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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 289 369
Rank change year-on-year -136 +80 +64
Contract jobs citing HTTP 171 184 174
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.76% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.47% 5.77% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 124 111
10th Percentile £304 £362 £300
25th Percentile £406 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +7.62% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £653 £622
90th Percentile £738 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £496 £575 £517
% change year-on-year -13.74% +11.22% -10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 8
10th Percentile £53.10 £45.75 £25.73
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.38 £41.16
Median hourly rate £66.00 £80.68 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -18.19% +75.84% -38.83%
75th Percentile £89.38 £81.35 £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.10 -
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £80.68 £45.88
% change year-on-year -18.19% +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 3,824 3,191 4,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.42% 13.13% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,389 1,975 2,932
10th Percentile £250 £220 £208
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year - +0.50% -5.24%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £495
% change year-on-year +1.54% -1.52% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 119 392
10th Percentile £16.52 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.72
Median hourly rate £42.10 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% -27.50% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.08 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £31.79 £40.00
% change year-on-year +31.93% -20.53% +116.22%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -65 82 £525 -4.55% 22
North of England -48 41 £446 -6.21% 18
North West -12 36 £469 -1.32% 10
Midlands -31 36 £355 -2.20% 3
West Midlands -37 34 £355 -21.11%
South East -59 16 £525 +5.00% 10
East of England -40 5 - - 3
South West -43 5 £550 -10.57% 5
Yorkshire -62 3 £460 -38.67% 7
East Midlands -36 2 - - 3
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 6 (3.51%) Confluence
1 6 (3.51%) Ethereum
1 6 (3.51%) Hyperledger
2 5 (2.92%) nginx
2 5 (2.92%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.34%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.75%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.17%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.17%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.17%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.17%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.58%) Apache
6 1 (0.58%) IIS
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (5.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.58%) InDesign
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.75%) Oracle 11i
2 3 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.58%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 43 (25.15%) AWS
2 33 (19.30%) Azure
3 20 (11.70%) GCP
4 12 (7.02%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.85%) GitHub
6 8 (4.68%) Azure Logic Apps
6 8 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (4.09%) PowerApps
7 7 (4.09%) SaaS
7 7 (4.09%) Serverless
8 6 (3.51%) Akamai
9 5 (2.92%) Azure API Management
9 5 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.92%) Workato
10 4 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.34%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.75%) Apigee
11 3 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 72 (42.11%) DNS
2 57 (33.33%) SSL
3 56 (32.75%) TCP/IP
4 42 (24.56%) BIG-IP
5 39 (22.81%) Wireshark
6 23 (13.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 22 (12.87%) HTTPS
7 22 (12.87%) Network Security
8 20 (11.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 20 (11.70%) Firewall
9 13 (7.60%) VPN
10 11 (6.43%) LAN
10 11 (6.43%) WAN
10 11 (6.43%) Wireless
11 10 (5.85%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (5.85%) Cisco Nexus
11 10 (5.85%) IPsec
12 9 (5.26%) FTP
13 8 (4.68%) 3GPP
13 8 (4.68%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (4.68%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.09%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.09%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.34%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.75%) Metadata
5 3 (1.75%) Oracle Database 10g
5 3 (1.75%) Power BI
5 3 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.17%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.17%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.17%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.58%) GIS
Development Applications
1 28 (16.37%) Fiddler
2 16 (9.36%) Git
3 14 (8.19%) JIRA
4 12 (7.02%) JUnit
5 10 (5.85%) GitLab
6 9 (5.26%) Jenkins
7 7 (4.09%) Gatling
7 7 (4.09%) JMeter
8 6 (3.51%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (2.92%) LoadRunner
9 5 (2.92%) Postman
10 4 (2.34%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.75%) Ant
12 2 (1.17%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.17%) Gradle
12 2 (1.17%) Introscope
12 2 (1.17%) Maven
12 2 (1.17%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.17%) TestNG
13 1 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 51 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.98%) Banking
3 29 (16.96%) Finance
4 26 (15.20%) Investment Banking
5 21 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.68%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.75%) Marketing
10 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.17%) Front Office
10 2 (1.17%) Games
10 2 (1.17%) Legal
11 1 (0.58%) Electronics
11 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (22.81%) Network Engineer
2 36 (21.05%) Developer
3 35 (20.47%) Web Engineer
4 26 (15.20%) Senior
5 19 (11.11%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 19 (11.11%) IP Network Engineer
6 14 (8.19%) Security Engineer
7 10 (5.85%) Junior
7 10 (5.85%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.26%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.26%) Junior Network Engineer
9 8 (4.68%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 7 (4.09%) Analyst
10 7 (4.09%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.09%) Support Engineer
10 7 (4.09%) Tester
11 6 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (2.92%) C++ Software Engineer
12 5 (2.92%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (2.92%) Performance Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.37%) REST
2 22 (12.87%) SAML
3 21 (12.28%) JSON
4 17 (9.94%) Kafka
5 16 (9.36%) OAuth
6 15 (8.77%) LDAP
7 14 (8.19%) XML
8 13 (7.60%) .NET
8 13 (7.60%) RESTful
9 10 (5.85%) HTML
9 10 (5.85%) SOAP
10 9 (5.26%) Middleware
10 9 (5.26%) Spring
10 9 (5.26%) Spring Boot
11 8 (4.68%) AngularJS
12 7 (4.09%) gRPC
12 7 (4.09%) OAuth2
12 7 (4.09%) WebSockets
13 6 (3.51%) FIX Protocol
13 6 (3.51%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.71%) Management Information System
2 15 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 9 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 8 (4.68%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.09%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.51%) BYOD
6 6 (3.51%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.51%) Derivative
6 6 (3.51%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.92%) CSOC
7 5 (2.92%) Cyberattack
7 5 (2.92%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (2.92%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (2.34%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.75%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.37%) Linux
2 19 (11.11%) Windows
3 15 (8.77%) Unix
4 6 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.51%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.92%) AIX
5 5 (2.92%) CatOS
5 5 (2.92%) Solaris
5 5 (2.92%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.17%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.49%) CI/CD
2 37 (21.64%) Agile
3 35 (20.47%) Load Balancing
4 28 (16.37%) Data Loss Prevention
4 28 (16.37%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 22 (12.87%) DevOps
6 21 (12.28%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (11.70%) Runbook
8 17 (9.94%) Migration
9 16 (9.36%) Microservices
9 16 (9.36%) Security Operations
10 15 (8.77%) Application Security
11 14 (8.19%) Incident Response
11 14 (8.19%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (7.60%) Software Engineering
12 13 (7.60%) Test Automation
13 12 (7.02%) High Availability
13 12 (7.02%) Information Security
13 12 (7.02%) Scrum
14 11 (6.43%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 45 (26.32%) Python
2 36 (21.05%) Java
3 19 (11.11%) C#
4 17 (9.94%) SQL
4 17 (9.94%) TypeScript
5 16 (9.36%) JavaScript
6 14 (8.19%) PowerShell
7 12 (7.02%) Bash
8 10 (5.85%) PL/SQL
9 8 (4.68%) C++
10 7 (4.09%) Perl
11 6 (3.51%) Rust
12 5 (2.92%) Korn
13 4 (2.34%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.75%) Go
14 3 (1.75%) Kotlin
15 2 (1.17%) Groovy
15 2 (1.17%) Jython
15 2 (1.17%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.58%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (15.20%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.77%) Degree
4 7 (4.09%) CISSP
5 6 (3.51%) CISM
5 6 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.17%) CCNA
8 2 (1.17%) CCNP
8 2 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.17%) PhD
9 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.58%) CCSAM
9 1 (0.58%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.58%) GPEN
9 1 (0.58%) GXPN
9 1 (0.58%) OSCE
9 1 (0.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (5.26%) NIST
2 7 (4.09%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.51%) GDPR
3 6 (3.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.92%) QA
5 2 (1.17%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.17%) SEPA
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (18.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (11.11%) Firmware
2 19 (11.11%) VMware NSX
3 18 (10.53%) Docker
4 12 (7.02%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.92%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.34%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.53%) Ansible
3 17 (9.94%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (4.68%) Grafana
5 5 (2.92%) Kibana
5 5 (2.92%) Terraform
6 4 (2.34%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (1.75%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.17%) CA Wily
8 2 (1.17%) logstash
8 2 (1.17%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.17%) Puppet
8 2 (1.17%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.58%) Consul
9 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.58%) Packer
9 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (25.73%) VMware
2 43 (25.15%) F5
3 30 (17.54%) Blue Coat
4 28 (16.37%) McAfee
5 23 (13.45%) Microsoft
6 19 (11.11%) NetApp
7 15 (8.77%) Oracle
8 13 (7.60%) Cisco
9 12 (7.02%) IBM
10 10 (5.85%) CheckPoint
10 10 (5.85%) Palo Alto
11 8 (4.68%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.92%) AppDynamics
12 5 (2.92%) Netskope
12 5 (2.92%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.92%) Zscaler
13 4 (2.34%) Databricks
13 4 (2.34%) Dynatrace
13 4 (2.34%) Nokia
13 4 (2.34%) Splunk