HTTP Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring HTTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 102 107
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +54
Contract jobs citing HTTP 36 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.57% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.62% 3.39% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile £335 - £258
25th Percentile £456 £380 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £385 £415
Median % change year-on-year +23.38% -7.23% -13.99%
75th Percentile £488 £390 £513
90th Percentile - - £648
England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -13.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 339 236 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.82% 14.27% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 134 202
10th Percentile £201 £165 £201
25th Percentile £300 £267 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £583 £568
90th Percentile £582 £667 £675
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 20
10th Percentile - £12.48 £20.90
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.22 £23.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.13 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.41% -60.59% +89.69%
75th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £56.00 - £68.88
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +48.66%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HTTP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

HTTP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HTTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HTTP

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HTTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HTTP

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Birmingham +17 30 £475 +23.38% 2
Coventry - 2 £275 - 4
Warwickshire - 2 £340 -
Staffordshire - 1 £450 -
Solihull - 1 - -
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (47.22%) Confluence
2 10 (27.78%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (27.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) AWS
2 17 (47.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 17 (47.22%) Amazon EC2
2 17 (47.22%) Amazon ELB
2 17 (47.22%) Amazon S3
2 17 (47.22%) AWS KMS
2 17 (47.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 10 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (27.78%) Azure
3 10 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (27.78%) Route 53
4 7 (19.44%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 35 (97.22%) DNS
2 21 (58.33%) Firewall
3 17 (47.22%) BIG-IP
3 17 (47.22%) FTP
3 17 (47.22%) SMTP
3 17 (47.22%) SSH
3 17 (47.22%) SSL
3 17 (47.22%) Wireshark
4 15 (41.67%) TCP/IP
5 14 (38.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 14 (38.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 10 (27.78%) IMAP
6 10 (27.78%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (13.89%) DMZ
8 4 (11.11%) LAN
8 4 (11.11%) VPN
8 4 (11.11%) Wireless
9 3 (8.33%) HTTPS
9 3 (8.33%) IPsec
9 3 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (47.22%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (27.78%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Metadata
3 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (47.22%) Git
1 17 (47.22%) Jenkins
1 17 (47.22%) JIRA
1 17 (47.22%) Vagrant
2 14 (38.89%) Fiddler
General
1 16 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 14 (38.89%) Banking
2 14 (38.89%) Investment Banking
3 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
4 10 (27.78%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 17 (47.22%) AWS Engineer
2 17 (47.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 17 (47.22%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (41.67%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (41.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 15 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (27.78%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 10 (27.78%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 10 (27.78%) IP Network Engineer
4 10 (27.78%) Web Engineer
5 8 (22.22%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Python Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Junior
7 3 (8.33%) Junior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (36.11%) LDAP
2 3 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (47.22%) Replication
2 14 (38.89%) Management Information System
3 5 (13.89%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 17 (47.22%) Amazon Linux
1 17 (47.22%) Linux
1 17 (47.22%) VMS
1 17 (47.22%) Windows
2 10 (27.78%) Ubuntu
3 2 (5.56%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Change Management
1 17 (47.22%) Cloud Security
1 17 (47.22%) Configuration Management
1 17 (47.22%) DevOps
1 17 (47.22%) Patch Management
1 17 (47.22%) Platform Engineering
2 14 (38.89%) Load Balancing
3 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 10 (27.78%) Data Loss Prevention
3 10 (27.78%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 10 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (16.67%) Migration
5 5 (13.89%) Network Segmentation
6 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (5.56%) Requirements Gathering
9 1 (2.78%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 1 (2.78%) Model Validation
9 1 (2.78%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (2.78%) Servant Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (61.11%) Python
2 17 (47.22%) Groovy
2 17 (47.22%) PowerShell
3 10 (27.78%) SQL
4 7 (19.44%) Java
4 7 (19.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.78%) AWS Certification
2 10 (27.78%) Azure Certification
2 10 (27.78%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) CCNA
3 1 (2.78%) CCNP
3 1 (2.78%) CCSA
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (47.22%) DFS Replication
1 17 (47.22%) Docker
2 13 (36.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (27.78%) Active Directory
3 10 (27.78%) Dovecot
3 10 (27.78%) Firmware
3 10 (27.78%) Postfix
3 10 (27.78%) Squid
4 3 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (47.22%) Grafana
1 17 (47.22%) Prometheus
1 17 (47.22%) Terraform
2 10 (27.78%) Nessus
2 10 (27.78%) Proxmox
3 5 (13.89%) Ansible
4 3 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (47.22%) F5
1 17 (47.22%) ServiceNow
2 14 (38.89%) Blue Coat
2 14 (38.89%) McAfee
2 14 (38.89%) NetApp
3 13 (36.11%) VMware
4 10 (27.78%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 4 (11.11%) Cisco
6 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 3 (8.33%) Palo Alto
7 2 (5.56%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.78%) Meraki
8 1 (2.78%) Sparx