HTTP Contracts in Central London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 133 163
Rank change year-on-year +18 +30 +13
Contract jobs citing HTTP 14 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.70% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.83% 1.20% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £425 - £413
25th Percentile £540 £775 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £825 £593
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% +39.24% +0.08%
75th Percentile £619 £900 £814
90th Percentile £653 £915 £820
London median daily rate £525 £525 £620
% change year-on-year - -15.32% +4.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 205 249 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.31% 10.52% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 165 270
10th Percentile £250 £240 £180
25th Percentile £385 £350 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £669
90th Percentile £760 £738 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £27.56 - £20.43
25th Percentile £33.28 £12.75 £20.74
Median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.78%
75th Percentile £55.49 £14.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £61.54 - £32.75
London median hourly rate £33.75 £23.80 £38.27
% change year-on-year +41.81% -37.81% +39.16%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in Central London

HTTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for HTTP in Central London

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HTTP in Central London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HTTP in Central London

HTTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for HTTP in Central London

HTTP
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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
City of London +19 12 £585 -29.09% 21
City of Westminster - 2 £590 - 1
HTTP
London

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (14.29%) IIS
2 1 (7.14%) Anypoint
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (21.43%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) SSL
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 3 (21.43%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
3 2 (14.29%) BGP
3 2 (14.29%) FTP
3 2 (14.29%) Network Security
3 2 (14.29%) SMTP
3 2 (14.29%) VPN
3 2 (14.29%) WAN
3 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (7.14%) DHCP
4 1 (7.14%) Ethernet
4 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
4 1 (7.14%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
2 1 (7.14%) Maven
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Advertising
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Web Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft Developer
3 1 (7.14%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SCCM Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) FIX Protocol
1 3 (21.43%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) CSS
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) OAuth
2 2 (14.29%) WebSockets
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) JWT
3 1 (7.14%) LDAP
3 1 (7.14%) MUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
3 1 (7.14%) OpenAPI
3 1 (7.14%) RAML
3 1 (7.14%) SAML
3 1 (7.14%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) Swagger
3 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Hedge funds
2 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
3 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
3 3 (21.43%) Microservices
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Management
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 2 (14.29%) Network Performance Management
4 2 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Open Source
4 2 (14.29%) OWASP
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (14.29%) SIEM
4 2 (14.29%) Stress Testing
4 2 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) C++
5 1 (7.14%) Bash
5 1 (7.14%) Go
5 1 (7.14%) Groovy
5 1 (7.14%) Perl
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) BitLocker
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (7.14%) OpenAM
1 1 (7.14%) OpenDJ
1 1 (7.14%) OpenIDM
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.14%) XenApp
1 1 (7.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) CloudHub
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Arista
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco
2 2 (14.29%) Meraki
2 2 (14.29%) Sun
3 1 (7.14%) Citrix
3 1 (7.14%) ForgeRock
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.14%) VMware
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