HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring HTTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited HTTP over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 588 516
Rank change year-on-year +46 -72 -234
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 145 328 595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.33% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.22% 2.41% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 92 215 331
10th Percentile £45,500 £32,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £38,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -20.80% +11.12%
75th Percentile £73,886 £68,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,125 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £52,500 £61,180
% change year-on-year +18.10% -14.19% +11.24%

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 6,543 13,614 16,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.68% 13.87% 15.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,245 9,523 8,270
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,625 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -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 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Top 13 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 26 April 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 +36 132 £62,500 +13.64% 192
London +107 74 £62,500 -3.85% 88
Work from Home +111 67 £62,500 +13.64% 93
UK excluding London +42 63 £62,000 +18.10% 115
North of England +76 24 £65,000 - 27
North West +34 18 £65,000 -7.14% 18
East of England +66 15 £62,000 +79.71% 23
South East +69 12 £75,000 +76.47% 40
Yorkshire +71 6 £85,253 +55.00% 7
Scotland +130 5 £71,991 +43.98% 9
Midlands +46 5 £60,000 +4.35% 13
West Midlands +45 5 £60,000 -4.00% 6
South West +37 2 £51,250 -4.65% 10

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 22 (15.17%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.52%) Confluence
3 4 (2.76%) Apache
4 3 (2.07%) IIS
5 2 (1.38%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.69%) CMS
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.69%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.69%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 8 (5.52%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.76%) Azure
2 26 (17.93%) AWS
3 19 (13.10%) Serverless
4 16 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (10.34%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (7.59%) SaaS
7 9 (6.21%) GCP
8 7 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.45%) GitHub
10 4 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.76%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.69%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.69%) Azure API Management
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.69%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.69%) Oracle Service Cloud
11 1 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (26.90%) TCP/IP
2 30 (20.69%) DNS
3 24 (16.55%) Firewall
4 23 (15.86%) SMTP
5 17 (11.72%) VPN
6 15 (10.34%) WAN
7 13 (8.97%) LAN
8 12 (8.28%) FTP
8 12 (8.28%) Internet
9 9 (6.21%) Network Security
9 9 (6.21%) SSL
10 6 (4.14%) HTTPS
10 6 (4.14%) SSH
11 4 (2.76%) 5G
11 4 (2.76%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (2.76%) SD-WAN
11 4 (2.76%) VLAN
12 2 (1.38%) DHCP
12 2 (1.38%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (1.38%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.48%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.59%) NoSQL
3 10 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.52%) Amazon QuickSight
5 5 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.76%) MySQL
7 2 (1.38%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.38%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.69%) DB2
8 1 (0.69%) Metadata
8 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.69%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 31 (21.38%) Git
2 28 (19.31%) JIRA
3 16 (11.03%) Jenkins
4 15 (10.34%) JUnit
5 10 (6.90%) PowerBuilder
6 9 (6.21%) Subversion
7 8 (5.52%) NUnit
8 5 (3.45%) Appium
9 4 (2.76%) Postman
9 4 (2.76%) Selenium
9 4 (2.76%) Spinnaker
9 4 (2.76%) XCUITest
10 2 (1.38%) Xcode
11 1 (0.69%) Log4Net
11 1 (0.69%) Maven
11 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 52 (35.86%) Finance
2 46 (31.72%) Social Skills
3 42 (28.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (19.31%) Retail
5 24 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (15.86%) Advertising
6 23 (15.86%) Games
7 12 (8.28%) Manufacturing
8 10 (6.90%) Banking
8 10 (6.90%) Telecoms
9 9 (6.21%) Electronics
9 9 (6.21%) Law
9 9 (6.21%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.69%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 51 (35.17%) Senior
2 30 (20.69%) Software Engineer
3 27 (18.62%) Senior Software Engineer
4 19 (13.10%) Developer
4 19 (13.10%) Lead
5 17 (11.72%) Automation Engineer
6 15 (10.34%) Development Engineer
7 13 (8.97%) Security Engineer
8 11 (7.59%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.90%) Technical Leader
10 9 (6.21%) C# Developer
10 9 (6.21%) Information Security Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Reliability Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Robotics Engineer
12 7 (4.83%) .NET Developer
12 7 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (4.14%) C# .NET Developer
13 6 (4.14%) Embedded Engineer
13 6 (4.14%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.00%) Kafka
2 25 (17.24%) JSON
3 23 (15.86%) REST
4 22 (15.17%) .NET
5 21 (14.48%) HTML
6 20 (13.79%) React
7 17 (11.72%) SOAP
8 14 (9.66%) CSS
8 14 (9.66%) XML
9 13 (8.97%) LDAP
10 10 (6.90%) GraphQL
11 8 (5.52%) .NET Core
11 8 (5.52%) Jest
11 8 (5.52%) Node.js
12 7 (4.83%) RESTful
13 6 (4.14%) HTML5
14 5 (3.45%) AngularJS
14 5 (3.45%) CSS3
14 5 (3.45%) Scrapy
14 5 (3.45%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.93%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (14.48%) Product Ownership
3 11 (7.59%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (6.90%) Reinsurance
5 8 (5.52%) Client/Server
5 8 (5.52%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.52%) Mobile App
5 8 (5.52%) Robotics
5 8 (5.52%) SCADA
6 7 (4.83%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (4.83%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (3.45%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.45%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.45%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.76%) Anti-Spyware
8 4 (2.76%) FPGA
8 4 (2.76%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.76%) MicroBlaze
8 4 (2.76%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.76%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.31%) Linux
2 21 (14.48%) Windows
3 11 (7.59%) Android
3 11 (7.59%) Unix
4 9 (6.21%) Apple iOS
5 6 (4.14%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.07%) CentOS
6 3 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.38%) AIX
7 2 (1.38%) Debian
7 2 (1.38%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.38%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (44.14%) Agile
2 45 (31.03%) Computer Science
3 41 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (26.21%) DevOps
5 33 (22.76%) Software Engineering
6 31 (21.38%) CI/CD
7 28 (19.31%) API Integration
8 27 (18.62%) Microservices
9 26 (17.93%) Performance Metrics
10 24 (16.55%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (15.17%) Machine Learning
11 22 (15.17%) Programmatic Advertising
12 21 (14.48%) Information Security
13 20 (13.79%) Containerisation
14 19 (13.10%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (11.72%) Unit Testing
16 16 (11.03%) Mentoring
16 16 (11.03%) Roadmaps
16 16 (11.03%) Security Operations
16 16 (11.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 73 (50.34%) Python
2 39 (26.90%) SQL
3 28 (19.31%) JavaScript
4 26 (17.93%) C
4 26 (17.93%) C#
5 22 (15.17%) Scala
6 19 (13.10%) C++
7 17 (11.72%) Bash
8 12 (8.28%) Perl
9 11 (7.59%) Java
9 11 (7.59%) PowerShell
10 8 (5.52%) R
11 6 (4.14%) Kotlin
12 5 (3.45%) Go
12 5 (3.45%) TypeScript
13 4 (2.76%) Jython
13 4 (2.76%) Objective-C
13 4 (2.76%) PHP
13 4 (2.76%) Ruby
13 4 (2.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 59 (40.69%) Degree
2 14 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (8.28%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.52%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (4.14%) CISSP
6 6 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.14%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.76%) CISM
8 2 (1.38%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.38%) CEH
8 2 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.90%) SLA
2 6 (4.14%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.14%) NIST
3 4 (2.76%) QA
3 4 (2.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.69%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 21 (14.48%) Docker
2 8 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.45%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (3.45%) Firmware
5 2 (1.38%) KVM
5 2 (1.38%) Postfix
5 2 (1.38%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.14%) QRadar
3 5 (3.45%) Ansible
3 5 (3.45%) Terraform
4 4 (2.76%) Nagios
4 4 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.07%) Nessus
6 2 (1.38%) Grafana
6 2 (1.38%) Graylog
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.69%) Puppet
7 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (35.17%) Microsoft
2 36 (24.83%) Google
3 22 (15.17%) Apple
4 13 (8.97%) Oracle
5 12 (8.28%) Okta
5 12 (8.28%) VMware
6 9 (6.21%) Splunk
7 5 (3.45%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.76%) Cisco
8 4 (2.76%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.76%) Perforce
8 4 (2.76%) SAP
8 4 (2.76%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.07%) Bloomberg
9 3 (2.07%) IBM
10 2 (1.38%) Mercator
10 2 (1.38%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.38%) Tenable
11 1 (0.69%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.69%) PayPal