HTTP Job Trends in London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring HTTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 329 419
Rank change year-on-year -18 +90 -18
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 59 67 83
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.29% 0.53% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.17% 5.09% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 27 48 76
10th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £37,800
25th Percentile £50,875 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -18.75%
75th Percentile £68,125 £100,000 £85,469
90th Percentile £93,000 - £97,500
England median annual salary £51,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.60% +13.64% -20.80%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,863 1,316 3,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.21% 10.49% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 986 946 2,015
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,625 £32,850
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

HTTP job vacancy trend in London

HTTP
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing HTTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing HTTP

HTTP
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing HTTP in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for HTTP in London

HTTP
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Central London -32 4 £60,000 -4.00% 6
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 49 (83.05%) AWS
2 16 (27.12%) GitHub
2 16 (27.12%) GitHub Copilot
3 3 (5.08%) Azure
4 2 (3.39%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (27.12%) DNS
2 14 (23.73%) TCP/IP
3 11 (18.64%) LAN
4 2 (3.39%) BGP
4 2 (3.39%) DHCP
4 2 (3.39%) Firewall
4 2 (3.39%) OSPF
4 2 (3.39%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.39%) VPN
4 2 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Gatling
1 8 (13.56%) JMeter
1 8 (13.56%) LoadRunner
2 5 (8.47%) Git
3 4 (6.78%) GitLab
3 4 (6.78%) Selenium
4 1 (1.69%) Postman
General
1 39 (66.10%) Banking
1 39 (66.10%) Finance
2 16 (27.12%) Influencing Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.39%) Advertising
6 2 (3.39%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (50.85%) Development Engineer
1 30 (50.85%) Software Development Engineer
1 30 (50.85%) Software Engineer
2 22 (37.29%) Senior
3 16 (27.12%) Senior Development Engineer
3 16 (27.12%) Senior Software Development Engineer
3 16 (27.12%) Senior Software Engineer
4 14 (23.73%) Lead
4 14 (23.73%) Lead Software Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) Administrator
5 9 (15.25%) Linux Administrator
5 9 (15.25%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 9 (15.25%) Systems Administrator
6 8 (13.56%) Performance Engineer
6 8 (13.56%) Performance Test Engineer
6 8 (13.56%) Test Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Performance Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (55.93%) REST
2 9 (15.25%) WebSockets
3 4 (6.78%) DOM
3 4 (6.78%) GraphQL
3 4 (6.78%) HTML
3 4 (6.78%) JWT
3 4 (6.78%) Next.js
3 4 (6.78%) OAuth
3 4 (6.78%) Playwright
3 4 (6.78%) Puppeteer
3 4 (6.78%) React
4 2 (3.39%) 802.1X
4 2 (3.39%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.39%) RESTful
5 1 (1.69%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (50.85%) Public Cloud
2 14 (23.73%) Product Ownership
3 9 (15.25%) Data Centre
4 8 (13.56%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.95%) Linux
2 9 (15.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.39%) Rocky
4 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.93%) Software Engineering
2 30 (50.85%) OO
2 30 (50.85%) Product Management
2 30 (50.85%) Product Roadmap
2 30 (50.85%) Roadmaps
2 30 (50.85%) SOA
2 30 (50.85%) SOLID
2 30 (50.85%) Technical Leadership
3 19 (32.20%) AI
4 16 (27.12%) Architectural Design
4 16 (27.12%) Mentoring
4 16 (27.12%) User Experience
5 14 (23.73%) BDD
5 14 (23.73%) Collaborative Working
5 14 (23.73%) Pair Programming
5 14 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (23.73%) TDD
6 13 (22.03%) DevOps
7 12 (20.34%) Runbook
8 9 (15.25%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.85%) Java
2 14 (23.73%) Python
3 11 (18.64%) SQL
4 10 (16.95%) Bash
5 5 (8.47%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.78%) C#
6 4 (6.78%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.39%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 9 (15.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Nagios
2 6 (10.17%) Terraform
3 4 (6.78%) Grafana
3 4 (6.78%) Kibana
3 4 (6.78%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.69%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) SolarWinds
2 9 (15.25%) Red Hat
2 9 (15.25%) VMware
3 4 (6.78%) AppDynamics
3 4 (6.78%) Dynatrace
3 4 (6.78%) Google
4 2 (3.39%) Cisco
5 1 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.69%) Splunk