 7 (4.27%) JIRA
4 7 (4.27%) JMeter
5 6 (3.66%) Browser DevTools
5 6 (3.66%) Gatling
5 6 (3.66%) LoadRunner
6 3 (1.83%) JUnit
7 2 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.22%) Introscope
7 2 (1.22%) Postman
7 2 (1.22%) Selenium
7 2 (1.22%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.61%) Codeception
8 1 (0.61%) Gradle
8 1 (0.61%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.61%) TestNG
General
1 41 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.29%) Finance
3 24 (14.63%) Banking
4 21 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.80%) Investment Banking
5 14 (8.54%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.49%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.22%) Games
8 2 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.22%) Retail
9 1 (0.61%) Electronics
9 1 (0.61%) Front Office
9 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (17.07%) Developer
2 24 (14.63%) Network Engineer
3 22 (13.41%) Web Engineer
4 21 (12.80%) Senior
5 18 (10.98%) Security Engineer
6 15 (9.15%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 15 (9.15%) IP Network Engineer
7 12 (7.32%) Architect
8 10 (6.10%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.27%) Designer
10 7 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) C++ Software Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) Tester
12 5 (3.05%) Analyst
12 5 (3.05%) Consultant
12 5 (3.05%) Security Consultant
12 5 (3.05%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 5 (3.05%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (23.78%) REST
2 20 (12.20%) SAML
3 18 (10.98%) JSON
4 16 (9.76%) CSS
4 16 (9.76%) Kafka
4 16 (9.76%) SOAP
5 13 (7.93%) HTML
5 13 (7.93%) OAuth
5 13 (7.93%) RESTful
5 13 (7.93%) XML
6 11 (6.71%) Middleware
7 10 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (5.49%) OpenAPI
8 9 (5.49%) Swagger
9 8 (4.88%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (4.88%) WebSockets
10 7 (4.27%) GraphQL
10 7 (4.27%) JWT
10 7 (4.27%) Web Services
11 6 (3.66%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.46%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (14.02%) Management Information System
3 20 (12.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 12 (7.32%) Cloud Native
5 11 (6.71%) Algorithms
6 10 (6.10%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (6.10%) Onboarding
7 9 (5.49%) Data Structures
8 8 (4.88%) Derivative
9 6 (3.66%) BYOD
9 6 (3.66%) Distributed Applications
9 6 (3.66%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (3.05%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.83%) CMDB
11 3 (1.83%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.22%) Clustering
12 2 (1.22%) IoT
12 2 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.90%) Linux
2 15 (9.15%) Unix
3 13 (7.93%) 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 43 (26.22%) CI/CD
2 35 (21.34%) Load Balancing
3 29 (17.68%) Agile
4 26 (15.85%) DevOps
5 20 (12.20%) Incident Response
5 20 (12.20%) Runbook
6 19 (11.59%) SIEM
7 18 (10.98%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (10.98%) Test Automation
8 16 (9.76%) Application Security
8 16 (9.76%) Migration
8 16 (9.76%) Observability
8 16 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (9.15%) Data Loss Prevention
9 15 (9.15%) DDoS Mitigation
9 15 (9.15%) Incident Management
9 15 (9.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (9.15%) Integration Patterns
9 15 (9.15%) Malware Detection/Protection
10 14 (8.54%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 48 (29.27%) Python
2 28 (17.07%) Java
3 21 (12.80%) SQL
4 15 (9.15%) Bash
5 14 (8.54%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.10%) C#
6 10 (6.10%) C++
6 10 (6.10%) PowerShell
6 10 (6.10%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.49%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.88%) Rust
9 7 (4.27%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.66%) Kotlin
11 5 (3.05%) Perl
12 4 (2.44%) Groovy
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%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 26 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.98%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.71%) Degree
4 10 (6.10%) CISSP
5 6 (3.66%) CISM
6 3 (1.83%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.83%) CCNA
6 3 (1.83%) CCNP
6 3 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.22%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.22%) GCIA
7 2 (1.22%) GCIH
7 2 (1.22%) GIAC
7 2 (1.22%) OSCP
8 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.61%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) GPEN
8 1 (0.61%) OSCE
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
4 6 (3.66%) QA
4 6 (3.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.83%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.22%) NCSC
6 2 (1.22%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.22%) SLA
7 1 (0.61%) GRC
7 1 (0.61%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 26 (15.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (12.20%) Docker
3 15 (9.15%) Firmware
4 7 (4.27%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.66%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (2.44%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.22%) vSphere
8 1 (0.61%) RACF
8 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
3 12 (7.32%) Terraform
4 4 (2.44%) Kibana
4 4 (2.44%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.22%) CA Wily
5 2 (1.22%) Consul
5 2 (1.22%) Packer
5 2 (1.22%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.22%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.61%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.61%) logstash
Vendors
1 29 (17.68%) VMware
2 28 (17.07%) F5
3 19 (11.59%) Blue Coat
3 19 (11.59%) Oracle
4 17 (10.37%) IBM
5 16 (9.76%) Microsoft
6 15 (9.15%) McAfee
6 15 (9.15%) NetApp
7 11 (6.71%) Cisco
8 10 (6.10%) Google
9 8 (4.88%) Red Hat
9 8 (4.88%) ServiceNow
10 7 (4.27%) MuleSoft
10 7 (4.27%) Netskope
10 7 (4.27%) Zscaler
11 6 (3.66%) Dynatrace
11 6 (3.66%) Informatica
11 6 (3.66%) TIBCO
11 6 (3.66%) WSO2
12 5 (3.05%) AppDynamics