HTTP Contracts with Work from Home Options

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 341 335
Rank change year-on-year +67 -6 -62
Contract jobs citing HTTP 72 131 309
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.51% 0.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.57% 4.44% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 94 221
10th Percentile £343 £403 £413
25th Percentile £413 £495 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +2.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £648 £625
90th Percentile £625 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £44.01
25th Percentile £22.75 £64.50 £44.77
Median hourly rate £23.50 £67.00 £46.79
Median % change year-on-year -64.93% +43.19% +167.37%
75th Percentile £24.25 £69.50 £48.06
90th Percentile - - £48.37
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £49.06
% change year-on-year -38.83% +52.87% -6.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,577 2,952 4,345
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.35% 11.53% 9.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,014 1,965 2,946
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £600
90th Percentile £702 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 98 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.90 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.19 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

HTTP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing HTTP.

HTTP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing HTTP over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

HTTP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing HTTP.

HTTP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (9.72%) IBM HTTP Server
1 7 (9.72%) WebSphere
1 7 (9.72%) WebSphere Application Server
1 7 (9.72%) WebSphere Portal
2 4 (5.56%) Confluence
3 3 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.78%) Apache
4 2 (2.78%) CMS
4 2 (2.78%) IIS
4 2 (2.78%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (2.78%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.78%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.39%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.39%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.00%) Azure
2 17 (23.61%) GCP
3 15 (20.83%) AWS
4 9 (12.50%) GitHub
5 8 (11.11%) Serverless
6 6 (8.33%) npm
7 5 (6.94%) Apigee
8 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (4.17%) Google App Engine
9 3 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (2.78%) Kong
10 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (1.39%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (26.39%) TCP/IP
2 12 (16.67%) DNS
3 6 (8.33%) DHCP
3 6 (8.33%) Firewall
4 5 (6.94%) BGP
4 5 (6.94%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (6.94%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (6.94%) Network Security
4 5 (6.94%) OSPF
4 5 (6.94%) SNMP
5 4 (5.56%) Internet
5 4 (5.56%) SSL
5 4 (5.56%) VPN
6 3 (4.17%) MPLS
6 3 (4.17%) SD-WAN
6 3 (4.17%) WAN
6 3 (4.17%) WinSCP
6 3 (4.17%) Wireshark
7 2 (2.78%) H.323
8 1 (1.39%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (5.56%) BigQuery
4 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.78%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.78%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (2.78%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (2.78%) Power BI
5 2 (2.78%) Power Query
5 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.39%) Redis
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.39%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Git
2 6 (8.33%) JIRA
3 5 (6.94%) IBM UrbanCode
4 4 (5.56%) GitLab
4 4 (5.56%) Postman
5 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.17%) SoapUI
5 3 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.78%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.78%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.78%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.39%) Checkstyle
7 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.83%) Finance
3 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.11%) Banking
5 6 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.17%) Legal
6 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.78%) German Language
7 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.39%) Advertising
8 1 (1.39%) Automotive
8 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Electronics
8 1 (1.39%) Marketing
8 1 (1.39%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Publishing
8 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (25.00%) Developer
2 11 (15.28%) Scala Developer
2 11 (15.28%) Software Engineer
3 10 (13.89%) Senior
4 7 (9.72%) Middleware Engineer
4 7 (9.72%) Network Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Senior Middleware Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Cloud Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Consultant
7 3 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) WebOps Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Avaya Telecoms Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) GCP Developer
8 2 (2.78%) Power Platform Consultant
8 2 (2.78%) Python Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Telecoms Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (33.33%) RESTful
2 15 (20.83%) REST
3 12 (16.67%) Akka
4 11 (15.28%) AngularJS
4 11 (15.28%) CSS
5 10 (13.89%) HTML
6 9 (12.50%) Node.js
7 8 (11.11%) Play Framework
8 7 (9.72%) J2EE
8 7 (9.72%) Middleware
8 7 (9.72%) SOAP
9 6 (8.33%) JSON
9 6 (8.33%) XML
10 5 (6.94%) Kafka
10 5 (6.94%) OAuth
10 5 (6.94%) OpenID
10 5 (6.94%) YAML
11 4 (5.56%) HTML5
11 4 (5.56%) OAuth2
12 3 (4.17%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.94%) Clustering
3 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.78%) IVR
4 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) CMDB
5 1 (1.39%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.28%) Linux
2 4 (5.56%) Unix
2 4 (5.56%) Windows
3 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.39%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.78%) Agile
2 19 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (23.61%) CI/CD
3 17 (23.61%) DevOps
4 16 (22.22%) Microservices
5 11 (15.28%) Clean Code
5 11 (15.28%) Software Engineering
6 9 (12.50%) Functional Programming
6 9 (12.50%) ITIL
7 8 (11.11%) High Availability
8 7 (9.72%) Decision-Making
8 7 (9.72%) Front End Development
8 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (8.33%) API Integration
9 6 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (8.33%) Load Balancing
9 6 (8.33%) Service Management
9 6 (8.33%) Task Automation
10 5 (6.94%) Problem Management
10 5 (6.94%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.17%) JavaScript
2 20 (27.78%) Python
3 12 (16.67%) Scala
4 10 (13.89%) SQL
5 9 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.33%) Java
7 5 (6.94%) Bash
8 4 (5.56%) PHP
8 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.17%) C#
9 3 (4.17%) Go
10 2 (2.78%) C
10 2 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.78%) Perl
10 2 (2.78%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.39%) ABAP
11 1 (1.39%) C++
11 1 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (6.94%) CCDP
1 5 (6.94%) CCNP
1 5 (6.94%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (6.94%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.39%) Degree
3 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.39%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.39%) NCSC
2 1 (1.39%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.72%) Terraform
3 5 (6.94%) Ansible
3 5 (6.94%) Kibana
4 2 (2.78%) Data Guard
4 2 (2.78%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (2.78%) Grafana
4 2 (2.78%) logstash
4 2 (2.78%) Oracle Flashback
4 2 (2.78%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.78%) Puppet
5 1 (1.39%) PingFederate
5 1 (1.39%) SCOM
5 1 (1.39%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.50%) Google
3 8 (11.11%) IBM
4 6 (8.33%) Zscaler
5 5 (6.94%) Arista
5 5 (6.94%) Aruba
5 5 (6.94%) Cisco
5 5 (6.94%) Palo Alto
5 5 (6.94%) SAP
5 5 (6.94%) Splunk
6 3 (4.17%) Infoblox
6 3 (4.17%) Meraki
6 3 (4.17%) Oracle
7 2 (2.78%) Avaya
7 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.78%) Typelevel
7 2 (2.78%) Verint
8 1 (1.39%) Cadence
8 1 (1.39%) McAfee
8 1 (1.39%) Symantec