HTTP Contracts in England

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > 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 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 431 404
Rank change year-on-year +62 -27 -40
Contract jobs citing HTTP 179 214 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.44% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.74% 3.62% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 158 275
10th Percentile £300 £364 £400
25th Percentile £400 £491 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £622 £688 £650
90th Percentile £650 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £516 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.26% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 7
10th Percentile £25.73 £50.52 £40.09
25th Percentile £41.16 £67.13 £42.41
Median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -38.83% +54.38% -2.84%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £66.25
90th Percentile - £79.00 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -38.83% +54.38% -7.47%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,788 5,911 7,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.17% 12.24% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,877 3,859 5,152
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 424 309
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.98
25th Percentile £16.44 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -2.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.28 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.07 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +6.91%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HTTP in England.

Daily rate trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HTTP in England.

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTTP in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

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 15 May 2024. 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 +74 114 £525 -15.32% 48
North of England +14 24 £463 -7.50% 7
South West +22 12 £533 -11.17% 6
Yorkshire +16 12 £624 +18.76% 5
South East +23 11 £565 +36.97% 13
North West +15 11 £463 -7.50% 2
East of England +13 8 £350 -22.22% 1
Midlands +23 1 - - 8
West Midlands +12 1 - - 5
North East - 1 £450 - 2
HTTP
UK

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 18 (10.06%) Apache
2 15 (8.38%) Confluence
3 6 (3.35%) CMS
4 5 (2.79%) IIS
4 5 (2.79%) Tomcat
5 4 (2.23%) MQSeries
6 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.68%) nginx
7 2 (1.12%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.56%) Drupal
8 1 (0.56%) govService
8 1 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.12%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 65 (36.31%) AWS
2 52 (29.05%) GCP
3 42 (23.46%) Azure
4 21 (11.73%) GitHub
5 12 (6.70%) Serverless
6 9 (5.03%) Apigee
6 9 (5.03%) Kong
7 7 (3.91%) Amazon Cognito
7 7 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (3.91%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.91%) npm
7 7 (3.91%) OpenShift
8 6 (3.35%) SaaS
9 5 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.79%) PaaS
10 4 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.23%) Google App Engine
11 3 (1.68%) Akamai
11 3 (1.68%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 61 (34.08%) TCP/IP
2 41 (22.91%) DNS
3 34 (18.99%) Firewall
4 29 (16.20%) SSL
5 23 (12.85%) VPN
6 16 (8.94%) FTP
7 13 (7.26%) DHCP
7 13 (7.26%) HTTPS
7 13 (7.26%) IPsec
7 13 (7.26%) Network Security
7 13 (7.26%) SSH
8 12 (6.70%) SMTP
9 11 (6.15%) Internet
10 10 (5.59%) SNMP
11 8 (4.47%) BGP
11 8 (4.47%) OSPF
11 8 (4.47%) Wireshark
12 6 (3.35%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (3.35%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (2.79%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.97%) Apache Cassandra
2 13 (7.26%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.91%) Triplestore
5 6 (3.35%) MySQL
6 5 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.79%) SQLite
7 4 (2.23%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.23%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.23%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.68%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.68%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.56%) GIS
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.56%) Redis
9 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.56%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 28 (15.64%) Jenkins
2 26 (14.53%) Git
3 24 (13.41%) JIRA
4 18 (10.06%) GitLab
5 9 (5.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (5.03%) CircleCI
5 9 (5.03%) Travis CI
6 7 (3.91%) Postman
7 6 (3.35%) JMeter
7 6 (3.35%) Selenium
7 6 (3.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (2.79%) Checkstyle
8 5 (2.79%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.23%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.23%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.23%) Gatling
9 4 (2.23%) WebDriver
10 3 (1.68%) Burp Suite
10 3 (1.68%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.12%) Appium
General
1 32 (17.88%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (11.73%) Finance
3 17 (9.50%) Telecoms
4 14 (7.82%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.47%) Banking
5 8 (4.47%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.35%) Legal
7 5 (2.79%) Electronics
7 5 (2.79%) Marketing
8 3 (1.68%) German Language
9 2 (1.12%) Advertising
9 2 (1.12%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Automotive
10 1 (0.56%) Local Government
10 1 (0.56%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Publishing
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 54 (30.17%) Developer
2 31 (17.32%) Scala Developer
3 23 (12.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.94%) Software Engineer
5 15 (8.38%) Linux Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Network Engineer
7 11 (6.15%) Linux Server Engineer
7 11 (6.15%) Server Engineer
8 10 (5.59%) Senior
9 7 (3.91%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (3.91%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 7 (3.91%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.35%) Architect
10 6 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.35%) Security Engineer
11 5 (2.79%) Analyst
11 5 (2.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.79%) Technical Support
12 4 (2.23%) Consultant
12 4 (2.23%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (26.82%) RESTful
2 46 (25.70%) Kafka
3 33 (18.44%) Akka
3 33 (18.44%) REST
4 29 (16.20%) JSON
5 25 (13.97%) CSS
6 22 (12.29%) HTML
7 18 (10.06%) LDAP
7 18 (10.06%) XML
8 16 (8.94%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (7.26%) .NET
9 13 (7.26%) YAML
10 12 (6.70%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.59%) Web Services
12 9 (5.03%) GraphQL
12 9 (5.03%) SOAP
13 8 (4.47%) Node.js
14 7 (3.91%) OAuth
14 7 (3.91%) OpenID
14 7 (3.91%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.06%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (5.03%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.91%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.79%) Clustering
5 5 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.79%) IVR
6 4 (2.23%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.68%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.68%) PKI
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.56%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 46 (25.70%) Linux
2 21 (11.73%) Unix
3 18 (10.06%) Windows
4 5 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.23%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.12%) Android
6 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.56%) Solaris
7 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (37.99%) Agile
2 66 (36.87%) DevOps
3 42 (23.46%) Microservices
4 38 (21.23%) CI/CD
5 35 (19.55%) TDD
6 30 (16.76%) Pair Programming
7 28 (15.64%) GitOps
7 28 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (14.53%) Clean Code
9 25 (13.97%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (13.41%) Machine Learning
10 24 (13.41%) Personalization
11 20 (11.17%) Containerisation
11 20 (11.17%) Software Engineering
12 18 (10.06%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (9.50%) Use Case
14 16 (8.94%) Coaching
14 16 (8.94%) Test Automation
14 16 (8.94%) Workflow
15 15 (8.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (20.67%) Scala
2 34 (18.99%) Python
3 32 (17.88%) JavaScript
4 24 (13.41%) PowerShell
5 18 (10.06%) Java
6 13 (7.26%) C#
6 13 (7.26%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.70%) Bash
8 11 (6.15%) SQL
9 7 (3.91%) SPARQL
10 6 (3.35%) PHP
11 5 (2.79%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.23%) Groovy
13 3 (1.68%) ActionScript
14 2 (1.12%) ABAP
14 2 (1.12%) Go
14 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.12%) Swift
15 1 (0.56%) Perl
15 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.38%) DV Cleared
4 11 (6.15%) CCNP
4 11 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (5.03%) Degree
6 5 (2.79%) CCDP
7 3 (1.68%) CCIE
8 2 (1.12%) CEH
8 2 (1.12%) CISSP
8 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.12%) GCIA
8 2 (1.12%) GCIH
8 2 (1.12%) GIAC
8 2 (1.12%) HND
8 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) EC-Council LPT
9 1 (0.56%) GCFE
9 1 (0.56%) GPPA
9 1 (0.56%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.82%) QA
2 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.12%) HL7
3 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.56%) NCSC
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (17.88%) Docker
2 9 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.79%) NFS
4 4 (2.23%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.23%) Samba
4 4 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.12%) XenApp
6 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (31.28%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.17%) Progress Chef
2 20 (11.17%) Puppet
3 18 (10.06%) Terraform
4 16 (8.94%) Kibana
5 14 (7.82%) Ansible
6 13 (7.26%) logstash
7 10 (5.59%) Grafana
7 10 (5.59%) Prometheus
8 9 (5.03%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.79%) FortiGate
10 4 (2.23%) QRadar
11 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.68%) PingFederate
12 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.56%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.56%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.56%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 25 (13.97%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.73%) Splunk
3 20 (11.17%) Typelevel
4 11 (6.15%) Cisco
4 11 (6.15%) Palo Alto
5 10 (5.59%) Google
5 10 (5.59%) SAP
6 9 (5.03%) Oracle
6 9 (5.03%) Red Hat
7 8 (4.47%) Zscaler
8 6 (3.35%) F5
9 5 (2.79%) Arista
9 5 (2.79%) Aruba
9 5 (2.79%) Avaya
9 5 (2.79%) Symantec
9 5 (2.79%) Verint
10 4 (2.23%) ArcSight
10 4 (2.23%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.23%) Nokia
10 4 (2.23%) VMware