HTTP Contracts in the North of England

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 147 160 180
Rank change year-on-year +13 +20 +13
Contract jobs citing HTTP 19 25 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.52% 0.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.44% 4.17% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 30
10th Percentile £379 £343 £495
25th Percentile £443 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £531 £586 £538
90th Percentile £760 £645 £627
England median daily rate £575 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 552 599 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 12.56% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 419 467
10th Percentile £181 £200 £200
25th Percentile £246 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HTTP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for HTTP in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HTTP in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +9 10 £750 +20.29% 6
North West +11 9 £466 +33.14% 15
HTTP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (26.32%) Confluence
2 4 (21.05%) NetWeaver
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
1 7 (36.84%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (26.32%) Slack
3 4 (21.05%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) Azure
4 2 (10.53%) npm
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (5.26%) DHCP
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (5.26%) FTP
2 1 (5.26%) NX-OS
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Apache Cassandra
1 5 (26.32%) MongoDB
1 5 (26.32%) MySQL
1 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Git
1 8 (42.11%) JIRA
2 6 (31.58%) JUnit
3 5 (26.32%) Cucumber
3 5 (26.32%) Jasmine
4 4 (21.05%) GitLab
5 2 (10.53%) webpack
6 1 (5.26%) REST Assured
General
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Integration Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
3 4 (21.05%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) SAP Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (15.79%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Angular Developer
5 2 (10.53%) LDAP Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) REST
1 7 (36.84%) RESTful
2 6 (31.58%) Middleware
2 6 (31.58%) XML
3 5 (26.32%) EDI
3 5 (26.32%) OpenAPI
3 5 (26.32%) SOAP
3 5 (26.32%) Spring
3 5 (26.32%) Spring Boot
3 5 (26.32%) Swagger
3 5 (26.32%) XSLT
4 4 (21.05%) IDoc
4 4 (21.05%) JDBC
4 4 (21.05%) JMS
4 4 (21.05%) SAP PI
4 4 (21.05%) Spring Batch
4 4 (21.05%) Spring Security
5 3 (15.79%) Web Services
6 2 (10.53%) CSS
6 2 (10.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (21.05%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (21.05%) Virtual Team
3 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (10.53%) PKI
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
4 1 (5.26%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (15.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 9 (47.37%) Microservices
3 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
4 7 (36.84%) SDLC
4 7 (36.84%) Test Automation
5 6 (31.58%) Agile
5 6 (31.58%) Cloud Security
6 5 (26.32%) API Design
6 5 (26.32%) BDD
6 5 (26.32%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (26.32%) High Availability
6 5 (26.32%) Kernel Tuning
6 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
6 5 (26.32%) Operational Stability
6 5 (26.32%) OWASP
6 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
6 5 (26.32%) TDD
6 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (21.05%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Java
2 7 (36.84%) Bash
3 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 5 (26.32%) Python
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 4 (21.05%) ABAP
5 1 (5.26%) ActionScript
5 1 (5.26%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (5.26%) Perl
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.26%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.26%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) ForgeRock
1 4 (21.05%) SAP
2 1 (5.26%) Arista
2 1 (5.26%) Blue Coat
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco
2 1 (5.26%) F5
2 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.26%) Juniper
2 1 (5.26%) SEEBURGER
2 1 (5.26%) Symantec
2 1 (5.26%) Zscaler