HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for HTTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited HTTP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 497 287
Rank change year-on-year -87 -210 +46
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 328 592 2,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.57% 1.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.41% 3.69% 10.54%
Number of salaries quoted 214 332 673
10th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,447 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.80% +11.12% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £86,313 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £61,180 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.19% +11.24% -8.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

HTTP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

HTTP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HTTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing HTTP.

Salary trend for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HTTP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Top 17 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 27 April 2024. 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 -59 291 £55,000 -20.80% 73
UK excluding London -51 237 £52,500 -14.19% 47
Work from Home -65 116 £55,000 -20.80% 40
London -26 84 £65,000 -18.75% 32
South West +25 82 £53,750 -10.42% 8
South East -11 53 £42,500 -37.04% 14
Midlands +9 31 £57,500 -4.17% 8
West Midlands +37 28 £62,500 +25.00% 6
North of England +1 27 £65,000 +13.04% 5
Northern Ireland +40 17 £35,000 - 6
North West -7 17 £70,000 +40.00% 2
East of England +14 12 £34,500 -52.08% 2
Scotland -84 9 £50,000 -28.57% 3
Yorkshire +60 7 £55,000 -10.10% 3
Wales +8 6 £40,000 - 1
North East 0 3 £65,000 -7.14%
East Midlands -24 3 £34,500 -46.92% 2

HTTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.44%) IIS
4 7 (2.13%) nginx
5 6 (1.83%) Apache
6 4 (1.22%) Drupal
7 3 (0.91%) Confluence
7 3 (0.91%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.91%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 3 (0.91%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.91%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.61%) Moodle
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.30%) CMS
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.30%) SAS
9 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (2.74%) Trello
2 7 (2.13%) InfoPath
2 7 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (5.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.91%) Maximo
2 3 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 144 (43.90%) AWS
2 114 (34.76%) Azure
3 45 (13.72%) SaaS
4 36 (10.98%) OpenShift
5 32 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (7.62%) Serverless
7 23 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (5.79%) Azure App Service
10 18 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (5.18%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (5.18%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (5.18%) Matillion
12 10 (3.05%) Entra ID
12 10 (3.05%) GCP
12 10 (3.05%) PaaS
13 9 (2.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (2.74%) Azure Functions
14 8 (2.44%) Power Platform
15 7 (2.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 150 (45.73%) DNS
2 133 (40.55%) TCP/IP
3 85 (25.91%) DHCP
4 52 (15.85%) Internet
5 42 (12.80%) SMTP
6 26 (7.93%) FTP
6 26 (7.93%) SSL
7 25 (7.62%) MQTT
8 22 (6.71%) Firewall
9 19 (5.79%) VPN
10 15 (4.57%) SNMP
11 14 (4.27%) LAN
12 13 (3.96%) HTTPS
12 13 (3.96%) SSH
13 12 (3.66%) WAN
14 8 (2.44%) BGP
14 8 (2.44%) Telnet
15 7 (2.13%) DWDM
15 7 (2.13%) EIGRP
15 7 (2.13%) IGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (12.80%) SQL Server
2 25 (7.62%) MySQL
3 19 (5.79%) NoSQL
4 16 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.66%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.05%) GIS
6 10 (3.05%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.13%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.91%) DB2
12 2 (0.61%) Power BI
12 2 (0.61%) Redis
13 1 (0.30%) InfluxDB
13 1 (0.30%) Sisense
13 1 (0.30%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 29 (8.84%) Git
2 16 (4.88%) JIRA
3 13 (3.96%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.74%) GitLab
5 4 (1.22%) Subversion
5 4 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.91%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.91%) Postman
6 3 (0.91%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.61%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.61%) Hudson
7 2 (0.61%) Moq
7 2 (0.61%) MSBuild
7 2 (0.61%) MSTest
7 2 (0.61%) Protractor
7 2 (0.61%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.61%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 115 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 75 (22.87%) Finance
3 40 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (8.84%) Manufacturing
6 28 (8.54%) Public Sector
7 21 (6.40%) Telecoms
8 20 (6.10%) Marketing
9 19 (5.79%) Electronics
10 12 (3.66%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.74%) Retail
12 7 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.52%) Banking
14 4 (1.22%) Advertising
14 4 (1.22%) Games
15 3 (0.91%) Automotive
15 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.61%) Legal
17 1 (0.30%) Law
17 1 (0.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 91 (27.74%) Senior
2 77 (23.48%) Developer
3 59 (17.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 39 (11.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 33 (10.06%) Architect
6 30 (9.15%) Software Engineer
7 27 (8.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 25 (7.62%) Lead
9 16 (4.88%) Analyst
10 15 (4.57%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (3.96%) ERP Developer
11 13 (3.96%) Graduate
11 13 (3.96%) Graduate Developer
11 13 (3.96%) JavaScript Developer
11 13 (3.96%) Senior Architect
12 12 (3.66%) Full Stack Developer
12 12 (3.66%) Support Engineer
13 10 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.05%) Junior
13 10 (3.05%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (29.27%) HTML
2 65 (19.82%) REST
3 57 (17.38%) CSS
4 50 (15.24%) React
5 42 (12.80%) RESTful
6 37 (11.28%) JSON
7 35 (10.67%) Node.js
8 31 (9.45%) .NET
8 31 (9.45%) OpenID
9 30 (9.15%) SAML
10 29 (8.84%) Web Services
10 29 (8.84%) XML
11 23 (7.01%) Laravel
12 22 (6.71%) AngularJS
13 17 (5.18%) JWT
14 11 (3.35%) Django
14 11 (3.35%) HTML5
15 10 (3.05%) Sass
16 9 (2.74%) Kafka
16 9 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.28%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.67%) Cyberattack
3 23 (7.01%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (5.49%) Data Centre
4 18 (5.49%) IoT
5 16 (4.88%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.96%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.44%) Arduino
8 8 (2.44%) EFT
8 8 (2.44%) Raspberry Pi
9 7 (2.13%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.13%) Clustering
9 7 (2.13%) CUDA
9 7 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.13%) GNSS
9 7 (2.13%) Tandem
10 6 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 111 (33.84%) Linux
2 100 (30.49%) Windows
3 41 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (7.32%) Unix
5 18 (5.49%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.83%) CentOS
7 3 (0.91%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.61%) Android
8 2 (0.61%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.61%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.30%) Solaris
9 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (32.01%) DevOps
2 81 (24.70%) Agile
3 68 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (20.73%) Software Engineering
4 66 (20.12%) Computer Science
5 63 (19.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 53 (16.16%) Microservices
7 50 (15.24%) Software Architecture
8 47 (14.33%) CI/CD
9 43 (13.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 42 (12.80%) Roadmaps
11 41 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
12 39 (11.89%) SDLC
13 38 (11.59%) Full Stack Development
14 36 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
14 36 (10.98%) Technology Roadmap
15 32 (9.76%) Cloud Security
16 31 (9.45%) Test Automation
17 30 (9.15%) Artificial Intelligence
17 30 (9.15%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 119 (36.28%) Python
2 85 (25.91%) SQL
3 77 (23.48%) JavaScript
4 70 (21.34%) Java
5 66 (20.12%) PowerShell
6 47 (14.33%) Bash
7 40 (12.20%) PHP
8 27 (8.23%) TypeScript
9 23 (7.01%) C#
10 21 (6.40%) T-SQL
11 12 (3.66%) C
12 11 (3.35%) C++
13 9 (2.74%) Apex Code
14 7 (2.13%) Perl
14 7 (2.13%) Ruby
15 5 (1.52%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.52%) VB
16 4 (1.22%) ActionScript
16 4 (1.22%) ActionScript 2.0
16 4 (1.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 74 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 62 (18.90%) Degree
3 61 (18.60%) DV Cleared
4 36 (10.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (9.45%) AWS Certification
6 29 (8.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (6.71%) SC Cleared
8 13 (3.96%) Master's Degree
9 7 (2.13%) CCNA
9 7 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.83%) CREST Certified
10 6 (1.83%) PhD
11 4 (1.22%) GIAC
12 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.61%) CASP
13 2 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
13 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.61%) Linux+ Certification
13 2 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.96%) QA
2 11 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.74%) GDPR
4 7 (2.13%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.91%) NIST
7 2 (0.61%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.61%) NCSC
7 2 (0.61%) WCAG
8 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 61 (18.60%) Docker
2 41 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (11.59%) Hyper-V
4 23 (7.01%) Firmware
5 20 (6.10%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (3.96%) Active Directory
7 11 (3.35%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (2.44%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.91%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.61%) NFS
10 2 (0.61%) Varnish
10 2 (0.61%) vSphere
11 1 (0.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 63 (19.21%) Terraform
2 58 (17.68%) Kubernetes
3 51 (15.55%) Puppet
4 44 (13.41%) Ansible
5 10 (3.05%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.44%) SCCM
6 8 (2.44%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.83%) Grafana
8 5 (1.52%) Packer
8 5 (1.52%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.22%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.91%) Consul
11 2 (0.61%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 2 (0.61%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.30%) Cacti
12 1 (0.30%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.30%) HP SiteScope
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.30%) Perfmon
12 1 (0.30%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 69 (21.04%) Microsoft
2 59 (17.99%) VMware
3 42 (12.80%) Red Hat
4 21 (6.40%) Google
5 19 (5.79%) SAP
6 14 (4.27%) Salesforce
7 12 (3.66%) Cisco
8 10 (3.05%) Juniper
8 10 (3.05%) Oracle
9 9 (2.74%) Citrix
10 8 (2.44%) Globalscape
10 8 (2.44%) NVIDIA
11 7 (2.13%) Arista
11 7 (2.13%) Fortinet
11 7 (2.13%) Tufin
12 6 (1.83%) F5
12 6 (1.83%) IBM
13 4 (1.22%) Apple
13 4 (1.22%) Splunk
14 3 (0.91%) ArcSight