HTTP Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for HTTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) UK / England
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	203	167	233
Rank change year-on-year	-36	+66
Contract jobs citing HTTP	545	778	523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.26%	1.60%	1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	9.20%	10.05%	6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted	342	515	320
Median daily rate	£500	£450	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+11.11%	+5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£375	£325	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£588	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£480	£402	£375
% change year-on-year	+19.55%	+7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted	12	14	14
Median hourly rate	£26.25	£20.03	£27.66
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+31.05%	-27.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.18	£15.00	£15.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£41.58	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.90	£20.83	£45.00
% change year-on-year	-23.65%	-53.71%

HTTP is in the communications and computer networking skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills.

Contract Communications & Computer Network Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	5923	7740	7498
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	13.72%	15.88%	14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted	3516	4793	4296
Median daily rate	£400	£400	£360
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£220	£240	£220
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£365	£340
% change year-on-year	+2.73%	+7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted	354	352	438
Median hourly rate	£24.86	£28.00	£22.83
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-11.21%	+22.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.50	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.83	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£29.00	£31.50	£25.00
% change year-on-year	-7.93%	+26.00%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing HTTP as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Communications & Networking category.

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing HTTP in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for HTTP in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing HTTP in England over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for HTTP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing HTTP in England over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for HTTP in England

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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 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-45	290	£500	+5.26%	70
South East	-26	79	£500	+29.03%	24
East of England	+38	56	£500	-4.76%	20
Yorkshire	-8	38	£444	+0.28%	6
West Midlands	+30	33	£475	-2.56%	7
South West	-2	16	£350	+7.69%	8
East Midlands	-2	15	£508	+19.34%	3
North West	-26	15	£488	+11.42%	18
North East	+37	2	-	-	3
Midlands	-	2	-	-	10
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HTTP
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing HTTP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for HTTP.

1	655 (54.40%)	Agile Software Development
2	633 (52.57%)	Linux
3	545 (45.27%)	Git (software)
4	536 (44.52%)	Java
5	435 (36.13%)	Configuration Management
6	400 (33.22%)	Continuous Integration
7	391 (32.48%)	Python
8	389 (32.31%)	HTML
9	388 (32.23%)	DevOps
10	380 (31.56%)	Test Automation
11	348 (28.90%)	Jenkins
12	334 (27.74%)	TCP/IP
13	324 (26.91%)	CSS
14	322 (26.74%)	REST
15	316 (26.25%)	JavaScript

16	295 (24.50%)	SSL
17	282 (23.42%)	Open Source
17	282 (23.42%)	Ruby
18	274 (22.76%)	Relational Database
19	268 (22.26%)	Puppet
20	261 (21.68%)	JSON
20	261 (21.68%)	Scrum
21	258 (21.43%)	TDD
22	243 (20.18%)	Amazon AWS
23	240 (19.93%)	Subversion
24	233 (19.35%)	Web Services
25	226 (18.77%)	Apache
26	223 (18.52%)	Unix
27	220 (18.27%)	Docker
28	212 (17.61%)	XML

HTTP
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	226 (18.77%)	Apache
2	118 (9.80%)	Tomcat
3	111 (9.22%)	Confluence
4	105 (8.72%)	nginx
5	92 (7.64%)	JBoss
6	86 (7.14%)	WebSphere
7	52 (4.32%)	WebLogic
8	50 (4.15%)	IIS
9	44 (3.65%)	Elasticsearch
10	39 (3.24%)	Oracle SOA Suite
11	29 (2.41%)	CMS
12	28 (2.33%)	Apache Spark
13	27 (2.24%)	OpenStack
14	24 (1.99%)	Oracle HTTP Server
15	22 (1.83%)	Jetty
16	19 (1.58%)	SharePoint
17	18 (1.50%)	Mongrel
17	18 (1.50%)	WebSphere Application Server
18	15 (1.25%)	Sitecore CMS
19	13 (1.08%)	IBM HTTP Server

Applications
1	20 (1.66%)	Microsoft Excel
2	10 (0.83%)	MS Visio
3	6 (0.50%)	Microsoft Office
4	5 (0.42%)	Quicktime
5	1 (0.083%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	1 (0.083%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	15 (1.25%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	6 (0.50%)	SAP WM
3	5 (0.42%)	Oracle BPM
4	4 (0.33%)	Dynamics CRM
5	2 (0.17%)	NetSuite
5	2 (0.17%)	Payment Gateway
6	1 (0.083%)	Adobe Campaign
6	1 (0.083%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
6	1 (0.083%)	Oracle Cash Management
6	1 (0.083%)	Oracle EBS
6	1 (0.083%)	Oracle Retail
6	1 (0.083%)	Oracle Utilities
6	1 (0.083%)	Remedy ITSM
6	1 (0.083%)	SAP HCM
6	1 (0.083%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	243 (20.18%)	Amazon AWS
2	91 (7.56%)	Microsoft Azure
3	50 (4.15%)	Amazon EC2
4	46 (3.82%)	GitHub
5	34 (2.82%)	IaaS
6	26 (2.16%)	Amazon S3
7	23 (1.91%)	Google Cloud Platform
7	23 (1.91%)	PaaS
8	22 (1.83%)	Cloud Computing
9	20 (1.66%)	Virtual Private Cloud
10	19 (1.58%)	Google Analytics
11	18 (1.50%)	Amazon ELB
12	17 (1.41%)	Google App Engine
13	14 (1.16%)	Amazon CloudWatch
13	14 (1.16%)	SaaS
14	8 (0.66%)	AWS CloudFormation
14	8 (0.66%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14	8 (0.66%)	Slack
15	5 (0.42%)	Google Tag Manager
16	3 (0.25%)	Force.com

Communications & Networking
1	334 (27.74%)	TCP/IP
2	295 (24.50%)	SSL
3	177 (14.70%)	DNS
4	93 (7.72%)	HTTPS
5	86 (7.14%)	Firewall
6	66 (5.48%)	LDAP
7	63 (5.23%)	SSH
8	62 (5.15%)	Internet
9	60 (4.98%)	FTP
10	49 (4.07%)	SMTP
11	41 (3.41%)	VPN
12	40 (3.32%)	LAN
13	38 (3.16%)	DHCP
13	38 (3.16%)	IPsec
14	35 (2.91%)	Network Security
15	34 (2.82%)	WAN
16	23 (1.91%)	Intrusion Detection
17	21 (1.74%)	ICMP
18	20 (1.66%)	SNMP
19	17 (1.41%)	SAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	274 (22.76%)	Relational Database
2	200 (16.61%)	MongoDB
3	145 (12.04%)	MySQL
4	131 (10.88%)	PostgreSQL
5	101 (8.39%)	NoSQL
6	77 (6.40%)	SQL Server
7	48 (3.99%)	Hadoop
8	43 (3.57%)	Apache Cassandra
9	41 (3.41%)	Redis
10	34 (2.82%)	Big Data
11	23 (1.91%)	Oracle Database
12	21 (1.74%)	Amazon RDS
13	16 (1.33%)	Neo4j
14	12 (1.00%)	DB2
15	11 (0.91%)	RDBMS
16	10 (0.83%)	Oracle Database 11g
17	9 (0.75%)	MS Access
17	9 (0.75%)	Siebel EIM
17	9 (0.75%)	SQL Server 2008
18	8 (0.66%)	Apache Hive

Development Applications
1	545 (45.27%)	Git (software)
2	348 (28.90%)	Jenkins
3	240 (19.93%)	Subversion
4	155 (12.87%)	JIRA
5	129 (10.71%)	JUnit
6	107 (8.89%)	Maven
7	69 (5.73%)	Selenium
8	51 (4.24%)	Ant
9	44 (3.65%)	Bitbucket
10	39 (3.24%)	Cucumber
10	39 (3.24%)	Grunt
11	38 (3.16%)	gulp
12	35 (2.91%)	Gatling
13	33 (2.74%)	IntelliJ
14	30 (2.49%)	JMeter
15	29 (2.41%)	Sonatype Nexus
15	29 (2.41%)	WebDriver
16	27 (2.24%)	Gradle
17	26 (2.16%)	Team Foundation Server
18	24 (1.99%)	Eclipse

General
1	87 (7.23%)	Finance
2	40 (3.32%)	Banking
3	39 (3.24%)	Telecoms
4	26 (2.16%)	Marketing
5	23 (1.91%)	Retail
6	18 (1.50%)	Electronics
6	18 (1.50%)	Manufacturing
7	11 (0.91%)	Advertising
7	11 (0.91%)	Financial Institution
8	10 (0.83%)	Law
8	10 (0.83%)	Legal
9	9 (0.75%)	Front Office
10	8 (0.66%)	Games
10	8 (0.66%)	Investment Banking
11	7 (0.58%)	Publishing
12	4 (0.33%)	Retail Banking
13	1 (0.083%)	Back Office
13	1 (0.083%)	Billing
13	1 (0.083%)	Local Government
13	1 (0.083%)	Spanish Language

Job Titles
1	558 (46.35%)	Developer
2	202 (16.78%)	DevOps Engineer
3	169 (14.04%)	Java Developer
4	147 (12.21%)	Scala Developer
5	55 (4.57%)	AWS Engineer
6	51 (4.24%)	Architect
6	51 (4.24%)	AWS DevOps
7	49 (4.07%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
7	49 (4.07%)	Senior Developer
8	46 (3.82%)	Consultant
8	46 (3.82%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9	41 (3.41%)	Analyst
9	41 (3.41%)	Linux Engineer
10	38 (3.16%)	Agile Developer
10	38 (3.16%)	UI Developer
11	34 (2.82%)	Java Scala Developer
12	33 (2.74%)	Java Engineer
13	32 (2.66%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
14	31 (2.57%)	Software Engineer
15	29 (2.41%)	Administrator

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	389 (32.31%)	HTML
2	324 (26.91%)	CSS
3	322 (26.74%)	REST
4	261 (21.68%)	JSON
5	233 (19.35%)	Web Services
6	212 (17.61%)	XML
7	198 (16.45%)	HTML5
8	184 (15.28%)	Spring
9	182 (15.12%)	RESTful
10	154 (12.79%)	Ajax
11	152 (12.62%)	CSS3
12	140 (11.63%)	Play Framework
13	132 (10.96%)	SOAP
14	131 (10.88%)	Node.js
15	101 (8.39%)	.NET
16	96 (7.97%)	Middleware
17	95 (7.89%)	J2EE
18	94 (7.81%)	Django
19	93 (7.72%)	AngularJS
20	90 (7.48%)	Ruby on Rails

Miscellaneous
1	62 (5.15%)	User Experience
2	60 (4.98%)	Linux Command Line
3	51 (4.24%)	Analytical Skills
4	26 (2.16%)	Computer Science
5	25 (2.08%)	Mobile App
6	24 (1.99%)	Management Information System
6	24 (1.99%)	PKI
7	23 (1.91%)	Data Centre
7	23 (1.91%)	Public Cloud
8	19 (1.58%)	Client/Server
9	18 (1.50%)	Enterprise Software
10	17 (1.41%)	Clustering
11	15 (1.25%)	MPEG
12	14 (1.16%)	Greenfield Project
12	14 (1.16%)	Video on Demand
13	12 (1.00%)	Hedge funds
14	11 (0.91%)	Algorithms
15	10 (0.83%)	Animation
15	10 (0.83%)	STB
16	9 (0.75%)	Digital TV

Operating Systems
1	633 (52.57%)	Linux
2	223 (18.52%)	Unix
3	149 (12.38%)	Windows
4	104 (8.64%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	85 (7.06%)	Mac OS X
6	79 (6.56%)	CentOS
7	61 (5.07%)	Ubuntu
8	37 (3.07%)	Windows Server
9	22 (1.83%)	Android
9	22 (1.83%)	Windows Server 2008
10	18 (1.50%)	CoreOS
11	16 (1.33%)	AIX
12	15 (1.25%)	Windows Server 2003
13	14 (1.16%)	Apple iOS
13	14 (1.16%)	Debian
13	14 (1.16%)	Solaris
14	10 (0.83%)	Windows Server 2012
15	9 (0.75%)	SUSE
16	7 (0.58%)	VMS
17	6 (0.50%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	655 (54.40%)	Agile Software Development
2	435 (36.13%)	Configuration Management
3	400 (33.22%)	Continuous Integration
4	388 (32.23%)	DevOps
5	380 (31.56%)	Test Automation
6	282 (23.42%)	Open Source
7	261 (21.68%)	Scrum
8	258 (21.43%)	TDD
9	205 (17.03%)	Responsive Web Design
10	202 (16.78%)	Web Design
11	169 (14.04%)	Web Development
12	152 (12.62%)	Microservices
13	128 (10.63%)	Mentoring
14	117 (9.72%)	Continuous Delivery
15	116 (9.63%)	Software Engineering
16	108 (8.97%)	MVC
17	103 (8.55%)	Kanban
18	102 (8.47%)	SOA
19	90 (7.48%)	Load Balancing
20	88 (7.31%)	OWASP

Programming Languages
1	536 (44.52%)	Java
2	391 (32.48%)	Python
3	316 (26.25%)	JavaScript
4	282 (23.42%)	Ruby
5	211 (17.52%)	Scala
6	202 (16.78%)	SQL
7	156 (12.96%)	C#
8	139 (11.54%)	Bash Shell
9	124 (10.30%)	Perl
10	77 (6.40%)	Groovy
11	71 (5.90%)	Shell Script
12	70 (5.81%)	PHP
13	59 (4.90%)	PowerShell
14	54 (4.49%)	C
15	44 (3.65%)	C++
16	29 (2.41%)	Go
17	22 (1.83%)	Korn
17	22 (1.83%)	PL/SQL
18	17 (1.41%)	Haskell
19	16 (1.33%)	C-shell

Qualifications
1	146 (12.13%)	Security Cleared
2	105 (8.72%)	SC Cleared
3	37 (3.07%)	Degree
4	28 (2.33%)	CISSP
5	23 (1.91%)	BPSS Clearance
6	22 (1.83%)	CEH
7	18 (1.50%)	Cisco Certification
8	17 (1.41%)	SANS
9	14 (1.16%)	CREST Certified
10	13 (1.08%)	CCNP
10	13 (1.08%)	GIAC
11	11 (0.91%)	Computer Science Degree
12	10 (0.83%)	CCNA
13	8 (0.66%)	JNCIA
14	7 (0.58%)	CCDA
14	7 (0.58%)	JNCIP
14	7 (0.58%)	JNCIS
14	7 (0.58%)	Siebel Certification
15	6 (0.50%)	ISTQB
16	5 (0.42%)	BC Cleared

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	68 (5.65%)	QA
2	12 (1.00%)	Disclosure Scotland
3	8 (0.66%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	8 (0.66%)	PCI DSS
4	6 (0.50%)	SLA
5	4 (0.33%)	ISO 22301
5	4 (0.33%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5	4 (0.33%)	ISO/IEC 27005
6	2 (0.17%)	HL7
6	2 (0.17%)	MiFID
6	2 (0.17%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	1 (0.083%)	COBIT
7	1 (0.083%)	COSO
7	1 (0.083%)	Data Quality
7	1 (0.083%)	GCP
7	1 (0.083%)	ISAE 3402
7	1 (0.083%)	PA-DSS
7	1 (0.083%)	SSAE 16
7	1 (0.083%)	WAI
7	1 (0.083%)	WCAG

System Software
1	220 (18.27%)	Docker
2	73 (6.06%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	35 (2.91%)	Xen
4	33 (2.74%)	Active Directory
5	32 (2.66%)	Virtual Machines
6	25 (2.08%)	vCloud
7	21 (1.74%)	Apache Flume
8	17 (1.41%)	KVM
9	12 (1.00%)	VMware ESXi
10	10 (0.83%)	Postfix
10	10 (0.83%)	Squid
11	7 (0.58%)	vSphere
12	6 (0.50%)	NFS
13	4 (0.33%)	Virtual Desktop
14	3 (0.25%)	etcd
14	3 (0.25%)	Firmware
14	3 (0.25%)	flannel
14	3 (0.25%)	VirtualBox
15	2 (0.17%)	Hyper-V
15	2 (0.17%)	SRDF

Systems Management
1	268 (22.26%)	Puppet
2	210 (17.44%)	Ansible
3	162 (13.46%)	Opscode Chef
4	87 (7.23%)	Kubernetes
5	55 (4.57%)	Kibana
6	51 (4.24%)	logstash
7	49 (4.07%)	Grafana
8	38 (3.16%)	HAProxy
9	36 (2.99%)	Terraform
10	34 (2.82%)	Salt
11	32 (2.66%)	ZABBIX
12	29 (2.41%)	Nagios
13	27 (2.24%)	Graphite
14	21 (1.74%)	Rancher
15	20 (1.66%)	Docker Swarm
16	13 (1.08%)	OpenAM
16	13 (1.08%)	SELinux
17	12 (1.00%)	HP SiteScope
17	12 (1.00%)	Mesos
18	10 (0.83%)	Rsyslog

Vendors
1	142 (11.79%)	Google
2	140 (11.63%)	Oracle
3	109 (9.05%)	VMware
4	88 (7.31%)	Microsoft
5	76 (6.31%)	IBM
6	53 (4.40%)	Splunk
7	44 (3.65%)	WSO2
8	41 (3.41%)	Red Hat
9	31 (2.57%)	Cisco
9	31 (2.57%)	SAP
10	28 (2.33%)	SaltStack
11	27 (2.24%)	Adobe
11	27 (2.24%)	HP
12	20 (1.66%)	F5
13	19 (1.58%)	Siebel
14	18 (1.50%)	Juniper
14	18 (1.50%)	webMethods
15	15 (1.25%)	Sitecore
16	14 (1.16%)	Dell
17	13 (1.08%)	Dynatrace