HTTP Contracts in London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 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 278 356 386
Rank change year-on-year +78 +30 -106
Contract jobs citing HTTP 115 132 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.66% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.89% 5.10% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 98 168
10th Percentile £300 £461 £423
25th Percentile £400 £553 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +3.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £619 £734 £690
90th Percentile £650 £800 £716
England median daily rate £525 £595 £550
% change year-on-year -11.76% +8.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £50.52 £39.83
25th Percentile - £67.13 £42.19
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £46.79
Median % change year-on-year - +60.29% -6.42%
75th Percentile - - £55.19
90th Percentile - £79.00 £67.07
England 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
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,669 2,589 3,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.53% 10.18% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,818 2,545
10th Percentile £215 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +13.52%
75th Percentile £619 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 89
10th Percentile £14.48 £18.93 £16.45
25th Percentile £16.71 £22.75 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% +29.35% -43.11%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.50 £44.50
90th Percentile £59.75 £76.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +135.29% -28.90% +3.48%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in London

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in London

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in London

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in London

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
West London +30 14 £425 -36.57% 1
Central London +30 5 £850 +45.30% 1
East London -6 1 - -
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (5.22%) Confluence
2 4 (3.48%) Apache
3 3 (2.61%) CMS
3 3 (2.61%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.74%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.74%) nginx
5 1 (0.87%) govService
5 1 (0.87%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.87%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.87%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.87%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 52 (45.22%) AWS
2 41 (35.65%) GCP
3 18 (15.65%) Azure
4 6 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (5.22%) Serverless
5 5 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.35%) SaaS
6 4 (3.48%) PaaS
7 3 (2.61%) Akamai
7 3 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.61%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.61%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.61%) Datadog
7 3 (2.61%) GitHub
7 3 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (36.52%) TCP/IP
2 25 (21.74%) DNS
3 19 (16.52%) Firewall
4 16 (13.91%) SSL
5 12 (10.43%) DHCP
6 11 (9.57%) Network Security
7 10 (8.70%) BGP
7 10 (8.70%) FTP
7 10 (8.70%) HTTPS
7 10 (8.70%) OSPF
8 9 (7.83%) IPsec
9 8 (6.96%) SNMP
9 8 (6.96%) SSH
10 7 (6.09%) SMTP
10 7 (6.09%) VPN
11 6 (5.22%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (5.22%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (5.22%) Internet
11 6 (5.22%) Wireshark
12 4 (3.48%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.48%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.74%) MySQL
4 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.74%) Triplestore
5 1 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.87%) Redis
5 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (9.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.22%) Git
2 6 (5.22%) JIRA
3 4 (3.48%) Postman
4 3 (2.61%) Burp Suite
4 3 (2.61%) Charles Proxy
4 3 (2.61%) GitLab
4 3 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.74%) Appium
5 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.74%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.74%) JMeter
5 2 (1.74%) JUnit
5 2 (1.74%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (1.74%) Selenium
5 2 (1.74%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 1 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 13 (11.30%) Finance
2 12 (10.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.83%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.96%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.09%) Banking
6 6 (5.22%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.48%) Electronics
7 4 (3.48%) Marketing
8 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Advertising
9 1 (0.87%) Legal
9 1 (0.87%) Local Government
9 1 (0.87%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.87%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 48 (41.74%) Developer
2 35 (30.43%) Scala Developer
3 13 (11.30%) Linux Engineer
4 11 (9.57%) Linux Server Engineer
4 11 (9.57%) Network Engineer
4 11 (9.57%) Server Engineer
5 7 (6.09%) Architect
6 6 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Support Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Network Architect
8 4 (3.48%) Python Developer
8 4 (3.48%) Security Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) ArcSight Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (2.61%) Design Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) RAN Design Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) RAN Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (35.65%) RESTful
2 39 (33.91%) Kafka
3 37 (32.17%) Akka
4 13 (11.30%) CSS
5 12 (10.43%) JSON
5 12 (10.43%) REST
6 11 (9.57%) HTML
7 7 (6.09%) LDAP
8 6 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (5.22%) Web Services
9 5 (4.35%) .NET
9 5 (4.35%) GraphQL
9 5 (4.35%) SAML
9 5 (4.35%) SOAP
10 4 (3.48%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.48%) Jest
10 4 (3.48%) Next.js
10 4 (3.48%) OAuth
10 4 (3.48%) OpenID
11 3 (2.61%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.65%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (4.35%) Clustering
3 5 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.61%) PKI
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.87%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (20.00%) Linux
2 11 (9.57%) Unix
3 7 (6.09%) Windows
4 2 (1.74%) Android
4 2 (1.74%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (38.26%) Agile
2 42 (36.52%) DevOps
2 42 (36.52%) Microservices
3 34 (29.57%) TDD
4 32 (27.83%) Pair Programming
5 31 (26.96%) GitOps
6 28 (24.35%) Clean Code
7 26 (22.61%) Machine Learning
7 26 (22.61%) Personalization
8 22 (19.13%) CI/CD
9 17 (14.78%) Coaching
10 14 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (11.30%) High Availability
12 10 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (8.70%) Load Balancing
12 10 (8.70%) Migration
13 9 (7.83%) Computer Science
13 9 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (7.83%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (7.83%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 37 (32.17%) Scala
2 18 (15.65%) JavaScript
3 14 (12.17%) Python
4 12 (10.43%) PowerShell
5 7 (6.09%) Java
6 5 (4.35%) C#
6 5 (4.35%) SQL
7 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.74%) Go
8 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.74%) Perl
8 2 (1.74%) PHP
8 2 (1.74%) SPARQL
8 2 (1.74%) Swift
9 1 (0.87%) C
9 1 (0.87%) C++
9 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.57%) CCNP
2 11 (9.57%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (9.57%) DV Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) Degree
4 5 (4.35%) CCDP
5 3 (2.61%) CCIE
5 3 (2.61%) GCIA
5 3 (2.61%) GCIH
5 3 (2.61%) GIAC
5 3 (2.61%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.74%) CEH
6 2 (1.74%) CISSP
6 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.74%) SANS
7 1 (0.87%) CCFP
7 1 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.87%) ECSA
7 1 (0.87%) GAWN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) QA
2 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.74%) HL7
3 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (12.17%) Docker
2 6 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.61%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.61%) NFS
4 2 (1.74%) Samba
4 2 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.74%) XenApp
5 1 (0.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (38.26%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.57%) Progress Chef
2 11 (9.57%) Puppet
3 8 (6.96%) Terraform
4 6 (5.22%) Kibana
5 5 (4.35%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.61%) logstash
6 3 (2.61%) QRadar
7 2 (1.74%) Ansible
7 2 (1.74%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.74%) PingFederate
7 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.87%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.87%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 21 (18.26%) Typelevel
2 12 (10.43%) Palo Alto
3 10 (8.70%) Cisco
4 8 (6.96%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.96%) Splunk
4 8 (6.96%) Zscaler
5 5 (4.35%) Arista
5 5 (4.35%) Aruba
5 5 (4.35%) Google
5 5 (4.35%) Oracle
6 4 (3.48%) SAP
7 3 (2.61%) ArcSight
7 3 (2.61%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.61%) Ericsson
7 3 (2.61%) F5
7 3 (2.61%) Infoblox
7 3 (2.61%) Meraki
7 3 (2.61%) New Relic
7 3 (2.61%) Nokia
7 3 (2.61%) SolarWinds