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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 323 380
Rank change year-on-year +66 +57 -22
Contract jobs citing HTTP 83 69 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.06% 2.08% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 41 45
10th Percentile £391 £350 £340
25th Percentile £464 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% -7.50% +8.40%
75th Percentile £623 £622 £600
90th Percentile £638 £645 £650
UK median daily rate £575 £515 £575
% change year-on-year +11.65% -10.43% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 0
10th Percentile £49.34 £26.15 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £27.00 -
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% +54.38%

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 2,044 3,310 3,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 15.99% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,883 2,194
10th Percentile £200 £205 £210
25th Percentile £313 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% +1.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £637 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 355 304
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £15.33 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £30.00 £45.88 £18.22
Median % change year-on-year -34.61% +151.88% -15.28%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.22 £70.66 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +116.22% -32.73%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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
South East +63 18 £500 -11.50% 24
South West +49 16 £615 +15.38% 18
East of England +40 16 £600 +71.43% 19
North of England +5 16 £471 -7.06% 18
Midlands +30 14 £368 - 23
West Midlands +24 9 £463 - 14
North West +9 9 £475 +2.70% 9
Yorkshire +14 7 £370 -40.66% 7
East Midlands - 5 £358 - 9
Wales +6 3 £458 - 3
Northern Ireland -13 2 - - 4
Scotland 0 1 £588 +33.52% 5
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 5 (6.02%) Confluence
1 5 (6.02%) NetWeaver
2 3 (3.61%) IIS
2 3 (3.61%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (3.61%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.20%) Apache
3 1 (1.20%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.20%) CMS
3 1 (1.20%) SAS
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.96%) AWS
2 28 (33.73%) Azure
3 15 (18.07%) OpenShift
4 11 (13.25%) GCP
5 9 (10.84%) SaaS
6 6 (7.23%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (6.02%) npm
8 3 (3.61%) PaaS
9 2 (2.41%) Figma
9 2 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.20%) Akamai
10 1 (1.20%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.20%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (1.20%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.20%) GitHub
10 1 (1.20%) IaaS
10 1 (1.20%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 39 (46.99%) DNS
2 25 (30.12%) SSL
3 22 (26.51%) DHCP
3 22 (26.51%) TCP/IP
4 16 (19.28%) FTP
5 15 (18.07%) SMTP
6 14 (16.87%) Network Security
7 7 (8.43%) Firewall
8 6 (7.23%) HTTPS
9 4 (4.82%) SNMP
9 4 (4.82%) VLAN
10 3 (3.61%) BGP
10 3 (3.61%) Internet
10 3 (3.61%) IPsec
10 3 (3.61%) OSPF
10 3 (3.61%) Software-Defined Radio
10 3 (3.61%) Wireless
11 2 (2.41%) EIGRP
11 2 (2.41%) SAN
11 2 (2.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) MySQL
1 6 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.82%) Oracle Database
2 4 (4.82%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.61%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.41%) DB2
4 2 (2.41%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.20%) Power BI
5 1 (1.20%) Power Query
5 1 (1.20%) Sisense
5 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (16.87%) Git
2 13 (15.66%) JIRA
3 9 (10.84%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.43%) GitLab
5 3 (3.61%) GoogleTest
5 3 (3.61%) Robot Framework
5 3 (3.61%) webpack
6 2 (2.41%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (2.41%) Introscope
6 2 (2.41%) JUnit
6 2 (2.41%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.41%) Maven
6 2 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.41%) UI Automator
7 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.20%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.20%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.20%) REST Assured
General
1 22 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.82%) Finance
3 4 (4.82%) Law
3 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.61%) Banking
4 3 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (3.61%) Retail
4 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.41%) Automotive
5 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.20%) Aviation
6 1 (1.20%) French Language
6 1 (1.20%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.20%) Military
6 1 (1.20%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (22.89%) Developer
2 14 (16.87%) Analyst
3 12 (14.46%) SOC Analyst
4 9 (10.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Architect
6 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Integration Developer
6 7 (8.43%) SAP Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Test Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Angular Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Senior
10 3 (3.61%) ForgeRock Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow Architect
10 3 (3.61%) Software Test Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Telecoms Architect
11 2 (2.41%) LDAP Engineer
11 2 (2.41%) UI/UX Developer
11 2 (2.41%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.71%) REST
2 19 (22.89%) HTML
3 18 (21.69%) LDAP
4 17 (20.48%) XML
5 16 (19.28%) CSS
6 15 (18.07%) Web Services
7 14 (16.87%) SOAP
8 10 (12.05%) XSLT
9 9 (10.84%) AngularJS
9 9 (10.84%) EDI
10 8 (9.64%) IDoc
10 8 (9.64%) JDBC
10 8 (9.64%) RESTful
11 7 (8.43%) Middleware
12 6 (7.23%) Ajax
13 5 (6.02%) J2EE
13 5 (6.02%) JMS
13 5 (6.02%) React
13 5 (6.02%) SAP PI
14 4 (4.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.46%) Cyber Threat
1 12 (14.46%) Cyberattack
2 10 (12.05%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (12.05%) Management Information System
2 10 (12.05%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (9.64%) CSOC
4 5 (6.02%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (6.02%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.82%) CMDB
6 3 (3.61%) PKI
6 3 (3.61%) Replication
6 3 (3.61%) State Machine
7 2 (2.41%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.41%) Infotainment
7 2 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (38.55%) Linux
2 23 (27.71%) Windows
3 18 (21.69%) Windows Server
4 16 (19.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (8.43%) Unix
6 2 (2.41%) AIX
6 2 (2.41%) CentOS
6 2 (2.41%) Debian
6 2 (2.41%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.20%) VMS
7 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.20%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.92%) Containerisation
2 22 (26.51%) Agile
3 17 (20.48%) Scrum
4 16 (19.28%) Service Management
5 14 (16.87%) CI/CD
6 13 (15.66%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (14.46%) Threat Detection
8 11 (13.25%) Configuration Management
8 11 (13.25%) DevOps
8 11 (13.25%) Network Packet Capture
9 10 (12.05%) Incident Management
9 10 (12.05%) Information Management
9 10 (12.05%) Information Security
10 9 (10.84%) Microservices
10 9 (10.84%) SDLC
10 9 (10.84%) Security Operations
10 9 (10.84%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (9.64%) Analytics
11 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 33 (39.76%) Java
1 33 (39.76%) Python
2 19 (22.89%) Bash
2 19 (22.89%) PowerShell
3 16 (19.28%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.64%) ABAP
5 7 (8.43%) SQL
6 4 (4.82%) Groovy
6 4 (4.82%) Perl
7 3 (3.61%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.61%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.41%) C
8 2 (2.41%) Korn
9 1 (1.20%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.20%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.20%) C++
9 1 (1.20%) COBOL
9 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.20%) XPath
Qualifications
1 30 (36.14%) Security Cleared
2 23 (27.71%) DV Cleared
3 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.61%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.41%) CCNP
6 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.20%) CCDP
6 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.20%) Degree
6 1 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.41%) QA
1 2 (2.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (33.73%) Docker
2 16 (19.28%) Hyper-V
2 16 (19.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.41%) Firmware
4 2 (2.41%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.20%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 27 (32.53%) Kubernetes
2 20 (24.10%) Terraform
3 17 (20.48%) Puppet
4 16 (19.28%) Ansible
5 2 (2.41%) CA Wily
5 2 (2.41%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.41%) Nagios
5 2 (2.41%) Nessus
5 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.41%) SCCM
5 2 (2.41%) WSUS
6 1 (1.20%) Grafana
6 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (24.10%) VMware
2 15 (18.07%) Red Hat
3 9 (10.84%) SAP
4 7 (8.43%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.43%) Oracle
5 6 (7.23%) ServiceNow
6 5 (6.02%) Arista
6 5 (6.02%) Cisco
6 5 (6.02%) Google
7 4 (4.82%) ForgeRock
7 4 (4.82%) Juniper
7 4 (4.82%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.61%) F5
8 3 (3.61%) Splunk
9 2 (2.41%) Ab Initio
9 2 (2.41%) AppDynamics
9 2 (2.41%) Blue Coat
9 2 (2.41%) Sophos
9 2 (2.41%) Symantec
9 2 (2.41%) Zscaler