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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 139 202
Rank change year-on-year -30 +63 +21
Contract jobs citing HTTP 13 18 8
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.28% 0.57% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.05% 3.14% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 5
10th Percentile - £343 £277
25th Percentile £204 £500 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £548 £393
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +39.49% -49.35%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £525
90th Percentile - £656 £533
England median daily rate £492 £575 £488
% change year-on-year -14.43% +17.95% -15.22%

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 633 573 1,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.69% 18.12% 23.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 305 653
10th Percentile £219 £230 £200
25th Percentile £350 £375 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
England median daily rate £488 £500 £486
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.88% -7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 104
10th Percentile £17.87 £31.25 £13.86
25th Percentile £23.25 £35.00 £24.19
Median hourly rate £55.50 £59.13 £58.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +1.08% +29.99%
75th Percentile £69.97 £62.50 £70.47
90th Percentile £84.20 £66.82 £84.01
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -8.57% -30.00% +141.49%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -22 6 £563 +12.50% 6
Surrey - 5 £208 - 5
Berkshire -20 2 £500 +8.11% 3
Thames Valley -26 2 £500 -18.70% 5
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 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Wireshark
2 4 (30.77%) FTP
3 3 (23.08%) Network Security
4 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.69%) DNS
5 1 (7.69%) Firewall
5 1 (7.69%) Internet
5 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Fiddler
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Postman
1 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Technical Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Technical Support
1 5 (38.46%) Technical Support Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Support
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) REST
1 5 (38.46%) SOAP
2 3 (23.08%) JSON
3 2 (15.38%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (15.38%) WebSockets
4 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth
4 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) BYOD
1 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Unix
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Incident Management
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Escalation Management
2 4 (30.77%) OO
2 4 (30.77%) OOP
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (23.08%) Data Flow Diagram
3 3 (23.08%) Due Diligence
3 3 (23.08%) Information Governance
3 3 (23.08%) Information Security
3 3 (23.08%) ISMS
3 3 (23.08%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (23.08%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Security Operations
3 3 (23.08%) Security Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) C
3 2 (15.38%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CISM
1 3 (23.08%) CISSP
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (23.08%) NIST
1 3 (23.08%) PCI DSS
1 3 (23.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) NDS
2 1 (7.69%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Kibana
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) NetIQ
1 1 (7.69%) OpenText
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
1 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk