HTTP Contracts in London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 345 362
Rank change year-on-year +53 +17 -60
Contract jobs citing HTTP 109 154 245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.61% 0.57% 0.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.41% 5.74% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 114 168
10th Percentile £300 £422 £426
25th Percentile £400 £550 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £603
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +2.90% +14.76%
75th Percentile £623 £772 £688
90th Percentile £650 £801 £713
England median daily rate £509 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -11.57% +5.50% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £50.52 £39.79
25th Percentile - £67.13 £41.87
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £46.79
Median % change year-on-year - +60.29% -6.42%
75th Percentile - - £68.40
90th Percentile - £79.00 £77.75
England median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -38.83% +54.38% -2.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,701 2,685 3,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.56% 10.00% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,890 2,551
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 54 82
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.07 £20.90
25th Percentile £17.55 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £43.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -47.09% +27.41% -25.00%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.88 £48.20
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -3.39%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in London

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in London

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in London

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in London

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
West London +28 14 £425 -3.41% 1
Central London +37 6 £850 +15.25% 4
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (5.50%) Confluence
2 3 (2.75%) Apache
2 3 (2.75%) MQSeries
2 3 (2.75%) nginx
3 2 (1.83%) CMS
3 2 (1.83%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.92%) Drupal
4 1 (0.92%) govService
4 1 (0.92%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.92%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.92%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.92%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.92%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 44 (40.37%) AWS
2 33 (30.28%) GCP
3 20 (18.35%) Azure
4 9 (8.26%) SaaS
5 7 (6.42%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (5.50%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.50%) Serverless
7 5 (4.59%) PaaS
8 4 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.67%) GitHub
9 3 (2.75%) Akamai
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (2.75%) Datadog
9 3 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (36.70%) TCP/IP
2 24 (22.02%) DNS
3 22 (20.18%) Firewall
4 18 (16.51%) SSL
5 11 (10.09%) DHCP
5 11 (10.09%) FTP
5 11 (10.09%) Network Security
5 11 (10.09%) SSH
5 11 (10.09%) VPN
6 10 (9.17%) HTTPS
7 9 (8.26%) Internet
7 9 (8.26%) IPsec
8 8 (7.34%) SMTP
8 8 (7.34%) SNMP
9 7 (6.42%) Wireshark
10 6 (5.50%) BGP
10 6 (5.50%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (5.50%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (5.50%) OSPF
11 4 (3.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.10%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.75%) MySQL
4 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.92%) Redis
6 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (11.01%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.50%) Git
2 6 (5.50%) JIRA
2 6 (5.50%) Postman
3 3 (2.75%) Burp Suite
3 3 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.83%) Appium
4 2 (1.83%) Charles Proxy
4 2 (1.83%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.83%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.83%) JMeter
4 2 (1.83%) JUnit
4 2 (1.83%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (1.83%) Selenium
4 2 (1.83%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 1 (0.92%) GitLab
5 1 (0.92%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 16 (14.68%) Finance
2 12 (11.01%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.34%) Banking
5 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.42%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.59%) Electronics
6 5 (4.59%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.59%) Marketing
7 3 (2.75%) German Language
8 2 (1.83%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Advertising
9 1 (0.92%) Billing
9 1 (0.92%) Law
9 1 (0.92%) Local Government
9 1 (0.92%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.92%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 41 (37.61%) Developer
2 26 (23.85%) Scala Developer
3 14 (12.84%) Linux Engineer
4 11 (10.09%) Linux Server Engineer
4 11 (10.09%) Server Engineer
5 9 (8.26%) Network Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Architect
8 6 (5.50%) Support Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Python Developer
10 4 (3.67%) ArcSight Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (3.67%) Consultant
10 4 (3.67%) Network Architect
10 4 (3.67%) Senior
10 4 (3.67%) SIEM Engineer
11 3 (2.75%) Security Engineer
11 3 (2.75%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (28.44%) RESTful
2 27 (24.77%) Akka
2 27 (24.77%) Kafka
3 14 (12.84%) CSS
3 14 (12.84%) JSON
3 14 (12.84%) REST
4 12 (11.01%) HTML
5 9 (8.26%) LDAP
6 8 (7.34%) SAML
7 7 (6.42%) .NET
7 7 (6.42%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (6.42%) OAuth
7 7 (6.42%) OpenID
8 5 (4.59%) Node.js
8 5 (4.59%) OAuth2
8 5 (4.59%) SOAP
9 4 (3.67%) Jest
9 4 (3.67%) React
9 4 (3.67%) Web Services
9 4 (3.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.51%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (5.50%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.59%) Clustering
4 5 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.75%) PKI
7 2 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.92%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.94%) Linux
2 13 (11.93%) Unix
3 7 (6.42%) Windows
4 2 (1.83%) Android
4 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.92%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.94%) Agile
1 37 (33.94%) DevOps
2 32 (29.36%) Microservices
3 26 (23.85%) TDD
4 24 (22.02%) Clean Code
4 24 (22.02%) GitOps
4 24 (22.02%) Pair Programming
5 22 (20.18%) Machine Learning
5 22 (20.18%) Personalization
6 20 (18.35%) CI/CD
7 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (13.76%) Coaching
9 12 (11.01%) High Availability
10 10 (9.17%) Migration
10 10 (9.17%) SIEM
11 9 (8.26%) Computer Science
11 9 (8.26%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (7.34%) Data Protection
12 8 (7.34%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.77%) Scala
2 20 (18.35%) Python
3 16 (14.68%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.84%) PowerShell
5 11 (10.09%) Java
6 10 (9.17%) C#
7 6 (5.50%) SQL
8 5 (4.59%) PHP
9 4 (3.67%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.75%) Bash
10 3 (2.75%) Ruby
11 2 (1.83%) Go
11 2 (1.83%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.83%) Swift
12 1 (0.92%) C
12 1 (0.92%) C++
12 1 (0.92%) Perl
12 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.09%) CCNP
2 11 (10.09%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (10.09%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.50%) Degree
4 5 (4.59%) CCDP
5 3 (2.75%) CCIE
6 2 (1.83%) CEH
6 2 (1.83%) CISSP
6 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.83%) GCIA
6 2 (1.83%) GCIH
6 2 (1.83%) GIAC
6 2 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.92%) GCED
7 1 (0.92%) GPEN
7 1 (0.92%) GWAPT
7 1 (0.92%) OSCE
7 1 (0.92%) OSCP
7 1 (0.92%) OSWP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.67%) QA
2 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.83%) HL7
4 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.92%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (11.01%) Docker
2 6 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.67%) NFS
4 3 (2.75%) Samba
4 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.83%) XenApp
6 1 (0.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (29.36%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.09%) Progress Chef
2 11 (10.09%) Puppet
3 8 (7.34%) Terraform
4 7 (6.42%) Kibana
5 5 (4.59%) Ansible
5 5 (4.59%) FortiGate
6 4 (3.67%) logstash
6 4 (3.67%) QRadar
7 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.83%) PingFederate
7 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.92%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.92%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.92%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.92%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (16.51%) Typelevel
2 13 (11.93%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.17%) Cisco
4 9 (8.26%) Palo Alto
4 9 (8.26%) Splunk
5 8 (7.34%) Zscaler
6 6 (5.50%) Oracle
7 5 (4.59%) Arista
7 5 (4.59%) Aruba
7 5 (4.59%) Google
7 5 (4.59%) SAP
8 4 (3.67%) ArcSight
9 3 (2.75%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.75%) F5
9 3 (2.75%) Infoblox
9 3 (2.75%) Meraki
9 3 (2.75%) New Relic
9 3 (2.75%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.75%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.75%) VMware