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 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	164	122	114
Rank change year-on-year	-42	-8	+19
Contract jobs citing HTTP	18	14	4
As % of all contract jobs in the North West	0.44%	0.61%	0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	3.69%	4.52%	1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted	5	4	2
10^th Percentile	£368	£378	-
25^th Percentile	£525	£400	£213
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£560	£450	£225
Median % change year-on-year	+24.44%	+100.00%	-55.00%
75^th Percentile	-	£475	£238
90^th Percentile	£569	-	-
England median daily rate	£460	£475	£533
% change year-on-year	-3.16%	-10.88%	+1.52%

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.

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills	488	310	307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West	12.06%	13.55%	12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted	313	186	152
10^th Percentile	£200	£150	£243
25^th Percentile	£335	£326	£411
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£474	£447	£498
Median % change year-on-year	+6.04%	-10.15%	+0.71%
75^th Percentile	£575	£547	£576
90^th Percentile	£626	£686	£688
England median daily rate	£500	£483	£500
% change year-on-year	+3.52%	-3.40%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	16	15	9
10^th Percentile	£14.49	-	£24.61
25^th Percentile	£17.06	£15.50	£35.00
Median hourly rate	£17.50	£19.00	£48.56
Median % change year-on-year	-7.89%	-60.87%	+191.13%
75^th Percentile	£34.50	£34.97	£51.91
90^th Percentile	£66.26	£67.25	£52.02
England median hourly rate	£39.36	£32.77	£57.25
% change year-on-year	+20.11%	-42.76%	+1.35%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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 October 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.

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 October 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	-13	11	-	-	1
Manchester	-36	7	£560	+49.33%	29
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HTTP Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 21 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing HTTP also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region with a requirement for HTTP.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	BIG-IP	61.1%	11
1	Blue Coat	61.1%	11
1	Data Loss Prevention	61.1%	11
1	DNS	61.1%	11
1	F5	61.1%	11
1	F5 BIG-IP GTM	61.1%	11
1	F5 BIG-IP LTM	61.1%	11
1	Fiddler	61.1%	11
1	Firmware	61.1%	11
1	Load Balancing	61.1%	11
1	Malware Detection/Protection	61.1%	11
1	McAfee	61.1%	11
1	NetApp	61.1%	11
1	SSL	61.1%	11
1	TCP/IP	61.1%	11
1	VMware	61.1%	11
1	VMware Infrastructure	61.1%	11
1	Wireshark	61.1%	11
19	CI/CD	38.9%	7
19	Java	38.9%	7
19	Test Automation	38.9%	7
22	AWS	33.3%	6
22	Event-Driven	33.3%	6
22	Kafka	33.3%	6
22	Kubernetes	33.3%	6
22	Observability	33.3%	6
27	Data Ingestion	27.8%	5
27	E-Commerce	27.8%	5
27	REST	27.8%	5
27	Software Engineering	27.8%	5

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	BIG-IP	61.1%	11
1	DNS	61.1%	11
1	F5 BIG-IP GTM	61.1%	11
1	F5 BIG-IP LTM	61.1%	11
1	SSL	61.1%	11
1	TCP/IP	61.1%	11
1	Wireshark	61.1%	11