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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 279 345
Rank change year-on-year +17 +66 +30
Contract jobs citing HTTP 82 114 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.67% 0.65% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.44% 6.83% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 71 101
10th Percentile £315 £300 £463
25th Percentile £404 £403 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £619 £770
90th Percentile £733 £650 £800
England median daily rate £555 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +5.71% -12.50% +9.09%
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 1,274 1,669 2,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.39% 9.56% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 820 1,127 1,817
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £716 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 51 49
10th Percentile £21.03 £14.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.66 £16.56 £22.75
Median hourly rate £38.75 £23.80 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +62.82% -34.87% +25.48%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £69.50
90th Percentile £61.85 £60.00 £76.00
England median hourly rate £36.57 £40.00 £17.28
% change year-on-year -8.57% +131.45% -27.72%

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 31 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 31 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 +20 14 £585 -31.18% 3
East London +22 2 £415 -
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 4 (4.88%) nginx
2 3 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.66%) Confluence
3 2 (2.44%) Apache
3 2 (2.44%) IIS
4 1 (1.22%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.22%) CMS
4 1 (1.22%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.22%) NetWeaver
4 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.22%) AutoCAD
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (2.44%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 38 (46.34%) AWS
2 27 (32.93%) Azure
3 14 (17.07%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (15.85%) GitHub
5 12 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (13.41%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (10.98%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (10.98%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (10.98%) Serverless
8 8 (9.76%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (8.54%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (8.54%) GCP
10 6 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (4.88%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (4.88%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.88%) Azure API Management
12 3 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (3.66%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 29 (35.37%) TCP/IP
2 25 (30.49%) DNS
3 14 (17.07%) Firewall
3 14 (17.07%) SMTP
4 10 (12.20%) HTTPS
4 10 (12.20%) Internet
4 10 (12.20%) SSL
5 7 (8.54%) FTP
6 4 (4.88%) Network Security
7 3 (3.66%) BGP
7 3 (3.66%) DHCP
7 3 (3.66%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (3.66%) VPN
8 2 (2.44%) SNMP
8 2 (2.44%) SSH
8 2 (2.44%) VLAN
8 2 (2.44%) WAN
8 2 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.22%) Multicast
9 1 (1.22%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.98%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (8.54%) DynamoDB
3 7 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.88%) MySQL
4 4 (4.88%) Oracle Database
4 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.66%) Apache Hive
5 3 (3.66%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (3.66%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.66%) Oracle Database 10g
5 3 (3.66%) Parquet
5 3 (3.66%) Power BI
5 3 (3.66%) Presto
5 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.22%) Big Data
7 1 (1.22%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (20.73%) Jenkins
2 12 (14.63%) Git
3 8 (9.76%) GitLab
4 4 (4.88%) Ant
4 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket
4 4 (4.88%) JIRA
4 4 (4.88%) webpack
5 3 (3.66%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.66%) git-flow
5 3 (3.66%) JUnit
5 3 (3.66%) Mocha
5 3 (3.66%) Poetry
5 3 (3.66%) Postman
5 3 (3.66%) SoapUI
5 3 (3.66%) Toad
5 3 (3.66%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.44%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (2.44%) JMeter
6 2 (2.44%) Vite
7 1 (1.22%) Maven
General
1 19 (23.17%) Finance
2 17 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.07%) Banking
4 9 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.88%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.66%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.44%) Advertising
7 2 (2.44%) Legal
7 2 (2.44%) Marketing
8 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (30.49%) Developer
2 13 (15.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (13.41%) Senior
4 10 (12.20%) Architect
5 8 (9.76%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (7.32%) Analyst
7 6 (7.32%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (7.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Integration Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Lead
9 4 (4.88%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow Architect
10 3 (3.66%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Site Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (26.83%) REST
2 18 (21.95%) HTML
3 17 (20.73%) CSS
4 16 (19.51%) React
4 16 (19.51%) SOAP
5 12 (14.63%) .NET
6 11 (13.41%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (12.20%) JSON
7 10 (12.20%) RESTful
8 9 (10.98%) Jest
8 9 (10.98%) Web Services
8 9 (10.98%) WebSockets
9 8 (9.76%) Node.js
9 8 (9.76%) OAuth
9 8 (9.76%) XML
10 7 (8.54%) AngularJS
11 6 (7.32%) HTML5
11 6 (7.32%) LDAP
11 6 (7.32%) OpenAPI
11 6 (7.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.88%) CMDB
2 4 (4.88%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 3 (3.66%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.66%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.66%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.66%) Vector Graphics
4 2 (2.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.44%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.44%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (2.44%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.22%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (32.93%) Linux
2 9 (10.98%) Windows
3 8 (9.76%) Unix
4 4 (4.88%) AIX
5 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.22%) CentOS
6 1 (1.22%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (43.90%) DevOps
2 25 (30.49%) CI/CD
3 20 (24.39%) Agile
4 18 (21.95%) Microservices
5 17 (20.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (18.29%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (18.29%) Test Automation
7 14 (17.07%) Containerisation
8 12 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.20%) Configuration Management
10 9 (10.98%) SIEM
10 9 (10.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (9.76%) Cost Management
11 8 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (9.76%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (9.76%) Security Operations
12 7 (8.54%) Artificial Intelligence
12 7 (8.54%) Computer Science
12 7 (8.54%) OWASP
12 7 (8.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (31.71%) JavaScript
1 26 (31.71%) Python
2 22 (26.83%) Java
3 15 (18.29%) SQL
4 14 (17.07%) PowerShell
5 11 (13.41%) C#
5 11 (13.41%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.32%) Bash
6 6 (7.32%) Groovy
6 6 (7.32%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (6.10%) Korn
7 5 (6.10%) Perl
8 4 (4.88%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.88%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.66%) Bicep
9 3 (3.66%) Go
9 3 (3.66%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.44%) C++
10 2 (2.44%) PHP
11 1 (1.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.41%) Degree
4 6 (7.32%) CEH
4 6 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (6.10%) CISSP
6 3 (3.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.44%) CCIE
7 2 (2.44%) CCNA
7 2 (2.44%) CCNP
7 2 (2.44%) CCSP
7 2 (2.44%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.44%) GCIH
7 2 (2.44%) OSCP
8 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.22%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) GDPR
1 4 (4.88%) HIPAA
2 3 (3.66%) SEPA
3 2 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.44%) NIST
3 2 (2.44%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.44%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.44%) WCAG
4 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 17 (20.73%) Docker
2 5 (6.10%) OpenAM
2 5 (6.10%) OpenDJ
2 5 (6.10%) OpenIDM
3 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.22%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.22%) XenApp
5 1 (1.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 15 (18.29%) Terraform
3 12 (14.63%) Grafana
4 11 (13.41%) Ansible
5 9 (10.98%) Progress Chef
5 9 (10.98%) Prometheus
5 9 (10.98%) Puppet
6 2 (2.44%) CSIRT
7 1 (1.22%) CloudHub
7 1 (1.22%) Packer
7 1 (1.22%) SCCM
7 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.98%) Google
3 8 (9.76%) Red Hat
4 6 (7.32%) ForgeRock
5 5 (6.10%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.88%) Cisco
6 4 (4.88%) IBM
6 4 (4.88%) Oracle
7 3 (3.66%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (3.66%) Perforce
7 3 (3.66%) Splunk
7 3 (3.66%) VMware
8 2 (2.44%) Amplitude
8 2 (2.44%) Arista
8 2 (2.44%) Imperva
8 2 (2.44%) Meraki
8 2 (2.44%) Sun
9 1 (1.22%) Ab Initio
9 1 (1.22%) Citrix
9 1 (1.22%) HP