HTTP Contracts with Work from Home Options

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 266 344 357
Rank change year-on-year +78 +13 -84
Contract jobs citing HTTP 75 113 279
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.47% 0.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.90% 4.03% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 88 195
10th Percentile £350 £442 £413
25th Percentile £440 £495 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £634
90th Percentile £625 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -13.79% +5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £44.01
25th Percentile £22.75 £64.50 £44.77
Median hourly rate £23.50 £67.00 £46.79
Median % change year-on-year -64.93% +43.19% +33.69%
75th Percentile £24.25 £69.50 £48.06
90th Percentile - - £48.37
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,531 2,803 4,434
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.74% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,872 3,040
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 99 105
10th Percentile £12.53 £19.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.07 £42.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.13 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

HTTP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing HTTP.

HTTP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing HTTP over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

HTTP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing HTTP.

HTTP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (9.33%) IBM HTTP Server
1 7 (9.33%) WebSphere
1 7 (9.33%) WebSphere Application Server
1 7 (9.33%) WebSphere Portal
2 6 (8.00%) Confluence
3 4 (5.33%) CMS
4 3 (4.00%) Apache
4 3 (4.00%) Headless CMS
4 3 (4.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (2.67%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.33%) Jetty
6 1 (1.33%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (26.67%) AWS
2 19 (25.33%) Azure
3 18 (24.00%) GCP
4 11 (14.67%) GitHub
5 8 (10.67%) Serverless
6 6 (8.00%) npm
7 5 (6.67%) Apigee
8 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (4.00%) Google App Engine
9 3 (4.00%) Kong
9 3 (4.00%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.33%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.67%) TCP/IP
2 13 (17.33%) DNS
3 7 (9.33%) DHCP
3 7 (9.33%) Firewall
4 6 (8.00%) Network Security
4 6 (8.00%) VPN
5 5 (6.67%) BGP
5 5 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (6.67%) OSPF
5 5 (6.67%) SNMP
6 3 (4.00%) HTTPS
6 3 (4.00%) Internet
6 3 (4.00%) IPsec
6 3 (4.00%) MPLS
6 3 (4.00%) SD-WAN
6 3 (4.00%) WAN
6 3 (4.00%) Wireshark
7 2 (2.67%) FTP
8 1 (1.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (5.33%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.00%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.00%) Triplestore
6 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (2.67%) Power BI
6 2 (2.67%) Power Query
6 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.33%) Redis
7 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (10.67%) GitLab
2 7 (9.33%) Git
2 7 (9.33%) JIRA
3 5 (6.67%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (4.00%) CircleCI
4 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (4.00%) Travis CI
5 2 (2.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.33%) Checkstyle
6 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.33%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.33%) WebPageTest
General
1 17 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.67%) Finance
3 8 (10.67%) Banking
4 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.00%) Retail
6 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.33%) Advertising
8 1 (1.33%) Automotive
8 1 (1.33%) Electronics
8 1 (1.33%) German Language
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.33%) Marketing
8 1 (1.33%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (34.67%) Developer
2 14 (18.67%) Scala Developer
3 11 (14.67%) Senior
3 11 (14.67%) Software Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) Network Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Middleware Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Cloud Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Angular Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Consultant
8 3 (4.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) GCP Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) WebOps Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Analyst
9 2 (2.67%) Full Stack Developer
9 2 (2.67%) Power Platform Consultant
9 2 (2.67%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (37.33%) RESTful
2 15 (20.00%) Akka
2 15 (20.00%) REST
3 14 (18.67%) CSS
4 13 (17.33%) AngularJS
5 12 (16.00%) HTML
6 10 (13.33%) Play Framework
7 9 (12.00%) Kafka
8 8 (10.67%) J2EE
8 8 (10.67%) JSON
8 8 (10.67%) Middleware
9 7 (9.33%) Node.js
9 7 (9.33%) XML
10 6 (8.00%) GraphQL
10 6 (8.00%) YAML
11 5 (6.67%) HTML5
11 5 (6.67%) Web Services
12 4 (5.33%) OAuth
12 4 (5.33%) OpenID
12 4 (5.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.67%) Clustering
3 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Animation
5 1 (1.33%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.00%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Unix
3 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (30.67%) Agile
1 23 (30.67%) CI/CD
2 21 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (25.33%) DevOps
3 19 (25.33%) Microservices
4 14 (18.67%) Clean Code
4 14 (18.67%) Software Engineering
5 11 (14.67%) Functional Programming
6 8 (10.67%) Front End Development
6 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (10.67%) ITIL
7 7 (9.33%) API Integration
7 7 (9.33%) High Availability
8 6 (8.00%) Containerisation
8 6 (8.00%) Decision-Making
8 6 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (8.00%) Non-Blocking Code
8 6 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (8.00%) Service Management
8 6 (8.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (30.67%) JavaScript
2 16 (21.33%) Python
3 15 (20.00%) Scala
4 11 (14.67%) SQL
5 9 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.33%) Go
6 4 (5.33%) Java
6 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.00%) Bash
7 3 (4.00%) PHP
7 3 (4.00%) SPARQL
8 2 (2.67%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.67%) C
8 2 (2.67%) C#
8 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.67%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.33%) ABAP
9 1 (1.33%) C++
9 1 (1.33%) Ruby
9 1 (1.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (10.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.67%) CCDP
4 5 (6.67%) CCNP
5 1 (1.33%) CCNA
5 1 (1.33%) Degree
5 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.33%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (14.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.00%) Kibana
2 6 (8.00%) Terraform
3 5 (6.67%) Ansible
4 3 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (4.00%) Grafana
4 3 (4.00%) logstash
4 3 (4.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.00%) Puppet
5 2 (2.67%) Data Guard
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle Flashback
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.33%) PingFederate
6 1 (1.33%) SCOM
6 1 (1.33%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 9 (12.00%) Google
2 8 (10.67%) IBM
3 6 (8.00%) Cisco
3 6 (8.00%) Splunk
3 6 (8.00%) Zscaler
4 5 (6.67%) Arista
4 5 (6.67%) Aruba
4 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 4 (5.33%) Oracle
6 3 (4.00%) Infoblox
6 3 (4.00%) Meraki
6 3 (4.00%) SAP
6 3 (4.00%) Typelevel
7 1 (1.33%) Apple
7 1 (1.33%) F5
7 1 (1.33%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.33%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.33%) Sitecore