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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 347 355
Rank change year-on-year -116 +8 +69
Contract jobs citing HTTP 174 171 188
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.62% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.04% 5.26% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 102 100
10th Percentile £363 £322 £284
25th Percentile £406 £406 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -12.64% -5.43%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £625
90th Percentile £602 £680 £653
UK median daily rate £460 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -3.16% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 8
10th Percentile £61.18 £45.00 £25.73
25th Percentile £68.75 £45.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £85.00 £57.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% +14.43% -28.21%
75th Percentile £88.75 £75.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £84.27 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £57.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +47.83% +14.43% -28.21%

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 4,303 3,251 3,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.33% 11.72% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,532 2,051 2,278
10th Percentile £250 £223 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 166 184
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £21.33 £24.25 £24.09
Median hourly rate £43.50 £39.66 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -30.85% +1.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.34 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -22.94% -15.84% -10.46%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -86 83 £500 -2.91% 99
North of England -51 34 £473 -2.22% 32
East of England -13 22 £425 -37.50% 22
Midlands -59 21 £450 -5.26% 32
West Midlands -56 20 £450 -5.26% 22
South East -59 20 £460 -3.16% 24
North West -48 19 £560 +17.89% 28
Yorkshire -33 12 £472 -32.64% 4
North East - 3 £425 -
East Midlands -20 1 £402 +11.67% 10
South West -42 1 £475 +41.79% 10
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 (7.47%) Confluence
2 12 (6.90%) nginx
3 10 (5.75%) Tomcat
4 7 (4.02%) IIS
4 7 (4.02%) OpenStack
4 7 (4.02%) WebLogic
5 4 (2.30%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.72%) Apache
6 3 (1.72%) IBM HTTP Server
6 3 (1.72%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 3 (1.72%) WebLogic Portal
6 3 (1.72%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.72%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.57%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.57%) CICS
7 1 (0.57%) Mule
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Windchill
2 2 (1.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.15%) Houdini
2 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.15%) NUKE
3 1 (0.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.72%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (24.14%) AWS
2 35 (20.11%) Azure
3 19 (10.92%) GCP
4 11 (6.32%) Akamai
5 10 (5.75%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (5.17%) Boomi
6 9 (5.17%) iPaaS
7 7 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.02%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.02%) SaaS
8 6 (3.45%) Azure Databricks
8 6 (3.45%) GitHub
8 6 (3.45%) PowerApps
8 6 (3.45%) Serverless
8 6 (3.45%) Workato
9 5 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.87%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.87%) Datadog
10 4 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (33.91%) TCP/IP
2 58 (33.33%) DNS
3 53 (30.46%) SSL
4 26 (14.94%) Network Security
5 19 (10.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 18 (10.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 18 (10.34%) Firewall
7 17 (9.77%) Wireshark
8 16 (9.20%) BIG-IP
8 16 (9.20%) HTTPS
9 15 (8.62%) BGP
10 12 (6.90%) Internet
11 9 (5.17%) SSH
12 8 (4.60%) 5G
12 8 (4.60%) LAN
12 8 (4.60%) OSPF
13 7 (4.02%) DHCP
13 7 (4.02%) SMTP
13 7 (4.02%) SNMP
13 7 (4.02%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.02%) MySQL
2 7 (4.02%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.45%) Redis
4 4 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.30%) Metadata
5 3 (1.72%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.15%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.15%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) GIS
7 1 (0.57%) OLAP
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (9.20%) Git
2 15 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.90%) Fiddler
4 10 (5.75%) GitLab
5 8 (4.60%) JIRA
6 6 (3.45%) Selenium
7 3 (1.72%) JMeter
7 3 (1.72%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.72%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (1.15%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.15%) Gatling
8 2 (1.15%) JUnit
8 2 (1.15%) Postman
8 2 (1.15%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.15%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.57%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.57%) Codeception
9 1 (0.57%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
General
1 43 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.49%) Finance
3 19 (10.92%) Banking
4 18 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.77%) Investment Banking
6 13 (7.47%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.45%) Back Office
7 6 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.30%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.72%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.15%) Games
10 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.15%) Law
10 2 (1.15%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (20.11%) Developer
2 29 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 20 (11.49%) Security Engineer
4 14 (8.05%) Architect
4 14 (8.05%) Senior
4 14 (8.05%) Web Engineer
5 13 (7.47%) Software Engineer
6 12 (6.90%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 12 (6.90%) IP Network Engineer
7 11 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.17%) Analyst
8 9 (5.17%) Integration Developer
9 7 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Designer
10 6 (3.45%) Lead
10 6 (3.45%) Python Developer
11 5 (2.87%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (32.18%) REST
2 32 (18.39%) JSON
3 24 (13.79%) Kafka
3 24 (13.79%) SOAP
4 21 (12.07%) XML
5 19 (10.92%) CSS
6 17 (9.77%) HTML
7 16 (9.20%) RESTful
8 15 (8.62%) Middleware
9 14 (8.05%) LDAP
9 14 (8.05%) RabbitMQ
9 14 (8.05%) SAML
10 13 (7.47%) Terraform
11 12 (6.90%) OpenAPI
11 12 (6.90%) Swagger
12 11 (6.32%) OAuth
13 10 (5.75%) GraphQL
13 10 (5.75%) JWT
14 9 (5.17%) ActiveMQ
14 9 (5.17%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (11.49%) Cyber Threat
3 18 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 17 (9.77%) Management Information System
5 15 (8.62%) Onboarding
6 14 (8.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (4.60%) Algorithms
7 8 (4.60%) Data Structures
7 8 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (4.02%) Derivative
9 6 (3.45%) Distributed Applications
9 6 (3.45%) Low-Code
10 4 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.72%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.84%) Linux
2 26 (14.94%) Windows
3 14 (8.05%) Unix
4 11 (6.32%) Windows Server
5 9 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.30%) Solaris
6 4 (2.30%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.15%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (1.15%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.15%) VMS
7 2 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.57%) CatOS
8 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.41%) CI/CD
2 36 (20.69%) Load Balancing
3 31 (17.82%) DevOps
4 25 (14.37%) SIEM
5 24 (13.79%) Agile
6 23 (13.22%) Cybersecurity
7 22 (12.64%) Event-Driven
7 22 (12.64%) Test Automation
8 21 (12.07%) Observability
9 20 (11.49%) Incident Response
9 20 (11.49%) Integration Patterns
10 18 (10.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 18 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (10.34%) Software Engineering
11 17 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (9.20%) Scrum
13 15 (8.62%) API Integration
13 15 (8.62%) Threat Detection
14 14 (8.05%) Runbook
15 13 (7.47%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 45 (25.86%) Python
2 29 (16.67%) Java
3 28 (16.09%) SQL
4 14 (8.05%) JavaScript
4 14 (8.05%) PowerShell
5 12 (6.90%) Shell Script
6 10 (5.75%) Bash
7 9 (5.17%) C#
7 9 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.60%) C++
9 7 (4.02%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.02%) Rust
10 6 (3.45%) Groovy
11 5 (2.87%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.72%) Perl
13 2 (1.15%) Go
13 2 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (1.15%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.57%) Cypher
14 1 (0.57%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 38 (21.84%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.17%) Degree
5 6 (3.45%) CCNA
5 6 (3.45%) CCNP
5 6 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.45%) CISSP
5 6 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.72%) OSCP
7 2 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.15%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.15%) ECSA
7 2 (1.15%) GCIA
7 2 (1.15%) GCIH
7 2 (1.15%) GIAC
7 2 (1.15%) SANS
8 1 (0.57%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.32%) QA
2 3 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.15%) NCSC
3 2 (1.15%) NIST
3 2 (1.15%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) GMP
4 1 (0.57%) GRC
4 1 (0.57%) GxP
4 1 (0.57%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) SLA
4 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (17.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (13.22%) Docker
3 20 (11.49%) Active Directory
4 12 (6.90%) Firmware
5 9 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (5.17%) vSphere
6 7 (4.02%) Hyper-V
6 7 (4.02%) NFS
7 4 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.72%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.15%) DFS Replication
9 2 (1.15%) Dovecot
9 2 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (1.15%) Postfix
9 2 (1.15%) Squid
10 1 (0.57%) RACF
Systems Management
1 17 (9.77%) Grafana
2 15 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.75%) Ansible
4 9 (5.17%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.02%) Nagios
6 6 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.72%) Kibana
8 2 (1.15%) Consul
8 2 (1.15%) Nessus
8 2 (1.15%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.15%) Packer
8 2 (1.15%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.15%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.57%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.57%) logstash
9 1 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (22.99%) VMware
2 25 (14.37%) F5
3 23 (13.22%) IBM
4 22 (12.64%) Oracle
5 16 (9.20%) Cisco
6 15 (8.62%) Blue Coat
7 14 (8.05%) Microsoft
8 12 (6.90%) Google
8 12 (6.90%) McAfee
8 12 (6.90%) NetApp
9 10 (5.75%) MuleSoft
9 10 (5.75%) ServiceNow
9 10 (5.75%) SolarWinds
10 9 (5.17%) Informatica
10 9 (5.17%) TIBCO
10 9 (5.17%) WSO2
11 6 (3.45%) Databricks
11 6 (3.45%) Qualys
11 6 (3.45%) SAP
12 5 (2.87%) Dynatrace