HTTP Contracts in the UK excluding London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 322 371
Rank change year-on-year +68 +49 -24
Contract jobs citing HTTP 85 77 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.37% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.31% 2.23% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 47 57
10th Percentile £433 £313 £363
25th Percentile £475 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £624 £625 £550
90th Percentile £753 £660 £650
UK median daily rate £575 £494 £575
% change year-on-year +16.46% -14.13% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 0
10th Percentile £49.34 £25.73 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £41.16 -
Median hourly rate £80.68 £45.88 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.84% - -
75th Percentile £81.35 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £82.29 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.68 £45.88 £75.00
% change year-on-year +75.84% -38.83% +52.87%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,973 3,448 3,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 16.62% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,978 2,282
10th Percentile £200 £203 £210
25th Percentile £305 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £584
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £518
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.39% +3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 360 327
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.48 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £30.04 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -24.90% +110.53% -32.74%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HTTP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HTTP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
North of England +20 22 £475 +2.70% 24
South East +56 19 £500 -11.50% 42
East of England +36 17 £600 +77.78% 26
South West +52 16 £615 +8.13% 8
North West +10 11 £475 +35.71% 15
Yorkshire +9 11 £750 +20.29% 6
Midlands +25 8 £391 - 12
West Midlands +20 6 £450 - 4
Wales +6 3 £458 - 1
Scotland -1 3 £500 -13.68% 7
East Midlands +15 2 £326 - 8
HTTP
UK

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (9.41%) Confluence
2 6 (7.06%) IIS
2 6 (7.06%) NetWeaver
3 3 (3.53%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.35%) CMS
5 1 (1.18%) Apache
5 1 (1.18%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.18%) SAS
5 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (36.47%) AWS
2 26 (30.59%) Azure
3 17 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 9 (10.59%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (10.59%) SaaS
5 7 (8.24%) GCP
6 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (5.88%) npm
7 5 (5.88%) Slack
8 3 (3.53%) PaaS
9 2 (2.35%) Figma
10 1 (1.18%) Akamai
10 1 (1.18%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.18%) GitHub
10 1 (1.18%) IaaS
10 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (43.53%) DNS
2 24 (28.24%) SSL
3 20 (23.53%) DHCP
3 20 (23.53%) TCP/IP
4 17 (20.00%) FTP
5 15 (17.65%) SMTP
6 14 (16.47%) Network Security
7 6 (7.06%) HTTPS
8 4 (4.71%) SNMP
9 3 (3.53%) Software-Defined Radio
10 2 (2.35%) 3G
10 2 (2.35%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (2.35%) Diameter Protocol
10 2 (2.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (2.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (2.35%) Firewall
10 2 (2.35%) MVNO
10 2 (2.35%) NX-OS
10 2 (2.35%) SAN
10 2 (2.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.41%) MySQL
2 7 (8.24%) MongoDB
2 7 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.35%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.18%) Power BI
6 1 (1.18%) Power Query
6 1 (1.18%) Sisense
6 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (17.65%) JIRA
2 14 (16.47%) Git
3 6 (7.06%) JUnit
4 5 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 5 (5.88%) GitLab
4 5 (5.88%) Jasmine
4 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.53%) GoogleTest
5 3 (3.53%) Robot Framework
5 3 (3.53%) webpack
6 2 (2.35%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (2.35%) Introscope
6 2 (2.35%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.35%) Maven
6 2 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.35%) UI Automator
7 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.18%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.18%) REST Assured
General
1 25 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.88%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.71%) Law
5 3 (3.53%) Banking
5 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Automotive
6 2 (2.35%) Finance
7 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.18%) Aviation
7 1 (1.18%) French Language
7 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.18%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.18%) Military
7 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.18%) Retail
7 1 (1.18%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 21 (24.71%) Developer
2 15 (17.65%) Analyst
3 13 (15.29%) SOC Analyst
4 9 (10.59%) Integration Developer
4 9 (10.59%) Senior
5 8 (9.41%) Architect
5 8 (9.41%) SAP Developer
6 7 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Test Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Angular Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (3.53%) ForgeRock Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow Architect
10 3 (3.53%) Software Test Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Telecoms Architect
11 2 (2.35%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (24.71%) REST
2 19 (22.35%) LDAP
2 19 (22.35%) XML
3 16 (18.82%) HTML
4 15 (17.65%) SOAP
5 13 (15.29%) CSS
6 12 (14.12%) XSLT
7 11 (12.94%) EDI
8 10 (11.76%) Web Services
9 9 (10.59%) IDoc
9 9 (10.59%) JDBC
9 9 (10.59%) RESTful
10 8 (9.41%) Middleware
11 6 (7.06%) Ajax
11 6 (7.06%) AngularJS
11 6 (7.06%) JMS
11 6 (7.06%) SAP PI
12 5 (5.88%) J2EE
12 5 (5.88%) Spring Boot
12 5 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.29%) Cyberattack
2 12 (14.12%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (12.94%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (9.41%) CSOC
5 8 (9.41%) Management Information System
6 7 (8.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (7.06%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (7.06%) Virtual Team
8 4 (4.71%) CMDB
9 3 (3.53%) PKI
10 2 (2.35%) Client/Server
10 2 (2.35%) Infotainment
10 2 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
10 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
10 2 (2.35%) Replication
10 2 (2.35%) YARA
11 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
11 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 34 (40.00%) Linux
2 26 (30.59%) Windows
3 21 (24.71%) Windows Server
4 20 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.88%) Unix
6 4 (4.71%) Windows 10
6 4 (4.71%) Windows 7
6 4 (4.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.35%) AIX
7 2 (2.35%) CentOS
7 2 (2.35%) Debian
7 2 (2.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.06%) Containerisation
2 21 (24.71%) Agile
3 16 (18.82%) Scrum
3 16 (18.82%) Service Management
4 14 (16.47%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (15.29%) CI/CD
5 13 (15.29%) Technical Leadership
6 12 (14.12%) Threat Detection
7 11 (12.94%) Configuration Management
7 11 (12.94%) Network Packet Capture
7 11 (12.94%) Test Automation
8 10 (11.76%) Incident Management
8 10 (11.76%) Information Management
8 10 (11.76%) Information Security
8 10 (11.76%) Microservices
8 10 (11.76%) SDLC
8 10 (11.76%) Security Operations
9 9 (10.59%) ITIL
10 8 (9.41%) Analytics
10 8 (9.41%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.00%) Java
2 28 (32.94%) Python
3 23 (27.06%) Bash
4 21 (24.71%) PowerShell
5 13 (15.29%) JavaScript
6 11 (12.94%) SQL
7 9 (10.59%) ABAP
8 3 (3.53%) Groovy
8 3 (3.53%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.35%) ActionScript
9 2 (2.35%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (2.35%) C
10 1 (1.18%) C++
10 1 (1.18%) COBOL
10 1 (1.18%) Perl
10 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 36 (42.35%) Security Cleared
2 26 (30.59%) DV Cleared
3 17 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.53%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.35%) CCNP
6 1 (1.18%) CCDP
6 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.18%) Degree
6 1 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (30.59%) Docker
2 16 (18.82%) Hyper-V
2 16 (18.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (2.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (32.94%) Kubernetes
2 17 (20.00%) Puppet
2 17 (20.00%) Terraform
3 16 (18.82%) Ansible
4 5 (5.88%) SCCM
4 5 (5.88%) WSUS
5 2 (2.35%) CA Wily
5 2 (2.35%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.35%) Nessus
5 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (25.88%) VMware
2 15 (17.65%) Red Hat
3 10 (11.76%) SAP
4 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.71%) ForgeRock
5 4 (4.71%) Splunk
6 3 (3.53%) Arista
6 3 (3.53%) Cisco
6 3 (3.53%) F5
6 3 (3.53%) Google
6 3 (3.53%) Symantec
7 2 (2.35%) Darktrace
7 2 (2.35%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.35%) IronPort
7 2 (2.35%) Juniper
7 2 (2.35%) Oracle
7 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.35%) Sophos
7 2 (2.35%) Zscaler