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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 320 360
Rank change year-on-year -124 +40 +83
Contract jobs citing HTTP 165 166 191
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.67% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.08% 5.25% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 107 112
10th Percentile £306 £362 £300
25th Percentile £406 £434 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £622
90th Percentile £738 £706 £650
UK median daily rate £488 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -15.22% +15.00% -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 10
10th Percentile £68.38 £45.75 £26.58
25th Percentile £79.06 £54.38 £27.00
Median hourly rate £88.75 £80.68 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +10.01% +75.84% -38.83%
75th Percentile £95.00 £81.35 £75.22
90th Percentile - £82.10 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £88.75 £80.68 £45.88
% change year-on-year +10.01% +75.84% -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 4,040 3,160 4,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.46% 12.85% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,501 1,969 2,875
10th Percentile £263 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £607
90th Percentile £675 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 125 387
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.40 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £17.28
Median hourly rate £30.77 £39.32 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -1.70% +117.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.80 £72.66
UK median hourly rate £27.69 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.07% +10.00% +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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -57 86 £525 +1.20% 19
North of England -35 40 £446 -6.21% 9
Midlands -41 31 £355 -15.58% 4
North West -14 30 £553 +16.32% 7
West Midlands -35 29 £355 -25.26% 3
South East -63 17 £450 -10.00% 12
Yorkshire -52 8 £418 +12.84% 1
East Midlands -21 2 - - 1
South West -34 2 £500 -18.70% 2
North East - 2 £419 - 1
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 9 (5.45%) Confluence
2 7 (4.24%) nginx
2 7 (4.24%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.64%) Ethereum
3 6 (3.64%) Hyperledger
4 4 (2.42%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.42%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.82%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.21%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (1.21%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (1.21%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.61%) CICS
7 1 (0.61%) IIS
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.64%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.61%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.61%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 43 (26.06%) AWS
2 31 (18.79%) Azure
3 22 (13.33%) GCP
4 9 (5.45%) SaaS
5 8 (4.85%) Akamai
5 8 (4.85%) GitHub
6 7 (4.24%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.03%) Workato
8 4 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (2.42%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.42%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.82%) Datadog
9 3 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.82%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.82%) Serverless
10 2 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 66 (40.00%) DNS
2 56 (33.94%) TCP/IP
3 52 (31.52%) SSL
4 35 (21.21%) BIG-IP
5 33 (20.00%) Wireshark
6 28 (16.97%) Network Security
7 21 (12.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 19 (11.52%) HTTPS
9 18 (10.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 18 (10.91%) Firewall
10 9 (5.45%) VPN
11 8 (4.85%) 3GPP
11 8 (4.85%) IPsec
11 8 (4.85%) LAN
11 8 (4.85%) WAN
11 8 (4.85%) Wireless
12 7 (4.24%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (4.24%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (3.64%) Kerberos
14 5 (3.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (4.24%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.24%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.42%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.42%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.82%) Metadata
5 2 (1.21%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.21%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.61%) GIS
6 1 (0.61%) MySQL
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (14.55%) Fiddler
2 14 (8.48%) JIRA
3 13 (7.88%) Git
4 10 (6.06%) JUnit
5 8 (4.85%) GitLab
5 8 (4.85%) JMeter
6 7 (4.24%) Gatling
6 7 (4.24%) Jenkins
7 6 (3.64%) Browser DevTools
7 6 (3.64%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.82%) Postman
9 2 (1.21%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.21%) Gradle
9 2 (1.21%) Introscope
9 2 (1.21%) Maven
9 2 (1.21%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.21%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.21%) TestNG
10 1 (0.61%) MSI
10 1 (0.61%) NeoLoad
General
1 40 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.39%) Finance
3 31 (18.79%) Banking
4 23 (13.94%) Investment Banking
5 15 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.45%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.24%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.21%) Front Office
9 2 (1.21%) Games
9 2 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.21%) Legal
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Electronics
10 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (21.82%) Network Engineer
2 31 (18.79%) Web Engineer
3 29 (17.58%) Senior
4 28 (16.97%) Developer
5 18 (10.91%) Security Engineer
6 17 (10.30%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 17 (10.30%) IP Network Engineer
7 12 (7.27%) Software Engineer
8 8 (4.85%) Java Developer
8 8 (4.85%) Junior
8 8 (4.85%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.24%) Junior Network Engineer
9 7 (4.24%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (4.24%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.64%) C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (3.64%) Java Engineer
10 6 (3.64%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (3.64%) Tester
11 5 (3.03%) Performance Tester
11 5 (3.03%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.00%) REST
2 19 (11.52%) SAML
3 16 (9.70%) JSON
4 14 (8.48%) Kafka
5 13 (7.88%) RESTful
6 11 (6.67%) OAuth
7 10 (6.06%) AngularJS
8 9 (5.45%) WebSockets
9 8 (4.85%) CSS
9 8 (4.85%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (4.85%) SOAP
9 8 (4.85%) Spring
9 8 (4.85%) Spring Boot
10 7 (4.24%) .NET
10 7 (4.24%) HTML
10 7 (4.24%) LDAP
11 6 (3.64%) gRPC
11 6 (3.64%) Middleware
11 6 (3.64%) Spring Batch
11 6 (3.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.94%) Management Information System
2 22 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (10.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 11 (6.67%) Algorithms
5 9 (5.45%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.85%) Derivative
7 7 (4.24%) Cloud Native
7 7 (4.24%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (3.64%) BYOD
8 6 (3.64%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (3.64%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.64%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.42%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (1.21%) Blockchain
11 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.33%) Linux
2 15 (9.09%) Windows
3 9 (5.45%) Unix
4 6 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.64%) Solaris
4 6 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.64%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.82%) CatOS
7 2 (1.21%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 37 (22.42%) Load Balancing
3 31 (18.79%) Agile
4 24 (14.55%) Data Loss Prevention
4 24 (14.55%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 17 (10.30%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (10.30%) DevOps
5 17 (10.30%) Migration
5 17 (10.30%) Runbook
6 16 (9.70%) Application Security
6 16 (9.70%) Incident Response
6 16 (9.70%) Microservices
7 15 (9.09%) SIEM
7 15 (9.09%) Software Engineering
7 15 (9.09%) Test Automation
8 14 (8.48%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (7.88%) DDoS Mitigation
9 13 (7.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (7.88%) Observability
10 12 (7.27%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 45 (27.27%) Python
2 37 (22.42%) Java
3 18 (10.91%) SQL
4 16 (9.70%) TypeScript
5 14 (8.48%) C#
6 13 (7.88%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.67%) Bash
8 10 (6.06%) C++
8 10 (6.06%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.85%) Rust
10 6 (3.64%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.42%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.82%) Go
12 3 (1.82%) Groovy
13 2 (1.21%) Jython
13 2 (1.21%) Perl
13 2 (1.21%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.61%) PHP
14 1 (0.61%) Solidity
14 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.06%) CISSP
3 10 (6.06%) Degree
4 6 (3.64%) CISM
5 4 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.21%) CCNA
6 2 (1.21%) CCNP
6 2 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.21%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.21%) OSCP
6 2 (1.21%) PhD
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.61%) CCSAM
7 1 (0.61%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.61%) ECSA
7 1 (0.61%) GXPN
7 1 (0.61%) OSCE
7 1 (0.61%) SANS
7 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (5.45%) NIST
2 8 (4.85%) PCI DSS
3 7 (4.24%) GDPR
4 6 (3.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (2.42%) QA
6 2 (1.21%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (16.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (10.30%) Docker
2 17 (10.30%) Firmware
3 14 (8.48%) VMware NSX
4 11 (6.67%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.42%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.61%) RACF
Systems Management
1 16 (9.70%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.48%) Ansible
2 14 (8.48%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (4.24%) Grafana
4 6 (3.64%) Terraform
5 4 (2.42%) Kibana
5 4 (2.42%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.21%) CA Wily
6 2 (1.21%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.61%) Consul
7 1 (0.61%) logstash
7 1 (0.61%) Packer
7 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 37 (22.42%) VMware
2 35 (21.21%) F5
3 28 (16.97%) Blue Coat
4 24 (14.55%) McAfee
5 22 (13.33%) Microsoft
6 17 (10.30%) NetApp
7 12 (7.27%) Oracle
8 11 (6.67%) Cisco
9 10 (6.06%) IBM
10 8 (4.85%) Red Hat
11 7 (4.24%) CheckPoint
11 7 (4.24%) Netskope
11 7 (4.24%) Palo Alto
11 7 (4.24%) Zscaler
12 5 (3.03%) AppDynamics
12 5 (3.03%) Dynatrace
12 5 (3.03%) SolarWinds
13 4 (2.42%) Databricks
13 4 (2.42%) Ericsson
13 4 (2.42%) ServiceNow