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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 543 456
Rank change year-on-year +10 -87 -142
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 145 333 722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.36% 0.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.07% 2.69% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 92 223 375
10th Percentile £50,250 £32,521 £43,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £42,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £73,886 £68,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.10% -16.00% +19.05%

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 6,993 12,378 16,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.85% 13.41% 14.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,009 9,380 8,747
10th Percentile £23,746 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -5.83% -1.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -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 1 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 1 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 +4 132 £62,500 +13.64% 117
London +83 79 £62,500 -3.85% 68
Work from Home +110 74 £62,500 +13.64% 65
UK excluding London +33 58 £62,000 +18.10% 57
North of England +93 23 £65,000 - 16
North West +48 17 £65,000 -7.14% 9
South East +69 12 £75,000 +59.02% 20
East of England +56 10 £62,000 +79.71% 7
Yorkshire +63 6 £85,253 +55.00% 6
Scotland +112 5 £71,991 +43.98% 2
Midlands +25 5 £60,000 - 5
West Midlands +16 5 £60,000 - 4
South West +24 3 £67,500 +8.00% 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 25 (17.24%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.52%) Confluence
3 5 (3.45%) Apache
4 3 (2.07%) IIS
4 3 (2.07%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.69%) CMS
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.69%) Umbraco
5 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
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.38%) Azure
2 30 (20.69%) AWS
3 16 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (10.34%) Serverless
5 11 (7.59%) SaaS
6 9 (6.21%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (4.83%) GCP
7 7 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.14%) GitHub
9 4 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (2.76%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.38%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.69%) Azure API Management
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.69%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.69%) npm
11 1 (0.69%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 37 (25.52%) TCP/IP
2 31 (21.38%) DNS
3 24 (16.55%) Firewall
3 24 (16.55%) SMTP
4 17 (11.72%) VPN
5 15 (10.34%) WAN
6 13 (8.97%) Internet
7 12 (8.28%) FTP
8 11 (7.59%) LAN
9 8 (5.52%) Network Security
10 7 (4.83%) SSL
11 6 (4.14%) SSH
12 5 (3.45%) 5G
13 4 (2.76%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (2.76%) HTTPS
13 4 (2.76%) SD-WAN
13 4 (2.76%) VLAN
14 3 (2.07%) Intrusion Detection
15 2 (1.38%) DHCP
15 2 (1.38%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.28%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.90%) Amazon QuickSight
4 9 (6.21%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.76%) MySQL
7 3 (2.07%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.38%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.69%) DB2
9 1 (0.69%) Metadata
9 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.69%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 28 (19.31%) Git
2 23 (15.86%) JIRA
3 17 (11.72%) Jenkins
3 17 (11.72%) JUnit
4 8 (5.52%) NUnit
5 6 (4.14%) Appium
5 6 (4.14%) Subversion
6 5 (3.45%) XCUITest
7 4 (2.76%) Postman
7 4 (2.76%) PowerBuilder
7 4 (2.76%) Selenium
7 4 (2.76%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.38%) Xcode
9 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.69%) Log4Net
9 1 (0.69%) Maven
9 1 (0.69%) Protractor
9 1 (0.69%) Robolectric
9 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 54 (37.24%) Social Skills
2 46 (31.72%) Finance
3 45 (31.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (19.31%) Retail
5 26 (17.93%) Advertising
5 26 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (17.93%) Games
6 13 (8.97%) Manufacturing
7 11 (7.59%) Electronics
7 11 (7.59%) Telecoms
8 9 (6.21%) Law
8 9 (6.21%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (5.52%) Banking
10 4 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.38%) Automotive
11 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.38%) Front Office
12 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (35.86%) Senior
2 34 (23.45%) Software Engineer
3 30 (20.69%) Senior Software Engineer
4 21 (14.48%) Developer
5 19 (13.10%) Automation Engineer
6 15 (10.34%) Development Engineer
7 12 (8.28%) Lead
8 11 (7.59%) Security Engineer
8 11 (7.59%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) Reliability Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) Robotics Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.21%) C# Developer
10 9 (6.21%) Information Security Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) .NET Developer
11 7 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.14%) C# .NET Developer
12 6 (4.14%) Embedded Engineer
12 6 (4.14%) Technical Support
13 5 (3.45%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (22.07%) Kafka
2 29 (20.00%) JSON
3 19 (13.10%) HTML
4 16 (11.03%) REST
5 15 (10.34%) .NET
6 14 (9.66%) React
7 13 (8.97%) LDAP
8 12 (8.28%) CSS
8 12 (8.28%) XML
9 10 (6.90%) Jest
10 9 (6.21%) Node.js
10 9 (6.21%) RESTful
10 9 (6.21%) SOAP
11 8 (5.52%) .NET Core
12 6 (4.14%) AngularJS
12 6 (4.14%) Django
12 6 (4.14%) Web Services
13 5 (3.45%) Pandas
13 5 (3.45%) Scrapy
13 5 (3.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (11.72%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.90%) Robotics
3 10 (6.90%) SCADA
4 9 (6.21%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (5.52%) Client/Server
5 8 (5.52%) Mobile App
6 7 (4.83%) Algorithms
6 7 (4.83%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (4.83%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (4.14%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.76%) Anti-Spyware
8 4 (2.76%) Derivative
8 4 (2.76%) FPGA
8 4 (2.76%) GNSS
8 4 (2.76%) MicroBlaze
8 4 (2.76%) Reinsurance
8 4 (2.76%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.76%) Self-Driving Car
8 4 (2.76%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.69%) Linux
2 21 (14.48%) Windows
3 11 (7.59%) Android
3 11 (7.59%) Unix
4 8 (5.52%) Apple iOS
5 6 (4.14%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.07%) CentOS
6 3 (2.07%) Debian
6 3 (2.07%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.38%) AIX
7 2 (1.38%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (42.76%) Agile
2 47 (32.41%) Computer Science
3 41 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (24.14%) Software Engineering
5 33 (22.76%) DevOps
6 27 (18.62%) Performance Metrics
7 26 (17.93%) CI/CD
8 25 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
8 25 (17.24%) Machine Learning
8 25 (17.24%) Programmatic Advertising
9 23 (15.86%) Microservices
10 22 (15.17%) API Integration
10 22 (15.17%) Test Automation
11 19 (13.10%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (13.10%) Information Security
12 17 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (11.03%) Mathematics
13 16 (11.03%) Mentoring
13 16 (11.03%) Security Operations
13 16 (11.03%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 78 (53.79%) Python
2 33 (22.76%) SQL
3 26 (17.93%) C
4 25 (17.24%) Scala
5 22 (15.17%) JavaScript
6 19 (13.10%) C#
7 17 (11.72%) C++
8 16 (11.03%) Bash
9 12 (8.28%) Perl
10 11 (7.59%) PowerShell
11 10 (6.90%) Java
11 10 (6.90%) R
12 7 (4.83%) TypeScript
13 6 (4.14%) Kotlin
14 5 (3.45%) Go
14 5 (3.45%) Swift
15 4 (2.76%) Jython
15 4 (2.76%) PHP
16 3 (2.07%) Ruby
17 2 (1.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 60 (41.38%) Degree
2 17 (11.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (8.28%) Security Cleared
4 11 (7.59%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.90%) Numerate Degree
6 7 (4.83%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.14%) CISSP
8 4 (2.76%) CISM
9 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.38%) CEH
9 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
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 5 (3.45%) QA
4 4 (2.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.69%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 18 (12.41%) Docker
2 8 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.45%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (3.45%) Firmware
3 5 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.38%) KVM
4 2 (1.38%) Postfix
4 2 (1.38%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.83%) QRadar
3 6 (4.14%) Ansible
4 5 (3.45%) Terraform
5 4 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.07%) Nessus
7 2 (1.38%) Grafana
7 2 (1.38%) Nagios
8 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.69%) Puppet
8 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 49 (33.79%) Microsoft
2 37 (25.52%) Google
3 25 (17.24%) Apple
4 13 (8.97%) Oracle
5 12 (8.28%) Okta
6 11 (7.59%) VMware
7 7 (4.83%) Splunk
8 4 (2.76%) Cisco
8 4 (2.76%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.76%) Perforce
8 4 (2.76%) Red Hat
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%) Tenable
11 1 (0.69%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.69%) PayPal
11 1 (0.69%) Sophos