HTTP Contracts in London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 337 369
Rank change year-on-year +55 +32 -65
Contract jobs citing HTTP 112 158 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.63% 0.58% 0.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.54% 5.91% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 118 170
10th Percentile £300 £424 £427
25th Percentile £405 £550 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £616
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +0.61% +17.38%
75th Percentile £638 £772 £688
90th Percentile £650 £802 £713
England median daily rate £500 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £50.52 £39.79
25th Percentile - £67.13 £41.87
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £46.79
Median % change year-on-year - +60.29% -6.42%
75th Percentile - - £68.40
90th Percentile - £79.00 £77.75
England median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -38.83% +54.38% -2.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,712 2,674 3,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.67% 9.88% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 1,889 2,582
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £743 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 52 82
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.22 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.64 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £48.21 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.37% +37.74% +45.83%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £48.55
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in London

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in London

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in London

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in London

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
West London +28 14 £425 -3.41% 1
Central London +29 8 £825 +23.36% 1
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (5.36%) Confluence
2 4 (3.57%) Apache
3 3 (2.68%) MQSeries
3 3 (2.68%) nginx
4 2 (1.79%) CMS
4 2 (1.79%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.89%) Drupal
5 1 (0.89%) govService
5 1 (0.89%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.89%) IIS
5 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.89%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.89%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.89%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.89%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.79%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 43 (38.39%) AWS
2 32 (28.57%) GCP
3 21 (18.75%) Azure
4 13 (11.61%) SaaS
5 10 (8.93%) Entra ID
6 7 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (5.36%) Serverless
8 5 (4.46%) PaaS
9 4 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.57%) GitHub
10 3 (2.68%) Akamai
10 3 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.68%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (2.68%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 40 (35.71%) TCP/IP
2 24 (21.43%) DNS
3 22 (19.64%) Firewall
4 18 (16.07%) SSL
5 11 (9.82%) DHCP
5 11 (9.82%) FTP
5 11 (9.82%) Network Security
5 11 (9.82%) SSH
5 11 (9.82%) VPN
6 10 (8.93%) HTTPS
7 9 (8.04%) Internet
7 9 (8.04%) IPsec
8 8 (7.14%) SMTP
8 8 (7.14%) SNMP
9 7 (6.25%) Wireshark
10 6 (5.36%) BGP
10 6 (5.36%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (5.36%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (5.36%) OSPF
11 4 (3.57%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.54%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.46%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.68%) MySQL
5 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.89%) Redis
6 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.36%) Git
2 6 (5.36%) JIRA
2 6 (5.36%) Postman
3 3 (2.68%) Burp Suite
3 3 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.79%) Appium
4 2 (1.79%) Charles Proxy
4 2 (1.79%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.79%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.79%) JMeter
4 2 (1.79%) JUnit
4 2 (1.79%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (1.79%) Selenium
4 2 (1.79%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 1 (0.89%) GitLab
5 1 (0.89%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 20 (17.86%) Finance
2 12 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.14%) Banking
4 8 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.46%) Billing
6 5 (4.46%) Electronics
6 5 (4.46%) Law
6 5 (4.46%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.46%) Marketing
7 3 (2.68%) German Language
8 2 (1.79%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Advertising
9 1 (0.89%) Legal
9 1 (0.89%) Local Government
9 1 (0.89%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 40 (35.71%) Developer
2 25 (22.32%) Scala Developer
3 14 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 11 (9.82%) Architect
4 11 (9.82%) Linux Server Engineer
4 11 (9.82%) Server Engineer
5 9 (8.04%) Network Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (5.36%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) ERP Architect
8 5 (4.46%) Python Developer
9 4 (3.57%) ArcSight Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Consultant
9 4 (3.57%) Network Architect
9 4 (3.57%) Oracle Architect
9 4 (3.57%) Senior
9 4 (3.57%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (26.79%) RESTful
2 26 (23.21%) Akka
2 26 (23.21%) Kafka
3 14 (12.50%) CSS
3 14 (12.50%) JSON
3 14 (12.50%) REST
4 12 (10.71%) HTML
5 9 (8.04%) LDAP
6 8 (7.14%) SAML
7 7 (6.25%) .NET
7 7 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (6.25%) OAuth
7 7 (6.25%) OpenID
8 5 (4.46%) Node.js
8 5 (4.46%) OAuth2
8 5 (4.46%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (4.46%) SOAP
9 4 (3.57%) React
9 4 (3.57%) Web Services
9 4 (3.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.07%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.46%) Clustering
4 5 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.57%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.68%) PKI
7 2 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.89%) IVR
8 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.32%) Linux
2 13 (11.61%) Unix
3 8 (7.14%) Windows
4 2 (1.79%) Android
4 2 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.04%) DevOps
2 36 (32.14%) Agile
3 31 (27.68%) Microservices
4 26 (23.21%) TDD
5 24 (21.43%) Clean Code
5 24 (21.43%) GitOps
5 24 (21.43%) Pair Programming
6 22 (19.64%) Machine Learning
6 22 (19.64%) Personalization
7 20 (17.86%) CI/CD
8 19 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (13.39%) Coaching
10 12 (10.71%) High Availability
11 11 (9.82%) Migration
12 10 (8.93%) SIEM
13 9 (8.04%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (8.04%) Computer Science
13 9 (8.04%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (7.14%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.21%) Scala
2 20 (17.86%) Python
3 16 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.82%) Java
6 10 (8.93%) C#
6 10 (8.93%) SQL
7 5 (4.46%) PHP
8 4 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.68%) Bash
9 3 (2.68%) Ruby
10 2 (1.79%) Go
10 2 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.79%) Swift
11 1 (0.89%) Perl
11 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.61%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.82%) CCNP
2 11 (9.82%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (9.82%) DV Cleared
3 7 (6.25%) Degree
4 5 (4.46%) CCDP
5 3 (2.68%) CCIE
6 2 (1.79%) CEH
6 2 (1.79%) CISSP
6 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.79%) GCIA
6 2 (1.79%) GCIH
6 2 (1.79%) GIAC
6 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.89%) EC-Council LPT
7 1 (0.89%) GCFE
7 1 (0.89%) GPPA
7 1 (0.89%) GREM
7 1 (0.89%) GXPN
7 1 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.79%) HL7
4 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.89%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (10.71%) Docker
2 7 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.57%) NFS
4 3 (2.68%) Samba
4 3 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.79%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (27.68%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.82%) Progress Chef
2 11 (9.82%) Puppet
3 8 (7.14%) Terraform
4 7 (6.25%) Kibana
5 5 (4.46%) Ansible
5 5 (4.46%) FortiGate
6 4 (3.57%) logstash
6 4 (3.57%) QRadar
7 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.79%) PingFederate
7 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.89%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.89%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.89%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.89%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (16.07%) Typelevel
2 16 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.93%) Cisco
3 10 (8.93%) Oracle
4 9 (8.04%) Palo Alto
4 9 (8.04%) Splunk
5 8 (7.14%) Zscaler
6 5 (4.46%) Arista
6 5 (4.46%) Aruba
6 5 (4.46%) Google
6 5 (4.46%) SAP
7 4 (3.57%) ArcSight
7 4 (3.57%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.68%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.68%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.68%) F5
8 3 (2.68%) Infoblox
8 3 (2.68%) Meraki
8 3 (2.68%) New Relic
8 3 (2.68%) VMware