HTTP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 269 345
Rank change year-on-year +76 +76 -5
Contract jobs citing HTTP 108 75 129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.09% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.35% 4.75% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 50 92
10th Percentile £380 £348 £401
25th Percentile £452 £413 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £463 £564
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -18.00% +2.55%
75th Percentile £775 £600 £650
90th Percentile £838 £626 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £46.43 - -
25th Percentile £47.44 £22.75 £64.50
Median hourly rate £54.75 £23.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.98% -64.93% +43.19%
75th Percentile £61.81 £24.25 £69.50
90th Percentile £62.68 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.68 £45.88 £75.00
% change year-on-year +75.84% -38.83% +52.87%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,580 2,950
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.54% 10.36% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,015 1,954
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £31.08 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.30% +110.53% -30.91%

HTTP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

HTTP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing HTTP.

HTTP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing HTTP over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

HTTP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing HTTP.

HTTP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (9.26%) Confluence
2 8 (7.41%) nginx
3 5 (4.63%) NetWeaver
4 4 (3.70%) Apache
4 4 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.70%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.85%) IIS
5 2 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.93%) SAS
6 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (55.56%) AWS
2 43 (39.81%) Azure
3 38 (35.19%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (25.93%) GCP
5 23 (21.30%) SaaS
6 19 (17.59%) IaaS
6 19 (17.59%) PaaS
7 12 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (11.11%) GitHub
8 10 (9.26%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (8.33%) npm
9 9 (8.33%) Serverless
10 8 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (5.56%) Slack
12 5 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 43 (39.81%) TCP/IP
2 41 (37.96%) DNS
3 28 (25.93%) Firewall
4 24 (22.22%) DHCP
5 23 (21.30%) HTTPS
6 20 (18.52%) BGP
6 20 (18.52%) OSPF
7 11 (10.19%) SMTP
8 9 (8.33%) SSL
9 8 (7.41%) Internet
10 6 (5.56%) FTP
11 5 (4.63%) VPN
12 4 (3.70%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (2.78%) SNMP
14 2 (1.85%) POP3
15 1 (0.93%) DWDM
15 1 (0.93%) IGRP
15 1 (0.93%) IPsec
15 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
15 1 (0.93%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.26%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 9 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.41%) MySQL
5 6 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.70%) Apache Hive
6 4 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (3.70%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.70%) Parquet
6 4 (3.70%) Power BI
6 4 (3.70%) Presto
7 2 (1.85%) Redis
7 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (25.00%) Git
2 21 (19.44%) Jenkins
3 18 (16.67%) JIRA
4 15 (13.89%) GitLab
5 9 (8.33%) webpack
6 6 (5.56%) Cucumber
6 6 (5.56%) Jasmine
6 6 (5.56%) JUnit
7 5 (4.63%) Bitbucket
7 5 (4.63%) git-flow
8 4 (3.70%) Poetry
9 3 (2.78%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.78%) Mocha
9 3 (2.78%) Postman
9 3 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.93%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.93%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.93%) Introscope
10 1 (0.93%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.93%) Subversion
General
1 11 (10.19%) Banking
2 9 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.41%) Finance
4 7 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Advertising
7 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.93%) French Language
7 1 (0.93%) Front Office
7 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.93%) Italian Language
7 1 (0.93%) Legal
7 1 (0.93%) Marketing
7 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.93%) Retail
7 1 (0.93%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (32.41%) Developer
2 26 (24.07%) Architect
3 18 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 18 (16.67%) Cloud Native Architect
3 18 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 17 (15.74%) Senior
5 16 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (10.19%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (9.26%) AWS Architect
7 10 (9.26%) Security Architect
8 9 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
8 9 (8.33%) Security Technical Architect
9 8 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (6.48%) Angular Developer
10 7 (6.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 7 (6.48%) Site Engineer
11 6 (5.56%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.78%) REST
2 25 (23.15%) HTML
3 23 (21.30%) CSS
4 20 (18.52%) RESTful
5 18 (16.67%) Web Services
6 17 (15.74%) Elastic Stack
7 16 (14.81%) React
8 15 (13.89%) SOAP
9 13 (12.04%) XML
10 12 (11.11%) Node.js
10 12 (11.11%) OpenAPI
10 12 (11.11%) Swagger
11 11 (10.19%) .NET
11 11 (10.19%) AngularJS
11 11 (10.19%) JSON
12 9 (8.33%) Jest
13 8 (7.41%) AWS CDK
13 8 (7.41%) WebSockets
14 7 (6.48%) EDI
14 7 (6.48%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (4.63%) CMDB
4 5 (4.63%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (4.63%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.78%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.78%) Cyberattack
6 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.78%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.78%) PKI
6 3 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.78%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (34.26%) Linux
2 9 (8.33%) Unix
3 7 (6.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.48%) Windows
4 3 (2.78%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.85%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.93%) AIX
6 1 (0.93%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (37.96%) Test Automation
2 38 (35.19%) CI/CD
2 38 (35.19%) DevOps
3 37 (34.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (24.07%) Agile
4 26 (24.07%) Containerisation
5 23 (21.30%) Microservices
6 19 (17.59%) Continuous Integration
6 19 (17.59%) Sprint Planning
7 18 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 17 (15.74%) SDLC
9 16 (14.81%) High Availability
9 16 (14.81%) Scrum
10 15 (13.89%) Configuration Management
11 12 (11.11%) Software Engineering
12 11 (10.19%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (10.19%) Incident Management
12 11 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (10.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.56%) Python
2 31 (28.70%) JavaScript
3 21 (19.44%) Java
4 20 (18.52%) Bicep
4 20 (18.52%) SQL
5 14 (12.96%) Bash
6 11 (10.19%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.33%) PowerShell
8 8 (7.41%) C#
9 6 (5.56%) Groovy
10 5 (4.63%) ABAP
10 5 (4.63%) Shell Script
10 5 (4.63%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.78%) Go
11 3 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.85%) ActionScript
12 2 (1.85%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (1.85%) Perl
13 1 (0.93%) PHP
13 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.63%) Degree
4 4 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.85%) CEH
5 2 (1.85%) CISSP
5 2 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.93%) CCDP
6 1 (0.93%) CCNA
6 1 (0.93%) CCNP
6 1 (0.93%) CCSP
6 1 (0.93%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) GCIH
6 1 (0.93%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.93%) GDPR
1 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
1 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
1 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.85%) OpenAM
2 2 (1.85%) OpenDJ
2 2 (1.85%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 39 (36.11%) Terraform
2 38 (35.19%) Kubernetes
3 16 (14.81%) Ansible
4 14 (12.96%) Grafana
5 12 (11.11%) Progress Chef
5 12 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 10 (9.26%) Puppet
7 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.93%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.93%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.93%) Packer
8 1 (0.93%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (18.52%) Cisco
2 19 (17.59%) Fortinet
2 19 (17.59%) Palo Alto
3 18 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 9 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 8 (7.41%) Microsoft
5 8 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 8 (7.41%) Splunk
6 6 (5.56%) ForgeRock
6 6 (5.56%) SAP
7 5 (4.63%) AppDynamics
7 5 (4.63%) Dynatrace
7 5 (4.63%) Google
8 3 (2.78%) Oracle
9 2 (1.85%) Arista
9 2 (1.85%) F5
10 1 (0.93%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.93%) Darktrace
10 1 (0.93%) Zscaler