HTTP Contracts in England

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 447 421
Rank change year-on-year +88 -26 -78
Contract jobs citing HTTP 187 194 409
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.41% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.89% 3.27% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 147 272
10th Percentile £300 £382 £400
25th Percentile £400 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £622 £685 £653
90th Percentile £650 £775 £711
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 4
10th Percentile £26.58 £50.52 £39.83
25th Percentile £27.00 £67.13 £42.19
Median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £46.79
Median % change year-on-year -38.83% +60.29% -6.42%
75th Percentile £75.22 - £55.19
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.00 £67.07
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £46.79
% change year-on-year -38.83% +60.29% -6.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,811 5,924 8,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.94% 12.55% 11.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,869 3,842 5,377
10th Percentile £213 £240 £227
25th Percentile £350 £381 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £601 £644 £619
90th Percentile £688 £731 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 410 319
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.44 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £17.53 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +128.15% -26.67% +3.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.28 £48.20
90th Percentile £71.94 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +116.22% -28.85% +4.00%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTTP in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the England region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
London +65 118 £525 -15.32% 36
North of England +22 24 £506 +1.25% 5
South East +15 14 £565 +39.08% 17
Yorkshire +16 12 £624 +18.76% 3
South West +18 11 £533 -11.17% 4
North West +13 11 £463 -7.50% 2
East of England +9 10 £350 -22.22% 8
Midlands +10 1 - - 6
West Midlands +3 1 - - 4
North East - 1 £450 - 1
HTTP
UK

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (8.56%) Apache
2 15 (8.02%) Confluence
3 9 (4.81%) CMS
4 4 (2.14%) IIS
4 4 (2.14%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.60%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.07%) nginx
7 1 (0.53%) govService
7 1 (0.53%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.53%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.53%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (36.90%) AWS
2 57 (30.48%) GCP
3 38 (20.32%) Azure
4 17 (9.09%) GitHub
5 12 (6.42%) Serverless
6 9 (4.81%) Apigee
6 9 (4.81%) Kong
7 7 (3.74%) Amazon Cognito
7 7 (3.74%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.74%) npm
7 7 (3.74%) OpenShift
8 6 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.67%) Boomi
9 5 (2.67%) SaaS
10 4 (2.14%) Google App Engine
10 4 (2.14%) PaaS
11 3 (1.60%) Akamai
11 3 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 61 (32.62%) TCP/IP
2 46 (24.60%) DNS
3 29 (15.51%) Firewall
4 28 (14.97%) SSL
5 17 (9.09%) FTP
5 17 (9.09%) VPN
6 16 (8.56%) DHCP
7 13 (6.95%) SMTP
8 11 (5.88%) BGP
8 11 (5.88%) HTTPS
8 11 (5.88%) IPsec
8 11 (5.88%) OSPF
9 10 (5.35%) Network Security
9 10 (5.35%) SNMP
9 10 (5.35%) SSH
10 8 (4.28%) Internet
11 6 (3.21%) 4G
11 6 (3.21%) 5G
11 6 (3.21%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (3.21%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.51%) Apache Cassandra
2 12 (6.42%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.74%) Triplestore
4 5 (2.67%) MySQL
4 5 (2.67%) SQLite
5 4 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.14%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.14%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.14%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.60%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.53%) Redis
7 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.53%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (14.44%) Jenkins
2 25 (13.37%) Git
3 23 (12.30%) JIRA
4 18 (9.63%) GitLab
5 9 (4.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (4.81%) CircleCI
5 9 (4.81%) Travis CI
6 6 (3.21%) JMeter
6 6 (3.21%) Selenium
6 6 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.67%) Checkstyle
7 5 (2.67%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.14%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.14%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.14%) Gatling
8 4 (2.14%) Postman
8 4 (2.14%) WebDriver
9 3 (1.60%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.60%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (1.60%) Cypress.io
General
1 32 (17.11%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.70%) Finance
4 17 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 13 (6.95%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.88%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.28%) Banking
8 7 (3.74%) Legal
9 4 (2.14%) Electronics
9 4 (2.14%) German Language
9 4 (2.14%) Marketing
10 2 (1.07%) Advertising
10 2 (1.07%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Automotive
11 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.53%) Local Government
11 1 (0.53%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.53%) Publishing
11 1 (0.53%) Retail
11 1 (0.53%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 63 (33.69%) Developer
2 38 (20.32%) Scala Developer
3 19 (10.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.56%) Software Engineer
5 15 (8.02%) Network Engineer
6 12 (6.42%) Linux Engineer
6 12 (6.42%) Senior
7 11 (5.88%) Linux Server Engineer
7 11 (5.88%) Server Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) Security Engineer
9 7 (3.74%) Analyst
9 7 (3.74%) Architect
10 6 (3.21%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (3.21%) DevOps Automation Engineer
10 6 (3.21%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.67%) Junior
11 5 (2.67%) SOC Analyst
12 4 (2.14%) Consultant
12 4 (2.14%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (29.41%) Kafka
1 55 (29.41%) RESTful
2 40 (21.39%) Akka
3 35 (18.72%) REST
4 27 (14.44%) JSON
5 24 (12.83%) CSS
6 22 (11.76%) HTML
7 18 (9.63%) XML
8 16 (8.56%) LDAP
9 15 (8.02%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (6.95%) AngularJS
10 13 (6.95%) YAML
11 11 (5.88%) .NET
11 11 (5.88%) Web Services
12 10 (5.35%) GraphQL
12 10 (5.35%) SOAP
13 7 (3.74%) Apache Jena
13 7 (3.74%) Apache NiFi
13 7 (3.74%) Node.js
13 7 (3.74%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.63%) Data Centre
2 12 (6.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (4.81%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.67%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.67%) Clustering
5 5 (2.67%) Cyberattack
5 5 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (2.14%) IVR
6 4 (2.14%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.60%) PKI
8 2 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.07%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.07%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (21.93%) Linux
2 19 (10.16%) Windows
3 17 (9.09%) Unix
4 4 (2.14%) Mac OS X
4 4 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.07%) Android
5 2 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) Solaris
6 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (38.50%) Agile
2 67 (35.83%) DevOps
3 49 (26.20%) Microservices
4 41 (21.93%) TDD
5 39 (20.86%) CI/CD
6 35 (18.72%) Pair Programming
7 33 (17.65%) GitOps
8 30 (16.04%) Clean Code
9 28 (14.97%) Machine Learning
9 28 (14.97%) Personalization
10 27 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (13.37%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (11.23%) Software Engineering
13 19 (10.16%) Containerisation
13 19 (10.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (10.16%) Use Case
14 17 (9.09%) Coaching
15 15 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (8.02%) Task Automation
15 15 (8.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 44 (23.53%) Scala
2 32 (17.11%) JavaScript
3 31 (16.58%) Python
4 22 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 16 (8.56%) Java
6 13 (6.95%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.88%) SQL
8 10 (5.35%) C#
9 9 (4.81%) Bash
10 7 (3.74%) SPARQL
11 5 (2.67%) PHP
11 5 (2.67%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.14%) ABAP
12 4 (2.14%) ActionScript
12 4 (2.14%) Groovy
13 3 (1.60%) Perl
14 2 (1.07%) Go
14 2 (1.07%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.07%) Swift
15 1 (0.53%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 41 (21.93%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.70%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.02%) DV Cleared
4 12 (6.42%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (6.42%) Degree
5 11 (5.88%) CCNP
6 5 (2.67%) CCDP
7 4 (2.14%) GCIA
7 4 (2.14%) GCIH
7 4 (2.14%) GIAC
8 3 (1.60%) CCIE
8 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.60%) SANS
9 2 (1.07%) CCNA
9 2 (1.07%) CEH
9 2 (1.07%) CISSP
9 2 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.07%) HND
10 1 (0.53%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.02%) QA
2 4 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.07%) HL7
3 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (16.04%) Docker
2 9 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.14%) NFS
4 3 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.07%) XenApp
6 1 (0.53%) Firmware
6 1 (0.53%) Samba
6 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (34.22%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.70%) Progress Chef
2 20 (10.70%) Puppet
3 18 (9.63%) Terraform
4 15 (8.02%) Kibana
5 12 (6.42%) Ansible
5 12 (6.42%) logstash
6 10 (5.35%) Grafana
6 10 (5.35%) Prometheus
7 9 (4.81%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (2.67%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.60%) CSIRT
9 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.60%) PingFederate
9 3 (1.60%) QRadar
10 2 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.53%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 23 (12.30%) Typelevel
2 22 (11.76%) Splunk
3 20 (10.70%) Microsoft
4 13 (6.95%) Palo Alto
4 13 (6.95%) SAP
5 12 (6.42%) Cisco
6 10 (5.35%) Google
7 9 (4.81%) Oracle
8 8 (4.28%) Zscaler
9 7 (3.74%) Symantec
10 6 (3.21%) F5
10 6 (3.21%) Nokia
11 5 (2.67%) Arista
11 5 (2.67%) Aruba
11 5 (2.67%) Darktrace
11 5 (2.67%) Ericsson
11 5 (2.67%) IBM
11 5 (2.67%) IronPort
11 5 (2.67%) LogRhythm
11 5 (2.67%) Red Hat