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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 336 365
Rank change year-on-year -128 +29 +65
Contract jobs citing HTTP 167 178 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.64% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.84% 5.34% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 108 91
10th Percentile £381 £313 £225
25th Percentile £413 £373 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -10.88% -3.09%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £623
90th Percentile £626 £696 £645
UK median daily rate £460 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -3.16% -9.52% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 7
10th Percentile £63.28 £45.00 £25.30
25th Percentile £82.03 £45.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £85.24 £57.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.24% +105.36% -63.35%
75th Percentile £92.11 £75.00 £85.00
90th Percentile - £84.27 -
UK median hourly rate £85.24 £57.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +48.24% +105.36% -63.35%

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 4,345 3,335 3,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.37% 11.99% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,603 2,076 2,345
10th Percentile £250 £235 £244
25th Percentile £400 £368 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £508
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -3.05% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 168 231
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.75 £21.69
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.23 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -21.16% -28.12% +1.52%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £42.50 £51.00
% change year-on-year -37.27% -16.67% -9.72%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -90 86 £525 +5.00% 74
North of England -53 32 £461 -4.60% 14
Midlands -60 22 £426 -10.32% 10
West Midlands -54 21 £450 -5.26% 6
North West -28 20 £560 +17.89% 10
South East -54 20 £460 -3.16% 27
East of England -31 15 £425 -37.50% 25
Yorkshire -37 9 £439 -35.00% 3
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East Midlands -18 1 £402 +11.67% 4
South West -52 1 £475 +41.79% 7
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 13 (7.78%) Confluence
2 10 (5.99%) nginx
3 8 (4.79%) OpenStack
3 8 (4.79%) Tomcat
4 7 (4.19%) IIS
5 5 (2.99%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.20%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.60%) CICS
7 1 (0.60%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.60%) Mule
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.60%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.20%) Houdini
1 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.20%) NUKE
2 1 (0.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (25.15%) AWS
2 37 (22.16%) Azure
3 19 (11.38%) GCP
4 10 (5.99%) Akamai
5 9 (5.39%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (4.79%) Boomi
6 8 (4.79%) iPaaS
7 7 (4.19%) GitHub
7 7 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.19%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.19%) SaaS
8 6 (3.59%) Azure Databricks
8 6 (3.59%) PowerApps
8 6 (3.59%) Workato
9 5 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.99%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.99%) Datadog
9 5 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.99%) Serverless
10 4 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 61 (36.53%) DNS
2 56 (33.53%) TCP/IP
3 50 (29.94%) SSL
4 26 (15.57%) Network Security
5 21 (12.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 20 (11.98%) BIG-IP
7 18 (10.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 17 (10.18%) HTTPS
8 17 (10.18%) Wireshark
9 16 (9.58%) Firewall
10 9 (5.39%) 5G
10 9 (5.39%) Internet
11 8 (4.79%) BGP
11 8 (4.79%) SSH
12 7 (4.19%) SMTP
13 6 (3.59%) VPN
14 5 (2.99%) 4G
14 5 (2.99%) DHCP
14 5 (2.99%) FTP
14 5 (2.99%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (4.19%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.59%) Data Lake
2 6 (3.59%) MongoDB
2 6 (3.59%) MySQL
3 5 (2.99%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.99%) Redis
4 4 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.40%) Metadata
5 2 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.20%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.20%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.60%) GIS
6 1 (0.60%) OLAP
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (9.58%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.98%) Git
3 14 (8.38%) Fiddler
4 10 (5.99%) GitLab
5 9 (5.39%) JIRA
6 5 (2.99%) Selenium
7 3 (1.80%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.80%) JUnit
8 2 (1.20%) Postman
8 2 (1.20%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.20%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.60%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.60%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.60%) Codeception
9 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.60%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.60%) TestNG
9 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.97%) Finance
3 22 (13.17%) Banking
4 20 (11.98%) Investment Banking
5 18 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (9.58%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.59%) Back Office
8 5 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.20%) Games
9 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Electronics
10 1 (0.60%) Front Office
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (18.56%) Developer
2 22 (13.17%) Network Engineer
3 20 (11.98%) Security Engineer
4 17 (10.18%) Web Engineer
5 15 (8.98%) Senior
6 14 (8.38%) Architect
6 14 (8.38%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 14 (8.38%) IP Network Engineer
7 13 (7.78%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.99%) Analyst
8 10 (5.99%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (4.19%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 7 (4.19%) Designer
10 7 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) C++ Software Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Integration Developer
11 6 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (30.54%) REST
2 29 (17.37%) JSON
3 23 (13.77%) Kafka
4 19 (11.38%) SOAP
5 18 (10.78%) CSS
6 17 (10.18%) XML
7 16 (9.58%) HTML
7 16 (9.58%) RESTful
8 15 (8.98%) SAML
9 14 (8.38%) LDAP
10 13 (7.78%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (7.78%) Terraform
11 12 (7.19%) Middleware
12 11 (6.59%) OAuth
12 11 (6.59%) OpenAPI
12 11 (6.59%) Swagger
13 9 (5.39%) GraphQL
13 9 (5.39%) JWT
14 8 (4.79%) EDI
14 8 (4.79%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.77%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (12.57%) Management Information System
3 20 (11.98%) Cyber Threat
4 18 (10.78%) Cloud Native
5 15 (8.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 14 (8.38%) Onboarding
7 11 (6.59%) Algorithms
8 9 (5.39%) Data Structures
9 8 (4.79%) Derivative
10 6 (3.59%) Distributed Applications
10 6 (3.59%) Low-Code
11 5 (2.99%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (2.40%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.80%) CMDB
13 3 (1.80%) Cyberattack
13 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (1.80%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (1.80%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 32 (19.16%) Linux
2 21 (12.57%) Windows
3 14 (8.38%) Unix
4 5 (2.99%) Solaris
4 5 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.99%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.20%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.20%) VMS
8 1 (0.60%) CatOS
8 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (23.95%) CI/CD
2 35 (20.96%) Load Balancing
3 28 (16.77%) DevOps
4 25 (14.97%) Agile
4 25 (14.97%) Cybersecurity
4 25 (14.97%) SIEM
5 23 (13.77%) Test Automation
6 20 (11.98%) Event-Driven
6 20 (11.98%) Observability
7 19 (11.38%) Software Engineering
8 18 (10.78%) Incident Response
8 18 (10.78%) Integration Patterns
9 17 (10.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 16 (9.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (9.58%) Scrum
11 15 (8.98%) Migration
11 15 (8.98%) Threat Detection
12 14 (8.38%) Data Loss Prevention
12 14 (8.38%) Malware Detection/Protection
Programming Languages
1 48 (28.74%) Python
2 31 (18.56%) Java
3 26 (15.57%) SQL
4 17 (10.18%) PowerShell
5 12 (7.19%) Bash
5 12 (7.19%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.99%) C#
6 10 (5.99%) Shell Script
7 9 (5.39%) C++
7 9 (5.39%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.79%) Rust
9 6 (3.59%) Groovy
9 6 (3.59%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.59%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.40%) Perl
11 2 (1.20%) Go
11 2 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.20%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.60%) Cypher
12 1 (0.60%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 33 (19.76%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.97%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.59%) Degree
4 8 (4.79%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.59%) CISSP
6 5 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.80%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.80%) OSCP
8 2 (1.20%) CCNA
8 2 (1.20%) CCNP
8 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.20%) CISM
8 2 (1.20%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (1.20%) ECSA
8 2 (1.20%) GCIA
8 2 (1.20%) GCIH
8 2 (1.20%) GIAC
8 2 (1.20%) SANS
9 1 (0.60%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.59%) QA
2 5 (2.99%) NIST
2 5 (2.99%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.80%) GDPR
5 2 (1.20%) NCSC
5 2 (1.20%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.20%) SLA
6 1 (0.60%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.60%) GMP
6 1 (0.60%) GRC
6 1 (0.60%) GxP
6 1 (0.60%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (17.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (14.37%) Docker
3 14 (8.38%) Firmware
4 13 (7.78%) Active Directory
5 9 (5.39%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (4.19%) Hyper-V
6 7 (4.19%) NFS
7 5 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.80%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (1.80%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.20%) DFS Replication
9 2 (1.20%) Dovecot
9 2 (1.20%) Postfix
9 2 (1.20%) Squid
9 2 (1.20%) vSphere
10 1 (0.60%) RACF
Systems Management
1 17 (10.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.38%) Grafana
3 12 (7.19%) Ansible
4 8 (4.79%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.19%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.80%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.20%) Consul
7 2 (1.20%) Nessus
7 2 (1.20%) Packer
7 2 (1.20%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.20%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.60%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.60%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.60%) Kibana
8 1 (0.60%) logstash
8 1 (0.60%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.60%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (20.36%) VMware
2 27 (16.17%) F5
3 20 (11.98%) Oracle
4 18 (10.78%) IBM
5 17 (10.18%) Blue Coat
6 16 (9.58%) Microsoft
7 14 (8.38%) McAfee
7 14 (8.38%) NetApp
8 10 (5.99%) Cisco
8 10 (5.99%) Google
8 10 (5.99%) ServiceNow
9 9 (5.39%) MuleSoft
10 8 (4.79%) Informatica
10 8 (4.79%) TIBCO
10 8 (4.79%) WSO2
11 6 (3.59%) Databricks
11 6 (3.59%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.99%) Qualys
13 4 (2.40%) Ericsson
13 4 (2.40%) Huawei