HTTP Job Trends

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring HTTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 510 410
Rank change year-on-year -45 -100 -106
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 99 240 329
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.39% 0.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.13% 3.08% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 60 133 202
10th Percentile £32,375 £38,950 £35,088
25th Percentile £43,250 £56,250 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,563 £75,000 £77,188
90th Percentile £96,875 £93,778 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +28.57% -8.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,739 7,788 7,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.49% 12.54% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,078 4,075 6,375
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.25% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -3.23%

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

HTTP job vacancy trend in the UK

HTTP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HTTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HTTP

HTTP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HTTP over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Salary histogram for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
England -15 95 £60,000 -7.69% 60
UK excluding London +42 69 £57,500 -14.81% 50
Work from Home -6 32 £40,000 -38.46% 31
London -14 28 £90,000 +44.00% 16
Midlands +49 26 £66,550 - 4
West Midlands +48 24 £72,500 - 3
North of England +37 19 £57,500 -32.55% 22
North West +56 16 £55,000 -10.20% 12
South East +25 13 £50,000 -4.76% 13
South West +7 9 £31,500 -53.33% 6
East of England +14 3 £58,000 -7.20% 9
East Midlands +14 2 £35,000 - 1
Yorkshire -13 2 £60,000 -29.62% 8
Scotland -2 1 £43,000 -40.27%
North East - 1 £60,000 - 2

HTTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 19 (19.19%) Confluence
2 11 (11.11%) nginx
3 6 (6.06%) Apache
4 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.02%) CMS
5 2 (2.02%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.01%) IIS
6 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.42%) AWS
2 31 (31.31%) Azure
3 18 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
3 18 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 18 (18.18%) AWS KMS
3 18 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 14 (14.14%) SaaS
5 13 (13.13%) Amazon Glacier
6 12 (12.12%) GitHub
7 10 (10.10%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (7.07%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (5.05%) Cloudflare
11 5 (5.05%) Route 53
12 4 (4.04%) Entra ID
12 4 (4.04%) GCP
13 3 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 47 (47.47%) DNS
2 26 (26.26%) TCP/IP
3 25 (25.25%) SMTP
4 24 (24.24%) Firewall
5 21 (21.21%) FTP
5 21 (21.21%) SSH
6 16 (16.16%) SSL
7 9 (9.09%) HTTPS
7 9 (9.09%) VPN
8 6 (6.06%) DHCP
8 6 (6.06%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (5.05%) IMAP
9 5 (5.05%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (3.03%) AMQP
10 3 (3.03%) Network Security
10 3 (3.03%) SNMP
10 3 (3.03%) VLAN
11 2 (2.02%) ICMP
11 2 (2.02%) WAN
12 1 (1.01%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.05%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (5.05%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.04%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.02%) MySQL
7 1 (1.01%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (31.31%) Git
2 25 (25.25%) Jenkins
3 23 (23.23%) JIRA
4 18 (18.18%) Vagrant
5 6 (6.06%) Snyk
6 5 (5.05%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (4.04%) JUnit
7 4 (4.04%) Postman
8 3 (3.03%) Appium
8 3 (3.03%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (3.03%) Fiddler
8 3 (3.03%) REST Assured
8 3 (3.03%) Subversion
8 3 (3.03%) Visual Studio
9 2 (2.02%) GitLab
9 2 (2.02%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (2.02%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (2.02%) Selenium
9 2 (2.02%) TestRail
9 2 (2.02%) XCUITest
General
1 26 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.21%) Finance
3 15 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.10%) Banking
6 7 (7.07%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (6.06%) Telecoms
8 5 (5.05%) Law
8 5 (5.05%) Marketing
9 4 (4.04%) Games
9 4 (4.04%) Manufacturing
10 3 (3.03%) Advertising
10 3 (3.03%) Aerospace
10 3 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.01%) Automotive
12 1 (1.01%) Billing
12 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 21 (21.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (14.14%) Senior
3 13 (13.13%) Developer
3 13 (13.13%) Software Engineer
4 10 (10.10%) Security Engineer
5 7 (7.07%) Development Engineer
5 7 (7.07%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (7.07%) Senior Development Engineer
5 7 (7.07%) Senior Software Development Engineer
5 7 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
5 7 (7.07%) Software Development Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (4.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Consultant
7 4 (4.04%) Junior
7 4 (4.04%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Python Software Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (25.25%) REST
2 13 (13.13%) OAuth
3 10 (10.10%) CSS
4 9 (9.09%) SAML
5 8 (8.08%) HTML
5 8 (8.08%) React
6 7 (7.07%) LDAP
7 6 (6.06%) JSON
8 5 (5.05%) .NET
8 5 (5.05%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.05%) RESTful
9 4 (4.04%) Kafka
9 4 (4.04%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.04%) Spring
9 4 (4.04%) Web Services
10 3 (3.03%) gRPC
10 3 (3.03%) Qt
10 3 (3.03%) Spring Boot
10 3 (3.03%) STL
10 3 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.14%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.10%) Replication
3 8 (8.08%) PKI
3 8 (8.08%) Security Posture
4 7 (7.07%) Public Cloud
4 7 (7.07%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.06%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (4.04%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (4.04%) GNSS
6 4 (4.04%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.04%) Satnav
7 3 (3.03%) Client/Server
7 3 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.03%) e-Learning
7 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.02%) Arduino
8 2 (2.02%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 41 (41.41%) Linux
2 29 (29.29%) Windows
3 18 (18.18%) VMS
4 16 (16.16%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (6.06%) Ubuntu
5 6 (6.06%) Unix
6 4 (4.04%) Apple iOS
7 3 (3.03%) Android
7 3 (3.03%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.02%) CentOS
8 2 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.39%) DevOps
2 29 (29.29%) CI/CD
3 28 (28.28%) Agile
4 26 (26.26%) Cloud Security
5 22 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 21 (21.21%) Software Engineering
7 20 (20.20%) Configuration Management
8 19 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (17.17%) Patch Management
10 16 (16.16%) Change Management
11 15 (15.15%) Scrum
12 14 (14.14%) User Experience
13 13 (13.13%) Mentoring
14 12 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
15 11 (11.11%) ITIL
15 11 (11.11%) OO
15 11 (11.11%) Roadmaps
16 10 (10.10%) High Availability
16 10 (10.10%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 46 (46.46%) Python
2 28 (28.28%) Java
3 21 (21.21%) PowerShell
4 20 (20.20%) Groovy
5 16 (16.16%) SQL
6 15 (15.15%) Perl
7 13 (13.13%) JavaScript
8 9 (9.09%) C#
8 9 (9.09%) C++
9 8 (8.08%) TypeScript
10 5 (5.05%) Bash
10 5 (5.05%) PHP
11 3 (3.03%) Go
12 2 (2.02%) C
12 2 (2.02%) Ruby
12 2 (2.02%) Swift
13 1 (1.01%) Kotlin
13 1 (1.01%) Scala
13 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (23.23%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.20%) Degree
3 19 (19.19%) SC Cleared
4 12 (12.12%) AWS Certification
4 12 (12.12%) Azure Certification
5 8 (8.08%) CISSP
5 8 (8.08%) OSCP
6 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.03%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.02%) CCIE
7 2 (2.02%) CCNP
7 2 (2.02%) CEH
7 2 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.02%) GSEC
8 1 (1.01%) MCSE
8 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.10%) QA
2 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.03%) GDPR
2 3 (3.03%) GRC
3 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.02%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (22.22%) Docker
2 14 (14.14%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.09%) DFS Replication
4 5 (5.05%) Dovecot
4 5 (5.05%) Postfix
4 5 (5.05%) Squid
5 2 (2.02%) KVM
5 2 (2.02%) QEMU
6 1 (1.01%) Firmware
6 1 (1.01%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 29 (29.29%) Terraform
2 24 (24.24%) Grafana
2 24 (24.24%) Prometheus
3 13 (13.13%) Ansible
4 8 (8.08%) Kubernetes
4 8 (8.08%) Nessus
5 5 (5.05%) Proxmox
6 4 (4.04%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.03%) Nagios
8 1 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.01%) PingFederate
8 1 (1.01%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.01%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (16.16%) ServiceNow
2 8 (8.08%) Qualys
3 7 (7.07%) Splunk
4 6 (6.06%) Checkmarx
4 6 (6.06%) Imperva
4 6 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 6 (6.06%) Salesforce
5 5 (5.05%) Jaspersoft
5 5 (5.05%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.05%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.03%) Cisco
6 3 (3.03%) SAP
7 2 (2.02%) Blue Coat
7 2 (2.02%) Oracle
7 2 (2.02%) Roku
7 2 (2.02%) SaltStack
8 1 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.01%) Darktrace
8 1 (1.01%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.01%) Palo Alto