HTTP Contract Job Trends in Surrey

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring HTTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing HTTP 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.02% - 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.34% - 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £204 - -
25th Percentile £223 - £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £205
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.07%
75th Percentile £319 - £208
90th Percentile £392 - -
South East median daily rate £455 £500 £449
% change year-on-year -9.00% +11.42% +36.92%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 58 49 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 9.86% 16.96% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 38 81
10th Percentile £306 £236 £184
25th Percentile £463 £284 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £405
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% +17.28% -14.74%
75th Percentile £563 £505 £525
90th Percentile - £538 £663
South East median daily rate £525 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% +6.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £50.87 - -
25th Percentile £52.18 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £58.74 £28.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.77% +60.00% -61.11%
75th Percentile £65.29 £32.77 £40.63
90th Percentile £66.60 £55.20 £53.75
South East median hourly rate £42.25 £55.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -23.18% -4.10% -0.26%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

HTTP job vacancy trend in Surrey

HTTP
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing HTTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing HTTP

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in Surrey over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in Surrey

HTTP
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing HTTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing HTTP

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Staines - 3 £313 -
HTTP
South East

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (16.67%) Boomi
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) FTP
1 2 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Gatling
1 3 (50.00%) JMeter
1 3 (50.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Tester
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Performance Tester
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Tester
1 3 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) REST
1 3 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (16.67%) EDI
2 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) JWT
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) SAML
2 1 (16.67%) Swagger
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
1 3 (50.00%) Runbook
1 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Escalation Management
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) OOP
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) API Design
3 1 (16.67%) API Management
3 1 (16.67%) Batch Processing
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) TIBCO
2 1 (16.67%) WSO2