HTTP Contracts in the UK excluding London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 330 371 362
Rank change year-on-year +41 -9 -62
Contract jobs citing HTTP 71 59 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.26% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.16% 1.67% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 40 90
10th Percentile £290 £325 £300
25th Percentile £391 £450 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £461
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +8.40% +2.50%
75th Percentile £583 £600 £560
90th Percentile £638 £653 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -13.79% +5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £26.58 - -
25th Percentile £27.00 - -
Median hourly rate £45.88 - -
75th Percentile £75.22 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 3,532 4,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 15.56% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 2,200 2,762
10th Percentile £203 £210 £190
25th Percentile £350 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 299 243
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.91
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.93
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HTTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +48 5 £440 -16.19% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 3
Wales +20 1 - - 1
West Midlands +12 1 - - 4
Midlands +9 1 - - 5
North East - 1 £450 -
HTTP
UK

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 12 (16.90%) Apache
2 9 (12.68%) Confluence
3 5 (7.04%) CMS
3 5 (7.04%) IBM HTTP Server
3 5 (7.04%) WebSphere
3 5 (7.04%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (7.04%) WebSphere Portal
4 4 (5.63%) IIS
4 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (5.63%) Tomcat
5 3 (4.23%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (1.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) InfoPath
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.54%) AWS
1 16 (22.54%) Azure
2 14 (19.72%) GitHub
3 13 (18.31%) GCP
4 9 (12.68%) Kong
5 6 (8.45%) Apigee
6 5 (7.04%) Amazon Cognito
6 5 (7.04%) Boomi
6 5 (7.04%) npm
6 5 (7.04%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.63%) Serverless
8 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.82%) Google App Engine
9 1 (1.41%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 20 (28.17%) DNS
1 20 (28.17%) TCP/IP
2 12 (16.90%) SSL
3 9 (12.68%) Firewall
3 9 (12.68%) VPN
4 8 (11.27%) FTP
5 6 (8.45%) SMTP
6 4 (5.63%) H.323
7 3 (4.23%) BIG-IP
7 3 (4.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (4.23%) HTTPS
7 3 (4.23%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (4.23%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (4.23%) SNMP
7 3 (4.23%) SSH
8 2 (2.82%) IPsec
9 1 (1.41%) 4G
9 1 (1.41%) 5G
9 1 (1.41%) RNC
9 1 (1.41%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.68%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.04%) SQLite
2 5 (7.04%) Triplestore
3 4 (5.63%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.23%) BigQuery
4 3 (4.23%) MariaDB
4 3 (4.23%) MySQL
5 1 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.41%) GIS
5 1 (1.41%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 19 (26.76%) Git
2 16 (22.54%) Jenkins
2 16 (22.54%) JIRA
3 14 (19.72%) GitLab
4 9 (12.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (12.68%) CircleCI
4 9 (12.68%) Travis CI
5 5 (7.04%) Checkstyle
5 5 (7.04%) IBM UrbanCode
5 5 (7.04%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.63%) Cucumber
6 4 (5.63%) Gatling
6 4 (5.63%) JMeter
6 4 (5.63%) Selenium
6 4 (5.63%) WebDriver
7 3 (4.23%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.08%) Finance
4 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.27%) Telecoms
5 5 (7.04%) Banking
5 5 (7.04%) Legal
6 4 (5.63%) German Language
7 3 (4.23%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.82%) Electronics
8 2 (2.82%) Marketing
9 1 (1.41%) Automotive
9 1 (1.41%) Publishing
9 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (18.31%) DevOps Engineer
1 13 (18.31%) Software Engineer
2 12 (16.90%) Senior
3 11 (15.49%) Developer
4 6 (8.45%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Middleware Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Senior Middleware Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) SOC Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Coordinator
6 4 (5.63%) Integration Developer
6 4 (5.63%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Technical Support
6 4 (5.63%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Junior
7 3 (4.23%) Junior Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.76%) REST
2 18 (25.35%) XML
3 15 (21.13%) Kafka
4 14 (19.72%) JSON
5 11 (15.49%) CSS
6 10 (14.08%) LDAP
6 10 (14.08%) RESTful
7 9 (12.68%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (12.68%) HTML
7 9 (12.68%) YAML
8 7 (9.86%) AngularJS
9 6 (8.45%) Middleware
10 5 (7.04%) .NET
10 5 (7.04%) .NET Core
10 5 (7.04%) .NET Framework
10 5 (7.04%) Apache Jena
10 5 (7.04%) GraphQL
10 5 (7.04%) J2EE
10 5 (7.04%) PostGIS
10 5 (7.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.04%) Cyberattack
2 5 (7.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (5.63%) IVR
3 4 (5.63%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.82%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.76%) Linux
2 14 (19.72%) Windows
3 6 (8.45%) Unix
4 4 (5.63%) Mac OS X
4 4 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.82%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.82%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.82%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.41%) Solaris
6 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (38.03%) Agile
2 23 (32.39%) DevOps
3 15 (21.13%) CI/CD
3 15 (21.13%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (21.13%) Software Engineering
4 14 (19.72%) Containerisation
4 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (18.31%) Project Management
5 13 (18.31%) Task Automation
6 12 (16.90%) API Integration
6 12 (16.90%) DevSecOps
7 11 (15.49%) ITIL
8 9 (12.68%) Continuous Deployment
8 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (12.68%) Scrum
8 9 (12.68%) Secure Coding
8 9 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (12.68%) Test Automation
8 9 (12.68%) Use Case
8 9 (12.68%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.72%) Python
2 12 (16.90%) JavaScript
3 11 (15.49%) Java
3 11 (15.49%) PowerShell
4 9 (12.68%) Bash
5 7 (9.86%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.45%) Scala
7 5 (7.04%) C#
7 5 (7.04%) Shell Script
7 5 (7.04%) SPARQL
8 4 (5.63%) ABAP
8 4 (5.63%) ActionScript
8 4 (5.63%) Groovy
9 3 (4.23%) PHP
9 3 (4.23%) SQL
10 1 (1.41%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 26 (36.62%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.23%) Degree
5 2 (2.82%) HND
6 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.68%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 15 (21.13%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.82%) NFS
Systems Management
1 16 (22.54%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.08%) Grafana
2 10 (14.08%) Prometheus
3 9 (12.68%) Ansible
3 9 (12.68%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (12.68%) Kibana
3 9 (12.68%) logstash
3 9 (12.68%) Progress Chef
3 9 (12.68%) Puppet
3 9 (12.68%) Terraform
4 2 (2.82%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Splunk
2 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
3 11 (15.49%) SAP
4 9 (12.68%) IBM
5 5 (7.04%) Darktrace
5 5 (7.04%) FireEye
5 5 (7.04%) IronPort
5 5 (7.04%) LogRhythm
5 5 (7.04%) Symantec
6 4 (5.63%) Avaya
6 4 (5.63%) Oracle
6 4 (5.63%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.63%) Verint
7 3 (4.23%) F5
7 3 (4.23%) Google
8 2 (2.82%) Cisco
8 2 (2.82%) Nokia
9 1 (1.41%) Dell
9 1 (1.41%) Ericsson
9 1 (1.41%) Mapinfo