HTTP Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring HTTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 43 46
Rank change year-on-year -43 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing HTTP 5 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.65% 0.30% 2.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.00% 1.47% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - £355
25th Percentile - - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £700 £750 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 100 68 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 12.92% 20.48% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 40 30
10th Percentile £369 £203 £245
25th Percentile £458 £220 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £419 £430
Median % change year-on-year +24.60% -2.62% -18.10%
75th Percentile £650 £596 £623
90th Percentile £700 £694 £653
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £408 £430
% change year-on-year +10.36% -5.17% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £16.19 £22.00
% change year-on-year -4.26% -26.41% +2.33%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

HTTP job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

HTTP
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Sheffield -46 5 £700 +40.00% 1
HTTP
Yorkshire

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Akamai
2 3 (60.00%) Cloudflare
3 1 (20.00%) Apigee
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Travis CI
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) JSON
1 4 (80.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Application Security
2 3 (60.00%) OWASP
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) WFM
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CEH
1 3 (60.00%) GIAC
1 3 (60.00%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) logstash
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) F5
1 3 (60.00%) Imperva
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk