HTTP Contracts in England

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 438 407
Rank change year-on-year +73 -31 -75
Contract jobs citing HTTP 180 202 406
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.43% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.72% 3.41% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 150 266
10th Percentile £300 £391 £395
25th Percentile £400 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £621 £697 £650
90th Percentile £650 £775 £706
UK median daily rate £515 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £26.15 £50.52 £40.35
25th Percentile £27.00 £67.13 £43.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -38.83% +54.38% -2.84%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £57.50
90th Percentile - £79.00 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -38.83% +54.38% -7.47%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,843 5,928 7,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.17% 12.47% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,917 3,862 5,245
10th Percentile £213 £240 £225
25th Percentile £350 £388 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +12.99%
75th Percentile £602 £650 £619
90th Percentile £694 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 388 413 319
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £17.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -26.81% +3.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.75 £48.47
90th Percentile £70.20 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +10.00%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in England

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTTP in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for HTTP in England

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
London +62 114 £525 -15.32% 39
North of England +23 23 £506 +1.25% 7
South East +13 13 £565 +39.08% 13
Yorkshire +11 12 £624 +21.66% 6
South West +12 11 £533 -11.17% 5
North West +18 10 £463 -7.50% 1
East of England +10 9 £350 -22.22% 3
Midlands +12 1 - - 6
West Midlands +9 1 - - 4
North East - 1 £450 - 2
HTTP
UK

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (8.89%) Apache
2 15 (8.33%) Confluence
3 8 (4.44%) CMS
4 4 (2.22%) IIS
4 4 (2.22%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.67%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.67%) MQSeries
6 2 (1.11%) nginx
7 1 (0.56%) govService
7 1 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (37.22%) AWS
2 55 (30.56%) GCP
3 38 (21.11%) Azure
4 17 (9.44%) GitHub
5 12 (6.67%) Serverless
6 9 (5.00%) Apigee
6 9 (5.00%) Kong
7 7 (3.89%) Amazon Cognito
7 7 (3.89%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.89%) npm
7 7 (3.89%) OpenShift
8 6 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.78%) SaaS
10 4 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.22%) Boomi
10 4 (2.22%) Google App Engine
10 4 (2.22%) PaaS
11 3 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 59 (32.78%) TCP/IP
2 41 (22.78%) DNS
3 31 (17.22%) Firewall
4 27 (15.00%) SSL
5 20 (11.11%) VPN
6 15 (8.33%) FTP
7 14 (7.78%) DHCP
8 13 (7.22%) IPsec
9 12 (6.67%) HTTPS
9 12 (6.67%) Network Security
9 12 (6.67%) SMTP
10 10 (5.56%) SNMP
10 10 (5.56%) SSH
11 9 (5.00%) BGP
11 9 (5.00%) OSPF
12 8 (4.44%) Internet
13 7 (3.89%) Wireshark
14 6 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (2.22%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 12 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.89%) Triplestore
4 5 (2.78%) MySQL
4 5 (2.78%) SQLite
5 4 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.22%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.22%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.22%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.67%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.56%) GIS
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.56%) Redis
7 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.56%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 25 (13.89%) Git
3 23 (12.78%) JIRA
4 18 (10.00%) GitLab
5 9 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (5.00%) CircleCI
5 9 (5.00%) Travis CI
6 6 (3.33%) JMeter
6 6 (3.33%) Selenium
6 6 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.78%) Checkstyle
7 5 (2.78%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.22%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.22%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.22%) Gatling
8 4 (2.22%) Postman
8 4 (2.22%) WebDriver
9 3 (1.67%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.67%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (1.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 29 (16.11%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (10.56%) Finance
3 15 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 13 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.89%) Banking
7 5 (2.78%) Legal
8 4 (2.22%) Electronics
8 4 (2.22%) Marketing
9 3 (1.67%) German Language
10 2 (1.11%) Advertising
10 2 (1.11%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Automotive
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.56%) Publishing
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 60 (33.33%) Developer
2 36 (20.00%) Scala Developer
3 20 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.89%) Software Engineer
5 14 (7.78%) Linux Engineer
6 13 (7.22%) Network Engineer
7 11 (6.11%) Linux Server Engineer
7 11 (6.11%) Senior
7 11 (6.11%) Server Engineer
8 7 (3.89%) Architect
8 7 (3.89%) Support Engineer
9 6 (3.33%) Analyst
9 6 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (3.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 6 (3.33%) Security Engineer
10 5 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (2.22%) Full Stack Developer
11 4 (2.22%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (2.22%) SOC Analyst
11 4 (2.22%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (29.44%) RESTful
2 52 (28.89%) Kafka
3 38 (21.11%) Akka
4 34 (18.89%) REST
5 28 (15.56%) JSON
6 24 (13.33%) CSS
7 22 (12.22%) HTML
8 18 (10.00%) XML
9 17 (9.44%) LDAP
10 15 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (7.22%) AngularJS
11 13 (7.22%) YAML
12 12 (6.67%) .NET
13 11 (6.11%) Web Services
14 10 (5.56%) GraphQL
14 10 (5.56%) SOAP
15 7 (3.89%) Apache Jena
15 7 (3.89%) Apache NiFi
15 7 (3.89%) Node.js
15 7 (3.89%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 11 (6.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.89%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.78%) Clustering
6 5 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.22%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.22%) IVR
7 4 (2.22%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.67%) PKI
9 2 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 42 (23.33%) Linux
2 19 (10.56%) Unix
3 18 (10.00%) Windows
4 4 (2.22%) Mac OS X
4 4 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.11%) Android
5 2 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.56%) Solaris
6 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (38.89%) Agile
2 66 (36.67%) DevOps
3 47 (26.11%) Microservices
4 39 (21.67%) TDD
5 37 (20.56%) CI/CD
6 33 (18.33%) Pair Programming
7 31 (17.22%) GitOps
8 29 (16.11%) Clean Code
9 27 (15.00%) Machine Learning
9 27 (15.00%) Personalization
10 26 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (11.67%) Software Engineering
13 19 (10.56%) Containerisation
14 18 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 17 (9.44%) Coaching
15 17 (9.44%) Use Case
16 15 (8.33%) Scrum
16 15 (8.33%) Test Automation
16 15 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 42 (23.33%) Scala
2 32 (17.78%) JavaScript
3 29 (16.11%) Python
4 23 (12.78%) PowerShell
5 16 (8.89%) Java
6 13 (7.22%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.11%) C#
7 11 (6.11%) SQL
8 9 (5.00%) Bash
9 7 (3.89%) SPARQL
10 5 (2.78%) PHP
10 5 (2.78%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.22%) Groovy
12 3 (1.67%) ABAP
12 3 (1.67%) ActionScript
13 2 (1.11%) Go
13 2 (1.11%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.11%) Swift
14 1 (0.56%) Perl
14 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 12 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (6.11%) CCNP
6 9 (5.00%) Degree
7 5 (2.78%) CCDP
8 3 (1.67%) CCIE
9 2 (1.11%) CCNA
9 2 (1.11%) CEH
9 2 (1.11%) CISSP
9 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.11%) GCIA
9 2 (1.11%) GCIH
9 2 (1.11%) GIAC
9 2 (1.11%) HND
9 2 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.56%) GCFA
10 1 (0.56%) GSEC
10 1 (0.56%) GSNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.33%) QA
2 4 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.11%) HL7
3 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (16.67%) Docker
2 9 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.22%) NFS
4 3 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.67%) Samba
4 3 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.11%) XenApp
6 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (33.89%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.11%) Progress Chef
2 20 (11.11%) Puppet
3 17 (9.44%) Terraform
4 15 (8.33%) Kibana
5 12 (6.67%) logstash
6 11 (6.11%) Ansible
7 10 (5.56%) Grafana
7 10 (5.56%) Prometheus
8 9 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.78%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.67%) PingFederate
10 3 (1.67%) QRadar
11 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.56%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.56%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.56%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 22 (12.22%) Typelevel
2 21 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.67%) Splunk
3 12 (6.67%) Cisco
4 11 (6.11%) Palo Alto
4 11 (6.11%) SAP
5 10 (5.56%) Google
6 9 (5.00%) Oracle
7 8 (4.44%) Zscaler
8 7 (3.89%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.33%) F5
9 6 (3.33%) Symantec
10 5 (2.78%) Arista
10 5 (2.78%) Aruba
11 4 (2.22%) Avaya
11 4 (2.22%) Darktrace
11 4 (2.22%) FireEye
11 4 (2.22%) LogRhythm
11 4 (2.22%) Nokia
11 4 (2.22%) Verint