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 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 138 146
Rank change year-on-year +19 +8 +43
Contract jobs citing HTTP 17 2 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.71% 0.068% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.07% 0.44% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 9
10th Percentile £359 - £478
25th Percentile £385 £725 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% +3.45% +34.26%
75th Percentile £488 £775 £750
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £585
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.26% +6.36%

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 280 457 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.76% 15.65% 16.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 275 339
10th Percentile £200 £205 £250
25th Percentile £303 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -
75th Percentile £573 £588 £575
90th Percentile £668 £675 £713
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 32 14
10th Percentile - £12.28 £13.25
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £18.69
Median hourly rate £24.61 £14.27 £20.85
Median % change year-on-year +72.46% -31.57% +4.26%
75th Percentile £31.00 £23.75 £28.44
90th Percentile £42.10 £26.15 £28.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £43.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -1.16% +39.84% +23.00%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +18 13 £475 - 10
East Midlands -1 4 £363 -51.60%
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 9 (52.94%) Confluence
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (5.88%) nginx
3 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (41.18%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (41.18%) Amazon ELB
2 7 (41.18%) Amazon S3
2 7 (41.18%) AWS KMS
2 7 (41.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 6 (35.29%) Amazon Glacier
4 4 (23.53%) Azure
5 3 (17.65%) GCP
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) DNS
1 11 (64.71%) Firewall
2 7 (41.18%) FTP
2 7 (41.18%) SMTP
2 7 (41.18%) SSH
2 7 (41.18%) SSL
3 4 (23.53%) DHCP
3 4 (23.53%) VLAN
4 3 (17.65%) HTTPS
4 3 (17.65%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (11.76%) EIGRP
5 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (11.76%) Network Security
5 2 (11.76%) OSPF
5 2 (11.76%) SAN
5 2 (11.76%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (11.76%) TACACS
5 2 (11.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (70.59%) Git
1 12 (70.59%) Jenkins
2 9 (52.94%) JIRA
3 7 (41.18%) Vagrant
4 2 (11.76%) Maven
4 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (5.88%) Introscope
5 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner
General
1 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) HTML
1 4 (23.53%) Web Services
2 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
2 3 (17.65%) CSS
2 3 (17.65%) JPA
2 3 (17.65%) Lambda Expressions
2 3 (17.65%) LDAP
2 3 (17.65%) RAML
2 3 (17.65%) React
2 3 (17.65%) REST
2 3 (17.65%) RESTful
2 3 (17.65%) Spring
2 3 (17.65%) Spring Batch
2 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
3 2 (11.76%) YAML
4 1 (5.88%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Replication
2 3 (17.65%) State Machine
3 2 (11.76%) Client/Server
3 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (41.18%) VMS
3 3 (17.65%) Ubuntu
4 2 (11.76%) CentOS
4 2 (11.76%) Debian
5 1 (5.88%) AIX
5 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Change Management
1 9 (52.94%) DevOps
1 9 (52.94%) Patch Management
2 7 (41.18%) Cloud Security
2 7 (41.18%) Configuration Management
2 7 (41.18%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 3 (17.65%) API Development
4 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
4 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
4 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
4 3 (17.65%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (17.65%) Microservices
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Scrum
5 2 (11.76%) Coaching
5 2 (11.76%) Log Aggregation
5 2 (11.76%) Product Backlog
5 2 (11.76%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Java
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) Groovy
2 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
3 6 (35.29%) Perl
4 4 (23.53%) SQL
5 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
6 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.88%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) CCNP
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) Docker
2 7 (41.18%) DFS Replication
3 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.88%) Dovecot
4 1 (5.88%) Postfix
4 1 (5.88%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Grafana
1 7 (41.18%) Prometheus
1 7 (41.18%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Nessus
3 2 (11.76%) FortiGate
3 2 (11.76%) Nagios
3 2 (11.76%) Puppet
4 1 (5.88%) CA Wily
4 1 (5.88%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) ServiceNow
2 4 (23.53%) Arista
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 2 (11.76%) F5
4 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
4 2 (11.76%) Juniper
4 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
4 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
4 2 (11.76%) Sophos
5 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
5 1 (5.88%) Google
5 1 (5.88%) HP
5 1 (5.88%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (5.88%) Splunk