HTTP Contracts

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 378 427
Rank change year-on-year +59 +49 -24
Contract jobs citing HTTP 213 228 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 0.52% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.70% 4.04% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 146 219
10th Percentile £381 £313 £400
25th Percentile £454 £372 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £704 £624 £650
90th Percentile £838 £650 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +27.78% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 6
10th Percentile £45.75 £25.73 £50.52
25th Percentile £54.38 £41.16 £67.13
Median hourly rate £80.68 £45.88 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.84% -38.83% +52.87%
75th Percentile £81.35 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £82.10 - £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.68 £45.88 -
% change year-on-year +75.84% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HTTP.

Daily rate trend for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HTTP.

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTTP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +53 170 £573 +14.50% 182
Work from Home +78 105 £555 +20.00% 86
London +9 86 £550 +4.76% 86
UK excluding London +58 82 £575 +27.78% 105
North of England +22 19 £472 +2.05% 26
East of England +40 18 £600 +71.43% 21
South West +54 16 £615 +8.13% 7
South East +50 16 £500 -11.50% 32
Yorkshire +16 10 £750 +20.29% 8
North West +5 9 £466 +33.14% 15
Midlands +30 8 £391 - 14
West Midlands +21 6 £450 - 7
Wales +7 3 £458 - 1
Scotland -5 3 £500 -13.68% 11
East Midlands +11 2 £326 - 7

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (9.86%) Confluence
2 9 (4.23%) IIS
2 9 (4.23%) nginx
3 7 (3.29%) NetWeaver
4 6 (2.82%) Apache
5 5 (2.35%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.88%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.41%) CMS
7 3 (1.41%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.47%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.76%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) assyst
1 2 (0.94%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 91 (42.72%) AWS
2 79 (37.09%) Azure
3 39 (18.31%) AWS CloudFormation
4 33 (15.49%) GCP
5 25 (11.74%) SaaS
6 22 (10.33%) PaaS
7 20 (9.39%) IaaS
8 19 (8.92%) OpenShift
9 18 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (8.45%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (7.51%) GitHub
11 13 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (6.10%) Serverless
12 12 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.69%) npm
13 10 (4.69%) Slack
14 9 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (3.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 87 (40.85%) DNS
2 76 (35.68%) TCP/IP
3 44 (20.66%) DHCP
4 39 (18.31%) Firewall
5 37 (17.37%) SMTP
5 37 (17.37%) SSL
6 36 (16.90%) HTTPS
7 25 (11.74%) FTP
8 21 (9.86%) BGP
9 20 (9.39%) OSPF
10 19 (8.92%) Network Security
11 10 (4.69%) VPN
12 8 (3.76%) Internet
13 7 (3.29%) SNMP
14 6 (2.82%) POP3
15 5 (2.35%) Reverse Proxy
16 4 (1.88%) VLAN
17 3 (1.41%) Software-Defined Radio
18 2 (0.94%) MQTT
18 2 (0.94%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.98%) MySQL
3 15 (7.04%) MongoDB
4 12 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (5.63%) Relational Database
5 11 (5.16%) DynamoDB
6 10 (4.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 9 (4.23%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (4.23%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.35%) Apache Hive
8 5 (2.35%) Apache Iceberg
8 5 (2.35%) Hadoop
8 5 (2.35%) Parquet
8 5 (2.35%) Presto
9 4 (1.88%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.88%) Power BI
9 4 (1.88%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.41%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database 10g
11 2 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (16.90%) Git
2 32 (15.02%) JIRA
3 27 (12.68%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.57%) GitLab
5 12 (5.63%) JUnit
6 10 (4.69%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.69%) Jasmine
7 9 (4.23%) webpack
8 6 (2.82%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.35%) git-flow
9 5 (2.35%) Poetry
10 4 (1.88%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.41%) Ant
11 3 (1.41%) GoogleTest
11 3 (1.41%) LoadRunner
11 3 (1.41%) Maven
11 3 (1.41%) Mocha
11 3 (1.41%) Postman
11 3 (1.41%) Robot Framework
11 3 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (18.31%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (10.33%) Finance
4 20 (9.39%) Banking
5 8 (3.76%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.35%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.88%) Law
9 3 (1.41%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.94%) Automotive
10 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.94%) Legal
11 1 (0.47%) Advertising
11 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.47%) Aviation
11 1 (0.47%) Front Office
11 1 (0.47%) Marketing
11 1 (0.47%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (28.17%) Developer
2 36 (16.90%) Architect
3 25 (11.74%) Analyst
3 25 (11.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (10.80%) Senior
5 20 (9.39%) Technical Architect
6 18 (8.45%) Cloud Architect
6 18 (8.45%) Cloud Native Architect
7 17 (7.98%) SOC Analyst
8 13 (6.10%) Integration Developer
9 12 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (5.16%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (5.16%) Security Architect
11 10 (4.69%) AWS Architect
11 10 (4.69%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.69%) Lead
12 9 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Network Security Architect
12 9 (4.23%) SAP Developer
12 9 (4.23%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (26.29%) REST
2 38 (17.84%) SOAP
3 36 (16.90%) HTML
4 33 (15.49%) CSS
5 31 (14.55%) LDAP
6 26 (12.21%) XML
7 25 (11.74%) Web Services
8 24 (11.27%) RESTful
9 20 (9.39%) JSON
10 19 (8.92%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (8.92%) React
11 18 (8.45%) OpenAPI
11 18 (8.45%) Swagger
12 17 (7.98%) AngularJS
13 16 (7.51%) .NET
13 16 (7.51%) Node.js
14 14 (6.57%) EDI
15 13 (6.10%) Middleware
15 13 (6.10%) OAuth
15 13 (6.10%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.98%) Cyberattack
3 14 (6.57%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (6.57%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (6.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 11 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (4.69%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.76%) CMDB
7 8 (3.76%) CSOC
7 8 (3.76%) Virtual Team
8 7 (3.29%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (2.82%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.35%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.88%) PKI
12 3 (1.41%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.41%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (1.41%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 75 (35.21%) Linux
2 39 (18.31%) Windows
3 27 (12.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (10.80%) Windows Server
5 18 (8.45%) Unix
6 5 (2.35%) AIX
6 5 (2.35%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.88%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.41%) CentOS
8 3 (1.41%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.94%) Debian
9 2 (0.94%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.47%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (28.64%) DevOps
2 51 (23.94%) Test Automation
3 49 (23.00%) Agile
3 49 (23.00%) CI/CD
4 46 (21.60%) Containerisation
5 41 (19.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (14.08%) Microservices
7 27 (12.68%) Scrum
8 26 (12.21%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (11.74%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (10.80%) High Availability
12 22 (10.33%) Configuration Management
12 22 (10.33%) SDLC
12 22 (10.33%) Security Operations
13 21 (9.86%) Incident Response
14 20 (9.39%) Sprint Planning
15 19 (8.92%) SIEM
16 18 (8.45%) Mentoring
16 18 (8.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (33.33%) Python
2 63 (29.58%) Java
3 50 (23.47%) JavaScript
4 36 (16.90%) PowerShell
4 36 (16.90%) SQL
5 33 (15.49%) Bash
6 21 (9.86%) Bicep
7 14 (6.57%) TypeScript
8 13 (6.10%) Groovy
9 12 (5.63%) ABAP
9 12 (5.63%) C#
10 11 (5.16%) Shell Script
11 8 (3.76%) Perl
12 6 (2.82%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (2.35%) Go
13 5 (2.35%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.41%) C++
14 3 (1.41%) Korn
14 3 (1.41%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.94%) C
Qualifications
1 58 (27.23%) Security Cleared
2 37 (17.37%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.08%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.57%) Degree
5 10 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.29%) CEH
7 6 (2.82%) CISSP
8 4 (1.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.88%) CCNP
9 3 (1.41%) CCNA
9 3 (1.41%) CCSP
9 3 (1.41%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.41%) GCIH
9 3 (1.41%) OSCP
9 3 (1.41%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.94%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.88%) Accessibility
1 4 (1.88%) GDPR
1 4 (1.88%) HIPAA
2 2 (0.94%) NIST
2 2 (0.94%) NIST 800
2 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.94%) SEPA
3 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.47%) QA
3 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (28.17%) Docker
2 19 (8.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (7.51%) Hyper-V
4 12 (5.63%) Active Directory
5 6 (2.82%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (2.82%) OpenAM
5 6 (2.82%) OpenDJ
5 6 (2.82%) OpenIDM
6 2 (0.94%) Firmware
7 1 (0.47%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.47%) XenApp
7 1 (0.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (30.05%) Kubernetes
2 58 (27.23%) Terraform
3 35 (16.43%) Ansible
4 27 (12.68%) Puppet
5 15 (7.04%) Grafana
6 13 (6.10%) Progress Chef
7 12 (5.63%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.82%) SCCM
8 6 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.82%) WSUS
9 2 (0.94%) CA Wily
9 2 (0.94%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.94%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.94%) Nessus
10 1 (0.47%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.47%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.47%) Packer
10 1 (0.47%) Rancher
10 1 (0.47%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (12.21%) Red Hat
1 26 (12.21%) VMware
2 24 (11.27%) Cisco
3 20 (9.39%) Fortinet
4 19 (8.92%) Palo Alto
5 18 (8.45%) CheckPoint
5 18 (8.45%) Microsoft
6 16 (7.51%) ServiceNow
7 13 (6.10%) SAP
7 13 (6.10%) Splunk
8 11 (5.16%) ForgeRock
8 11 (5.16%) Google
9 7 (3.29%) Oracle
10 6 (2.82%) AppDynamics
11 5 (2.35%) Darktrace
11 5 (2.35%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.88%) Arista
12 4 (1.88%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.88%) IBM
12 4 (1.88%) Symantec