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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 345 360
Rank change year-on-year +67 +15 -94
Contract jobs citing HTTP 70 116 281
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.48% 0.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.56% 4.15% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 89 196
10th Percentile £350 £447 £414
25th Percentile £426 £495 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% +4.55% +8.16%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £625 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
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% +33.69%
75th Percentile £24.25 £69.50 £48.06
90th Percentile - - £48.37
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -38.83% +54.38% -2.84%

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 1,535 2,798 4,427
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.49% 11.61% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,870 3,025
10th Percentile £300 £343 £313
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £646 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 94 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.80 £19.21
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £28.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.16 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.55% +16.13% +22.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.19 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%

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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 1 June 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 (10.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 7 (10.00%) WebSphere
1 7 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 7 (10.00%) WebSphere Portal
2 5 (7.14%) Confluence
3 3 (4.29%) Apache
3 3 (4.29%) CMS
3 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.86%) Headless CMS
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (2.86%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (28.57%) AWS
1 20 (28.57%) Azure
2 18 (25.71%) GCP
3 11 (15.71%) GitHub
4 8 (11.43%) Serverless
5 6 (8.57%) npm
6 5 (7.14%) Apigee
7 4 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.29%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (4.29%) Google App Engine
8 3 (4.29%) Kong
8 3 (4.29%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (25.71%) TCP/IP
2 13 (18.57%) DNS
3 8 (11.43%) Firewall
4 7 (10.00%) DHCP
5 6 (8.57%) Network Security
5 6 (8.57%) VPN
6 5 (7.14%) BGP
6 5 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (7.14%) OSPF
6 5 (7.14%) SNMP
7 3 (4.29%) Internet
7 3 (4.29%) IPsec
7 3 (4.29%) MPLS
7 3 (4.29%) SD-WAN
7 3 (4.29%) WAN
7 3 (4.29%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (1.43%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (1.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.43%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (5.71%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.29%) Triplestore
6 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (2.86%) Power BI
6 2 (2.86%) Power Query
6 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.43%) Redis
7 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.43%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (11.43%) GitLab
2 7 (10.00%) Git
3 6 (8.57%) JIRA
4 5 (7.14%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (4.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (4.29%) CircleCI
5 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (4.29%) Travis CI
6 2 (2.86%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.43%) Checkstyle
7 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.43%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.43%) WebPageTest
General
1 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.00%) Finance
3 8 (11.43%) Banking
4 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.43%) Advertising
8 1 (1.43%) Automotive
8 1 (1.43%) Electronics
8 1 (1.43%) German Language
8 1 (1.43%) Legal
8 1 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (1.43%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.43%) Publishing
8 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Developer
2 12 (17.14%) Scala Developer
3 11 (15.71%) Software Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) Senior
5 8 (11.43%) Network Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Middleware Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Cloud Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Consultant
9 3 (4.29%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) GCP Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Support Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) WebOps Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) Analyst
10 2 (2.86%) Angular Developer
10 2 (2.86%) Full Stack Developer
10 2 (2.86%) Power Platform Consultant
10 2 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (35.71%) RESTful
2 14 (20.00%) CSS
2 14 (20.00%) REST
3 13 (18.57%) Akka
4 12 (17.14%) AngularJS
4 12 (17.14%) HTML
5 9 (12.86%) Kafka
6 8 (11.43%) Play Framework
7 7 (10.00%) J2EE
7 7 (10.00%) JSON
7 7 (10.00%) Middleware
7 7 (10.00%) Node.js
7 7 (10.00%) XML
8 6 (8.57%) YAML
9 5 (7.14%) GraphQL
10 4 (5.71%) HTML5
10 4 (5.71%) OAuth
10 4 (5.71%) OpenID
10 4 (5.71%) SOAP
10 4 (5.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.14%) Clustering
3 3 (4.29%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) CMDB
5 1 (1.43%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.86%) Linux
2 3 (4.29%) Unix
3 2 (2.86%) Windows
3 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.43%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.14%) Agile
1 19 (27.14%) CI/CD
1 19 (27.14%) DevOps
1 19 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (24.29%) Microservices
3 13 (18.57%) Software Engineering
4 12 (17.14%) Clean Code
5 9 (12.86%) Functional Programming
5 9 (12.86%) ITIL
6 8 (11.43%) Front End Development
7 7 (10.00%) API Integration
7 7 (10.00%) High Availability
7 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (10.00%) Task Automation
8 6 (8.57%) Containerisation
8 6 (8.57%) Decision-Making
8 6 (8.57%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (8.57%) Service Management
9 5 (7.14%) Non-Blocking Code
9 5 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) JavaScript
2 16 (22.86%) Python
3 13 (18.57%) Scala
4 10 (14.29%) SQL
5 9 (12.86%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.71%) Go
8 3 (4.29%) Bash
8 3 (4.29%) Java
8 3 (4.29%) PHP
8 3 (4.29%) SPARQL
9 2 (2.86%) C
9 2 (2.86%) C#
9 2 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.86%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.43%) ABAP
10 1 (1.43%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.43%) C++
10 1 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.14%) CCDP
4 5 (7.14%) CCNP
5 1 (1.43%) CCNA
5 1 (1.43%) Degree
5 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.43%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (15.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.00%) Terraform
3 6 (8.57%) Kibana
4 5 (7.14%) Ansible
5 3 (4.29%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (4.29%) Grafana
5 3 (4.29%) logstash
5 3 (4.29%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.29%) Puppet
6 2 (2.86%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.86%) Oracle Flashback
6 2 (2.86%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.43%) PingFederate
7 1 (1.43%) SCOM
7 1 (1.43%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) Google
2 8 (11.43%) IBM
3 6 (8.57%) Cisco
3 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.57%) Splunk
3 6 (8.57%) Zscaler
4 5 (7.14%) Arista
4 5 (7.14%) Aruba
4 5 (7.14%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.29%) Infoblox
5 3 (4.29%) Meraki
5 3 (4.29%) Oracle
5 3 (4.29%) Typelevel
6 2 (2.86%) SAP
7 1 (1.43%) Blue Coat
7 1 (1.43%) BMC
7 1 (1.43%) HP
7 1 (1.43%) McAfee
7 1 (1.43%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.43%) Symantec