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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 154 195
Rank change year-on-year +2 +41 +23
Contract jobs citing HTTP 19 22 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.52% 0.52% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.11% 2.88% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 13
10th Percentile - - £208
25th Percentile £204 £203 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £306
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% +14.57% -51.12%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £401
90th Percentile £569 £656 £500
England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
England median hourly rate £56.00 £33.75 £68.50
% change year-on-year +65.93% -50.73% +29.73%

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 610 765 1,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.63% 18.02% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 423 643
10th Percentile £204 £243 £205
25th Percentile £329 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £461
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +8.42% +0.26%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £584
90th Percentile £626 £663 £663
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 42 77
10th Percentile £18.41 £27.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £29.89 £35.63 £24.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £84.66 £74.69 £75.67
90th Percentile £90.04 £75.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.61% +1.35% +36.90%

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 24 October 2025.

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 24 October 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
Thames Valley +14 9 £475 -10.59% 7
Berkshire +13 5 £500 +42.86% 6
Surrey +5 5 £208 +1.22% 3
Hampshire +4 5 £563 +4.65% 1
Buckinghamshire +5 4 £475 -25.49% 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 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) SAS
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.26%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
1 5 (26.32%) SaaS
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.53%) Figma
3 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Wireshark
2 4 (21.05%) FTP
2 4 (21.05%) Network Security
3 2 (10.53%) DNS
3 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.26%) Firewall
4 1 (5.26%) HTTPS
4 1 (5.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) Power Query
2 1 (5.26%) Sisense
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (10.53%) Fiddler
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
2 2 (10.53%) UI Automator
3 1 (5.26%) Postman
3 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) French Language
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) German Language
4 1 (5.26%) Italian Language
4 1 (5.26%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Support Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) Technical Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) Technical Support
1 8 (42.11%) Technical Support Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Security Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Salesforce Developer
4 2 (10.53%) UI Developer
4 2 (10.53%) UI/UX Developer
4 2 (10.53%) UX Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) JIRA Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Power BI Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) SOAP
2 5 (26.32%) REST
3 4 (21.05%) JSON
4 3 (15.79%) XML
5 2 (10.53%) Ajax
5 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
5 2 (10.53%) CSS
5 2 (10.53%) HTML
5 2 (10.53%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (10.53%) OAuth
5 2 (10.53%) React
5 2 (10.53%) Semantic HTML
5 2 (10.53%) Vue
5 2 (10.53%) Web Services
6 1 (5.26%) .NET
6 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.26%) MDX
6 1 (5.26%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (5.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.79%) BYOD
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Unix
3 2 (10.53%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (36.84%) Incident Management
3 4 (21.05%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
3 4 (21.05%) Escalation Management
3 4 (21.05%) OO
3 4 (21.05%) OOP
4 3 (15.79%) Application Security
4 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
4 3 (15.79%) Customer Experience
4 3 (15.79%) Data Flow Diagram
4 3 (15.79%) Due Diligence
4 3 (15.79%) Information Security
4 3 (15.79%) Information Security Management
4 3 (15.79%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
4 3 (15.79%) Security Management
4 3 (15.79%) Security Operations
4 3 (15.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) C
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) Korn
3 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) C++
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) CISM
2 3 (15.79%) CISSP
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GDPR
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.79%) NIST
1 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
1 3 (15.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.53%) WCAG
3 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) NDS
2 1 (5.26%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Kibana
3 1 (5.26%) Rsyslog
3 1 (5.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.79%) Salesforce
2 2 (10.53%) Ab Initio
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (5.26%) NetIQ
3 1 (5.26%) OpenText
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk