HTTP Job Trends in the South East

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring HTTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 241 337
Rank change year-on-year -26 +96 -11
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 29 12 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.20% 0.17% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.73% 1.29% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23 4 47
10th Percentile £43,650 £66,250 £25,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £71,875 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £75,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +76.47% -37.04%
75th Percentile £65,625 £78,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £83,750 £67,500
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
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,675 928 2,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.79% 13.52% 16.70%
Number of salaries quoted 813 719 1,907
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £47,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +1.06% +4.44%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,400 £70,000
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 the South East

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

HTTP job vacancy trend in the South East

HTTP
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HTTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HTTP

HTTP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the South East over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for HTTP in the South East

HTTP
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Surrey -14 13 £47,500 -26.92%
Thames Valley +4 6 £44,250 -41.00% 2
Hampshire -27 5 £80,000 -
Berkshire +8 4 £56,750 -33.24% 1
West Sussex - 3 £57,500 - 1
Middlesex +48 2 £47,500 -
Buckinghamshire -19 2 £42,500 -43.33% 1
HTTP
England

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (6.90%) CMS
1 2 (6.90%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) SaaS
2 3 (10.34%) GitHub
2 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (6.90%) Sumo Logic
4 1 (3.45%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure
4 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 13 (44.83%) DNS
2 8 (27.59%) WAN
3 7 (24.14%) VPN
4 6 (20.69%) BGP
4 6 (20.69%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (20.69%) MPLS
4 6 (20.69%) SNMP
5 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
6 3 (10.34%) RTP
6 3 (10.34%) SMTP
6 3 (10.34%) Unified Communications
6 3 (10.34%) VoIP
6 3 (10.34%) Wireshark
7 2 (6.90%) FTP
7 2 (6.90%) Internet
7 2 (6.90%) LAN
7 2 (6.90%) MQTT
8 1 (3.45%) Firewall
8 1 (3.45%) HTTPS
8 1 (3.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
1 3 (10.34%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) Charles Proxy
2 2 (6.90%) Fiddler
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Postman
2 2 (6.90%) TestRail
3 1 (3.45%) Appium
3 1 (3.45%) JUnit
3 1 (3.45%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.45%) Selenium
General
1 16 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Electronics
5 1 (3.45%) Advertising
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Linux Engineer
1 8 (27.59%) Linux Support
1 8 (27.59%) Linux Support Engineer
1 8 (27.59%) Support Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Administrator
5 2 (6.90%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (6.90%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.90%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Network Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) REST
2 3 (10.34%) Django
2 3 (10.34%) Flask
2 3 (10.34%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (10.34%) Jinja
2 3 (10.34%) OAuth
2 3 (10.34%) OAuth2
2 3 (10.34%) pytest
2 3 (10.34%) RFC 2833
2 3 (10.34%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (10.34%) WebRTC
3 2 (6.90%) LDAP
3 2 (6.90%) Yocto
4 1 (3.45%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) PKI
2 3 (10.34%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.90%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (6.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.90%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Over-the-Top Content
3 2 (6.90%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Linux
2 10 (34.48%) CentOS
2 10 (34.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (10.34%) Ubuntu
4 2 (6.90%) Android
4 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.45%) FreeBSD
5 1 (3.45%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (34.48%) Migration
3 8 (27.59%) Incident Response
4 6 (20.69%) Capacity Management
4 6 (20.69%) Cryptography
4 6 (20.69%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (20.69%) Performance Testing
4 6 (20.69%) Requirements Gathering
4 6 (20.69%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (17.24%) Network Design
5 5 (17.24%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
6 4 (13.79%) Open Source
6 4 (13.79%) SIEM
6 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.34%) Containerisation
7 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.34%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) Perl
2 10 (34.48%) PHP
3 3 (10.34%) C
3 3 (10.34%) C++
3 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) Bash
4 1 (3.45%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.90%) JTAG
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
1 3 (10.34%) Kamailio
2 2 (6.90%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (6.90%) Firmware
3 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.45%) KVM
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Endace
2 3 (10.34%) Argo
2 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.90%) QRadar
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) Proxmox
4 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Cisco
2 6 (20.69%) F5
2 6 (20.69%) Juniper
3 3 (10.34%) BT
3 3 (10.34%) Fortinet
3 3 (10.34%) Mitel
4 2 (6.90%) ArcSight
4 2 (6.90%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (6.90%) Google
4 2 (6.90%) NVIDIA
4 2 (6.90%) Roku
4 2 (6.90%) Splunk
5 1 (3.45%) VMware