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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 456 371
Rank change year-on-year +1 -85 +17
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 67 102 205
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.28% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.88% 2.06% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 46 58 133
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,525 £32,603
25th Percentile £38,563 £40,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £67,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +25.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £64,600 £73,539 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £90,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 7,590 4,942 5,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.81% 13.74% 15.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,831 2,471 4,302
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,750 £25,625
25th Percentile £27,722 £36,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £38,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +10.00% -4.76%

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 15 January 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 15 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
North of England +28 26 £55,000 -35.49% 13
North West +39 20 £57,500 -6.12% 9
Midlands +28 16 £60,600 - 3
West Midlands +26 14 £60,600 - 1
South East +10 12 £47,500 +11.76% 17
South West -13 9 £31,500 -53.33% 2
East of England +13 3 £58,000 +7.41% 7
Yorkshire -15 3 £52,500 -38.42% 3
North East - 3 £50,000 - 1
East Midlands -11 2 £35,000 - 2
Scotland -1 1 £43,000 -40.27% 1
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 10 (14.93%) Confluence
2 4 (5.97%) nginx
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.99%) CMS
4 2 (2.99%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 23 (34.33%) AWS
2 19 (28.36%) Azure
3 9 (13.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (13.43%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (13.43%) Amazon ELB
3 9 (13.43%) Amazon S3
3 9 (13.43%) AWS KMS
3 9 (13.43%) SaaS
3 9 (13.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (10.45%) GitHub
5 7 (10.45%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (8.96%) GCP
6 6 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon Glacier
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.97%) Route 53
9 2 (2.99%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.49%) Boomi
10 1 (1.49%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 45 (67.16%) DNS
2 28 (41.79%) TCP/IP
3 18 (26.87%) SMTP
4 17 (25.37%) Firewall
5 14 (20.90%) FTP
5 14 (20.90%) SSH
5 14 (20.90%) SSL
6 6 (8.96%) DHCP
6 6 (8.96%) VPN
7 4 (5.97%) IMAP
7 4 (5.97%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (4.48%) SNMP
8 3 (4.48%) Telnet
9 2 (2.99%) ICMP
9 2 (2.99%) Network Security
9 2 (2.99%) VLAN
10 1 (1.49%) 4G
10 1 (1.49%) AMQP
10 1 (1.49%) MQTT
10 1 (1.49%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.43%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.97%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (5.97%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.97%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.49%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.49%) MySQL
5 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (29.85%) Git
2 17 (25.37%) Jenkins
3 15 (22.39%) JIRA
4 9 (13.43%) Vagrant
5 5 (7.46%) JUnit
6 4 (5.97%) Visual Studio
7 3 (4.48%) Snyk
7 3 (4.48%) Subversion
8 2 (2.99%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (2.99%) Fiddler
8 2 (2.99%) IDA Disassembler
8 2 (2.99%) Postman
8 2 (2.99%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.99%) TestRail
9 1 (1.49%) Appium
9 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.49%) NUnit
9 1 (1.49%) Selenium
9 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.94%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Law
4 6 (8.96%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (8.96%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.97%) Finance
6 2 (2.99%) Advertising
6 2 (2.99%) Banking
6 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Games
6 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.99%) Marketing
6 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.49%) Automotive
7 1 (1.49%) Billing
7 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (13.43%) Developer
3 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (8.96%) Junior
3 6 (8.96%) Security Engineer
3 6 (8.96%) Site Engineer
3 6 (8.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 6 (8.96%) Software Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Senior
5 4 (5.97%) C++ Developer
5 4 (5.97%) C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Python Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Lead
6 3 (4.48%) Linux Support
6 3 (4.48%) Linux Support Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) REST
2 7 (10.45%) CSS
2 7 (10.45%) HTML
3 6 (8.96%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (8.96%) LDAP
4 5 (7.46%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.46%) Kafka
4 5 (7.46%) RESTful
5 4 (5.97%) gRPC
5 4 (5.97%) Qt
5 4 (5.97%) React
5 4 (5.97%) Spring
5 4 (5.97%) Spring Batch
5 4 (5.97%) Spring Boot
5 4 (5.97%) STL
6 3 (4.48%) .NET
6 3 (4.48%) Node.js
6 3 (4.48%) QML
7 2 (2.99%) Laravel
7 2 (2.99%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.46%) Security Posture
3 4 (5.97%) Client/Server
3 4 (5.97%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.97%) GNSS
3 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.97%) Replication
3 4 (5.97%) Satnav
3 4 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.48%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (4.48%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.48%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.99%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.99%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.99%) Over-the-Top Content
5 2 (2.99%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 28 (41.79%) Linux
2 27 (40.30%) Windows
3 9 (13.43%) VMS
4 7 (10.45%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (7.46%) CentOS
5 5 (7.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (7.46%) Ubuntu
6 3 (4.48%) Windows 10
6 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.99%) Android
7 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.82%) CI/CD
2 21 (31.34%) DevOps
3 17 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (23.88%) Test Automation
5 14 (20.90%) Agile
6 12 (17.91%) Cloud Security
6 12 (17.91%) ITIL
6 12 (17.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (16.42%) Containerisation
7 11 (16.42%) Software Engineering
8 9 (13.43%) Configuration Management
8 9 (13.43%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (13.43%) High Availability
9 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (11.94%) DevSecOps
9 8 (11.94%) Patch Management
9 8 (11.94%) Scrum
9 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (11.94%) Validation
10 7 (10.45%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (46.27%) Python
2 12 (17.91%) Java
3 11 (16.42%) SQL
4 10 (14.93%) C++
4 10 (14.93%) Groovy
4 10 (14.93%) JavaScript
4 10 (14.93%) Perl
4 10 (14.93%) PowerShell
5 8 (11.94%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.45%) Bash
6 7 (10.45%) PHP
7 6 (8.96%) C#
7 6 (8.96%) Go
8 2 (2.99%) C
8 2 (2.99%) Ruby
9 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.94%) Degree
4 7 (10.45%) Azure Certification
5 6 (8.96%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.99%) CEH
6 2 (2.99%) CISSP
6 2 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.99%) GSEC
6 2 (2.99%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.99%) GRC
3 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.99%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (14.93%) Docker
2 6 (8.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.97%) DFS Replication
3 4 (5.97%) Dovecot
3 4 (5.97%) Postfix
3 4 (5.97%) Squid
4 2 (2.99%) KVM
4 2 (2.99%) QEMU
5 1 (1.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (28.36%) Grafana
1 19 (28.36%) Prometheus
2 17 (25.37%) Terraform
3 8 (11.94%) Ansible
4 7 (10.45%) Nessus
5 4 (5.97%) Proxmox
6 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
6 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.48%) Nagios
7 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (10.45%) ServiceNow
1 7 (10.45%) Splunk
2 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.96%) SolarWinds
3 5 (7.46%) Qualys
4 4 (5.97%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (4.48%) Checkmarx
5 3 (4.48%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle
6 2 (2.99%) Roku
6 2 (2.99%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.49%) Blue Coat
7 1 (1.49%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.49%) Cisco
7 1 (1.49%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.49%) F5
7 1 (1.49%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.49%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.49%) VMware