HTTP Job Trends in the North of England

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring HTTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 250 300
Rank change year-on-year 0 +50 +41
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 33 16 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.26% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.23% 1.68% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 27 11 24
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,875 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £93,778 £73,125
90th Percentile £65,000 - £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -20.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,682 953 1,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.11% 12.13% 12.80%
Number of salaries quoted 794 550 1,360
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £43,231
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +4.09% -2.86%
75th Percentile £50,188 £64,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.64% +10.00% -2.91%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

HTTP job vacancy trend in the North of England

HTTP
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing HTTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing HTTP

HTTP
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for HTTP in the North of England

HTTP
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
North West +21 21 £55,000 -2.65% 14
North East - 7 £47,500 - 3
Yorkshire -29 5 £48,750 -42.82% 4
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (6.06%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) AWS
2 16 (48.48%) Azure
3 15 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (42.42%) GCP
4 14 (42.42%) GitHub
4 14 (42.42%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.03%) npm
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (66.67%) DNS
2 20 (60.61%) TCP/IP
3 14 (42.42%) Firewall
4 8 (24.24%) SSL
5 3 (9.09%) DHCP
6 1 (3.03%) FTP
6 1 (3.03%) SMTP
6 1 (3.03%) SNMP
6 1 (3.03%) SSH
6 1 (3.03%) Telnet
6 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) MongoDB
1 4 (12.12%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (42.42%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) JIRA
2 4 (12.12%) JUnit
2 4 (12.12%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.03%) NUnit
3 1 (3.03%) Protractor
3 1 (3.03%) Snyk
General
1 14 (42.42%) Law
1 14 (42.42%) Telecoms
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Automotive
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
4 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Junior
2 5 (15.15%) Senior
2 5 (15.15%) Site Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) C++ Developer
3 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Senior Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Associate Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (3.03%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
2 5 (15.15%) CSS
2 5 (15.15%) HTML
2 5 (15.15%) RESTful
3 4 (12.12%) gRPC
3 4 (12.12%) Kafka
3 4 (12.12%) Qt
3 4 (12.12%) REST
3 4 (12.12%) Spring
3 4 (12.12%) Spring Batch
3 4 (12.12%) Spring Boot
3 4 (12.12%) STL
4 3 (9.09%) QML
5 2 (6.06%) .NET
5 2 (6.06%) DPDK
5 2 (6.06%) eBPF
6 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.03%) JWT
6 1 (3.03%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Client/Server
1 4 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (30.30%) Windows
2 5 (15.15%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) CI/CD
2 19 (57.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 18 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 18 (54.55%) DevOps
4 16 (48.48%) High Availability
5 15 (45.45%) Continuous Delivery
5 15 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (45.45%) DevSecOps
6 14 (42.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (42.42%) Static Code Analysis
6 14 (42.42%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 8 (24.24%) Agile
8 6 (18.18%) ITIL
8 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
9 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (12.12%) AI
10 4 (12.12%) Data Modelling
10 4 (12.12%) OOP
10 4 (12.12%) Scrum
10 4 (12.12%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) Python
2 14 (42.42%) Bash
2 14 (42.42%) Go
3 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.15%) TypeScript
4 4 (12.12%) C#
4 4 (12.12%) C++
4 4 (12.12%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) KVM
1 2 (6.06%) QEMU
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (57.58%) Grafana
1 19 (57.58%) Prometheus
2 16 (48.48%) Ansible
2 16 (48.48%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) SolarWinds
1 5 (15.15%) Splunk
2 2 (6.06%) SaltStack
3 1 (3.03%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Qualys
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce