HTTP Contract Job Trends in South London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring HTTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing HTTP 10 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in South London 4.76% - 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.74% - 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £523
25th Percentile - - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.05%
75th Percentile - - £594
90th Percentile - - £598
London median daily rate £500 £544 £575
% change year-on-year -8.05% -5.43% -2.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 46 21 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 21.90% 9.17% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 14 43
10th Percentile - £190 £192
25th Percentile £413 £358 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -20.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £578 £516 £638
90th Percentile £611 £538 £675
London median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £83.25
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

HTTP job vacancy trend in South London

HTTP
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing HTTP

HTTP
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing HTTP

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Croydon - 10 £475 -
HTTP
London

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 10 (100.00%) Confluence
1 10 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 10 (100.00%) Route 53
1 10 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) FTP
1 10 (100.00%) IMAP
1 10 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (100.00%) SMTP
1 10 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Git
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (100.00%) JIRA
1 10 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 10 (100.00%) VMS
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Change Management
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 10 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 10 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Groovy
1 10 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 10 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
1 10 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 10 (100.00%) Postfix
1 10 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Grafana
1 10 (100.00%) Nessus
1 10 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 10 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (100.00%) ServiceNow