HTTP Contracts in the Midlands

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 103 131 160
Rank change year-on-year +28 +29 +34
Contract jobs citing HTTP 8 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.42% 0.073% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.74% 0.41% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £286 - £465
25th Percentile £326 - £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.54%
75th Percentile £421 - £569
90th Percentile £438 - £591
England median daily rate £575 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +6.48%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 214 492 513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.18% 17.85% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 294 337
10th Percentile £162 £200 £250
25th Percentile £249 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +12.64%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £594
90th Percentile £693 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 36 17
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.28 £12.50
25th Percentile - £13.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -31.08% +18.31%
75th Percentile £18.13 £24.35 £28.50
90th Percentile £24.21 £28.75 £40.25
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +19 6 £450 - 6
East Midlands +11 2 £326 - 7
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
1 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
1 2 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Introscope
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
1 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (37.50%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Integration Developer
1 2 (25.00%) SAP Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) J2EE
2 3 (37.50%) EDI
2 3 (37.50%) IDoc
2 3 (37.50%) JDBC
2 3 (37.50%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) SOAP
2 3 (37.50%) XSLT
3 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) LDAP
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
3 2 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) AIX
1 2 (25.00%) CentOS
1 2 (25.00%) Debian
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) API Management
2 3 (37.50%) B2B
2 3 (37.50%) BPMN
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (37.50%) Requirements Workshops
3 2 (25.00%) Business Development
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Data Extraction
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Log Aggregation
3 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Server Management
3 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) ABAP
3 3 (37.50%) Groovy
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (25.00%) C
4 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (12.50%) COBOL
5 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SAP Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) CA Wily
1 2 (25.00%) Nessus
1 2 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) SAP
3 2 (25.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (25.00%) Google
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Sophos
3 2 (25.00%) Splunk
4 1 (12.50%) Arista
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle