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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 313 355
Rank change year-on-year -119 +42 +91
Contract jobs citing HTTP 165 169 194
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.68% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.07% 5.30% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 110 114
10th Percentile £306 £360 £298
25th Percentile £406 £430 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £622
90th Percentile £738 £702 £650
UK median daily rate £488 £573 £494
% change year-on-year -14.85% +15.95% -15.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 10
10th Percentile £68.38 £45.75 £26.58
25th Percentile £79.06 £54.38 £27.00
Median hourly rate £88.75 £80.68 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +10.01% +75.84% -38.83%
75th Percentile £95.00 £81.35 £75.22
90th Percentile - £82.10 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £88.75 £80.68 £45.88
% change year-on-year +10.01% +75.84% -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 4,050 3,191 4,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.43% 12.90% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,505 1,986 2,858
10th Percentile £253 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £691
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 130 393
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.64 £13.57
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £29.52 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -6.25% +117.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.43 £72.82
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £42.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.78% +6.88% +110.53%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -62 86 £525 +1.94% 31
North of England -43 39 £446 -6.21% 6
Midlands -41 31 £355 -15.58% 5
North West -17 29 £553 +16.32% 4
West Midlands -36 29 £355 -25.26% 1
South East -59 17 £450 -10.00% 13
Yorkshire -55 8 £418 +12.84%
East Midlands -22 2 - - 4
South West -41 2 £500 -18.70%
North East - 2 £419 - 2
East of England -42 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 (5.45%) Confluence
2 8 (4.85%) nginx
2 8 (4.85%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.64%) Ethereum
3 6 (3.64%) Hyperledger
4 5 (3.03%) WebLogic
5 4 (2.42%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.82%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.21%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (1.21%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (1.21%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.61%) CICS
8 1 (0.61%) IIS
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.64%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.61%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.61%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 43 (26.06%) AWS
2 32 (19.39%) Azure
3 22 (13.33%) GCP
4 9 (5.45%) SaaS
5 8 (4.85%) Akamai
5 8 (4.85%) GitHub
6 6 (3.64%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.03%) Workato
8 4 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.42%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.42%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.82%) Datadog
9 3 (1.82%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.82%) Serverless
10 2 (1.21%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 65 (39.39%) DNS
2 55 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 52 (31.52%) SSL
4 34 (20.61%) BIG-IP
5 32 (19.39%) Wireshark
6 28 (16.97%) Network Security
7 21 (12.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 20 (12.12%) HTTPS
9 18 (10.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 18 (10.91%) Firewall
10 9 (5.45%) VPN
11 8 (4.85%) 3GPP
11 8 (4.85%) IPsec
11 8 (4.85%) LAN
11 8 (4.85%) WAN
11 8 (4.85%) Wireless
12 7 (4.24%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (4.24%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (3.64%) Kerberos
14 5 (3.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (4.24%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.24%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.42%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.42%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.82%) Metadata
5 2 (1.21%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.21%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.61%) GIS
6 1 (0.61%) MySQL
6 1 (0.61%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (13.94%) Fiddler
2 14 (8.48%) Git
2 14 (8.48%) JIRA
3 10 (6.06%) JUnit
4 8 (4.85%) GitLab
4 8 (4.85%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.85%) JMeter
5 7 (4.24%) Gatling
6 6 (3.64%) Browser DevTools
6 6 (3.64%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.82%) Postman
8 2 (1.21%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.21%) Gradle
8 2 (1.21%) Introscope
8 2 (1.21%) Maven
8 2 (1.21%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.21%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.21%) TestNG
9 1 (0.61%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.39%) Finance
3 31 (18.79%) Banking
4 23 (13.94%) Investment Banking
5 15 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.45%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.24%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.21%) Front Office
9 2 (1.21%) Games
9 2 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.21%) Legal
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Electronics
10 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (21.21%) Network Engineer
2 30 (18.18%) Web Engineer
3 29 (17.58%) Senior
4 28 (16.97%) Developer
5 18 (10.91%) Security Engineer
6 17 (10.30%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 17 (10.30%) IP Network Engineer
7 12 (7.27%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.45%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.85%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.24%) Junior
10 7 (4.24%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) C++ Software Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Junior Network Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Tester
12 5 (3.03%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (3.03%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.00%) REST
2 19 (11.52%) SAML
3 15 (9.09%) JSON
4 14 (8.48%) Kafka
5 13 (7.88%) RESTful
6 11 (6.67%) OAuth
7 10 (6.06%) AngularJS
8 9 (5.45%) Spring
8 9 (5.45%) Spring Boot
8 9 (5.45%) WebSockets
9 8 (4.85%) CSS
9 8 (4.85%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (4.85%) SOAP
10 7 (4.24%) LDAP
11 6 (3.64%) .NET
11 6 (3.64%) gRPC
11 6 (3.64%) HTML
11 6 (3.64%) Middleware
11 6 (3.64%) Spring Batch
11 6 (3.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.94%) Management Information System
2 22 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (10.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 11 (6.67%) Algorithms
5 9 (5.45%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.85%) Derivative
7 7 (4.24%) Cloud Native
7 7 (4.24%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (3.64%) BYOD
8 6 (3.64%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (3.64%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.64%) Product Ownership
9 5 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.42%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (1.21%) Blockchain
12 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.21%) IoT
12 2 (1.21%) Media Streaming
12 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.94%) Linux
2 15 (9.09%) Windows
3 10 (6.06%) Unix
4 6 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.64%) Solaris
4 6 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.64%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.82%) CatOS
7 2 (1.21%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.61%) VMS
8 1 (0.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (27.88%) CI/CD
2 36 (21.82%) Load Balancing
3 31 (18.79%) Agile
4 23 (13.94%) Data Loss Prevention
4 23 (13.94%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 18 (10.91%) DevOps
6 17 (10.30%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (10.30%) Migration
6 17 (10.30%) Runbook
7 16 (9.70%) Application Security
7 16 (9.70%) Incident Response
7 16 (9.70%) Microservices
8 15 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (9.09%) SIEM
8 15 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 15 (9.09%) Test Automation
9 13 (7.88%) DDoS Mitigation
9 13 (7.88%) High Availability
9 13 (7.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (7.88%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 45 (27.27%) Python
2 38 (23.03%) Java
3 19 (11.52%) SQL
4 16 (9.70%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.88%) C#
6 12 (7.27%) Bash
6 12 (7.27%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.06%) C++
7 10 (6.06%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.85%) Rust
9 7 (4.24%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.42%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.82%) Go
11 3 (1.82%) Groovy
12 2 (1.21%) Jython
12 2 (1.21%) Perl
12 2 (1.21%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.61%) C
13 1 (0.61%) PHP
13 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.70%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.06%) CISSP
3 10 (6.06%) Degree
4 6 (3.64%) CISM
5 4 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.21%) CCNA
6 2 (1.21%) CCNP
6 2 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.21%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.21%) OSCP
6 2 (1.21%) PhD
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.61%) CCSAM
7 1 (0.61%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.61%) ECSA
7 1 (0.61%) GPEN
7 1 (0.61%) GXPN
7 1 (0.61%) OSCE
7 1 (0.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (5.45%) NIST
2 8 (4.85%) PCI DSS
3 7 (4.24%) GDPR
4 6 (3.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (2.42%) QA
6 2 (1.21%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (16.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (11.52%) Docker
3 17 (10.30%) Firmware
4 13 (7.88%) VMware NSX
5 11 (6.67%) Active Directory
6 6 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.42%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.61%) RACF
8 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (10.30%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.48%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (7.88%) Ansible
4 7 (4.24%) Grafana
5 6 (3.64%) Terraform
6 4 (2.42%) Kibana
6 4 (2.42%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.21%) CA Wily
7 2 (1.21%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.61%) Consul
8 1 (0.61%) logstash
8 1 (0.61%) Packer
8 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (21.82%) VMware
2 34 (20.61%) F5
3 27 (16.36%) Blue Coat
4 23 (13.94%) McAfee
5 21 (12.73%) Microsoft
6 17 (10.30%) NetApp
7 13 (7.88%) Oracle
8 11 (6.67%) Cisco
8 11 (6.67%) IBM
9 8 (4.85%) Red Hat
10 7 (4.24%) CheckPoint
10 7 (4.24%) Netskope
10 7 (4.24%) Palo Alto
10 7 (4.24%) Zscaler
11 5 (3.03%) AppDynamics
11 5 (3.03%) Dynatrace
11 5 (3.03%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.42%) Databricks
12 4 (2.42%) Nokia
12 4 (2.42%) ServiceNow