HTTP Contracts in England

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring HTTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HTTP over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 443 426
Rank change year-on-year +83 -17 -87
Contract jobs citing HTTP 191 197 406
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.42% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.96% 3.32% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 147 270
10th Percentile £300 £382 £399
25th Percentile £391 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £622 £685 £658
90th Percentile £650 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -13.79% +5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 4
10th Percentile £26.58 £53.32 £39.83
25th Percentile £27.00 £69.75 £42.19
Median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £46.79
Median % change year-on-year -38.83% +60.29% +3.98%
75th Percentile £75.22 £79.00 £55.19
90th Percentile £85.00 £84.42 £67.07
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £46.79
% change year-on-year -38.83% +60.29% +3.98%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

HTTP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,823 5,925 8,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.86% 12.60% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 3,842 5,326
10th Percentile £213 £240 £228
25th Percentile £350 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £607 £645 £619
90th Percentile £690 £737 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 408 318
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.28 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.48
90th Percentile £72.66 £75.00 £63.63
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 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
London +69 121 £525 -15.32% 33
North of England +16 25 £463 -7.50% 1
South East +23 14 £565 +39.08% 17
Yorkshire +15 12 £624 +21.66%
North West +12 12 £463 -7.50% 1
South West +6 11 £533 -11.17% 4
East of England +8 10 £350 -22.22% 8
West Midlands +12 1 - - 4
Midlands +9 1 - - 5
North East - 1 £450 -
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 (8.38%) Apache
1 16 (8.38%) Confluence
2 10 (5.24%) CMS
3 4 (2.09%) Headless CMS
3 4 (2.09%) IIS
3 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.09%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.05%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) govService
5 1 (0.52%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.52%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (36.65%) AWS
2 58 (30.37%) GCP
3 40 (20.94%) Azure
4 17 (8.90%) GitHub
5 13 (6.81%) Serverless
6 9 (4.71%) Apigee
6 9 (4.71%) Kong
7 8 (4.19%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.66%) Amazon Cognito
8 7 (3.66%) npm
8 7 (3.66%) OpenShift
9 6 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.62%) Boomi
10 5 (2.62%) SaaS
11 4 (2.09%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.09%) Google App Engine
11 4 (2.09%) PaaS
12 3 (1.57%) Akamai
12 3 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 63 (32.98%) TCP/IP
2 47 (24.61%) DNS
3 29 (15.18%) Firewall
4 28 (14.66%) SSL
5 17 (8.90%) FTP
5 17 (8.90%) VPN
6 16 (8.38%) DHCP
7 13 (6.81%) HTTPS
7 13 (6.81%) SMTP
8 12 (6.28%) IPsec
9 11 (5.76%) BGP
9 11 (5.76%) OSPF
9 11 (5.76%) SNMP
9 11 (5.76%) SSH
10 10 (5.24%) Network Security
11 8 (4.19%) Internet
12 6 (3.14%) 4G
12 6 (3.14%) 5G
12 6 (3.14%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (3.14%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.18%) Apache Cassandra
2 12 (6.28%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.66%) Triplestore
4 5 (2.62%) MySQL
4 5 (2.62%) SQLite
5 4 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.09%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.09%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.09%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.57%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.57%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.52%) Redis
7 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.52%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (14.14%) Jenkins
2 25 (13.09%) Git
3 24 (12.57%) JIRA
4 18 (9.42%) GitLab
5 9 (4.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (4.71%) CircleCI
5 9 (4.71%) Travis CI
6 6 (3.14%) JMeter
6 6 (3.14%) Selenium
6 6 (3.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.62%) Checkstyle
7 5 (2.62%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.09%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.09%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.09%) Gatling
8 4 (2.09%) Postman
8 4 (2.09%) WebDriver
9 3 (1.57%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.57%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (1.57%) Cypress.io
General
1 34 (17.80%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (10.99%) Finance
3 17 (8.90%) Telecoms
4 13 (6.81%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.76%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.19%) Banking
7 7 (3.66%) Legal
8 4 (2.09%) Electronics
8 4 (2.09%) German Language
8 4 (2.09%) Marketing
9 2 (1.05%) Advertising
9 2 (1.05%) Retail
9 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.52%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.52%) Publishing
10 1 (0.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 66 (34.55%) Developer
2 38 (19.90%) Scala Developer
3 19 (9.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.38%) Software Engineer
5 15 (7.85%) Network Engineer
6 12 (6.28%) Linux Engineer
6 12 (6.28%) Senior
7 11 (5.76%) Linux Server Engineer
7 11 (5.76%) Server Engineer
8 8 (4.19%) Security Engineer
9 7 (3.66%) Analyst
9 7 (3.66%) Architect
10 6 (3.14%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (3.14%) DevOps Automation Engineer
10 6 (3.14%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.62%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.62%) Junior
11 5 (2.62%) Python Developer
11 5 (2.62%) SOC Analyst
12 4 (2.09%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (29.32%) RESTful
2 55 (28.80%) Kafka
3 40 (20.94%) Akka
4 36 (18.85%) REST
5 27 (14.14%) JSON
6 25 (13.09%) CSS
7 23 (12.04%) HTML
8 18 (9.42%) XML
9 17 (8.90%) LDAP
10 15 (7.85%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (7.33%) AngularJS
12 13 (6.81%) YAML
13 12 (6.28%) Web Services
14 11 (5.76%) .NET
14 11 (5.76%) GraphQL
15 10 (5.24%) SOAP
16 7 (3.66%) Apache Jena
16 7 (3.66%) Apache NiFi
16 7 (3.66%) Node.js
16 7 (3.66%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.42%) Data Centre
2 12 (6.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (4.71%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.14%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.62%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.62%) Clustering
5 5 (2.62%) Cyberattack
5 5 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.62%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (2.09%) IVR
6 4 (2.09%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.57%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.57%) PKI
8 2 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (21.99%) Linux
2 20 (10.47%) Windows
3 17 (8.90%) Unix
4 4 (2.09%) Mac OS X
4 4 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.05%) Android
6 2 (1.05%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.52%) Solaris
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (38.74%) Agile
2 67 (35.08%) DevOps
3 49 (25.65%) Microservices
4 41 (21.47%) CI/CD
4 41 (21.47%) TDD
5 35 (18.32%) Pair Programming
6 33 (17.28%) GitOps
7 30 (15.71%) Clean Code
8 28 (14.66%) Machine Learning
8 28 (14.66%) Personalization
9 27 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (13.09%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (11.52%) Software Engineering
12 20 (10.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (9.95%) Containerisation
13 19 (9.95%) Use Case
14 17 (8.90%) Coaching
15 16 (8.38%) Test Automation
16 15 (7.85%) Scrum
16 15 (7.85%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 44 (23.04%) Scala
2 33 (17.28%) JavaScript
3 32 (16.75%) Python
4 22 (11.52%) PowerShell
5 16 (8.38%) Java
6 13 (6.81%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.76%) C#
7 11 (5.76%) SQL
8 9 (4.71%) Bash
9 7 (3.66%) SPARQL
10 5 (2.62%) PHP
10 5 (2.62%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.09%) ABAP
11 4 (2.09%) ActionScript
11 4 (2.09%) Groovy
12 3 (1.57%) Perl
12 3 (1.57%) Swift
13 2 (1.05%) Go
13 2 (1.05%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.52%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 41 (21.47%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.47%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.85%) DV Cleared
4 12 (6.28%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (6.28%) Degree
5 11 (5.76%) CCNP
6 5 (2.62%) CCDP
7 4 (2.09%) GCIA
7 4 (2.09%) GCIH
7 4 (2.09%) GIAC
8 3 (1.57%) CCIE
8 3 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.57%) SANS
9 2 (1.05%) CCNA
9 2 (1.05%) CEH
9 2 (1.05%) CISSP
9 2 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.05%) HND
10 1 (0.52%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.85%) QA
2 4 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.05%) HL7
3 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (15.71%) Docker
2 10 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.62%) NFS
4 3 (1.57%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.05%) XenApp
6 1 (0.52%) Firmware
6 1 (0.52%) Samba
6 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (33.51%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.47%) Progress Chef
2 20 (10.47%) Puppet
3 18 (9.42%) Terraform
4 15 (7.85%) Kibana
5 12 (6.28%) Ansible
5 12 (6.28%) logstash
6 10 (5.24%) Grafana
6 10 (5.24%) Prometheus
7 9 (4.71%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (2.62%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.57%) CSIRT
10 3 (1.57%) PingFederate
10 3 (1.57%) QRadar
11 2 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.52%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.52%) Oracle Flashback
12 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 23 (12.04%) Typelevel
2 22 (11.52%) Splunk
3 20 (10.47%) Microsoft
4 13 (6.81%) Cisco
4 13 (6.81%) Palo Alto
4 13 (6.81%) SAP
5 11 (5.76%) Google
6 9 (4.71%) Oracle
7 8 (4.19%) Zscaler
8 7 (3.66%) Symantec
9 6 (3.14%) F5
9 6 (3.14%) Nokia
10 5 (2.62%) Arista
10 5 (2.62%) Aruba
10 5 (2.62%) Darktrace
10 5 (2.62%) Ericsson
10 5 (2.62%) IBM
10 5 (2.62%) IronPort
10 5 (2.62%) LogRhythm
10 5 (2.62%) Red Hat