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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 114 133
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 +45
Contract jobs citing HTTP 8 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.37% 0.17% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.78% 1.34% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile £408 - £325
25th Percentile £459 £213 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £225 £500
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% -55.00% -1.23%
75th Percentile £488 £238 -
90th Percentile £496 - £568
England median daily rate £475 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -10.88% -3.09% -

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 288 298 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.45% 12.57% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 174 288
10th Percentile £147 £266 £313
25th Percentile £325 £414 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +8.02% +2.32%
75th Percentile £538 £738 £588
90th Percentile £678 £850 £638
England median daily rate £490 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -4.03% +2.12% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 10
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.43 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £37.55 £15.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £48.56 £16.68
Median % change year-on-year -58.81% +191.13% -44.93%
75th Percentile £67.25 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £67.83 £57.65 £49.35
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.26%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for HTTP 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 15 September 2025.

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

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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 15 September 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 - 4 £475 -
Cheshire - 2 £496 - 1
Manchester +2 1 £375 +66.67% 2
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (12.50%) NetWeaver
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Figma
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (25.00%) DMZ
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (25.00%) Fiddler
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) UI Automator
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Junior
2 2 (25.00%) Junior Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (25.00%) UI Developer
2 2 (25.00%) UI/UX Developer
2 2 (25.00%) UX Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) Ajax
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (25.00%) React
2 2 (25.00%) Semantic HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Vue
3 1 (12.50%) Express.js
3 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 1 (12.50%) IDoc
3 1 (12.50%) JDBC
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) SAP PI
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Agile
1 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
1 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (25.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (25.00%) Microservices
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
1 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
1 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (25.00%) User Experience
1 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (12.50%) RBAC
2 1 (12.50%) Regtech
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) ABAP
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Blue Coat
1 2 (25.00%) F5
1 2 (25.00%) ForgeRock
1 2 (25.00%) McAfee
1 2 (25.00%) NetApp
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) SAP