HTTP Contracts in the North West

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring HTTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HTTP over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 129 174
Rank change year-on-year +10 +45 -32
Contract jobs citing HTTP 4 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.17% 0.45% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.36% 2.85% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 11
10th Percentile - £325 £375
25th Percentile £213 £369 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £238 - £588
90th Percentile - £590 £638
England median daily rate £533 £556 £550
% change year-on-year -4.18% +1.14% +4.76%

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 294 456 644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.26% 15.93% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 305 446
10th Percentile £273 £325 £199
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £486 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.02% +2.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £605
90th Percentile £825 £647 £638
England median daily rate £508 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +1.50% -1.96% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 6
10th Percentile £25.43 £15.72 £11.14
25th Percentile £37.55 £15.75 £16.09
Median hourly rate £48.56 £16.68 £30.29
Median % change year-on-year +191.13% -44.93% +90.97%
75th Percentile £51.91 £46.88 £54.93
90th Percentile £57.65 £49.35 £64.38
England median hourly rate £57.35 £56.49 £42.00
% change year-on-year +1.52% +34.50% +90.91%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HTTP in the North West.

Daily rate trend for HTTP in the North West

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HTTP in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in the North West

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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 20 September 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
Manchester +17 3 £225 -55.00% 4
Lancashire - 1 - - 1
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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) SSH
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) FTP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Locust
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support Technician
1 2 (50.00%) IT Technician
1 2 (50.00%) Support Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) EDI
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) API Design
2 1 (25.00%) B2B
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (25.00%) ActionScript 2.0
1 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) NFS
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk