HTTP Job Trends in England

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring HTTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 510 583
Rank change year-on-year -51 +73 -78
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 160 136 265
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.31% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.48% 2.10% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 106 82 189
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70,938 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

HTTP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,440 6,490 11,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.35% 14.98% 12.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,256 3,723 7,944
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,438 £30,800 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £69,543 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -7.50%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing HTTP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

HTTP job vacancy trend in England

HTTP
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing HTTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing HTTP

HTTP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing HTTP in England over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for HTTP in England

HTTP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the England region over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. 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
London -27 71 £60,000 -4.00% 21
South East +10 47 £67,500 +3.85% 13
North of England -25 28 £47,500 -21.81% 7
Yorkshire -18 15 £51,250 +7.89% 3
North East - 10 £47,500 - 2
East of England -29 8 £50,000 -19.35% 5
Midlands -52 4 £49,500 -25.28% 8
North West -24 3 £47,500 -26.92% 2
West Midlands -51 3 £46,500 -29.81% 1
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 7
HTTP
UK

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.63%) IIS
2 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.63%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.25%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.63%) Houdini
3 1 (0.63%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 5 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.63%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 68 (42.50%) AWS
2 26 (16.25%) Azure
2 26 (16.25%) GitHub
3 17 (10.63%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (10.00%) GCP
5 14 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.63%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (5.00%) SaaS
8 5 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.50%) Sumo Logic
10 3 (1.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.25%) BrowserStack
11 2 (1.25%) Cloudflare
11 2 (1.25%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.25%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 67 (41.88%) TCP/IP
2 66 (41.25%) DNS
3 49 (30.63%) VPN
4 35 (21.88%) Firewall
5 31 (19.38%) WAN
6 29 (18.13%) BGP
7 26 (16.25%) LAN
8 23 (14.38%) FTP
9 20 (12.50%) SSL
10 17 (10.63%) DHCP
11 16 (10.00%) MPLS
11 16 (10.00%) SNMP
12 13 (8.13%) SD-WAN
12 13 (8.13%) SMTP
13 12 (7.50%) Network Security
14 11 (6.88%) VLAN
15 10 (6.25%) ICMP
15 10 (6.25%) Internet
15 10 (6.25%) IPsec
15 10 (6.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.13%) SAP BW
1 5 (3.13%) SAP HANA
2 4 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.88%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.88%) MySQL
3 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.88%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.25%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (11.25%) Jenkins
2 13 (8.13%) Git
3 9 (5.63%) Gatling
3 9 (5.63%) GitLab
3 9 (5.63%) JMeter
3 9 (5.63%) LoadRunner
4 6 (3.75%) Selenium
5 3 (1.88%) JIRA
5 3 (1.88%) JUnit
6 2 (1.25%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.25%) Postman
6 2 (1.25%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.63%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.63%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.63%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.63%) Maven
7 1 (0.63%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (32.50%) Finance
2 37 (23.13%) Banking
3 31 (19.38%) Social Skills
4 30 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.13%) Law
5 13 (8.13%) Telecoms
6 10 (6.25%) Aerospace
7 8 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.50%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (2.50%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.88%) Legal
9 3 (1.88%) Retail
10 2 (1.25%) Advertising
10 2 (1.25%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (1.25%) Electronics
10 2 (1.25%) Military
10 2 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Back Office
11 1 (0.63%) Games
Job Titles
1 29 (18.13%) Development Engineer
1 29 (18.13%) Software Development Engineer
1 29 (18.13%) Software Engineer
2 28 (17.50%) Analyst
3 22 (13.75%) Lead
4 21 (13.13%) Lead Software Engineer
4 21 (13.13%) Senior
5 17 (10.63%) SOC Analyst
6 16 (10.00%) Architect
7 15 (9.38%) Developer
8 12 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.88%) Network Architect
10 10 (6.25%) Network Engineer
10 10 (6.25%) Network Security Architect
10 10 (6.25%) Security Architect
10 10 (6.25%) Test Engineer
11 8 (5.00%) Administrator
11 8 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (5.00%) Support Engineer
11 8 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (26.88%) REST
2 17 (10.63%) OAuth
3 13 (8.13%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (7.50%) LDAP
5 10 (6.25%) SAML
6 8 (5.00%) WebSockets
7 7 (4.38%) HTML
8 6 (3.75%) JSON
8 6 (3.75%) Playwright
9 5 (3.13%) RESTful
10 4 (2.50%) DOM
10 4 (2.50%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.50%) JWT
10 4 (2.50%) Next.js
10 4 (2.50%) Puppeteer
10 4 (2.50%) React
10 4 (2.50%) WebRTC
11 3 (1.88%) ARM Templates
11 3 (1.88%) Flask
11 3 (1.88%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.38%) Public Cloud
2 24 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 13 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.13%) Security Operations Centre
4 12 (7.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 12 (7.50%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (6.25%) Client/Server
5 10 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (5.63%) Data Centre
7 8 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (4.38%) Security Posture
9 6 (3.75%) PKI
10 5 (3.13%) Cloud Native
10 5 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.88%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.88%) Management Information System
12 2 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 35 (21.88%) Linux
2 16 (10.00%) Windows
3 13 (8.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.13%) CentOS
5 3 (1.88%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.25%) Rocky
7 1 (0.63%) Android
7 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.63%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.63%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.63%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (23.13%) Software Engineering
2 37 (23.13%) Technical Leadership
3 35 (21.88%) Cybersecurity
4 34 (21.25%) DevOps
5 32 (20.00%) OO
6 31 (19.38%) CI/CD
7 30 (18.75%) Roadmaps
8 29 (18.13%) Product Management
8 29 (18.13%) Product Roadmap
8 29 (18.13%) SOA
8 29 (18.13%) SOLID
9 28 (17.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 22 (13.75%) Collaborative Working
10 22 (13.75%) SIEM
11 21 (13.13%) BDD
11 21 (13.13%) Containerisation
11 21 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (13.13%) Pair Programming
11 21 (13.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 51 (31.88%) Python
2 33 (20.63%) Java
3 30 (18.75%) Bash
4 16 (10.00%) Perl
4 16 (10.00%) SQL
5 14 (8.75%) C++
5 14 (8.75%) PowerShell
6 12 (7.50%) Go
7 8 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.38%) C#
8 7 (4.38%) Search Processing Language
9 5 (3.13%) ABAP
9 5 (3.13%) PHP
10 3 (1.88%) Bicep
10 3 (1.88%) C
11 2 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.63%) Pascal
12 1 (0.63%) Swift
12 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.63%) CREST Certified
4 12 (7.50%) Degree
5 10 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
5 10 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 9 (5.63%) CEH
7 8 (5.00%) GCIA
7 8 (5.00%) GCIH
7 8 (5.00%) GIAC
7 8 (5.00%) RHCSA
8 7 (4.38%) GCED
8 7 (4.38%) SANS
9 6 (3.75%) OSCP
10 3 (1.88%) CCNP
10 3 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.25%) CCNA
11 2 (1.25%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (6.88%) NIST
3 6 (3.75%) GDPR
3 6 (3.75%) QA
4 5 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.88%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.25%) JTAG
7 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (6.88%) Docker
2 10 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.88%) Kamailio
4 2 (1.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.25%) Firmware
5 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.63%) KVM
5 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (13.75%) Terraform
2 17 (10.63%) Grafana
3 15 (9.38%) Ansible
4 12 (7.50%) Kibana
4 12 (7.50%) Prometheus
5 11 (6.88%) QRadar
6 10 (6.25%) CASB
6 10 (6.25%) FortiGate
7 9 (5.63%) Kubernetes
8 8 (5.00%) Nagios
9 6 (3.75%) Endace
10 4 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.88%) Argo
12 1 (0.63%) Nessus
12 1 (0.63%) Nmap
12 1 (0.63%) OpenVAS
12 1 (0.63%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 45 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 21 (13.13%) Cisco
2 21 (13.13%) Splunk
3 12 (7.50%) CrowdStrike
4 11 (6.88%) SolarWinds
5 10 (6.25%) Palo Alto
5 10 (6.25%) VMware
6 8 (5.00%) F5
6 8 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 8 (5.00%) SAP
7 7 (4.38%) Carbon Black
8 6 (3.75%) Google
8 6 (3.75%) Juniper
9 5 (3.13%) AppDynamics
9 5 (3.13%) Dynatrace
9 5 (3.13%) OpenText
10 3 (1.88%) BT
10 3 (1.88%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.88%) Mitel
11 2 (1.25%) ArcSight