HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 434 399
Rank change year-on-year +56 -35 -45
Contract jobs citing HTTP 227 302 571
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.50% 0.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.04% 4.10% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 222 380
10th Percentile £313 £401 £400
25th Percentile £400 £486 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £641
90th Percentile £650 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 8
10th Percentile £25.73 £50.52 £40.40
25th Percentile £41.16 £67.13 £42.96
Median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £49.06
Median % change year-on-year -38.83% +52.87% -6.55%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £61.88
90th Percentile - £79.00 £76.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 - £52.27
% change year-on-year - - -4.96%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Top 17 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 27 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
England +65 176 £500 -13.04% 75
London +55 112 £525 -15.32% 33
UK excluding London +64 78 £450 -10.00% 47
Work from Home +69 74 £463 -16.14% 41
North of England +18 25 £463 -7.50% 5
Scotland +46 17 £579 +10.33% 3
North West +8 15 £350 -30.00% 2
East of England +23 11 £350 -6.67% 2
South East +26 9 £565 +36.97% 14
Yorkshire +12 9 £624 +18.76% 3
South West +18 7 £569 -15.74% 8
Northern Ireland +12 6 - - 6
Midlands +19 2 - - 8
West Midlands +25 1 - - 6
Wales +11 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £450 -
East Midlands - 1 - - 2

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 22 (9.69%) Apache
2 16 (7.05%) IIS
2 16 (7.05%) Tomcat
3 13 (5.73%) Confluence
4 8 (3.52%) IBM HTTP Server
4 8 (3.52%) WebSphere
4 8 (3.52%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (3.52%) WebSphere Portal
5 7 (3.08%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.64%) CMS
7 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (1.76%) MQSeries
9 3 (1.32%) nginx
9 3 (1.32%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.88%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.88%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.88%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.44%) Drupal
11 1 (0.44%) govService
11 1 (0.44%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 19 (8.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.44%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 6 (2.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.88%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 58 (25.55%) AWS
2 49 (21.59%) GCP
3 41 (18.06%) Azure
4 16 (7.05%) GitHub
5 13 (5.73%) SaaS
5 13 (5.73%) Serverless
6 11 (4.85%) Entra ID
7 10 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.96%) Apigee
9 8 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (3.08%) npm
11 6 (2.64%) Kong
12 5 (2.20%) PaaS
12 5 (2.20%) SuccessFactors
13 4 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.76%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.76%) Google App Engine
14 3 (1.32%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 80 (35.24%) TCP/IP
2 43 (18.94%) DNS
3 36 (15.86%) SSL
4 33 (14.54%) Firewall
5 21 (9.25%) VPN
6 17 (7.49%) FTP
7 16 (7.05%) H.323
8 14 (6.17%) Internet
9 13 (5.73%) DHCP
9 13 (5.73%) SMTP
10 12 (5.29%) Network Security
10 12 (5.29%) SSH
11 11 (4.85%) HTTPS
11 11 (4.85%) IPsec
12 9 (3.96%) SNMP
13 8 (3.52%) Wireshark
14 7 (3.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 7 (3.08%) NetScaler
15 6 (2.64%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (2.64%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.45%) Apache Cassandra
2 17 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.85%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.64%) MySQL
5 6 (2.64%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.20%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.20%) SQLite
7 4 (1.76%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.76%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.32%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (0.88%) Power BI
9 2 (0.88%) Power Query
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.44%) Redis
10 1 (0.44%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 33 (14.54%) Git
1 33 (14.54%) Jenkins
2 22 (9.69%) JIRA
3 12 (5.29%) Postman
4 9 (3.96%) GitLab
5 6 (2.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (2.64%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.64%) IBM UrbanCode
5 6 (2.64%) JMeter
5 6 (2.64%) Selenium
5 6 (2.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (2.64%) Travis CI
6 5 (2.20%) Checkstyle
6 5 (2.20%) SoapUI
6 5 (2.20%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.76%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.76%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.76%) Gatling
7 4 (1.76%) WebDriver
8 3 (1.32%) Burp Suite
General
1 42 (18.50%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.18%) Finance
3 32 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.66%) Telecoms
5 21 (9.25%) Public Sector
6 18 (7.93%) Banking
7 13 (5.73%) Legal
8 11 (4.85%) Manufacturing
9 10 (4.41%) Electronics
9 10 (4.41%) Marketing
10 8 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.20%) Billing
11 5 (2.20%) German Language
11 5 (2.20%) Law
12 2 (0.88%) Advertising
12 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Automotive
13 1 (0.44%) Local Government
13 1 (0.44%) Publishing
13 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (29.52%) Developer
2 36 (15.86%) Scala Developer
3 20 (8.81%) Senior
4 18 (7.93%) Linux Engineer
5 17 (7.49%) Software Engineer
6 16 (7.05%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (6.17%) Support Engineer
8 12 (5.29%) Architect
8 12 (5.29%) Network Engineer
9 11 (4.85%) Linux Server Engineer
9 11 (4.85%) Server Engineer
10 9 (3.96%) Consultant
10 9 (3.96%) Python Developer
10 9 (3.96%) Technical Support
11 8 (3.52%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.52%) Middleware Engineer
12 7 (3.08%) Security Engineer
13 6 (2.64%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (2.64%) Cloud Architect
13 6 (2.64%) DevOps Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (23.79%) RESTful
2 43 (18.94%) REST
3 37 (16.30%) Akka
4 36 (15.86%) Kafka
5 27 (11.89%) CSS
5 27 (11.89%) JSON
6 23 (10.13%) HTML
7 22 (9.69%) XML
8 18 (7.93%) AngularJS
9 17 (7.49%) LDAP
10 14 (6.17%) .NET
10 14 (6.17%) SOAP
11 13 (5.73%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (5.73%) Node.js
12 12 (5.29%) OAuth
13 11 (4.85%) OpenID
13 11 (4.85%) SAML
14 10 (4.41%) Web Services
14 10 (4.41%) YAML
15 9 (3.96%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.37%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.05%) IVR
3 15 (6.61%) Management Information System
4 12 (5.29%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (4.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 9 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.64%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.20%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.20%) Clustering
8 5 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.76%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.32%) Cyberattack
10 3 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.32%) PKI
11 2 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.88%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 59 (25.99%) Linux
2 31 (13.66%) Windows
3 29 (12.78%) Unix
4 16 (7.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.76%) Mac OS X
6 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.88%) Android
7 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.44%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (30.84%) Agile
2 62 (27.31%) DevOps
3 47 (20.70%) Microservices
4 45 (19.82%) CI/CD
5 44 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (14.98%) Clean Code
6 34 (14.98%) TDD
7 29 (12.78%) Pair Programming
8 27 (11.89%) GitOps
9 25 (11.01%) Machine Learning
9 25 (11.01%) Personalization
10 23 (10.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (10.13%) Software Engineering
11 22 (9.69%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (7.93%) Change Management
13 17 (7.49%) ITIL
13 17 (7.49%) Test Automation
14 16 (7.05%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (7.05%) Coaching
14 16 (7.05%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 48 (21.15%) Python
2 44 (19.38%) JavaScript
3 41 (18.06%) Scala
4 31 (13.66%) Java
5 24 (10.57%) PowerShell
6 21 (9.25%) SQL
7 19 (8.37%) Bash
8 16 (7.05%) C#
9 14 (6.17%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.41%) Perl
11 9 (3.96%) PHP
12 5 (2.20%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.76%) Groovy
14 3 (1.32%) Go
14 3 (1.32%) Ruby
15 2 (0.88%) ABAP
15 2 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.61%) DV Cleared
2 15 (6.61%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.73%) Degree
4 11 (4.85%) CCNP
4 11 (4.85%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.20%) CCDP
6 3 (1.32%) CCIE
6 3 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.88%) CEH
7 2 (0.88%) CISSP
7 2 (0.88%) GCIA
7 2 (0.88%) GCIH
7 2 (0.88%) GIAC
7 2 (0.88%) HND
7 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.88%) MCSD
7 2 (0.88%) MCSE
7 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.44%) GSNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.29%) QA
2 4 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.88%) HL7
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.44%) NCSC
5 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (10.57%) Docker
2 12 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.76%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.76%) NFS
3 4 (1.76%) Samba
3 4 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.88%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 44 (19.38%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.49%) Progress Chef
2 17 (7.49%) Puppet
2 17 (7.49%) Terraform
3 13 (5.73%) Ansible
3 13 (5.73%) Kibana
4 10 (4.41%) logstash
5 7 (3.08%) Grafana
5 7 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.64%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (2.20%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.76%) QRadar
9 3 (1.32%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.88%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.88%) Oracle Flashback
10 2 (0.88%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 47 (20.70%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.81%) Red Hat
3 19 (8.37%) Typelevel
4 18 (7.93%) Splunk
5 17 (7.49%) SAP
6 16 (7.05%) Avaya
7 15 (6.61%) Oracle
8 13 (5.73%) Verint
9 12 (5.29%) Google
10 10 (4.41%) Cisco
10 10 (4.41%) F5
10 10 (4.41%) IBM
10 10 (4.41%) Palo Alto
11 8 (3.52%) Zscaler
12 5 (2.20%) Arista
12 5 (2.20%) Aruba
12 5 (2.20%) Symantec
13 4 (1.76%) ArcSight
13 4 (1.76%) CheckPoint
13 4 (1.76%) VMware