HTTP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring HTTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 427 509
Rank change year-on-year -69 +82 -51
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 77 58 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.22% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.97% 1.64% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 63 38 132
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,675 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £54,313 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.39% +18.10% -14.19%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,227 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £89,383 £68,750
UK median annual salary £51,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.60% +13.64% -21.43%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,955 3,529 8,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.24% 13.67% 13.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,915 2,594 7,081
10th Percentile £26,175 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £46,000 £43,227
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% +6.41% -3.94%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £51,843 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.02% +9.14% -6.86%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing HTTP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

HTTP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HTTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HTTP

HTTP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing HTTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for HTTP in the UK excluding London

HTTP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
North of England -52 39 £47,500 -26.92% 14
South East -14 26 £47,500 -36.67% 5
North West -30 18 £52,500 -19.23% 4
North East - 13 £47,500 - 3
Yorkshire -52 8 £50,000 -41.35% 7
South West -44 6 £91,750 +35.93% 1
Midlands -50 5 £52,500 -12.50% 2
West Midlands -18 3 £52,500 -12.50% 1
East Midlands - 2 £35,000 - 1
East of England -48 1 - - 8
HTTP
UK

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.60%) CMS
1 2 (2.60%) Confluence
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.30%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.47%) AWS
2 23 (29.87%) GitHub
3 22 (28.57%) Azure
4 21 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (24.68%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (23.38%) GCP
7 13 (16.88%) SaaS
8 2 (2.60%) BrowserStack
8 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.30%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.30%) npm
9 1 (1.30%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 44 (57.14%) DNS
2 33 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 21 (27.27%) Firewall
4 9 (11.69%) VPN
5 8 (10.39%) SMTP
5 8 (10.39%) SNMP
5 8 (10.39%) SSL
6 7 (9.09%) WAN
7 6 (7.79%) BGP
7 6 (7.79%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (7.79%) MPLS
8 4 (5.19%) SSH
9 3 (3.90%) FTP
9 3 (3.90%) MQTT
9 3 (3.90%) RTP
9 3 (3.90%) Unified Communications
9 3 (3.90%) VoIP
9 3 (3.90%) Wireshark
10 2 (2.60%) DHCP
10 2 (2.60%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.19%) MySQL
3 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.60%) SAP BW
4 2 (2.60%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 20 (25.97%) Jenkins
2 16 (20.78%) Git
3 7 (9.09%) JIRA
4 6 (7.79%) JUnit
5 4 (5.19%) Postman
5 4 (5.19%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.90%) Selenium
7 2 (2.60%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (2.60%) Fiddler
7 2 (2.60%) GitLab
7 2 (2.60%) IDA Disassembler
7 2 (2.60%) TestRail
8 1 (1.30%) Appium
8 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.30%) Eclipse
8 1 (1.30%) Gatling
8 1 (1.30%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (1.30%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.30%) Protractor
8 1 (1.30%) REST Assured
General
1 18 (23.38%) Law
1 18 (23.38%) Telecoms
2 17 (22.08%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.29%) Finance
4 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Electronics
5 2 (2.60%) Games
5 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.60%) Marketing
5 2 (2.60%) Retail
6 1 (1.30%) Advertising
6 1 (1.30%) Automotive
6 1 (1.30%) Billing
6 1 (1.30%) Legal
6 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (23.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (14.29%) Developer
3 10 (12.99%) Linux Engineer
4 8 (10.39%) Linux Support
4 8 (10.39%) Linux Support Engineer
4 8 (10.39%) Support Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Junior
6 6 (7.79%) Architect
6 6 (7.79%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Site Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) C++ Developer
8 4 (5.19%) C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Python Software Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Senior
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Consultant
9 3 (3.90%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (24.68%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (12.99%) REST
3 8 (10.39%) CSS
3 8 (10.39%) HTML
4 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.19%) Django
4 4 (5.19%) OAuth
4 4 (5.19%) Qt
4 4 (5.19%) RESTful
4 4 (5.19%) STL
5 3 (3.90%) Flask
5 3 (3.90%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (3.90%) Kafka
5 3 (3.90%) Node.js
5 3 (3.90%) OAuth2
5 3 (3.90%) QML
5 3 (3.90%) Spring
5 3 (3.90%) Spring Batch
5 3 (3.90%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (3.90%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) PKI
2 4 (5.19%) Client/Server
2 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.19%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.19%) GNSS
2 4 (5.19%) Satnav
2 4 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.90%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.90%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.60%) Arduino
4 2 (2.60%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.60%) Over-the-Top Content
4 2 (2.60%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (1.30%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 30 (38.96%) Linux
2 15 (19.48%) Windows
3 10 (12.99%) CentOS
3 10 (12.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.90%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.60%) Android
5 2 (2.60%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.30%) FreeBSD
6 1 (1.30%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.96%) CI/CD
2 25 (32.47%) Containerisation
3 24 (31.17%) DevOps
4 23 (29.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 20 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (24.68%) Continuous Delivery
6 19 (24.68%) Continuous Integration
6 19 (24.68%) High Availability
6 19 (24.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (23.38%) DevSecOps
7 18 (23.38%) Static Code Analysis
7 18 (23.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 12 (15.58%) Test Automation
9 11 (14.29%) Agile
10 10 (12.99%) Migration
10 10 (12.99%) Software Engineering
11 9 (11.69%) Performance Testing
11 9 (11.69%) Validation
12 8 (10.39%) Incident Response
12 8 (10.39%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 39 (50.65%) Python
2 20 (25.97%) Bash
3 18 (23.38%) Go
4 13 (16.88%) C++
5 12 (15.58%) PHP
6 11 (14.29%) Perl
7 8 (10.39%) JavaScript
8 7 (9.09%) TypeScript
9 6 (7.79%) SQL
10 5 (6.49%) C
10 5 (6.49%) Java
11 4 (5.19%) C#
12 2 (2.60%) ABAP
13 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Degree
1 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) CEH
4 2 (2.60%) CISSP
4 2 (2.60%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (2.60%) GSEC
4 2 (2.60%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) QA
2 5 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.49%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.90%) GDPR
4 2 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.60%) JTAG
4 2 (2.60%) NIST
5 1 (1.30%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Firmware
2 3 (3.90%) Kamailio
3 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.60%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.30%) KVM
4 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (31.17%) Grafana
2 23 (29.87%) Prometheus
3 19 (24.68%) Ansible
3 19 (24.68%) Terraform
4 6 (7.79%) Endace
5 3 (3.90%) Argo
5 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.60%) Nessus
6 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.30%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) Cisco
2 6 (7.79%) F5
2 6 (7.79%) Juniper
2 6 (7.79%) Splunk
3 5 (6.49%) SolarWinds
4 3 (3.90%) BT
4 3 (3.90%) Fortinet
4 3 (3.90%) Mitel
5 2 (2.60%) Google
5 2 (2.60%) NVIDIA
5 2 (2.60%) OpenText
5 2 (2.60%) Qualys
5 2 (2.60%) Roku
5 2 (2.60%) SAP
6 1 (1.30%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.30%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.30%) VMware