HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for HTTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited HTTP over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 602 515 276
Rank change year-on-year -87 -239 +50
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 305 525 2,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.53% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.27% 3.37% 11.12%
Number of salaries quoted 210 296 665
10th Percentile £32,000 £41,403 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.29% +10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68,750 £85,313 £78,750
90th Percentile £86,938 £97,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £61,180 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.19% +11.24% -8.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

HTTP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,460 15,589 21,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 15.83% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,379 7,833 11,758
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing HTTP.

Salary trend for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HTTP over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -59 268 £55,000 -19.12% 108
UK excluding London -52 213 £52,500 -14.19% 70
Work from Home -57 115 £55,000 -20.80% 50
London -16 85 £63,750 -20.31% 60
South West -14 56 £53,750 -18.87% 6
South East -18 54 £42,500 -32.81% 35
North of England +7 31 £65,000 +10.64% 9
Midlands -11 28 £54,000 -10.00% 7
West Midlands +15 24 £55,000 +7.32% 4
Northern Ireland +38 20 £35,000 -17.65% 6
North West -7 20 £70,000 +40.00% 2
East of England +13 12 £34,500 +15.00% 5
Yorkshire +55 8 £55,000 -10.10% 7
Scotland -74 8 £50,000 -28.57% 1
Wales +4 6 £40,000 - 1
East Midlands -15 4 £39,750 -38.85% 2
North East -4 3 £65,000 -7.14% 2

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (5.57%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.62%) nginx
4 6 (1.97%) Apache
4 6 (1.97%) IIS
5 5 (1.64%) Drupal
6 4 (1.31%) Confluence
7 3 (0.98%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.98%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 3 (0.98%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.98%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.66%) CMS
8 2 (0.66%) Moodle
9 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.33%) SAS
9 1 (0.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.95%) Trello
3 8 (2.62%) InfoPath
3 8 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (4.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.98%) Maximo
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.66%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 124 (40.66%) AWS
2 115 (37.70%) Azure
3 45 (14.75%) SaaS
4 38 (12.46%) OpenShift
5 26 (8.52%) Serverless
6 24 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (6.23%) Cloud Computing
8 18 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (5.57%) Azure App Service
9 17 (5.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (5.57%) Matillion
10 16 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (3.61%) GCP
13 10 (3.28%) Entra ID
14 9 (2.95%) Azure Functions
14 9 (2.95%) PaaS
15 8 (2.62%) OneDrive
16 7 (2.30%) Amazon S3
16 7 (2.30%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 117 (38.36%) DNS
2 109 (35.74%) TCP/IP
3 54 (17.70%) DHCP
4 52 (17.05%) Internet
5 41 (13.44%) SMTP
6 27 (8.85%) MQTT
7 25 (8.20%) SSL
8 24 (7.87%) FTP
9 19 (6.23%) Firewall
9 19 (6.23%) VPN
10 14 (4.59%) HTTPS
10 14 (4.59%) SNMP
11 12 (3.93%) LAN
11 12 (3.93%) SSH
12 10 (3.28%) BGP
12 10 (3.28%) WAN
13 7 (2.30%) DWDM
13 7 (2.30%) EIGRP
13 7 (2.30%) IGRP
13 7 (2.30%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.44%) SQL Server
2 25 (8.20%) MySQL
3 22 (7.21%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (3.93%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.28%) GIS
7 10 (3.28%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.97%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (1.64%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.98%) DB2
13 2 (0.66%) Power BI
13 2 (0.66%) Redis
14 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.33%) Sisense
14 1 (0.33%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 30 (9.84%) Git
2 17 (5.57%) JIRA
3 15 (4.92%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.28%) GitLab
5 5 (1.64%) Postman
6 4 (1.31%) Subversion
6 4 (1.31%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.98%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.66%) Hudson
8 2 (0.66%) Moq
8 2 (0.66%) MSTest
8 2 (0.66%) Protractor
8 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.66%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.66%) webpack
9 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
General
1 91 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 42 (13.77%) Finance
3 34 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.52%) Manufacturing
6 21 (6.89%) Telecoms
7 20 (6.56%) Aerospace
7 20 (6.56%) Electronics
7 20 (6.56%) Marketing
8 10 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.95%) Retail
10 8 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.31%) Advertising
11 4 (1.31%) Automotive
11 4 (1.31%) Banking
12 2 (0.66%) Games
12 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.66%) Legal
12 2 (0.66%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (26.23%) Senior
2 74 (24.26%) Developer
3 61 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 43 (14.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 31 (10.16%) Software Engineer
6 27 (8.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (7.21%) Lead
8 17 (5.57%) Architect
9 13 (4.26%) Analyst
9 13 (4.26%) JavaScript Developer
10 12 (3.93%) Support Engineer
11 11 (3.61%) Full Stack Developer
12 10 (3.28%) ERP Developer
12 10 (3.28%) Graduate
12 10 (3.28%) Graduate Developer
12 10 (3.28%) Junior
12 10 (3.28%) Systems Engineer
13 9 (2.95%) Azure Developer
13 9 (2.95%) Software Architect
13 9 (2.95%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (21.64%) HTML
1 66 (21.64%) REST
2 56 (18.36%) CSS
3 50 (16.39%) RESTful
4 48 (15.74%) React
5 39 (12.79%) Node.js
6 38 (12.46%) JSON
7 36 (11.80%) Web Services
8 30 (9.84%) .NET
9 27 (8.85%) XML
10 24 (7.87%) AngularJS
10 24 (7.87%) Laravel
11 17 (5.57%) JWT
12 12 (3.93%) Kafka
12 12 (3.93%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (3.28%) Django
13 10 (3.28%) HTML5
13 10 (3.28%) Sass
14 9 (2.95%) Lightning Web Components
14 9 (2.95%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.21%) Data Centre
1 22 (7.21%) IoT
2 21 (6.89%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (5.25%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.93%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.62%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.62%) Clustering
5 8 (2.62%) CUDA
5 8 (2.62%) GNSS
5 8 (2.62%) Tandem
6 7 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.30%) Arduino
6 7 (2.30%) EFT
6 7 (2.30%) Raspberry Pi
7 6 (1.97%) Blockchain
7 6 (1.97%) Cyberattack
7 6 (1.97%) NFT
7 6 (1.97%) Web3
8 5 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 113 (37.05%) Linux
2 103 (33.77%) Windows
3 44 (14.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (7.87%) Unix
5 17 (5.57%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.98%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.66%) Android
7 2 (0.66%) CentOS
7 2 (0.66%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.33%) Solaris
8 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (35.41%) DevOps
2 73 (23.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 72 (23.61%) Software Engineering
4 69 (22.62%) Computer Science
5 66 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (19.67%) Agile
7 57 (18.69%) Microservices
8 53 (17.38%) Software Architecture
9 47 (15.41%) CI/CD
10 36 (11.80%) Full Stack Development
11 35 (11.48%) Actionable Insight
12 33 (10.82%) Test Automation
13 32 (10.49%) Artificial Intelligence
13 32 (10.49%) User Experience
14 29 (9.51%) Web Development
15 27 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (8.85%) Machine Learning
16 26 (8.52%) Mentoring
17 25 (8.20%) CRM
17 25 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 117 (38.36%) Python
2 84 (27.54%) SQL
3 76 (24.92%) JavaScript
4 71 (23.28%) Java
5 67 (21.97%) PowerShell
6 50 (16.39%) Bash
7 35 (11.48%) PHP
8 24 (7.87%) TypeScript
9 23 (7.54%) C#
10 21 (6.89%) T-SQL
11 14 (4.59%) C
12 13 (4.26%) C++
13 9 (2.95%) Apex Code
14 7 (2.30%) Ruby
15 5 (1.64%) VB
16 4 (1.31%) ActionScript
16 4 (1.31%) ActionScript 2.0
16 4 (1.31%) R
16 4 (1.31%) VBScript
17 3 (0.98%) Go
Qualifications
1 64 (20.98%) Degree
2 44 (14.43%) Security Cleared
3 34 (11.15%) DV Cleared
4 33 (10.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (7.87%) SC Cleared
6 16 (5.25%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.95%) CCNA
7 9 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.95%) PhD
8 6 (1.97%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.31%) GIAC
10 3 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.66%) CASP
11 2 (0.66%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.66%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.90%) QA
2 15 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.95%) GDPR
4 7 (2.30%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.98%) NIST
7 2 (0.66%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.66%) WCAG
8 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (20.66%) Docker
2 44 (14.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (13.11%) Hyper-V
4 23 (7.54%) Firmware
5 20 (6.56%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (3.93%) Active Directory
7 10 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (2.95%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.98%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.66%) NFS
10 2 (0.66%) Varnish
10 2 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (22.30%) Kubernetes
2 58 (19.02%) Puppet
3 47 (15.41%) Ansible
4 38 (12.46%) Terraform
5 10 (3.28%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.30%) Grafana
6 7 (2.30%) SCCM
6 7 (2.30%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.97%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.64%) Packer
9 3 (0.98%) Consul
10 2 (0.66%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.33%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.33%) HP SiteScope
11 1 (0.33%) Icinga
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.33%) Perfmon
11 1 (0.33%) Pingdom
11 1 (0.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 69 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 62 (20.33%) VMware
3 43 (14.10%) Red Hat
4 27 (8.85%) Google
5 21 (6.89%) SAP
6 13 (4.26%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.95%) Cisco
7 9 (2.95%) Oracle
8 8 (2.62%) Citrix
8 8 (2.62%) Juniper
9 7 (2.30%) Arista
9 7 (2.30%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.30%) Globalscape
9 7 (2.30%) NVIDIA
9 7 (2.30%) Tufin
10 4 (1.31%) Apple
10 4 (1.31%) F5
10 4 (1.31%) IBM
11 3 (0.98%) UiPath
12 2 (0.66%) webMethods