HTTP Contract Job Trends in the North West

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring HTTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 120 119
Rank change year-on-year -42 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing HTTP 18 11 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.46% 0.51% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.80% 3.91% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile £368 £393 -
25th Percentile £525 £433 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £475 £225
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% +111.11% -55.00%
75th Percentile - £484 £238
90th Percentile £569 £495 -
England median daily rate £460 £475 £533
% change year-on-year -3.16% -10.88% -4.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 474 281 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.20% 13.06% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 170 162
10th Percentile £201 £147 £273
25th Percentile £341 £339 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -14.29% +8.02%
75th Percentile £574 £543 £675
90th Percentile £618 £680 £825
England median daily rate £500 £490 £508
% change year-on-year +2.15% -3.55% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 10
10th Percentile £13.33 £15.50 £25.43
25th Percentile £17.06 £17.75 £37.55
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -58.81% +191.13%
75th Percentile £25.56 £48.27 £51.91
90th Percentile £36.54 £67.25 £57.65
England median hourly rate £43.50 £40.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +7.41% -29.38% +1.52%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

HTTP job vacancy trend in the North West

HTTP
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the North West over the 6 months to 21 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the North West

HTTP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the North West region over the 6 months to 21 September 2026. 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
Merseyside -10 12 - -
Manchester -24 6 £560 +49.33% 15
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.56%) GitHub
2 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (66.67%) BIG-IP
1 12 (66.67%) DNS
1 12 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 12 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 12 (66.67%) SSL
1 12 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 12 (66.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Fiddler
2 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) JUnit
2 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
2 1 (5.56%) Selenium
2 1 (5.56%) TestNG
2 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (66.67%) Banking
1 12 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 12 (66.67%) IP Network Engineer
1 12 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 12 (66.67%) Web Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Kafka
1 5 (27.78%) REST
2 4 (22.22%) Spring
2 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
3 1 (5.56%) HTML
3 1 (5.56%) JSON
3 1 (5.56%) Playwright
3 1 (5.56%) Semantic HTML
3 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 5 (27.78%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
1 12 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 12 (66.67%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
3 5 (27.78%) Observability
3 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (22.22%) E-Commerce
4 4 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 3 (16.67%) Microservices
5 3 (16.67%) Webhook
6 1 (5.56%) BDD
6 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.56%) Load Testing
6 1 (5.56%) Performance Testing
6 1 (5.56%) Test Scripting
6 1 (5.56%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) QA
1 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Firmware
1 12 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Blue Coat
1 12 (66.67%) F5
1 12 (66.67%) McAfee
1 12 (66.67%) NetApp
1 12 (66.67%) VMware