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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 176 227
Rank change year-on-year +16 +51 -3
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 11 1 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.030% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.58% 0.19% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 £82,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £85,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -49.41% +100.00% -32.00%
75th Percentile £48,063 £87,500 £46,250
90th Percentile £58,875 - -
South East median annual salary £47,500 £75,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -36.67% +76.47% -33.59%

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 427 528 917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.67% 15.75% 14.11%
Number of salaries quoted 268 218 677
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £70,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £46,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year +2.15% -1.06% +4.44%

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 13 May 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 13 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
Berkshire +18 8 £46,000 -45.88% 2
Buckinghamshire - 3 £42,500 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Sumo Logic
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) TCP/IP
2 8 (72.73%) DNS
3 6 (54.55%) VPN
4 5 (45.45%) Firewall
5 3 (27.27%) SMTP
5 3 (27.27%) WAN
6 2 (18.18%) FTP
6 2 (18.18%) Internet
6 2 (18.18%) LAN
6 2 (18.18%) Network Security
7 1 (9.09%) BGP
7 1 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
7 1 (9.09%) MPLS
7 1 (9.09%) SNMP
7 1 (9.09%) SSL
7 1 (9.09%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 7 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Analyst
2 7 (63.64%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cyber Defence
1 6 (54.55%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (36.36%) Security Posture
4 3 (27.27%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (18.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
6 1 (9.09%) PKI
6 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) FreeBSD
3 1 (9.09%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (81.82%) SIEM
3 8 (72.73%) Incident Response
4 7 (63.64%) Threat Detection
4 7 (63.64%) Use Case
5 5 (45.45%) Incident Management
6 4 (36.36%) Blue Team
6 4 (36.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 4 (36.36%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 4 (36.36%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (36.36%) Security Operations
6 4 (36.36%) Threat Intelligence
7 3 (27.27%) Cyber Intelligence
7 3 (27.27%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
7 3 (27.27%) Offensive Security
7 3 (27.27%) Purple Team
7 3 (27.27%) Red Team
7 3 (27.27%) SOAR
7 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) CREST Certified
2 4 (36.36%) GCIA
2 4 (36.36%) GCIH
2 4 (36.36%) GIAC
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) GCED
3 3 (27.27%) OSCP
3 3 (27.27%) SANS
4 2 (18.18%) Degree
5 1 (9.09%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) KVM
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kibana
2 2 (18.18%) QRadar
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Endace
3 1 (9.09%) Proxmox
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (63.64%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (54.55%) Splunk
4 4 (36.36%) Carbon Black
5 2 (18.18%) ArcSight
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco
6 1 (9.09%) F5
6 1 (9.09%) Juniper
6 1 (9.09%) VMware