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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 365 439
Rank change year-on-year +27 +74 -21
Contract jobs citing HTTP 196 228 255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.53% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.09% 4.20% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 135 180
10th Percentile £363 £300 £400
25th Percentile £450 £409 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £585
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -14.53% +6.36%
75th Percentile £653 £614 £650
90th Percentile £838 £650 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £463 £538
% change year-on-year +8.11% -13.95% +16.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 7
10th Percentile £45.75 £26.58 £53.32
25th Percentile £54.38 £27.00 £69.75
Median hourly rate £80.68 £45.88 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.84% -38.83% +66.67%
75th Percentile £81.35 £75.22 £79.00
90th Percentile £82.10 £85.00 £84.42
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 3,854 5,424 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.42% 12.50% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,324 3,203 4,615
10th Percentile £230 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.38% +1.40%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.22% +3.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 430 433
10th Percentile £14.40 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.85 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £43.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +114.29% -27.88%
75th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £78.00 £73.30 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -34.57% +115.91% -3.30%

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 2 July 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 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Top 16 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 2 July 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 +22 155 £500 -4.76% 537
Work from Home +47 89 £550 +15.79% 224
London -1 86 £525 - 323
UK excluding London +46 72 £500 +8.11% 231
South East +54 16 £500 -5.66% 70
Midlands +19 15 £450 -40.00% 36
North of England +1 14 £475 -18.94% 50
East of England +23 12 £613 +91.41% 29
West Midlands +20 11 £475 - 26
South West +35 9 £615 +15.38% 25
North West +7 8 £475 +2.70% 34
Yorkshire -6 6 £370 -40.80% 13
East Midlands +6 4 £363 -51.60% 10
Northern Ireland -8 4 - - 5
Scotland +1 3 £525 +19.32% 18
Wales +7 2 £460 -

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 14 (7.14%) Confluence
2 6 (3.06%) NetWeaver
3 5 (2.55%) IIS
4 3 (1.53%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (1.02%) Apache
5 2 (1.02%) CMS
5 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.02%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.51%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.55%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.53%) AutoCAD
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.02%) assyst
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (45.92%) AWS
2 65 (33.16%) Azure
3 33 (16.84%) GCP
4 31 (15.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 23 (11.73%) SaaS
6 18 (9.18%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (9.18%) GitHub
7 16 (8.16%) IaaS
7 16 (8.16%) PaaS
8 13 (6.63%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (6.63%) npm
8 13 (6.63%) Serverless
9 12 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (5.10%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.59%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 78 (39.80%) DNS
2 65 (33.16%) TCP/IP
3 45 (22.96%) Firewall
4 35 (17.86%) DHCP
5 33 (16.84%) SMTP
6 32 (16.33%) HTTPS
7 30 (15.31%) SSL
8 23 (11.73%) FTP
9 21 (10.71%) BGP
10 19 (9.69%) Network Security
10 19 (9.69%) OSPF
11 18 (9.18%) Internet
12 10 (5.10%) SSH
13 8 (4.08%) VPN
14 7 (3.57%) SNMP
15 6 (3.06%) VLAN
16 4 (2.04%) IPsec
17 3 (1.53%) Software-Defined Radio
17 3 (1.53%) WAN
18 2 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.18%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.12%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.61%) DynamoDB
4 10 (5.10%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.10%) MySQL
4 10 (5.10%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.08%) Oracle Database
6 7 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.55%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.55%) Power BI
8 4 (2.04%) DB2
8 4 (2.04%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.53%) Oracle Database 10g
10 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.51%) Big Data
11 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 33 (16.84%) Git
3 29 (14.80%) JIRA
4 13 (6.63%) webpack
5 11 (5.61%) GitLab
6 5 (2.55%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.55%) Browser DevTools
6 5 (2.55%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.55%) git-flow
6 5 (2.55%) JUnit
6 5 (2.55%) Vagrant
7 4 (2.04%) Ant
7 4 (2.04%) Maven
8 3 (1.53%) GoogleTest
8 3 (1.53%) Mocha
8 3 (1.53%) Robot Framework
8 3 (1.53%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.53%) Toad
8 3 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.53%) Vite
General
1 39 (19.90%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.82%) Finance
3 22 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.67%) Banking
5 11 (5.61%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.55%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.04%) Retail
9 3 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.53%) Law
9 3 (1.53%) Marketing
10 2 (1.02%) Advertising
10 2 (1.02%) Aviation
10 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.02%) Legal
10 2 (1.02%) Military
11 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.51%) French Language
11 1 (0.51%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 58 (29.59%) Developer
2 32 (16.33%) Architect
3 23 (11.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (9.18%) Technical Architect
5 17 (8.67%) Senior
6 16 (8.16%) Cloud Architect
6 16 (8.16%) Cloud Native Architect
7 14 (7.14%) Analyst
8 12 (6.12%) Angular Developer
8 12 (6.12%) Security Architect
9 10 (5.10%) Integration Developer
10 9 (4.59%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.59%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (4.08%) AWS Architect
11 8 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.08%) Network Security Architect
11 8 (4.08%) Security Technical Architect
11 8 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.08%) SOC Analyst
12 7 (3.57%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (27.55%) REST
2 40 (20.41%) HTML
3 37 (18.88%) CSS
4 31 (15.82%) SOAP
5 27 (13.78%) AngularJS
5 27 (13.78%) Web Services
6 24 (12.24%) XML
7 22 (11.22%) LDAP
7 22 (11.22%) RESTful
8 21 (10.71%) JSON
8 21 (10.71%) React
9 15 (7.65%) .NET
10 14 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (7.14%) Middleware
10 14 (7.14%) Node.js
11 12 (6.12%) Jest
12 11 (5.61%) WebSockets
13 10 (5.10%) EDI
13 10 (5.10%) OAuth
14 9 (4.59%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.65%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.59%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (4.59%) Cyberattack
4 8 (4.08%) CMDB
4 8 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.57%) Replication
5 7 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (3.57%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.06%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (3.06%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.55%) CSOC
8 4 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.53%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 61 (31.12%) Linux
2 31 (15.82%) Windows
3 18 (9.18%) Unix
4 13 (6.63%) Windows Server
5 11 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.55%) AIX
6 5 (2.55%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (2.55%) VMS
7 3 (1.53%) CentOS
8 2 (1.02%) Debian
8 2 (1.02%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.02%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.51%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.51%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.51%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (27.55%) DevOps
2 53 (27.04%) Agile
3 44 (22.45%) Test Automation
4 40 (20.41%) CI/CD
5 37 (18.88%) Containerisation
6 35 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (14.80%) Microservices
8 27 (13.78%) Configuration Management
9 26 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (12.24%) Scrum
11 20 (10.20%) Sprint Planning
12 19 (9.69%) SDLC
13 18 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (8.16%) Cloud Security
15 15 (7.65%) Security Operations
16 14 (7.14%) API Development
16 14 (7.14%) Change Management
16 14 (7.14%) Incident Response
16 14 (7.14%) SIEM
17 13 (6.63%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 71 (36.22%) Python
2 54 (27.55%) Java
2 54 (27.55%) JavaScript
3 34 (17.35%) PowerShell
4 23 (11.73%) Bash
5 22 (11.22%) SQL
6 20 (10.20%) Perl
7 19 (9.69%) Bicep
8 15 (7.65%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.10%) C#
10 9 (4.59%) Groovy
11 8 (4.08%) Go
12 7 (3.57%) ABAP
12 7 (3.57%) Korn
12 7 (3.57%) PL/SQL
12 7 (3.57%) Shell Script
13 6 (3.06%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (2.55%) T-SQL
15 4 (2.04%) PHP
16 3 (1.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 44 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.35%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.18%) DV Cleared
4 13 (6.63%) Degree
5 11 (5.61%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (4.59%) CEH
7 8 (4.08%) CISSP
8 5 (2.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.04%) CCNP
10 2 (1.02%) CCIE
10 2 (1.02%) CCNA
10 2 (1.02%) CCSP
10 2 (1.02%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.02%) GCIH
10 2 (1.02%) OSCP
11 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.51%) CCDP
11 1 (0.51%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.06%) GDPR
1 6 (3.06%) HIPAA
2 5 (2.55%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.55%) QA
2 5 (2.55%) WCAG
3 4 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.53%) SEPA
5 2 (1.02%) NIST
5 2 (1.02%) NIST 800
System Software
1 47 (23.98%) Docker
2 10 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.08%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.55%) DFS Replication
5 4 (2.04%) OpenAM
5 4 (2.04%) OpenDJ
5 4 (2.04%) OpenIDM
6 2 (1.02%) Firmware
6 2 (1.02%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.51%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.51%) XenApp
7 1 (0.51%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (23.47%) Kubernetes
1 46 (23.47%) Terraform
2 23 (11.73%) Ansible
3 21 (10.71%) Puppet
4 19 (9.69%) Grafana
5 16 (8.16%) Prometheus
6 14 (7.14%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.02%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.02%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.02%) Nagios
7 2 (1.02%) Nessus
7 2 (1.02%) SCCM
7 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.02%) WSUS
8 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.51%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.51%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.51%) Packer
8 1 (0.51%) Rancher
8 1 (0.51%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (12.76%) Cisco
2 20 (10.20%) Microsoft
3 19 (9.69%) Red Hat
4 18 (9.18%) Fortinet
4 18 (9.18%) ServiceNow
5 17 (8.67%) Palo Alto
6 16 (8.16%) CheckPoint
6 16 (8.16%) Oracle
7 15 (7.65%) VMware
8 14 (7.14%) Google
9 9 (4.59%) ForgeRock
10 8 (4.08%) SAP
11 7 (3.57%) Arista
12 6 (3.06%) IBM
12 6 (3.06%) Salesforce
13 5 (2.55%) F5
14 4 (2.04%) Imperva
14 4 (2.04%) MuleSoft
14 4 (2.04%) Splunk
15 3 (1.53%) Juniper