HTTP Contract Job Trends in the South East

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring HTTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 135 183
Rank change year-on-year -60 +48 +25
Contract jobs citing HTTP 16 19 9
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.27% 0.63% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.14% 3.65% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 4
10th Percentile £227 £475 £477
25th Percentile £302 - £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -11.50% +36.97%
75th Percentile £569 £540 £628
90th Percentile - £588 £634
England median daily rate £492 £570 £517
% change year-on-year -13.68% +10.25% -10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £30.35 £23.18
25th Percentile - £44.59 £23.81
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year - +118.45% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £27.81
90th Percentile - - £28.53
England median hourly rate £66.00 £80.68 £45.88
% change year-on-year -18.19% +75.84% -38.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 746 520 1,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.73% 17.33% 22.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 331 613
10th Percentile £286 £210 £205
25th Percentile £409 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -3.06% +0.51%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £588
90th Percentile £688 £625 £648
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 131
10th Percentile £16.73 £14.20 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.83 £20.85 £27.50
Median hourly rate £48.72 £54.88 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -11.22% -4.32% +5.23%
75th Percentile £56.11 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £60.90 £66.25 £85.65
England median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -18.75% +116.22%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HTTP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

HTTP job vacancy trend in the South East

HTTP
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HTTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HTTP

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the South East

HTTP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HTTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HTTP

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 May 2026. 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
Hampshire -23 8 £563 +12.50% 1
Surrey - 5 £288 -
Berkshire -37 2 - - 2
Thames Valley -54 2 - - 3
West Sussex - 1 £300 - 1
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (12.50%) WebSphere
1 2 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (12.50%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Network Security
2 3 (18.75%) DNS
2 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) FTP
3 2 (12.50%) SSL
3 2 (12.50%) Wireshark
4 1 (6.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Gatling
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
1 3 (18.75%) JMeter
1 3 (18.75%) LoadRunner
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) Introscope
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Consultant
2 5 (31.25%) Security Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Tester
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Performance Tester
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Tester
3 3 (18.75%) Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Middleware Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Middleware Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) JDBC
2 2 (12.50%) JMS
2 2 (12.50%) JSON
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
2 2 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (12.50%) SOAP
2 2 (12.50%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) BYOD
1 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Clustering
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Unix
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (12.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 8 (50.00%) Security Management
3 6 (37.50%) Application Security
3 6 (37.50%) Change Management
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (37.50%) Data Flow Diagram
3 6 (37.50%) Due Diligence
3 6 (37.50%) Information Governance
3 6 (37.50%) Information Security
3 6 (37.50%) Information Security Management
3 6 (37.50%) ISMS
3 6 (37.50%) Mobile Device Management
3 6 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
3 6 (37.50%) Risk Analysis
3 6 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 6 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 6 (37.50%) Security Testing
3 6 (37.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Java
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) Jython
2 2 (12.50%) Perl
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) C
3 1 (6.25%) C++
3 1 (6.25%) Go
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) CISM
1 6 (37.50%) CISSP
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) GDPR
1 6 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (37.50%) NIST
1 6 (37.50%) PCI DSS
1 6 (37.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Grafana
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Kibana
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) CA Wily
3 2 (12.50%) Tivoli
4 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) Puppet
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) AppDynamics
2 3 (18.75%) Dynatrace
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
3 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
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