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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 120 129
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 +47
Contract jobs citing HTTP 13 4 13
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.58% 0.17% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.29% 1.30% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £378 - £325
25th Percentile £400 £213 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £225 £500
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -55.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £475 £238 -
90th Percentile - - £590
England median daily rate £475 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -11.26% -2.68% -4.35%

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 303 308 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.48% 12.81% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 154 339
10th Percentile £147 £245 £325
25th Percentile £334 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +1.42% +3.79%
75th Percentile £548 £582 £593
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 10
10th Percentile - £24.61 £15.72
25th Percentile £15.50 £35.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £16.68
Median % change year-on-year -60.87% +191.13% -16.10%
75th Percentile £34.97 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £67.25 £52.02 £49.35
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.38 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.74% +1.57% +35.31%

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
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 17 October 2025. 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 - 9 £475 -
Cheshire - 3 £425 -
Manchester 0 1 £375 +66.67% 7
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 3 (23.08%) SaaS
2 2 (15.38%) Figma
3 1 (7.69%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) DNS
1 10 (76.92%) SSL
1 10 (76.92%) TCP/IP
2 9 (69.23%) BIG-IP
2 9 (69.23%) Wireshark
3 7 (53.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 7 (53.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (38.46%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Fiddler
2 2 (15.38%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (15.38%) UI Automator
General
1 7 (53.85%) Banking
1 7 (53.85%) Investment Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Network Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Junior
2 5 (38.46%) Junior Network Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Web Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Python Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) IP Network Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Developer
5 2 (15.38%) UI Developer
5 2 (15.38%) UI/UX Developer
5 2 (15.38%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Ajax
1 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
1 2 (15.38%) JSON
1 2 (15.38%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (15.38%) React
1 2 (15.38%) Semantic HTML
1 2 (15.38%) Vue
1 2 (15.38%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) Express.js
2 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Management Information System
2 5 (38.46%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Load Balancing
2 5 (38.46%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (38.46%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 5 (38.46%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) Network Segmentation
3 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) User Experience
5 1 (7.69%) Agile
5 1 (7.69%) API Design
5 1 (7.69%) API Development
5 1 (7.69%) API Integration
5 1 (7.69%) Fintech
5 1 (7.69%) High Availability
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
5 1 (7.69%) RBAC
5 1 (7.69%) Regtech
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Firmware
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Blue Coat
1 10 (76.92%) F5
2 9 (69.23%) McAfee
3 7 (53.85%) NetApp
4 5 (38.46%) VMware
5 2 (15.38%) Salesforce