HTTP Contract Job Trends in the South West

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring HTTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 123 148
Rank change year-on-year +10 +25 +23
Contract jobs citing HTTP 6 14 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.30% 0.56% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.32% 3.97% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 3
10th Percentile £314 £455 -
25th Percentile £324 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £515 £400
Median % change year-on-year -34.95% +28.75% -
75th Percentile £365 £533 £556
90th Percentile £443 £540 £650
England median daily rate £475 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -10.88% -3.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £61.25 £50.25 £68.50
% change year-on-year +21.89% -26.64% +29.73%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 259 353 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.02% 14.06% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 204 266
10th Percentile £225 £332 £229
25th Percentile £275 £448 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £656 £675 £716
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 23 71
10th Percentile £26.70 £11.90 £46.25
25th Percentile £40.07 £64.38 £48.32
Median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +15.06% -5.35%
75th Percentile £64.63 £73.13 £65.98
90th Percentile £64.85 £75.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.87% +1.79% +35.31%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

HTTP job vacancy trend in the South West

HTTP
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing HTTP

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the South West over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the South West

HTTP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing HTTP

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Bristol +5 6 £335 -37.15% 2
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
1 6 (100.00%) React
1 6 (100.00%) SOAP
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) XSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) OOP
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Blue Prism
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) ServiceNow