HTTP Contracts in the UK excluding London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 370 356
Rank change year-on-year +53 -14 -65
Contract jobs citing HTTP 78 82 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.34% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.23% 2.26% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 64 103
10th Percentile £313 £372 £325
25th Percentile £350 £449 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £625 £591 £540
90th Percentile £658 £650 £603
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £25.73 - £49.84
25th Percentile £41.16 - £50.28
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £52.27
75th Percentile £85.00 - £55.51
90th Percentile - - £56.70
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £49.06
% change year-on-year -38.83% +52.87% -6.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,498 3,633 4,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.83% 15.01% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,013 2,310 2,661
10th Percentile £203 £209 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +9.70% +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £540
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 338 239
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £9.80 £15.63
Median hourly rate £46.95 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +153.76% -13.95% -11.34%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.54 £47.40
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £59.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year +110.53% -32.74% +6.89%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 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
North of England +24 25 £463 -7.50% 4
Scotland +43 17 £579 +10.33% 3
North West +11 15 £350 -30.00% 1
East of England +21 11 £350 -6.67% 3
Yorkshire +17 9 £624 +18.76% 3
South East +12 9 £565 +27.32% 15
South West +14 7 £569 -15.74% 8
Northern Ireland +9 6 - - 7
Midlands +35 2 - - 9
West Midlands +28 1 - - 7
Wales +10 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £450 -
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
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 16 (20.51%) Apache
2 13 (16.67%) IIS
2 13 (16.67%) Tomcat
3 6 (7.69%) Confluence
4 5 (6.41%) IBM HTTP Server
4 5 (6.41%) SharePoint
4 5 (6.41%) WebSphere
4 5 (6.41%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (6.41%) WebSphere Portal
5 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (3.85%) CMS
6 3 (3.85%) Skype for Business
7 1 (1.28%) MQSeries
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 14 (17.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.28%) InfoPath
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.82%) GCP
2 9 (11.54%) AWS
3 8 (10.26%) Azure
4 7 (8.97%) GitHub
5 6 (7.69%) Apigee
5 6 (7.69%) Kong
6 5 (6.41%) npm
6 5 (6.41%) Serverless
7 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.56%) Google App Engine
9 1 (1.28%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.28%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.28%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.28%) IaaS
9 1 (1.28%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 36 (46.15%) TCP/IP
2 17 (21.79%) SSL
3 15 (19.23%) DNS
4 13 (16.67%) H.323
5 8 (10.26%) VPN
6 7 (8.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 7 (8.97%) Firewall
6 7 (8.97%) NetScaler
7 6 (7.69%) FTP
8 5 (6.41%) SMTP
9 3 (3.85%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (3.85%) Skype
10 2 (2.56%) Internet
10 2 (2.56%) VoIP
11 1 (1.28%) 5G
11 1 (1.28%) DHCP
11 1 (1.28%) HTTPS
11 1 (1.28%) IPsec
11 1 (1.28%) SNMP
11 1 (1.28%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.41%) SQLite
3 4 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.85%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.85%) MariaDB
4 3 (3.85%) MySQL
5 1 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.28%) GIS
5 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.28%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 26 (33.33%) Git
2 21 (26.92%) Jenkins
3 14 (17.95%) JIRA
4 7 (8.97%) GitLab
5 6 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (7.69%) CircleCI
5 6 (7.69%) Travis CI
6 5 (6.41%) Checkstyle
6 5 (6.41%) IBM UrbanCode
6 5 (6.41%) SonarQube
7 4 (5.13%) Cucumber
7 4 (5.13%) Gatling
7 4 (5.13%) JMeter
7 4 (5.13%) Selenium
7 4 (5.13%) WebDriver
8 3 (3.85%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (24.36%) Telecoms
4 16 (20.51%) Finance
5 11 (14.10%) Public Sector
6 10 (12.82%) Legal
7 8 (10.26%) Banking
7 8 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (7.69%) Manufacturing
9 5 (6.41%) Electronics
9 5 (6.41%) Marketing
10 2 (2.56%) German Language
11 1 (1.28%) Automotive
11 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.28%) Publishing
11 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (19.23%) Developer
2 13 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 11 (14.10%) Senior
4 7 (8.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (8.97%) Technical Support
5 6 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.41%) Middleware Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Senior Middleware Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Avaya Specialist
7 4 (5.13%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Python Developer
7 4 (5.13%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Support Specialist
7 4 (5.13%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Analyst
8 3 (3.85%) Security Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) SOC Analyst
8 3 (3.85%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (24.36%) REST
2 18 (23.08%) XML
3 12 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 12 (15.38%) JSON
4 11 (14.10%) RESTful
5 8 (10.26%) CSS
5 8 (10.26%) Kafka
6 7 (8.97%) LDAP
7 6 (7.69%) .NET
7 6 (7.69%) .NET Core
7 6 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (7.69%) YAML
8 5 (6.41%) .NET Framework
8 5 (6.41%) J2EE
8 5 (6.41%) Middleware
8 5 (6.41%) Twisted
8 5 (6.41%) Web Services
9 4 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (5.13%) HTML
10 3 (3.85%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.67%) IVR
2 11 (14.10%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.85%) Cyberattack
4 3 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (37.18%) Linux
2 19 (24.36%) Windows
3 15 (19.23%) Unix
4 13 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.13%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.28%) Solaris
6 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (32.05%) Agile
2 17 (21.79%) Software Engineering
3 16 (20.51%) CI/CD
3 16 (20.51%) DevOps
4 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (15.38%) Change Management
5 12 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (15.38%) Proactive Maintenance
6 10 (12.82%) ITIL
6 10 (12.82%) WFM
6 10 (12.82%) Workforce Optimisation
7 9 (11.54%) API Development
7 9 (11.54%) API Integration
7 9 (11.54%) Capacity Management
7 9 (11.54%) DevSecOps
7 9 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (11.54%) Test Automation
8 8 (10.26%) Containerisation
8 8 (10.26%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.92%) Python
2 20 (25.64%) Java
3 15 (19.23%) Bash
3 15 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 9 (11.54%) Perl
5 8 (10.26%) PowerShell
6 7 (8.97%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.69%) C#
7 6 (7.69%) Scala
8 5 (6.41%) Shell Script
9 4 (5.13%) Groovy
10 3 (3.85%) PHP
10 3 (3.85%) SQL
11 2 (2.56%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 19 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.41%) Degree
4 4 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.56%) HND
5 2 (2.56%) MCSD
5 2 (2.56%) MCSE
5 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.69%) QA
2 3 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.28%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (11.54%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.28%) Samba
3 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.97%) Grafana
2 7 (8.97%) Prometheus
2 7 (8.97%) Terraform
3 6 (7.69%) Ansible
3 6 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (7.69%) Kibana
3 6 (7.69%) logstash
3 6 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 6 (7.69%) Puppet
4 2 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 25 (32.05%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.95%) Red Hat
3 13 (16.67%) Avaya
4 10 (12.82%) Verint
5 9 (11.54%) Splunk
6 7 (8.97%) F5
6 7 (8.97%) IBM
6 7 (8.97%) SAP
7 4 (5.13%) Oracle
8 3 (3.85%) Darktrace
8 3 (3.85%) FireEye
8 3 (3.85%) Google
8 3 (3.85%) IronPort
8 3 (3.85%) LogRhythm
8 3 (3.85%) Symantec
9 2 (2.56%) Nokia
10 1 (1.28%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.28%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.28%) Mapinfo
10 1 (1.28%) VMware