The first part of the table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank200212257
Rank change year-on-year
Up+12Up+45
Matching permanent IT job ads15471394787
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.283 %1.137 %0.824 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category7.306 %7.223 %5.347 %
Number of salaries quoted13091155661
Average salary£45,000£42,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88 %+6.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£28,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£66,000£62,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£36,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %+4.16 %
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
211741929914719
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK17.56 %15.74 %15.42 %
Number of salaries quoted176421597812153
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£61,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %-

HTTP
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing HTTP within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

HTTP Demand Trend

HTTP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing HTTP within the UK.

HTTP Salary Trend

HTTP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing HTTP over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

HTTP Salary Histogram

HTTP
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+81505£45,000+5.88 %
LondonUp+58842£50,000+5.26 %
South EastUp+5314£40,000-
City of LondonUp+34156£45,000-14.28 %
East of EnglandDown-31128£37,500+7.14 %
SurreyUp+1788£50,000-
YorkshireDown-582£38,500-3.75 %
BerkshireDown-1174£41,000+2.50 %
HertfordshireDown-1258£43,000-4.44 %
West YorkshireDown-754£38,500+14.92 %
South WestDown-1649£40,000-
North WestDown-2644£33,000-5.71 %
HampshireDown-2944£36,500-8.75 %
WatfordUp+843£37,500-21.05 %
CambridgeshireDown-4641£35,000+7.69 %
ReadingUp+1139£47,500-
BuckinghamshireUp+1036£39,500+9.72 %
ManchesterUp+435£33,000+4.76 %
LeedsDown-1835£42,000+12.00 %
CambridgeDown-1630£37,500+15.38 %
East MidlandsDown-1429£31,500-11.26 %
East SussexUp+1026£41,500+58.09 %
KentUp+2824£25,250-27.85 %
BristolDown-422£33,000-17.50 %
BedfordshireNo change021£47,500+46.15 %
Milton KeynesUp+620£50,000+36.05 %
North YorkshireUp+1219£32,500-18.75 %
RedhillNew entry-19£56,000-
YorkUp+217£32,500-18.75 %
ScotlandDown-717£42,500+6.25 %

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing HTTP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited HTTP.

11336 (42.86 %)Java
21128 (36.19 %)Linux
31078 (34.58 %)XML
4936 (30.03 %)SQL
5930 (29.84 %)HTML
5930 (29.84 %)JavaScript
6891 (28.59 %)TCP/IP
7855 (27.43 %)CSS
8841 (26.98 %)Windows
9766 (24.57 %).NET
10700 (22.46 %)UNIX
11642 (20.60 %)Oracle
12626 (20.08 %)Web Services
13624 (20.02 %)Apache
14609 (19.54 %)SQL Server
15587 (18.83 %)DNS
16570 (18.29 %)Internet
17567 (18.19 %)C#
18558 (17.90 %)Finance
19549 (17.61 %)Tomcat
20518 (16.62 %)OO
21516 (16.55 %)MySQL
22510 (16.36 %)Degree
23490 (15.72 %)SOAP
24477 (15.30 %)C++
25461 (14.79 %)PHP
26457 (14.66 %)J2EE
27416 (13.35 %)Perl
28396 (12.70 %)Agile Software Development
29374 (12.00 %)Ajax

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing HTTP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited HTTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11078 (34.58 %)XML
2930 (29.84 %)HTML
3855 (27.43 %)CSS
4766 (24.57 %).NET
5626 (20.08 %)Web Services
6490 (15.72 %)SOAP
7457 (14.66 %)J2EE
8374 (12.00 %)Ajax
9353 (11.32 %)ASP.NET
10318 (10.20 %)WebSphere
11287 (9.208 %)Spring
12280 (8.983 %)jQuery
13238 (7.636 %)REST
14218 (6.994 %)Hibernate
15215 (6.898 %)XSLT
16199 (6.384 %)JSP
17193 (6.192 %)HTML5
18188 (6.031 %)XHTML
19185 (5.935 %)JSON
20183 (5.871 %)LAMP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1624 (20.02 %)Apache
2549 (17.61 %)Tomcat
3321 (10.30 %)IIS
4169 (5.422 %)WebSphere Application Server
4169 (5.422 %)WebLogic
5125 (4.010 %)IBM HTTP Server
6124 (3.978 %)CMS
794 (3.016 %)SharePoint
864 (2.053 %)BizTalk Server
864 (2.053 %)nginx
955 (1.765 %)Oracle HTTP Server
1049 (1.572 %)Oracle Coherence
1145 (1.444 %)WebSphere MQ
1145 (1.444 %)MQSeries
1240 (1.283 %)MS Exchange
1337 (1.187 %)Jetty
1435 (1.123 %)Drupal
1530 (0.962 %)Force.com
1627 (0.866 %)WordPress
1627 (0.866 %)WebSphere Portal
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1159 (5.101 %)MS Excel
2101 (3.240 %)MS Visio
372 (2.310 %)MS Office
456 (1.797 %)Photoshop
514 (0.449 %)MS PowerPoint
613 (0.417 %)Google Apps
613 (0.417 %)MS Project
710 (0.321 %)Adobe Illustrator
86 (0.192 %)GIMP
93 (0.096 %)InfoPath
102 (0.064 %)DOC1
102 (0.064 %)PrintSoft PReS
102 (0.064 %)OmniGraffle
111 (0.032 %)Doxygen
111 (0.032 %)Spreadsheet
111 (0.032 %)InDesign
111 (0.032 %)Quicktime
111 (0.032 %)SPSS
111 (0.032 %)Fireworks
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
116 (0.513 %)Google Analytics
214 (0.449 %)BASE24
313 (0.417 %)Oracle CRM
410 (0.321 %)SunGard Stream Clearvision
55 (0.160 %)Dynamics NAV
55 (0.160 %)Oracle Applications
55 (0.160 %)WebTrends
63 (0.096 %)SAP R/3
63 (0.096 %)SAP HR
63 (0.096 %)Oracle BPM
72 (0.064 %)Dynamics CRM
72 (0.064 %)Oracle BRM
72 (0.064 %)Oracle 11i
72 (0.064 %)Oracle EBS
72 (0.064 %)Pivotal CRM
72 (0.064 %)Exstream
81 (0.032 %)Line 500
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1891 (28.59 %)TCP/IP
2587 (18.83 %)DNS
3570 (18.29 %)Internet
4357 (11.45 %)Firewall
5347 (11.13 %)FTP
6320 (10.27 %)SMTP
7272 (8.726 %)SSL
8220 (7.058 %)HTTPS
9186 (5.967 %)LDAP
10178 (5.711 %)SAN
11135 (4.331 %)VPN
12125 (4.010 %)DHCP
13119 (3.818 %)SSH
1489 (2.855 %)SNMP
1587 (2.791 %)WAN
1675 (2.406 %)LAN
1771 (2.278 %)Network Security
1869 (2.214 %)NAS
1962 (1.989 %)Ethernet
2055 (1.765 %)iSCSI
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1609 (19.54 %)SQL Server
2516 (16.55 %)MySQL
3154 (4.941 %)SQL Server 2008
4116 (3.722 %)DB2
5114 (3.657 %)RDBMS
6102 (3.272 %)SQL Server 2005
783 (2.663 %)PostgreSQL
845 (1.444 %)Informix
939 (1.251 %)GIS
1038 (1.219 %)Oracle 10g
1137 (1.187 %)MongoDB
1234 (1.091 %)NoSQL
1234 (1.091 %)Oracle 8/8i
1330 (0.962 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1429 (0.930 %)Hadoop
1523 (0.738 %)Oracle 9i
1618 (0.577 %)Oracle 11g
1716 (0.513 %)Apache Cassandra
1815 (0.481 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1815 (0.481 %)Data Warehouse
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1370 (11.87 %)Subversion
2165 (5.294 %)Ant
3157 (5.037 %)Git (software)
4133 (4.267 %)Maven
5120 (3.850 %)JUnit
6115 (3.689 %)Eclipse
7105 (3.369 %)Visual Studio
887 (2.791 %)LoadRunner
954 (1.732 %)Hudson
1052 (1.668 %)Selenium
1148 (1.540 %)Team Foundation Server
1242 (1.347 %)JIRA
1340 (1.283 %)Mercurial
1426 (0.834 %)Cucumber
1522 (0.706 %)TestNG
1522 (0.706 %)NetBeans
1620 (0.642 %)PEAR
1719 (0.610 %)Xcode
1719 (0.610 %)QuickTest Pro
1816 (0.513 %)Bugzilla
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1558 (17.90 %)Finance
2244 (7.828 %)Games
3190 (6.096 %)Telecoms
4146 (4.684 %)Marketing
5143 (4.588 %)Retail
682 (2.631 %)Banking
757 (1.829 %)Back Office
853 (1.700 %)Electronics
945 (1.444 %)Multimedia
1043 (1.380 %)Music
1142 (1.347 %)Publishing
1234 (1.091 %)Advertising
1331 (0.995 %)Investment Banking
1416 (0.513 %)Law
1515 (0.481 %)Front Office
1613 (0.417 %)German Language
179 (0.289 %)French Language
179 (0.289 %)Billing
188 (0.257 %)Spanish Language
188 (0.257 %)Automotive
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11303 (41.80 %)Developer
2308 (9.881 %)Java Developer
3293 (9.400 %)Analyst
4290 (9.304 %)Administrator
5257 (8.245 %)Senior Developer
6219 (7.026 %)Systems Administrator
7177 (5.679 %).NET Developer
8169 (5.422 %)Web Developer
8169 (5.422 %)Software Engineer
9141 (4.524 %)Architect
10126 (4.042 %)Software Developer
11123 (3.946 %)Senior Java Developer
11123 (3.946 %)Linux Administrator
12117 (3.754 %)C# Developer
13106 (3.401 %)Consultant
14103 (3.304 %)Linux Systems Administrator
14103 (3.304 %)PHP Developer
1590 (2.887 %)Linux Engineer
1688 (2.823 %)C# .NET Developer
1688 (2.823 %)Junior
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1269 (8.630 %)Open Source
2232 (7.443 %)Computer Science
3128 (4.107 %)Online Games
4123 (3.946 %)iPhone
5122 (3.914 %)Blackberry
6101 (3.240 %)Clustering
799 (3.176 %)Mathematics
892 (2.952 %)SaaS
984 (2.695 %)N-Tier
1079 (2.534 %)Client/Server
1169 (2.214 %)iPad
1256 (1.797 %)Enterprise Storage
1256 (1.797 %)Management Information System
1355 (1.765 %)Cloud Computing
1448 (1.540 %)Web 2.0
1547 (1.508 %)Digital Media
1646 (1.476 %)Social Gaming
1744 (1.412 %)Cryptography
1843 (1.380 %)Social Media
1942 (1.347 %)PKI
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11128 (36.19 %)Linux
2841 (26.98 %)Windows
3700 (22.46 %)UNIX
4249 (7.988 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5199 (6.384 %)Solaris
6187 (5.999 %)Android
7167 (5.358 %)AIX
8148 (4.748 %)Apple iOS
9126 (4.042 %)Debian
10121 (3.882 %)Windows Server 2003
11117 (3.754 %)CentOS
12107 (3.433 %)Windows Server 2008
1365 (2.085 %)Ubuntu
1452 (1.668 %)Windows XP
1546 (1.476 %)Windows 7
1631 (0.995 %)SUSE
1729 (0.930 %)Windows Mobile
1826 (0.834 %)BlackBerry OS
1922 (0.706 %)Embedded Linux
1922 (0.706 %)Windows Vista
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1518 (16.62 %)OO
2396 (12.70 %)Agile Software Development
3336 (10.78 %)E-Commerce
4304 (9.753 %)MVC
5268 (8.598 %)TDD
6267 (8.566 %)Scrum
7251 (8.053 %)Web Development
8236 (7.571 %)ITIL
9167 (5.358 %)Project Management
10154 (4.941 %)Load Balancing
11136 (4.363 %)OOP
12131 (4.203 %)Multithreading
13126 (4.042 %)SOA
14125 (4.010 %)Unit Testing
15119 (3.818 %)UML
16115 (3.689 %)Software Engineering
17112 (3.593 %)Configuration Management
18109 (3.497 %)Performance Testing
19102 (3.272 %)Continuous Integration
20100 (3.208 %)Migration
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11336 (42.86 %)Java
2936 (30.03 %)SQL
3930 (29.84 %)JavaScript
4567 (18.19 %)C#
5477 (15.30 %)C++
6461 (14.79 %)PHP
7416 (13.35 %)Perl
8308 (9.881 %)Python
9293 (9.400 %)C
10244 (7.828 %)Bash shell
11162 (5.197 %)Ruby
12148 (4.748 %)XPath
13141 (4.524 %)Shell Script
14134 (4.299 %)Objective-C
1597 (3.112 %)VB.NET
1692 (2.952 %)PL/SQL
1779 (2.534 %)ActionScript
1873 (2.342 %)VB
1968 (2.182 %)PHP5
2057 (1.829 %)T-SQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1510 (16.36 %)Degree
2110 (3.529 %)Microsoft Certification
387 (2.791 %)Security Cleared
472 (2.310 %)MCSE
564 (2.053 %)SC Cleared
663 (2.021 %)Cisco Certification
748 (1.540 %)ISEB
838 (1.219 %)RHCE
937 (1.187 %)CCNA
1028 (0.898 %)CCNP
1125 (0.802 %)MCP
1221 (0.674 %)ISTQB
1319 (0.610 %)CISSP
1416 (0.513 %)DV Cleared
1515 (0.481 %)MCSD
1614 (0.449 %)MCAD
1614 (0.449 %)CISM
1713 (0.417 %)PMI Certification
1812 (0.385 %)MCSA
1812 (0.385 %)MCITP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1143 (4.588 %)QA
259 (1.893 %)SLA
330 (0.962 %)WAI
420 (0.642 %)ISO 9001
512 (0.385 %)JTAG
67 (0.225 %)PCI DSS
67 (0.225 %)TickIT
74 (0.128 %)WCAG
83 (0.096 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
92 (0.064 %)Data Quality
101 (0.032 %)Solvency II
101 (0.032 %)COBIT
101 (0.032 %)HL7
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1180 (5.775 %)Active Directory
2144 (4.620 %)VMware Infrastructure
374 (2.374 %)NFS
452 (1.668 %)Xen
549 (1.572 %)vSphere
640 (1.283 %)Squid
739 (1.251 %)Samba
835 (1.123 %)Varnish
931 (0.995 %)VMware ESX
1030 (0.962 %)VMware ESXi
1030 (0.962 %)Hyper-V
1120 (0.642 %)Postfix
1218 (0.577 %)VMware Workstation
1218 (0.577 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1313 (0.417 %)XenServer
148 (0.257 %)Sendmail
148 (0.257 %)qmail
157 (0.225 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
166 (0.192 %)VirtualBox
175 (0.160 %)Terminal Services
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1102 (3.272 %)Puppet
282 (2.631 %)Nagios
340 (1.283 %)Cacti
435 (1.123 %)Tivoli
530 (0.962 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
623 (0.738 %)CA SiteMinder
722 (0.706 %)ZABBIX
818 (0.577 %)Red Hat Spacewalk
818 (0.577 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
818 (0.577 %)SCOM
914 (0.449 %)SCCM
1013 (0.417 %)Backup Exec
1013 (0.417 %)HP SIM
1112 (0.385 %)Zenoss
127 (0.225 %)Ganglia
136 (0.192 %)Plesk
136 (0.192 %)OpenView
136 (0.192 %)Cobbler
145 (0.160 %)YUM
145 (0.160 %)OMEGAMON
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1642 (20.60 %)Oracle
2360 (11.55 %)Microsoft
3356 (11.42 %)Red Hat
4267 (8.566 %)JBoss
5264 (8.470 %)VMware
6235 (7.539 %)Cisco
7222 (7.122 %)IBM
8173 (5.550 %)HP
9148 (4.748 %)Sun
10132 (4.235 %)Google
1191 (2.919 %)Citrix
1284 (2.695 %)Juniper
1374 (2.374 %)Facebook
1470 (2.246 %)Dell
1560 (1.925 %)Zend
1659 (1.893 %)Symbian
1757 (1.829 %)SAP
1853 (1.700 %)Twitter
1945 (1.444 %)EMC
2044 (1.412 %)Adobe