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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 115 124
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 +19
Contract jobs citing HTTP 33 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.00% 0.51% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.91% 3.11% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 6
10th Percentile £409 £449 £281
25th Percentile £421 £458 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% +2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £489 £469
90th Percentile £592 £513 -
England median daily rate £500 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -12.28% +8.57% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £45.88
England median hourly rate £66.00 £80.68 £45.88
% change year-on-year -18.19% +75.84% -38.83%

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 417 322 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.58% 16.56% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 191 216
10th Percentile £309 £193 £205
25th Percentile £390 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £589 £538 £665
90th Percentile £638 £638 £838
England median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 12
10th Percentile £14.19 - £18.02
25th Percentile £17.21 £22.98 £22.06
Median hourly rate £35.82 £24.59 £34.37
Median % change year-on-year +45.70% -28.46% +9.97%
75th Percentile £58.10 £26.19 £45.88
90th Percentile £74.26 - £94.59
England median hourly rate £35.52 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.28% -6.25% +128.57%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +1 18 - -
Cheshire +2 14 £555 +12.80% 1
Manchester -33 1 £433 -30.80% 6
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 (15.15%) Akamai
1 5 (15.15%) AWS
1 5 (15.15%) GCP
2 4 (12.12%) Azure
3 1 (3.03%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 32 (96.97%) DNS
2 30 (90.91%) TCP/IP
3 27 (81.82%) BIG-IP
3 27 (81.82%) SSL
3 27 (81.82%) Wireshark
4 18 (54.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 18 (54.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (3.03%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 27 (81.82%) Fiddler
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) Postman
General
1 18 (54.55%) Banking
1 18 (54.55%) Investment Banking
2 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
Job Titles
1 27 (81.82%) Network Engineer
1 27 (81.82%) Web Engineer
2 18 (54.55%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 18 (54.55%) IP Network Engineer
3 9 (27.27%) Junior
3 9 (27.27%) Junior Network Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Apigee Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
1 1 (3.03%) JAX-RS
1 1 (3.03%) JSON
1 1 (3.03%) JWT
1 1 (3.03%) OAuth
1 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
1 1 (3.03%) RESTful
1 1 (3.03%) Spring
1 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
1 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (54.55%) Management Information System
2 5 (15.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (81.82%) Data Loss Prevention
1 27 (81.82%) Load Balancing
1 27 (81.82%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 5 (15.15%) Bot Management
2 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
2 5 (15.15%) Incident Response
2 5 (15.15%) OWASP
3 4 (12.12%) DDoS Mitigation
3 4 (12.12%) DevSecOps
3 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (12.12%) SIEM
4 3 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (9.09%) Threat Analysis
5 2 (6.06%) Analytics
5 2 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (6.06%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (6.06%) Security Analytics
5 2 (6.06%) Security Operations
5 2 (6.06%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Python
2 1 (3.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
System Software
1 18 (54.55%) Firmware
1 18 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (27.27%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (81.82%) Blue Coat
1 27 (81.82%) F5
1 27 (81.82%) McAfee
1 27 (81.82%) VMware
2 18 (54.55%) NetApp
3 1 (3.03%) Splunk