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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 135 200
Rank change year-on-year -51 +65 +18
Contract jobs citing HTTP 18 20 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.32% 0.67% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.48% 3.82% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 2
10th Percentile £243 - £485
25th Percentile £305 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% -7.27% +23.94%
75th Percentile £569 £608 £600
90th Percentile - £656 £615
England median daily rate £500 £570 £463
% change year-on-year -12.28% +23.24% -19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £23.18
25th Percentile - £20.85 £23.81
Median hourly rate - £21.90 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year - -14.95% -
75th Percentile - £22.95 £27.81
90th Percentile - - £28.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £45.88
% change year-on-year -19.43% +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 725 523 1,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.99% 17.53% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 314 634
10th Percentile £262 £211 £205
25th Percentile £406 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +4.74% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £570
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 29 127
10th Percentile £16.06 £14.20 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.32 £20.85 £24.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -38.97% +27.44%
75th Percentile £56.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.78 £72.00 £85.65
England median hourly rate £42.38 £35.75 £38.00
% change year-on-year +18.53% -5.92% +100.37%

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 April 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 April 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 -29 9 £563 +12.50%
Surrey - 6 £300 - 2
Berkshire -32 2 - -
Thames Valley -53 2 - -
West Sussex - 1 £300 -
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 (11.11%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (11.11%) WebSphere
1 2 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (11.11%) WebSphere Portal
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Network Security
2 3 (16.67%) DNS
2 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.11%) Firewall
3 2 (11.11%) FTP
3 2 (11.11%) SSL
3 2 (11.11%) Wireshark
4 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Gatling
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
1 3 (16.67%) JMeter
1 3 (16.67%) LoadRunner
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) Introscope
3 1 (5.56%) Postman
3 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Security Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Performance Tester
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Performance Tester
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Tester
3 3 (16.67%) Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Middleware Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Middleware Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Support
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Support
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) JSON
1 4 (22.22%) REST
2 3 (16.67%) SOAP
3 2 (11.11%) JDBC
3 2 (11.11%) JMS
3 2 (11.11%) Kafka
3 2 (11.11%) Middleware
3 2 (11.11%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (11.11%) WebSockets
3 2 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.56%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) Spring
4 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) BYOD
1 6 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.11%) Clustering
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Unix
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (11.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Agile
2 8 (44.44%) Incident Management
2 8 (44.44%) Security Management
3 6 (33.33%) Application Security
3 6 (33.33%) Change Management
3 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (33.33%) Data Flow Diagram
3 6 (33.33%) Due Diligence
3 6 (33.33%) Information Governance
3 6 (33.33%) Information Security
3 6 (33.33%) Information Security Management
3 6 (33.33%) ISMS
3 6 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 6 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 6 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
3 6 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 6 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 6 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 6 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) C
3 2 (11.11%) C++
3 2 (11.11%) Jython
3 2 (11.11%) Perl
3 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) CISM
1 6 (33.33%) CISSP
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) GDPR
1 6 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (33.33%) NIST
1 6 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 6 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Grafana
1 4 (22.22%) Kibana
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) CA Wily
3 2 (11.11%) Tivoli
4 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Puppet
4 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) AppDynamics
2 3 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk