HTTP Contracts in London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring HTTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HTTP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 278 341
Rank change year-on-year +10 +63 +24
Contract jobs citing HTTP 85 113 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.68% 0.63% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.46% 6.57% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 77 115
10th Percentile £355 £300 £422
25th Percentile £410 £400 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £620
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -15.32% +2.06%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £771
90th Percentile £775 £650 £801
England median daily rate £575 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £50.52
25th Percentile £45.75 - £67.13
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - £79.00
England median hourly rate £80.68 £45.88 £75.00
% change year-on-year +75.84% -38.83% +54.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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
Central London +8 12 £583 -29.39% 6
East London - 1 £415 - 2
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 9 (10.59%) nginx
2 7 (8.24%) Confluence
3 5 (5.88%) Apache
3 5 (5.88%) Apache Spark
4 4 (4.71%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.35%) IIS
6 1 (1.18%) Anypoint
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.18%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) assyst
1 2 (2.35%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 36 (42.35%) AWS
2 26 (30.59%) Azure
3 15 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (14.12%) GitHub
5 11 (12.94%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (10.59%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (10.59%) Serverless
8 8 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (9.41%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (9.41%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (7.06%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (7.06%) GCP
10 5 (5.88%) Slack
11 4 (4.71%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (4.71%) Amazon S3
12 3 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (36.47%) TCP/IP
2 24 (28.24%) DNS
3 17 (20.00%) Firewall
4 15 (17.65%) SMTP
5 11 (12.94%) HTTPS
6 10 (11.76%) SSL
7 7 (8.24%) FTP
7 7 (8.24%) Internet
8 5 (5.88%) DHCP
8 5 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (3.53%) Network Security
9 3 (3.53%) VPN
10 2 (2.35%) BGP
10 2 (2.35%) SNMP
10 2 (2.35%) VLAN
11 1 (1.18%) Multicast
11 1 (1.18%) OSPF
11 1 (1.18%) POP3
11 1 (1.18%) WAN
11 1 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.29%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.41%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.41%) MySQL
3 7 (8.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (8.24%) DynamoDB
3 7 (8.24%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (5.88%) Apache Hive
4 5 (5.88%) Apache Iceberg
4 5 (5.88%) Hadoop
4 5 (5.88%) Parquet
4 5 (5.88%) Presto
5 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.53%) Power BI
7 2 (2.35%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.35%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (2.35%) Redis
8 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (20.00%) Git
1 17 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.41%) GitLab
3 7 (8.24%) JIRA
4 6 (7.06%) JUnit
5 5 (5.88%) Bitbucket
5 5 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 5 (5.88%) Jasmine
5 5 (5.88%) Poetry
6 3 (3.53%) Ant
6 3 (3.53%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.53%) git-flow
6 3 (3.53%) Mocha
6 3 (3.53%) Postman
6 3 (3.53%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.35%) JMeter
7 2 (2.35%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.35%) Toad
7 2 (2.35%) webpack
8 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.47%) Banking
2 14 (16.47%) Finance
3 8 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.53%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.35%) Legal
7 1 (1.18%) Advertising
7 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Front Office
7 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (29.41%) Developer
2 14 (16.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (11.76%) Senior
4 9 (10.59%) Analyst
4 9 (10.59%) Architect
5 8 (9.41%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (9.41%) Lead
6 7 (8.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (7.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Site Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Integration Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (24.71%) REST
2 17 (20.00%) React
3 16 (18.82%) CSS
3 16 (18.82%) HTML
3 16 (18.82%) SOAP
4 13 (15.29%) .NET
4 13 (15.29%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (15.29%) RESTful
5 10 (11.76%) OAuth
5 10 (11.76%) OpenAPI
5 10 (11.76%) Swagger
6 9 (10.59%) JSON
6 9 (10.59%) Node.js
7 8 (9.41%) WebSockets
8 7 (8.24%) Jest
8 7 (8.24%) Web Services
8 7 (8.24%) XML
9 6 (7.06%) JWT
9 6 (7.06%) LDAP
9 6 (7.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.71%) CMDB
4 3 (3.53%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.53%) Cyberattack
4 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.53%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (3.53%) Vector Graphics
5 2 (2.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.35%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.35%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (40.00%) Linux
2 11 (12.94%) Windows
3 10 (11.76%) Unix
4 6 (7.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.53%) AIX
5 3 (3.53%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.18%) CentOS
6 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (44.71%) DevOps
2 30 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 21 (24.71%) Microservices
4 19 (22.35%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (21.18%) Agile
5 18 (21.18%) Test Automation
6 17 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (17.65%) Containerisation
8 13 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (14.12%) High Availability
9 12 (14.12%) SIEM
9 12 (14.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (12.94%) OWASP
10 11 (12.94%) Security Operations
11 10 (11.76%) Continuous Delivery
11 10 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (11.76%) Incident Response
12 9 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (10.59%) Software Engineering
13 8 (9.41%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.12%) Python
2 25 (29.41%) Java
3 24 (28.24%) JavaScript
4 21 (24.71%) SQL
5 14 (16.47%) PowerShell
6 11 (12.94%) C#
6 11 (12.94%) TypeScript
7 10 (11.76%) Groovy
8 9 (10.59%) Bash
9 7 (8.24%) Shell Script
10 6 (7.06%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (4.71%) Perl
12 3 (3.53%) Bicep
12 3 (3.53%) Korn
12 3 (3.53%) PL/SQL
12 3 (3.53%) T-SQL
13 2 (2.35%) C++
13 2 (2.35%) Go
13 2 (2.35%) PHP
14 1 (1.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.59%) Degree
4 7 (8.24%) CEH
4 7 (8.24%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (7.06%) CISSP
6 4 (4.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (3.53%) CCNA
7 3 (3.53%) CCSP
7 3 (3.53%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (3.53%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.53%) GCIH
7 3 (3.53%) OSCP
8 2 (2.35%) CCIE
8 2 (2.35%) CCNP
9 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.18%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.71%) GDPR
1 4 (4.71%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.35%) NIST
2 2 (2.35%) NIST 800
2 2 (2.35%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.35%) SEPA
3 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.18%) QA
3 1 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (27.06%) Docker
2 6 (7.06%) OpenAM
2 6 (7.06%) OpenDJ
2 6 (7.06%) OpenIDM
3 3 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.35%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.18%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.18%) XenApp
5 1 (1.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (30.59%) Kubernetes
2 18 (21.18%) Terraform
3 12 (14.12%) Ansible
4 11 (12.94%) Grafana
5 8 (9.41%) Progress Chef
5 8 (9.41%) Prometheus
5 8 (9.41%) Puppet
6 2 (2.35%) CSIRT
7 1 (1.18%) CloudHub
7 1 (1.18%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.18%) Packer
7 1 (1.18%) SCCM
7 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) Google
2 8 (9.41%) Red Hat
2 8 (9.41%) Splunk
3 7 (8.24%) ForgeRock
4 5 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.71%) AppDynamics
5 4 (4.71%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (4.71%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.53%) Cisco
6 3 (3.53%) IBM
6 3 (3.53%) Oracle
6 3 (3.53%) VMware
7 2 (2.35%) Darktrace
7 2 (2.35%) Imperva
7 2 (2.35%) Perforce
8 1 (1.18%) Amplitude
8 1 (1.18%) Arista
8 1 (1.18%) Black Duck
8 1 (1.18%) Ping Identity