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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 368 422
Rank change year-on-year +48 +54 -12
Contract jobs citing HTTP 168 176 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.47% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.29% 3.51% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 116 180
10th Percentile £380 £300 £391
25th Percentile £447 £350 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +6.48%
75th Percentile £653 £623 £688
90th Percentile £775 £650 £775
UK median daily rate £580 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +16.00% -13.04% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 6
10th Percentile £45.75 £25.73 £50.52
25th Percentile £54.38 £41.16 £67.13
Median hourly rate £80.68 £45.88 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.84% -38.83% +54.38%
75th Percentile £81.35 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £82.10 - £79.00
UK median hourly rate £80.68 £45.88 £75.00
% change year-on-year +75.84% -38.83% +52.87%

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 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +10 85 £550 +4.76% 93
North of England +13 19 £472 +2.05% 24
East of England +37 17 £600 +77.78% 28
South West +55 16 £615 +8.13% 8
South East +53 16 £500 -11.50% 45
Yorkshire +9 10 £750 +20.29% 6
North West +11 9 £466 +33.14% 15
Midlands +28 8 £391 - 13
West Midlands +19 6 £450 - 6
East Midlands +11 2 £326 - 7
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 19 (11.31%) Confluence
2 9 (5.36%) nginx
3 6 (3.57%) Apache
3 6 (3.57%) IIS
4 5 (2.98%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.98%) NetWeaver
5 4 (2.38%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.79%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (4.17%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) assyst
1 2 (1.19%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 67 (39.88%) AWS
2 53 (31.55%) Azure
3 17 (10.12%) AWS CloudFormation
3 17 (10.12%) OpenShift
4 16 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
5 15 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (8.93%) GitHub
6 12 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (7.14%) GCP
6 12 (7.14%) Serverless
7 10 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (5.95%) Slack
8 9 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (3.57%) SaaS
11 5 (2.98%) Amazon Cognito
11 5 (2.98%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.98%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 58 (34.52%) DNS
2 49 (29.17%) TCP/IP
3 34 (20.24%) SMTP
4 31 (18.45%) SSL
5 24 (14.29%) DHCP
5 24 (14.29%) FTP
6 19 (11.31%) Firewall
7 17 (10.12%) Network Security
8 15 (8.93%) HTTPS
9 8 (4.76%) Internet
10 6 (3.57%) SNMP
11 5 (2.98%) POP3
11 5 (2.98%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (2.98%) VPN
12 4 (2.38%) VLAN
13 3 (1.79%) BGP
13 3 (1.79%) Software-Defined Radio
14 2 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 2 (1.19%) MQTT
14 2 (1.19%) MVNO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.10%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (9.52%) MySQL
3 14 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.95%) Apache Cassandra
4 10 (5.95%) DynamoDB
4 10 (5.95%) Relational Database
5 9 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (4.17%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.98%) Apache Hive
7 5 (2.98%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (2.98%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.98%) Parquet
7 5 (2.98%) Presto
8 4 (2.38%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.79%) Power BI
9 3 (1.79%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.19%) Oracle Database 10g
10 2 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (19.05%) Git
2 25 (14.88%) JIRA
3 22 (13.10%) Jenkins
4 12 (7.14%) GitLab
4 12 (7.14%) JUnit
5 10 (5.95%) Cucumber
5 10 (5.95%) Jasmine
6 6 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.98%) git-flow
7 5 (2.98%) Poetry
8 4 (2.38%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.38%) webpack
9 3 (1.79%) Ant
9 3 (1.79%) GoogleTest
9 3 (1.79%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.79%) Maven
9 3 (1.79%) Mocha
9 3 (1.79%) Postman
9 3 (1.79%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.71%) Banking
3 18 (10.71%) Finance
4 8 (4.76%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.98%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.38%) Law
7 3 (1.79%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.19%) Automotive
8 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.19%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Advertising
9 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.60%) Aviation
9 1 (0.60%) Front Office
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
9 1 (0.60%) Military
9 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (29.17%) Developer
2 23 (13.69%) Analyst
3 21 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (11.31%) Senior
5 16 (9.52%) Architect
5 16 (9.52%) SOC Analyst
6 11 (6.55%) Integration Developer
7 10 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (5.36%) Lead
9 8 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.76%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.76%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.17%) SAP Developer
10 7 (4.17%) ServiceNow Architect
11 6 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 6 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (26.19%) REST
2 35 (20.83%) HTML
3 33 (19.64%) SOAP
4 32 (19.05%) CSS
5 29 (17.26%) LDAP
6 23 (13.69%) RESTful
6 23 (13.69%) Web Services
7 22 (13.10%) XML
8 19 (11.31%) React
9 17 (10.12%) JSON
10 16 (9.52%) .NET
10 16 (9.52%) OpenAPI
10 16 (9.52%) Swagger
11 15 (8.93%) Node.js
12 14 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (7.14%) EDI
14 11 (6.55%) AngularJS
14 11 (6.55%) OAuth
14 11 (6.55%) Spring
14 11 (6.55%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.52%) Cyberattack
2 14 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (7.74%) Security Operations Centre
4 12 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 11 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (5.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (5.36%) Management Information System
8 8 (4.76%) CMDB
8 8 (4.76%) CSOC
9 6 (3.57%) Virtual Team
10 5 (2.98%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (2.98%) Mobile App
10 5 (2.98%) Product Ownership
11 4 (2.38%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.79%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.79%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.79%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (1.79%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 67 (39.88%) Linux
2 33 (19.64%) Windows
3 26 (15.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (11.31%) Windows Server
5 15 (8.93%) Unix
6 5 (2.98%) AIX
7 3 (1.79%) CentOS
7 3 (1.79%) Mac OS X
7 3 (1.79%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.19%) Debian
8 2 (1.19%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.19%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (30.36%) DevOps
2 42 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 41 (24.40%) Agile
4 38 (22.62%) Containerisation
5 31 (18.45%) Test Automation
6 30 (17.86%) Microservices
7 24 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 23 (13.69%) Cybersecurity
8 23 (13.69%) Scrum
9 21 (12.50%) Security Operations
10 19 (11.31%) SIEM
11 18 (10.71%) High Availability
11 18 (10.71%) Incident Response
11 18 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (10.71%) Threat Detection
12 17 (10.12%) Configuration Management
12 17 (10.12%) Service Management
13 16 (9.52%) OWASP
13 16 (9.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (34.52%) Java
2 57 (33.93%) Python
3 41 (24.40%) JavaScript
4 32 (19.05%) PowerShell
4 32 (19.05%) SQL
5 31 (18.45%) Bash
6 14 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.74%) Groovy
8 12 (7.14%) C#
9 10 (5.95%) Shell Script
10 8 (4.76%) ABAP
11 6 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (2.98%) Perl
12 5 (2.98%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.79%) Bicep
13 3 (1.79%) C++
13 3 (1.79%) Go
13 3 (1.79%) Korn
13 3 (1.79%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.19%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 51 (30.36%) Security Cleared
2 33 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 26 (15.48%) DV Cleared
4 13 (7.74%) Degree
5 10 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.17%) CEH
7 6 (3.57%) CISSP
8 4 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (2.38%) CCNP
9 3 (1.79%) CCNA
9 3 (1.79%) CCSP
9 3 (1.79%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.79%) GCIH
9 3 (1.79%) OSCP
9 3 (1.79%) SAP Certification
10 2 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.19%) CCIE
11 1 (0.60%) CCDP
11 1 (0.60%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.38%) Accessibility
1 4 (2.38%) GDPR
1 4 (2.38%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.19%) NIST
2 2 (1.19%) NIST 800
2 2 (1.19%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.19%) SEPA
3 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.60%) QA
3 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (28.57%) Docker
2 18 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (8.93%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.76%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.57%) OpenAM
5 6 (3.57%) OpenDJ
5 6 (3.57%) OpenIDM
6 4 (2.38%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (1.19%) Firmware
8 1 (0.60%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.60%) XenApp
8 1 (0.60%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (31.55%) Kubernetes
2 34 (20.24%) Terraform
3 27 (16.07%) Ansible
4 25 (14.88%) Puppet
5 11 (6.55%) Grafana
6 10 (5.95%) Progress Chef
7 8 (4.76%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.98%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.38%) SCCM
9 4 (2.38%) WSUS
10 2 (1.19%) CA Wily
10 2 (1.19%) CSIRT
10 2 (1.19%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.19%) Nessus
11 1 (0.60%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.60%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.60%) Packer
11 1 (0.60%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (14.29%) VMware
2 23 (13.69%) Red Hat
3 14 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 12 (7.14%) Splunk
5 11 (6.55%) ForgeRock
5 11 (6.55%) Google
6 9 (5.36%) SAP
7 6 (3.57%) AppDynamics
7 6 (3.57%) Cisco
8 5 (2.98%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.38%) Arista
9 4 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (2.38%) Darktrace
9 4 (2.38%) IBM
9 4 (2.38%) Oracle
10 3 (1.79%) F5
10 3 (1.79%) Symantec
11 2 (1.19%) FireEye
11 2 (1.19%) Imperva