HTTP Contracts in the South West

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for HTTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HTTP over the 6 months to 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 166 163
Rank change year-on-year +25 -3 -42
Contract jobs citing HTTP 6 12 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.19% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.12% 1.85% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 11
10th Percentile £496 £543 -
25th Percentile £517 £600 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £700 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +55.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £630 - £477
90th Percentile £657 - £488
England median daily rate £473 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -17.83% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -38.83% +54.38% -2.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

HTTP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 538 649 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.87% 17.61% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 420 313
10th Percentile £273 £206 £215
25th Percentile £460 £397 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £540
90th Percentile £724 £713 £618
England median daily rate £481 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -8.46% +4.98% +15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 129 33
10th Percentile £12.50 - £41.09
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +7.57%
75th Percentile £70.66 £62.55 £68.30
90th Percentile £79.40 £77.50 £69.05
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the South West

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HTTP in the South West.

Daily rate trend for HTTP in the South West

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the South West over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HTTP in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in the South West

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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 17 April 2024. 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 +19 5 £650 - 6
Dorset - 1 £488 -
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) 4G
2 1 (16.67%) 5G
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) FTP
2 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (16.67%) IPsec
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) SIGTRAN
2 1 (16.67%) SS7
2 1 (16.67%) tcpdump
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (66.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Checkstyle
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) XML
2 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Core
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 4 (66.67%) JSON
2 4 (66.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) LDAP
3 1 (16.67%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) OO
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) HND
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Samba
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Nokia
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) VMware