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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 151 179
Rank change year-on-year -21 +28 +40
DemandTrendContract jobs citing HTTP 13 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.32% 0.31% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.54% 2.63% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 12
10th Percentile £362 £213 £334
25th Percentile £430 £613 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £494 £645 £625
90th Percentile £553 £646 £639
England median daily rate £475 £533 £575
% change year-on-year -10.88% -7.30% +4.55%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 512 494 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.75% 11.73% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 311 465
10th Percentile £160 £215 £220
25th Percentile £325 £404 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +14.44% -
75th Percentile £538 £650 £575
90th Percentile £638 £823 £650
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 17
10th Percentile £23.00 £13.87 £15.72
25th Percentile £31.38 £18.21 £15.75
Median hourly rate £58.25 £24.87 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +134.22% +40.99% -19.82%
75th Percentile £67.25 £49.31 £44.50
90th Percentile £68.71 £51.96 £47.26
England median hourly rate £42.50 £55.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.76% -1.32% +42.47%

HTTP
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

HTTP
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing HTTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing HTTP

HTTP
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 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the North of England

HTTP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing HTTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing HTTP

HTTP
DemandTrendContract 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -4 7 £475 +111.11% 3
Yorkshire -14 6 £510 -18.40% 4
HTTP
England

HTTP
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 1 (7.69%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP MRS
1 1 (7.69%) SAP PM
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Figma
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.69%) n8n
4 1 (7.69%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Kerberos
2 1 (7.69%) BIG-IP
2 1 (7.69%) DMZ
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (7.69%) SSL
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (15.38%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) UI Automator
3 1 (7.69%) Fiddler
3 1 (7.69%) JUnit
3 1 (7.69%) REST Assured
3 1 (7.69%) webpack
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) LDAP Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Developer
3 2 (15.38%) UI Developer
3 2 (15.38%) UI/UX Developer
3 2 (15.38%) UX Developer
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Angular Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) SAP PM Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) XML
2 4 (30.77%) JSON
3 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
3 3 (23.08%) CSS
3 3 (23.08%) HTML
3 3 (23.08%) Middleware
3 3 (23.08%) REST
3 3 (23.08%) RESTful
4 2 (15.38%) Ajax
4 2 (15.38%) JWT
4 2 (15.38%) LDAP
4 2 (15.38%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (15.38%) React
4 2 (15.38%) SAML
4 2 (15.38%) Semantic HTML
4 2 (15.38%) SOAP
4 2 (15.38%) Vue
4 2 (15.38%) Web Services
5 1 (7.69%) BAPI
5 1 (7.69%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (15.38%) PKI
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) API Development
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
4 2 (15.38%) Forensic Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
4 2 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) SDLC
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) User Experience
4 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (15.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) ABAP
5 1 (7.69%) Bash
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.69%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) ForgeRock
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
2 2 (15.38%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Blue Coat
3 1 (7.69%) F5
3 1 (7.69%) McAfee
3 1 (7.69%) NetApp