HTTP Job Trends in the Thames Valley

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 190 215
Rank change year-on-year +39 +25 -44
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 27 4 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.44% 0.11% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.99% 0.68% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 19 2 12
10th Percentile £41,250 £53,250 -
25th Percentile £45,875 £58,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +58.82% -27.66%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,125 £46,250
90th Percentile £75,500 £83,750 -
South East median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £49,329
% change year-on-year +3.85% +31.77% -6.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 451 586 905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.34% 16.21% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 325 282 628
10th Percentile £28,200 £25,750 £28,425
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £45,000 £44,089
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% +2.07% -7.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +3.54%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

HTTP job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

HTTP
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing HTTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing HTTP

HTTP
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for HTTP in the Thames Valley

HTTP
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Berkshire +29 12 £60,000 -29.41%
Oxfordshire - 12 £72,500 - 3
Buckinghamshire -8 3 £42,500 -15.00%
HTTP
South East

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) AWS
1 4 (14.81%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) GCP
2 3 (11.11%) Sumo Logic
3 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (81.48%) DNS
2 20 (74.07%) VPN
3 15 (55.56%) TCP/IP
4 13 (48.15%) WAN
5 12 (44.44%) FTP
5 12 (44.44%) Network Security
6 11 (40.74%) BGP
6 11 (40.74%) MPLS
6 11 (40.74%) SNMP
6 11 (40.74%) SSL
6 11 (40.74%) VLAN
7 10 (37.04%) DHCP
7 10 (37.04%) ICMP
7 10 (37.04%) IPsec
7 10 (37.04%) SD-WAN
7 10 (37.04%) SSH
8 9 (33.33%) Firewall
9 3 (11.11%) SMTP
10 2 (7.41%) Internet
10 2 (7.41%) LAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Analyst
2 11 (40.74%) Architect
2 11 (40.74%) Network Architect
3 10 (37.04%) Network Security Architect
3 10 (37.04%) Security Architect
4 8 (29.63%) SOC Analyst
5 7 (25.93%) Cyber Threat Analyst
6 3 (11.11%) SIEM Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Optical Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Cloud Consultant
8 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Consultant
8 1 (3.70%) Monitoring Analyst
8 1 (3.70%) Security Analyst
8 1 (3.70%) Security Monitoring Analyst
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) OAuth
1 10 (37.04%) SAML
2 2 (7.41%) gRPC
2 2 (7.41%) JSON
2 2 (7.41%) LDAP
2 2 (7.41%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (7.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 10 (37.04%) Cyber Defence
2 10 (37.04%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (29.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (14.81%) Security Posture
5 3 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
7 1 (3.70%) PKI
7 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
2 8 (29.63%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) FreeBSD
3 1 (3.70%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 13 (48.15%) SIEM
4 12 (44.44%) Incident Response
5 11 (40.74%) Threat Detection
5 11 (40.74%) Use Case
6 10 (37.04%) Network Segmentation
7 9 (33.33%) Incident Management
8 8 (29.63%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 8 (29.63%) Threat Intelligence
9 7 (25.93%) Blue Team
9 7 (25.93%) Tradecraft
9 7 (25.93%) Validation
10 6 (22.22%) Cyber Intelligence
10 6 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
10 6 (22.22%) Offensive Security
10 6 (22.22%) Purple Team
10 6 (22.22%) Red Team
10 6 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (18.52%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) Python
1 7 (25.93%) Search Processing Language
2 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.41%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 8 (29.63%) CREST Certified
2 8 (29.63%) GCIA
2 8 (29.63%) GCIH
2 8 (29.63%) GIAC
2 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 7 (25.93%) GCED
3 7 (25.93%) SANS
4 6 (22.22%) OSCP
5 4 (14.81%) Degree
6 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (3.70%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (37.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (37.04%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.70%) KVM
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) CASB
1 10 (37.04%) FortiGate
2 8 (29.63%) Kibana
3 3 (11.11%) Terraform
4 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.41%) QRadar
5 1 (3.70%) Ansible
5 1 (3.70%) Endace
5 1 (3.70%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 22 (81.48%) Microsoft
2 11 (40.74%) Cisco
2 11 (40.74%) CrowdStrike
3 10 (37.04%) Palo Alto
3 10 (37.04%) Splunk
4 7 (25.93%) Carbon Black
5 2 (7.41%) ArcSight
6 1 (3.70%) F5
6 1 (3.70%) Juniper
6 1 (3.70%) VMware