HTTP Contracts in the Thames Valley

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring HTTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HTTP over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 121 137
Rank change year-on-year +18 +16 +11
DemandTrendContract jobs citing HTTP 9 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.54% 0.090% 0.072%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.59% 0.54% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £334 -
25th Percentile - £347 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £388 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% - -
75th Percentile £488 £422 -
90th Percentile £495 £431 -
South East median daily rate £488 £350 £288
% change year-on-year +39.29% +21.63% -47.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.85 - -
Median hourly rate £21.90 - -
75th Percentile £22.95 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year +100.89% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 251 371 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.05% 16.61% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 180 309
10th Percentile £293 £281 £205
25th Percentile £375 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +4.05% +0.12%
75th Percentile £546 £608 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £653
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £457
% change year-on-year - +9.36% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 20
10th Percentile - £39.42 £16.93
25th Percentile £14.20 £62.81 £18.50
Median hourly rate £21.90 £75.24 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.89% +14.00% +288.24%
75th Percentile £89.63 £87.46 £75.67
90th Percentile - - £76.19
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.91
% change year-on-year -4.10% -2.64% +32.37%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the Thames Valley

HTTP
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing HTTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing HTTP

HTTP
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing HTTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing HTTP

HTTP
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +19 4 £500 +29.03% 3
Buckinghamshire - 4 £475 - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
HTTP
South East

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SAS
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) SaaS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) Figma
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Power Query
2 1 (11.11%) Sisense
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) UI Automator
2 1 (11.11%) Eclipse
2 1 (11.11%) Fiddler
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) French Language
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) German Language
3 1 (11.11%) Italian Language
3 1 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Spanish Language
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Technical Support
1 3 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (22.22%) UI Developer
2 2 (22.22%) UI/UX Developer
2 2 (22.22%) UX Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) HTML
1 4 (44.44%) XML
2 3 (33.33%) Ajax
2 3 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
3 2 (22.22%) JSON
3 2 (22.22%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (22.22%) React
3 2 (22.22%) Semantic HTML
3 2 (22.22%) Vue
4 1 (11.11%) .NET
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 1 (11.11%) JSP
4 1 (11.11%) MDX
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (11.11%) OAuth
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) SOAP
4 1 (11.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) CMDB
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 3 (33.33%) Customer Experience
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (22.22%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) User Experience
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (11.11%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Korn
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 2 (22.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Ab Initio
1 2 (22.22%) Google
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow