HTTP Contracts in the North West

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 134 164
Rank change year-on-year +9 +30 -39
Contract jobs citing HTTP 11 15 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.39% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.37% 3.50% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 10
10th Percentile £310 £491 £311
25th Percentile £456 £496 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +2.56% -15.36%
75th Percentile £469 £503 £594
90th Percentile - £627 £645
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.88 - -
England median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £46.79
% change year-on-year -38.83% +60.29% -6.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 326 429 561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.65% 14.24% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 288 371
10th Percentile £208 £288 £163
25th Percentile £340 £363 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £668 £565 £583
90th Percentile £830 £638 £638
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 10
10th Percentile £21.10 £15.41 £10.96
25th Percentile £26.00 £18.93 £16.42
Median hourly rate £45.88 £31.25 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +46.82% +62.34% +32.17%
75th Percentile £48.75 £51.06 £49.94
90th Percentile £90.20 £53.22 £65.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +5.10%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the North West over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in the North West

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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 10 June 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
Manchester +10 7 £463 -7.50% 1
Lancashire - 4 - -
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) npm
1 4 (36.36%) Serverless
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Boomi
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) SSL
2 2 (18.18%) HTTPS
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) FTP
3 1 (9.09%) IPsec
3 1 (9.09%) SNMP
3 1 (9.09%) SSH
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 3 (27.27%) Bitbucket
2 3 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
3 2 (18.18%) Gatling
3 2 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) JMeter
3 2 (18.18%) Selenium
3 2 (18.18%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (9.09%) IT Technician
3 1 (9.09%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
1 4 (36.36%) RESTful
2 3 (27.27%) JDBC
2 3 (27.27%) JPA
2 3 (27.27%) JWT
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) WebSockets
3 2 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (18.18%) Kafka
3 2 (18.18%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) EDI
4 1 (9.09%) LDAP
4 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Mac OS X
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
2 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
3 4 (36.36%) Front End Development
4 3 (27.27%) Dependency Injection
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 3 (27.27%) Kanban
4 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Multithreading
4 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) BDD
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
5 2 (18.18%) TDD
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
6 1 (9.09%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 2 (18.18%) Groovy
3 2 (18.18%) Scala
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) ActionScript
4 1 (9.09%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) SAP