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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 309 385
Rank change year-on-year -112 +76 +36
Contract jobs citing HTTP 170 173 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.71% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.51% 5.37% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 117 103
10th Percentile £302 £380 £300
25th Percentile £402 £453 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £473
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +20.63% -17.83%
75th Percentile £590 £653 £584
90th Percentile £726 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £473
% change year-on-year -13.04% +21.69% -17.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 7
10th Percentile £41.25 £38.25 £25.30
25th Percentile £50.25 £49.13 £36.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +25.33% -38.83%
75th Percentile £83.75 £81.18 £65.44
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.10 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +13.04% +25.33% -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 3,772 3,220 5,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.59% 13.18% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,381 2,012 3,091
10th Percentile £225 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £364 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £497 £488 £488
% change year-on-year +1.98% - -5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 123 398
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.32 £17.69
Median hourly rate £45.00 £36.65 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.80% -8.39% +111.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.81 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.88% -6.25% +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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -75 78 £525 -4.55% 29
North of England -44 45 £439 -6.99% 12
North West -2 41 £460 -1.23% 6
Midlands -46 34 £340 -13.04% 4
West Midlands -32 32 £340 -24.44% 3
South East -60 16 £525 +5.00% 13
East of England -39 5 - - 3
South West -41 5 £575 -6.50% 2
Yorkshire -60 3 £375 -50.00% 6
East Midlands -32 2 - - 1
North East - 1 £425 -
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 6 (3.53%) Ethereum
1 6 (3.53%) Hyperledger
2 5 (2.94%) Confluence
2 5 (2.94%) nginx
2 5 (2.94%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.35%) Apache
3 4 (2.35%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.76%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.18%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.18%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.18%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.18%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.59%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.59%) IIS
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (5.29%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.59%) InDesign
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.76%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.59%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 40 (23.53%) AWS
2 35 (20.59%) Azure
3 21 (12.35%) GCP
4 14 (8.24%) GitHub
5 10 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.53%) SaaS
6 6 (3.53%) Serverless
7 5 (2.94%) Akamai
7 5 (2.94%) Apigee
7 5 (2.94%) Azure API Management
7 5 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.35%) Azure Functions
8 4 (2.35%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.35%) Power Automate
8 4 (2.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 67 (39.41%) DNS
2 53 (31.18%) SSL
3 52 (30.59%) TCP/IP
4 40 (23.53%) BIG-IP
5 38 (22.35%) Wireshark
6 23 (13.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 22 (12.94%) Firewall
7 22 (12.94%) Network Security
8 20 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 20 (11.76%) HTTPS
9 13 (7.65%) VPN
10 10 (5.88%) Wireless
11 9 (5.29%) FTP
11 9 (5.29%) LAN
11 9 (5.29%) SMTP
11 9 (5.29%) WAN
12 8 (4.71%) 3GPP
12 8 (4.71%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (4.71%) Ethereal
12 8 (4.71%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (4.71%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.12%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.12%) Oracle Database
4 6 (3.53%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.35%) Power BI
6 4 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.76%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.18%) Metadata
8 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.59%) GIS
Development Applications
1 28 (16.47%) Fiddler
2 20 (11.76%) Git
3 16 (9.41%) JIRA
4 13 (7.65%) Jenkins
5 12 (7.06%) JUnit
6 9 (5.29%) Postman
7 8 (4.71%) GitLab
8 7 (4.12%) Gatling
8 7 (4.12%) JMeter
9 6 (3.53%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (2.94%) LoadRunner
11 4 (2.35%) Cucumber
11 4 (2.35%) SoapUI
12 3 (1.76%) Ant
12 3 (1.76%) Maven
12 3 (1.76%) Selenium
12 3 (1.76%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.76%) TestRail
12 3 (1.76%) Zephyr
13 2 (1.18%) Introscope
General
1 53 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.53%) Banking
3 29 (17.06%) Finance
4 24 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (14.12%) Investment Banking
5 10 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.29%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.35%) Legal
8 4 (2.35%) Marketing
9 3 (1.76%) Advertising
10 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Front Office
10 2 (1.18%) Games
11 1 (0.59%) Electronics
11 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (22.94%) Developer
2 37 (21.76%) Network Engineer
3 35 (20.59%) Web Engineer
4 23 (13.53%) Senior
5 19 (11.18%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 19 (11.18%) IP Network Engineer
6 11 (6.47%) Java Developer
7 10 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 10 (5.88%) Junior
7 10 (5.88%) Security Engineer
8 9 (5.29%) Junior Network Engineer
8 9 (5.29%) Tester
9 8 (4.71%) Analyst
9 8 (4.71%) Consultant
9 8 (4.71%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.12%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.53%) SOC Analyst
11 6 (3.53%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.82%) JSON
2 27 (15.88%) REST
3 19 (11.18%) OAuth
3 19 (11.18%) SAML
3 19 (11.18%) XML
4 17 (10.00%) Kafka
4 17 (10.00%) RESTful
5 15 (8.82%) .NET
6 14 (8.24%) HTML
7 13 (7.65%) LDAP
8 12 (7.06%) AngularJS
9 11 (6.47%) OAuth2
9 11 (6.47%) Spring
9 11 (6.47%) Spring Boot
10 10 (5.88%) SOAP
11 9 (5.29%) Middleware
12 8 (4.71%) WebSockets
13 7 (4.12%) gRPC
13 7 (4.12%) SignalR
14 6 (3.53%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.82%) Management Information System
2 12 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (3.53%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (3.53%) BYOD
4 6 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.53%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.94%) CSOC
5 5 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.94%) Cyberattack
5 5 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (1.76%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.76%) Derivative
6 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.47%) Linux
2 20 (11.76%) Windows
3 15 (8.82%) Unix
4 6 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.53%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.94%) AIX
5 5 (2.94%) Solaris
5 5 (2.94%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (2.35%) CatOS
6 4 (2.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.18%) CI/CD
2 41 (24.12%) Agile
3 33 (19.41%) Load Balancing
4 28 (16.47%) Data Loss Prevention
4 28 (16.47%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 24 (14.12%) DevOps
6 22 (12.94%) Cybersecurity
7 21 (12.35%) Microservices
8 18 (10.59%) Runbook
9 17 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (10.00%) Security Operations
10 14 (8.24%) Application Security
10 14 (8.24%) Test Automation
11 13 (7.65%) Computer Science
11 13 (7.65%) Containerisation
11 13 (7.65%) Observability
12 12 (7.06%) Incident Response
12 12 (7.06%) Migration
12 12 (7.06%) Scrum
12 12 (7.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 43 (25.29%) Python
2 37 (21.76%) Java
3 22 (12.94%) SQL
4 21 (12.35%) C#
5 20 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 18 (10.59%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.65%) PowerShell
8 12 (7.06%) Bash
9 10 (5.88%) PL/SQL
10 7 (4.12%) Perl
11 5 (2.94%) C++
11 5 (2.94%) Korn
12 3 (1.76%) Rust
12 3 (1.76%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.76%) XPath
13 2 (1.18%) Go
13 2 (1.18%) Jython
13 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.59%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 26 (15.29%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.76%) Degree
3 18 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.12%) CISSP
6 6 (3.53%) CISM
6 6 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.76%) CCNA
7 3 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.18%) CCNP
8 2 (1.18%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.18%) OSCP
8 2 (1.18%) PhD
9 1 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.59%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.59%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (5.29%) NIST
2 6 (3.53%) GDPR
2 6 (3.53%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.53%) QA
2 6 (3.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.18%) SEPA
4 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (18.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (11.18%) Docker
2 19 (11.18%) Firmware
3 17 (10.00%) VMware NSX
4 10 (5.88%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.00%) Ansible
3 13 (7.65%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (3.53%) Grafana
5 5 (2.94%) Kibana
6 4 (2.35%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (2.35%) Terraform
7 2 (1.18%) CA Wily
7 2 (1.18%) logstash
7 2 (1.18%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.18%) Puppet
7 2 (1.18%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.59%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.59%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 42 (24.71%) VMware
2 41 (24.12%) F5
3 29 (17.06%) Blue Coat
4 28 (16.47%) McAfee
5 26 (15.29%) Microsoft
6 19 (11.18%) NetApp
7 13 (7.65%) Oracle
8 12 (7.06%) IBM
9 11 (6.47%) Cisco
10 8 (4.71%) CheckPoint
10 8 (4.71%) Palo Alto
10 8 (4.71%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.94%) AppDynamics
11 5 (2.94%) Splunk
12 4 (2.35%) Google
12 4 (2.35%) Huawei
12 4 (2.35%) Netskope
12 4 (2.35%) Nokia
12 4 (2.35%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.35%) Zscaler