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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 269 256
Rank change year-on-year +13 -13 +38
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 11 29 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.32% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.74% 2.09% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 29
10th Percentile £42,875 - £25,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £71,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £76,750 £75,000 £56,000
England median annual salary £58,750 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.00% +13.64% -21.43%

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 1,496 1,390 1,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.50% 15.36% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 669 720 1,042
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £59,500 £63,750 £61,750
90th Percentile £73,500 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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
West Sussex +6 4 £57,500 -20.69%
Kent - 2 £112,500 -
Middlesex - 2 £47,500 -
Surrey - 2 £47,500 - 5
Hampshire +39 1 £40,000 -3.61% 2
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 (18.18%) CMS
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Charles Proxy
2 2 (18.18%) Fiddler
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Postman
2 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
2 2 (18.18%) Snyk
2 2 (18.18%) TestRail
3 1 (9.09%) Appium
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) JUnit
3 1 (9.09%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (9.09%) mountebank
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) Subversion
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Advertising
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Administrator
1 2 (18.18%) Lead
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Support
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Support Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
2 1 (9.09%) Playwright
2 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (18.18%) Over-the-Top Content
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) CentOS
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
1 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Android
2 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Regression Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) API Testing
5 2 (18.18%) BDD
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Information Security
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) SDET
5 2 (18.18%) Software Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Traceability Matrix
5 2 (18.18%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Perl
2 4 (36.36%) PHP
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Checkmarx
1 2 (18.18%) Qualys
1 2 (18.18%) Roku
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) CA Agile Central