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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 143 162
Rank change year-on-year -64 +19 +41
Contract jobs citing HTTP 20 21 19
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.31% 0.59% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.78% 3.45% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 12
10th Percentile £328 - -
25th Percentile £450 £204 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £488 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +39.29% +14.57%
75th Percentile £465 £536 £499
90th Percentile £575 £569 £583
England median daily rate £460 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -3.16% -11.63% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £53.25 -
25th Percentile - £54.38 £27.00
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - +105.36% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £29.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 £57.50 £76.25
% change year-on-year +47.83% -24.59% +8.93%

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 719 608 796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.97% 17.08% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 430 439
10th Percentile £276 £204 £236
25th Percentile £400 £329 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.24% -3.25% +9.15%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £608
90th Percentile £650 £638 £663
England median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 23 54
10th Percentile £19.34 £19.45 £27.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.50 £53.40
Median hourly rate £52.43 £55.00 £63.51
Median % change year-on-year -4.68% -13.40% +5.85%
75th Percentile £63.25 £78.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £96.00 £89.63 -
England median hourly rate £41.75 £35.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +19.29% -38.97% +1.52%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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
Surrey -9 15 £460 +121.69% 4
Berkshire -21 3 £413 -17.50% 8
Thames Valley -45 3 £413 -13.16% 11
Middlesex - 2 - - 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:

Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (10.00%) Houdini
1 2 (10.00%) NUKE
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) AWS
2 12 (60.00%) Azure
3 9 (45.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 9 (45.00%) Boomi
3 9 (45.00%) GCP
3 9 (45.00%) iPaaS
4 4 (20.00%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (15.00%) VPN
3 2 (10.00%) Broadband
3 2 (10.00%) DHCP
3 2 (10.00%) HTTPS
3 2 (10.00%) SSL
4 1 (5.00%) BGP
4 1 (5.00%) Firewall
4 1 (5.00%) Internet
4 1 (5.00%) IPsec
4 1 (5.00%) LAN
4 1 (5.00%) MPLS
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security
4 1 (5.00%) OSPF
4 1 (5.00%) SNMP
4 1 (5.00%) SSH
4 1 (5.00%) WAN
4 1 (5.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JMeter
1 3 (15.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (10.00%) Gatling
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Architect
2 8 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Performance Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Performance Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Integration Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Workflow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) REST
2 10 (50.00%) JSON
3 9 (45.00%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (45.00%) EDI
3 9 (45.00%) GraphQL
3 9 (45.00%) JWT
3 9 (45.00%) Kafka
3 9 (45.00%) Middleware
3 9 (45.00%) OAuth
3 9 (45.00%) OpenAPI
3 9 (45.00%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (45.00%) SAML
3 9 (45.00%) SOAP
3 9 (45.00%) Swagger
3 9 (45.00%) XML
4 2 (10.00%) RESTful
4 2 (10.00%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (5.00%) Terraform
5 1 (5.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (45.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (20.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (10.00%) Motion Graphics
4 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Social Media
5 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) API Design
1 9 (45.00%) API Management
1 9 (45.00%) Batch Processing
1 9 (45.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 9 (45.00%) Event-Driven
1 9 (45.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 9 (45.00%) Integration Patterns
1 9 (45.00%) Webhook
2 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (20.00%) OWASP
2 4 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (15.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (10.00%) Agile
4 2 (10.00%) Change Management
4 2 (10.00%) Project Management
4 2 (10.00%) Runbook
4 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) Groovy
2 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CCNA
3 1 (5.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Grafana
1 2 (10.00%) Kibana
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Google
1 9 (45.00%) IBM
1 9 (45.00%) Informatica
1 9 (45.00%) MuleSoft
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle
1 9 (45.00%) TIBCO
1 9 (45.00%) WSO2
2 4 (20.00%) Qualys
3 3 (15.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (10.00%) Adobe
4 2 (10.00%) AppDynamics
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) Foundry
4 2 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) Parasoft
5 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds