HTTP Contracts in England

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 444 420
Rank change year-on-year +83 -24 -87
Contract jobs citing HTTP 182 198 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.41% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.77% 3.30% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 148 273
10th Percentile £300 £385 £392
25th Percentile £400 £496 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +8.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £622 £684 £650
90th Percentile £650 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 5
10th Percentile £26.58 £50.52 £40.35
25th Percentile £27.00 £67.13 £43.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £75.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -38.83% +54.38% -2.84%
75th Percentile £75.22 - £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.00 £68.00
UK 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
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,829 5,995 8,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.08% 12.56% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,897 3,907 5,307
10th Percentile £213 £240 £226
25th Percentile £350 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £601 £646 £618
90th Percentile £697 £735 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 407 313
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £17.07 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +134.40% -28.63% +3.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.01 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
% change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +84 115 £525 -15.32% 43
North of England +23 23 £506 +1.25% 6
South East +18 14 £565 +39.08% 12
Yorkshire +19 12 £624 +18.76% 2
South West +14 11 £533 -11.17% 4
North West +11 10 £463 -7.50% 4
East of England +10 9 £350 -22.22% 2
Midlands +17 1 - - 5
West Midlands +9 1 - - 4
North East - 1 £450 - 1
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 (8.79%) Apache
2 15 (8.24%) Confluence
3 8 (4.40%) CMS
4 4 (2.20%) IIS
4 4 (2.20%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.65%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.10%) MQSeries
6 2 (1.10%) nginx
7 1 (0.55%) govService
7 1 (0.55%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.55%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.55%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.55%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (37.36%) AWS
2 56 (30.77%) GCP
3 37 (20.33%) Azure
4 17 (9.34%) GitHub
5 12 (6.59%) Serverless
6 9 (4.95%) Apigee
6 9 (4.95%) Kong
7 7 (3.85%) Amazon Cognito
7 7 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.85%) npm
7 7 (3.85%) OpenShift
8 6 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.75%) SaaS
10 4 (2.20%) Boomi
10 4 (2.20%) Google App Engine
10 4 (2.20%) PaaS
11 3 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.65%) Datadog
11 3 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 59 (32.42%) TCP/IP
2 42 (23.08%) DNS
3 30 (16.48%) Firewall
4 27 (14.84%) SSL
5 18 (9.89%) VPN
6 15 (8.24%) DHCP
6 15 (8.24%) FTP
7 12 (6.59%) IPsec
7 12 (6.59%) SMTP
8 11 (6.04%) HTTPS
8 11 (6.04%) Network Security
9 10 (5.49%) BGP
9 10 (5.49%) OSPF
9 10 (5.49%) SNMP
9 10 (5.49%) SSH
10 8 (4.40%) Internet
11 6 (3.30%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (3.30%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (3.30%) Wireshark
12 5 (2.75%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
2 12 (6.59%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.85%) Triplestore
4 5 (2.75%) MySQL
4 5 (2.75%) SQLite
5 4 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.20%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.20%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.20%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.65%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.65%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.55%) GIS
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.55%) Redis
7 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.55%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (14.84%) Jenkins
2 25 (13.74%) Git
3 23 (12.64%) JIRA
4 18 (9.89%) GitLab
5 9 (4.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (4.95%) CircleCI
5 9 (4.95%) Travis CI
6 6 (3.30%) JMeter
6 6 (3.30%) Selenium
6 6 (3.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.75%) Checkstyle
7 5 (2.75%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.20%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.20%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.20%) Gatling
8 4 (2.20%) Postman
8 4 (2.20%) WebDriver
9 3 (1.65%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.65%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (1.65%) Cypress.io
General
1 30 (16.48%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (10.44%) Finance
4 16 (8.79%) Telecoms
5 13 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.95%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.85%) Banking
8 6 (3.30%) Legal
9 4 (2.20%) Electronics
9 4 (2.20%) German Language
9 4 (2.20%) Marketing
10 2 (1.10%) Advertising
10 2 (1.10%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Automotive
11 1 (0.55%) Local Government
11 1 (0.55%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.55%) Publishing
11 1 (0.55%) Retail
11 1 (0.55%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 61 (33.52%) Developer
2 37 (20.33%) Scala Developer
3 19 (10.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.79%) Software Engineer
5 14 (7.69%) Network Engineer
6 13 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
7 11 (6.04%) Linux Server Engineer
7 11 (6.04%) Senior
7 11 (6.04%) Server Engineer
8 7 (3.85%) Architect
8 7 (3.85%) Security Engineer
9 6 (3.30%) Analyst
9 6 (3.30%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (3.30%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 6 (3.30%) Support Engineer
10 4 (2.20%) Consultant
10 4 (2.20%) Integration Developer
10 4 (2.20%) Junior
10 4 (2.20%) SOC Analyst
10 4 (2.20%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (29.67%) Kafka
1 54 (29.67%) RESTful
2 39 (21.43%) Akka
3 35 (19.23%) REST
4 27 (14.84%) JSON
5 24 (13.19%) CSS
6 22 (12.09%) HTML
7 18 (9.89%) XML
8 16 (8.79%) LDAP
9 15 (8.24%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (7.14%) AngularJS
10 13 (7.14%) YAML
11 11 (6.04%) .NET
11 11 (6.04%) Web Services
12 10 (5.49%) GraphQL
12 10 (5.49%) SOAP
13 7 (3.85%) Apache Jena
13 7 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
13 7 (3.85%) Node.js
13 7 (3.85%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.89%) Data Centre
2 11 (6.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (4.95%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.75%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.75%) Clustering
5 5 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.20%) Cyberattack
6 4 (2.20%) IVR
6 4 (2.20%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.65%) PKI
7 3 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 41 (22.53%) Linux
2 18 (9.89%) Unix
2 18 (9.89%) Windows
3 4 (2.20%) Mac OS X
3 4 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.10%) Android
4 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.55%) Solaris
5 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (39.56%) Agile
2 66 (36.26%) DevOps
3 48 (26.37%) Microservices
4 40 (21.98%) TDD
5 37 (20.33%) CI/CD
6 34 (18.68%) Pair Programming
7 32 (17.58%) GitOps
8 29 (15.93%) Clean Code
9 27 (14.84%) Machine Learning
9 27 (14.84%) Personalization
10 26 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (13.74%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (11.54%) Software Engineering
13 19 (10.44%) Containerisation
14 18 (9.89%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (9.89%) Use Case
15 17 (9.34%) Coaching
16 15 (8.24%) Scrum
16 15 (8.24%) Test Automation
16 15 (8.24%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 43 (23.63%) Scala
2 32 (17.58%) JavaScript
3 30 (16.48%) Python
4 22 (12.09%) PowerShell
5 16 (8.79%) Java
6 13 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.04%) SQL
8 10 (5.49%) C#
9 9 (4.95%) Bash
10 7 (3.85%) SPARQL
11 5 (2.75%) PHP
11 5 (2.75%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.20%) ABAP
12 4 (2.20%) Groovy
13 3 (1.65%) ActionScript
14 2 (1.10%) Go
14 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.10%) Perl
14 2 (1.10%) Swift
15 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (21.98%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.99%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.24%) DV Cleared
4 12 (6.59%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (6.04%) CCNP
6 10 (5.49%) Degree
7 5 (2.75%) CCDP
8 3 (1.65%) CCIE
8 3 (1.65%) GCIA
8 3 (1.65%) GCIH
8 3 (1.65%) GIAC
9 2 (1.10%) CCNA
9 2 (1.10%) CEH
9 2 (1.10%) CISSP
9 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.10%) HND
9 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.10%) SANS
10 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.55%) ECSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.24%) QA
2 4 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.10%) HL7
3 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (16.48%) Docker
2 9 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.20%) NFS
4 3 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.10%) Samba
5 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.10%) XenApp
6 1 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (34.07%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.99%) Progress Chef
2 20 (10.99%) Puppet
3 17 (9.34%) Terraform
4 15 (8.24%) Kibana
5 12 (6.59%) logstash
6 11 (6.04%) Ansible
7 10 (5.49%) Grafana
7 10 (5.49%) Prometheus
8 9 (4.95%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.75%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.65%) PingFederate
10 3 (1.65%) QRadar
11 2 (1.10%) CSIRT
11 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.55%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.55%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 22 (12.09%) Typelevel
2 21 (11.54%) Splunk
3 20 (10.99%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.59%) Cisco
4 12 (6.59%) Palo Alto
4 12 (6.59%) SAP
5 10 (5.49%) Google
6 9 (4.95%) Oracle
7 8 (4.40%) Zscaler
8 6 (3.30%) F5
8 6 (3.30%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.30%) Symantec
9 5 (2.75%) Arista
9 5 (2.75%) Aruba
9 5 (2.75%) IBM
9 5 (2.75%) Nokia
10 4 (2.20%) Avaya
10 4 (2.20%) Darktrace
10 4 (2.20%) Ericsson
10 4 (2.20%) Verint