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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 356 384
Rank change year-on-year -8 +28 +62
Contract jobs citing HTTP 172 149 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.51% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.06% 4.03% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 96 117
10th Percentile £335 £319 £302
25th Percentile £394 £400 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £775 £693
UK median daily rate £475 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -8.87% -0.71% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 4
10th Percentile £43.75 £41.55 £60.70
25th Percentile £45.00 £46.50 £64.75
Median hourly rate £61.25 £56.00 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -18.25% +23.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £84.38 £70.45 £84.00
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £56.00 £68.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% -18.25% +37.00%

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 3,398 3,694 5,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.80% 12.75% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,195 2,173 3,282
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £357 £369 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £610
90th Percentile £675 £681 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 115 322
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.64 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.69 £21.46 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -26.39% +23.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.18
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.24
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% -31.82% +34.05%

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 December 2025.

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 December 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 19 December 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 -28 70 £500 -9.09% 19
Midlands -6 40 £475 +47.29% 9
West Midlands 0 37 £475 +23.38% 7
North of England -23 35 £450 -7.98% 20
North West -2 28 £402 -5.41% 12
East of England -15 18 £680 +18.26% 7
South East -29 14 £500 +17.65% 13
South West -5 10 £355 -25.26% 5
Yorkshire -39 7 £700 -6.67% 7
East Midlands -16 3 £360 +38.46% 2
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 20 (11.63%) Confluence
2 10 (5.81%) nginx
3 6 (3.49%) Apache
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (1.16%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.16%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.58%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (5.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.74%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.58%) SAP MRS
3 1 (0.58%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 53 (30.81%) Azure
2 45 (26.16%) AWS
3 21 (12.21%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (11.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 18 (10.47%) Amazon ELB
5 18 (10.47%) Amazon S3
5 18 (10.47%) AWS KMS
5 18 (10.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 13 (7.56%) GitHub
6 13 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (7.56%) Power Automate
7 11 (6.40%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (6.40%) GCP
8 10 (5.81%) Power Platform
8 10 (5.81%) Route 53
9 9 (5.23%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (5.23%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.65%) Amazon Glacier
10 8 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (3.49%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 73 (42.44%) DNS
2 54 (31.40%) SSL
3 44 (25.58%) TCP/IP
4 41 (23.84%) Firewall
5 39 (22.67%) SMTP
6 37 (21.51%) FTP
7 27 (15.70%) Wireshark
8 25 (14.53%) Network Security
9 22 (12.79%) BIG-IP
10 19 (11.05%) SSH
11 15 (8.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 15 (8.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 11 (6.40%) HTTPS
13 10 (5.81%) IMAP
13 10 (5.81%) OpenLDAP
14 9 (5.23%) VPN
15 6 (3.49%) LAN
16 5 (2.91%) DMZ
16 5 (2.91%) Wireless
17 4 (2.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.21%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (8.72%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.98%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.81%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.23%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.91%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.91%) Power BI
7 4 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.74%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.58%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.58%) Big Data
9 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.58%) Impala
9 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (23.26%) Git
2 34 (19.77%) JIRA
3 32 (18.60%) Jenkins
4 20 (11.63%) Fiddler
5 18 (10.47%) Vagrant
6 13 (7.56%) Postman
7 5 (2.91%) Appium
7 5 (2.91%) Charles Proxy
7 5 (2.91%) Katalon Studio
7 5 (2.91%) XCUITest
8 4 (2.33%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.33%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.33%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.33%) Selenium
8 4 (2.33%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.74%) Ant
9 3 (1.74%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.74%) GitLab
9 3 (1.74%) JUnit
9 3 (1.74%) SpecFlow
General
1 69 (40.12%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (16.86%) Finance
4 26 (15.12%) Banking
5 23 (13.37%) Public Sector
6 15 (8.72%) Investment Banking
7 12 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.49%) Marketing
9 4 (2.33%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.33%) Legal
10 3 (1.74%) Advertising
11 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.58%) French Language
12 1 (0.58%) German Language
12 1 (0.58%) Law
12 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (23.26%) Developer
2 28 (16.28%) Network Engineer
3 22 (12.79%) Analyst
4 20 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (10.47%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (10.47%) Web Engineer
6 17 (9.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 17 (9.88%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (9.88%) SOC Analyst
7 16 (9.30%) AWS DevOps
7 16 (9.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 13 (7.56%) Automation Engineer
9 10 (5.81%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.81%) Senior
10 9 (5.23%) Blue Coat Engineer
10 9 (5.23%) Consultant
10 9 (5.23%) IP Network Engineer
11 8 (4.65%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 8 (4.65%) Junior
11 8 (4.65%) Junior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (18.02%) JSON
2 29 (16.86%) LDAP
2 29 (16.86%) XML
3 20 (11.63%) REST
4 19 (11.05%) SOAP
5 15 (8.72%) .NET
5 15 (8.72%) AngularJS
5 15 (8.72%) HTML
5 15 (8.72%) React
6 14 (8.14%) OAuth
7 13 (7.56%) RESTful
8 12 (6.98%) OAuth2
9 8 (4.65%) JMS
9 8 (4.65%) Middleware
9 8 (4.65%) XSD
10 7 (4.07%) CSS
10 7 (4.07%) Node.js
11 6 (3.49%) Ajax
11 6 (3.49%) Kafka
11 6 (3.49%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.02%) Management Information System
2 18 (10.47%) Replication
3 15 (8.72%) Cyberattack
4 14 (8.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (7.56%) CSOC
5 13 (7.56%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (7.56%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (4.07%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.91%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.91%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.91%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.74%) BYOD
8 3 (1.74%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.58%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 43 (25.00%) Linux
2 39 (22.67%) Windows
3 22 (12.79%) Unix
4 19 (11.05%) VMS
5 18 (10.47%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (6.98%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.91%) AIX
7 5 (2.91%) Android
7 5 (2.91%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.74%) Windows Server
9 2 (1.16%) CatOS
9 2 (1.16%) CentOS
9 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (25.58%) DevOps
2 41 (23.84%) Agile
3 32 (18.60%) CI/CD
4 30 (17.44%) Configuration Management
5 29 (16.86%) Test Automation
6 27 (15.70%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (15.70%) Load Balancing
7 24 (13.95%) Change Management
8 22 (12.79%) Information Security
8 22 (12.79%) Security Operations
9 21 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (11.63%) Cloud Security
11 19 (11.05%) Containerisation
11 19 (11.05%) SIEM
12 18 (10.47%) Patch Management
12 18 (10.47%) Platform Engineering
13 17 (9.88%) Analytics
13 17 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (9.88%) Data Loss Prevention
13 17 (9.88%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 72 (41.86%) Python
2 44 (25.58%) SQL
3 43 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 30 (17.44%) Java
5 21 (12.21%) JavaScript
5 21 (12.21%) Perl
6 18 (10.47%) C#
6 18 (10.47%) Groovy
7 14 (8.14%) TypeScript
8 10 (5.81%) Bash
9 6 (3.49%) Korn
10 5 (2.91%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.91%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.91%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.91%) Swift
11 4 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.74%) C
12 3 (1.74%) XPath
13 2 (1.16%) C++
13 2 (1.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 41 (23.84%) SC Cleared
3 31 (18.02%) Degree
4 13 (7.56%) AWS Certification
5 11 (6.40%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.81%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.65%) CEH
7 8 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.65%) CISSP
7 8 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (2.91%) CCNA
8 5 (2.91%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.74%) CCNP
9 3 (1.74%) CCSP
9 3 (1.74%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.74%) GWAPT
9 3 (1.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.14%) QA
2 7 (4.07%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.49%) GDPR
4 5 (2.91%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.74%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.74%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.74%) NIST
7 2 (1.16%) SEPA
7 2 (1.16%) WCAG
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 34 (19.77%) Docker
2 18 (10.47%) DFS Replication
3 16 (9.30%) Active Directory
4 13 (7.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (5.81%) Dovecot
5 10 (5.81%) Firmware
5 10 (5.81%) Postfix
5 10 (5.81%) Squid
6 8 (4.65%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.16%) NDS
7 2 (1.16%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.58%) HDFS
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (20.35%) Terraform
2 26 (15.12%) Ansible
3 23 (13.37%) Prometheus
4 22 (12.79%) Grafana
5 16 (9.30%) Kubernetes
6 10 (5.81%) Nessus
6 10 (5.81%) Proxmox
7 7 (4.07%) Kibana
8 4 (2.33%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.33%) Puppet
9 3 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.74%) CSIRT
9 3 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.16%) Nagios
11 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.58%) logstash
11 1 (0.58%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.58%) SCCM
11 1 (0.58%) SCOM
Vendors
1 35 (20.35%) F5
1 35 (20.35%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.70%) ServiceNow
3 23 (13.37%) Blue Coat
4 19 (11.05%) McAfee
4 19 (11.05%) VMware
5 18 (10.47%) Splunk
6 14 (8.14%) NetApp
7 10 (5.81%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (5.23%) Oracle
9 8 (4.65%) Blue Prism
9 8 (4.65%) Google
10 6 (3.49%) Cisco
11 5 (2.91%) AppDynamics
11 5 (2.91%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.91%) Dynatrace
11 5 (2.91%) Fortinet
11 5 (2.91%) IBM
12 4 (2.33%) Imperva
12 4 (2.33%) New Relic