HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for HTTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HTTP over the 6 months to 20 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 428 390
Rank change year-on-year +51 -38 -41
Contract jobs citing HTTP 210 305 580
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.50% 0.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.70% 4.09% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 226 392
10th Percentile £313 £400 £405
25th Percentile £363 £485 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £641
90th Percentile £670 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -14.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 8
10th Percentile £25.73 £68.70 £40.40
25th Percentile £41.16 - £42.96
Median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £49.06
Median % change year-on-year -38.83% +52.87% -10.80%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £61.88
90th Percentile - £79.80 £76.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 - £52.27
% change year-on-year - - -11.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

HTTP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,676 7,461 9,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.07% 12.34% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,403 4,865 6,473
10th Percentile £205 £231 £226
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £433
% change year-on-year - +9.83% +8.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 493 368
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.69 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% -1.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £60.70 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.18
% change year-on-year +149.38% -12.65% -15.28%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTTP over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the UK over the 6 months to 20 April 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
England +41 160 £481 -16.30% 84
London +34 103 £525 -15.32% 34
UK excluding London +59 70 £430 -14.00% 56
Work from Home +71 66 £456 -20.65% 36
North of England +19 19 £400 -22.70% 6
Scotland +55 17 £579 +10.33% 3
North West +17 15 £350 -30.00% 2
East of England +20 11 £350 -6.67% 4
South East +11 8 £600 +35.21% 14
South West +15 7 £569 -18.75% 10
Northern Ireland +5 5 - - 8
Yorkshire +8 3 £400 -23.81% 3
Midlands +36 2 - - 10
West Midlands +29 1 - - 8
Wales +10 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £450 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 2

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (10.00%) Apache
2 16 (7.62%) IIS
2 16 (7.62%) Tomcat
3 8 (3.81%) IBM HTTP Server
3 8 (3.81%) WebSphere
3 8 (3.81%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (3.81%) WebSphere Portal
4 7 (3.33%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.38%) CMS
5 5 (2.38%) Confluence
6 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.90%) MQSeries
7 3 (1.43%) nginx
7 3 (1.43%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.95%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.48%) Drupal
9 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 19 (9.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.48%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 6 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.90%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.95%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 47 (22.38%) AWS
2 36 (17.14%) GCP
3 35 (16.67%) Azure
4 13 (6.19%) SaaS
5 11 (5.24%) Entra ID
5 11 (5.24%) Serverless
6 10 (4.76%) GitHub
6 10 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (3.33%) npm
9 5 (2.38%) PaaS
9 5 (2.38%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.90%) Google App Engine
11 3 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.43%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.43%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 71 (33.81%) TCP/IP
2 36 (17.14%) SSL
3 35 (16.67%) DNS
4 27 (12.86%) Firewall
5 18 (8.57%) FTP
6 16 (7.62%) H.323
7 15 (7.14%) VPN
8 14 (6.67%) Internet
9 13 (6.19%) Network Security
9 13 (6.19%) SMTP
9 13 (6.19%) SSH
10 12 (5.71%) DHCP
11 11 (5.24%) HTTPS
11 11 (5.24%) IPsec
12 9 (4.29%) SNMP
13 8 (3.81%) Wireshark
14 7 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 7 (3.33%) ICMP
14 7 (3.33%) NetScaler
15 6 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.95%) Apache Cassandra
2 16 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.38%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.38%) SQLite
5 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.90%) MySQL
5 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.95%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.95%) Power BI
6 2 (0.95%) Power Query
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.48%) Redis
7 1 (0.48%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (12.86%) Jenkins
2 26 (12.38%) Git
3 14 (6.67%) JIRA
4 12 (5.71%) Postman
5 6 (2.86%) IBM UrbanCode
5 6 (2.86%) JMeter
5 6 (2.86%) Selenium
5 6 (2.86%) SoapUI
5 6 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (2.38%) Checkstyle
6 5 (2.38%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.90%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.90%) Burp Suite
7 4 (1.90%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.90%) Gatling
7 4 (1.90%) WebDriver
8 3 (1.43%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.95%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.95%) JUnit
9 2 (0.95%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 39 (18.57%) Finance
2 34 (16.19%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.76%) Telecoms
4 26 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 19 (9.05%) Banking
7 13 (6.19%) Legal
8 11 (5.24%) Manufacturing
9 10 (4.76%) Electronics
9 10 (4.76%) Marketing
10 8 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.38%) Billing
11 5 (2.38%) German Language
11 5 (2.38%) Law
12 2 (0.95%) Advertising
12 2 (0.95%) Automotive
12 2 (0.95%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.48%) Local Government
13 1 (0.48%) Publishing
13 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (27.14%) Developer
2 30 (14.29%) Scala Developer
3 21 (10.00%) Senior
4 18 (8.57%) Linux Engineer
5 16 (7.62%) Software Engineer
6 13 (6.19%) Support Engineer
7 12 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (5.71%) Network Engineer
8 11 (5.24%) Architect
8 11 (5.24%) Linux Server Engineer
8 11 (5.24%) Server Engineer
9 9 (4.29%) Consultant
9 9 (4.29%) Technical Support
10 8 (3.81%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.81%) Middleware Engineer
10 8 (3.81%) Python Developer
11 6 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (2.86%) Senior Middleware Engineer
12 5 (2.38%) Avaya Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (22.38%) RESTful
2 40 (19.05%) REST
3 31 (14.76%) Akka
3 31 (14.76%) Kafka
4 25 (11.90%) CSS
5 22 (10.48%) HTML
6 18 (8.57%) JSON
7 17 (8.10%) AngularJS
8 16 (7.62%) LDAP
9 15 (7.14%) XML
10 14 (6.67%) .NET
11 12 (5.71%) SOAP
12 11 (5.24%) Node.js
12 11 (5.24%) SAML
13 10 (4.76%) OAuth
13 10 (4.76%) Web Services
14 9 (4.29%) Middleware
14 9 (4.29%) OpenID
15 8 (3.81%) J2EE
15 8 (3.81%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.05%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.62%) IVR
3 14 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 7 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.38%) Clustering
6 5 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.38%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.90%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.43%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.43%) PKI
9 2 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.95%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.95%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.48%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.48%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 56 (26.67%) Linux
2 31 (14.76%) Windows
3 27 (12.86%) Unix
4 16 (7.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.38%) Mac OS X
6 3 (1.43%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.95%) Android
7 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (26.19%) Agile
2 52 (24.76%) DevOps
3 38 (18.10%) Microservices
4 36 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 30 (14.29%) TDD
7 29 (13.81%) Clean Code
8 25 (11.90%) Pair Programming
9 23 (10.95%) GitOps
9 23 (10.95%) Software Engineering
10 22 (10.48%) Machine Learning
10 22 (10.48%) Personalization
11 17 (8.10%) Change Management
11 17 (8.10%) ITIL
12 16 (7.62%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (7.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (7.62%) Migration
13 15 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (7.14%) High Availability
13 15 (7.14%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 41 (19.52%) JavaScript
2 40 (19.05%) Python
3 35 (16.67%) Scala
4 30 (14.29%) Java
5 19 (9.05%) SQL
6 17 (8.10%) C#
6 17 (8.10%) PowerShell
7 13 (6.19%) Bash
7 13 (6.19%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.76%) Perl
9 8 (3.81%) PHP
10 5 (2.38%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.90%) Go
11 4 (1.90%) Groovy
12 3 (1.43%) Ruby
13 2 (0.95%) ABAP
13 2 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.95%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.62%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 13 (6.19%) Degree
5 10 (4.76%) CCNP
5 10 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.38%) CCDP
7 3 (1.43%) CCIE
7 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.95%) HND
8 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.95%) MCSD
8 2 (0.95%) MCSE
8 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.95%) SANS
9 1 (0.48%) GCFA
9 1 (0.48%) GCIA
9 1 (0.48%) GCIH
9 1 (0.48%) GIAC
9 1 (0.48%) GSNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.86%) QA
2 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.95%) HL7
5 1 (0.48%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.48%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (7.62%) Docker
2 11 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.90%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.90%) NFS
3 4 (1.90%) Samba
3 4 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.95%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (14.76%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.24%) Progress Chef
2 11 (5.24%) Puppet
3 10 (4.76%) Terraform
4 8 (3.81%) Kibana
5 6 (2.86%) Ansible
6 5 (2.38%) FortiGate
6 5 (2.38%) logstash
6 5 (2.38%) QRadar
7 3 (1.43%) PingFederate
8 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.95%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle Flashback
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.48%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.48%) Grafana
9 1 (0.48%) SCOM
9 1 (0.48%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 46 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.52%) Red Hat
3 17 (8.10%) SAP
4 16 (7.62%) Avaya
4 16 (7.62%) Typelevel
5 15 (7.14%) Oracle
6 13 (6.19%) Splunk
6 13 (6.19%) Verint
7 11 (5.24%) Palo Alto
8 10 (4.76%) Cisco
8 10 (4.76%) F5
8 10 (4.76%) Google
8 10 (4.76%) IBM
9 8 (3.81%) Zscaler
10 5 (2.38%) ArcSight
10 5 (2.38%) Arista
10 5 (2.38%) Aruba
10 5 (2.38%) Symantec
11 4 (1.90%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.90%) VMware