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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 611 543
Rank change year-on-year +48 -68 -270
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 140 309 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.30% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.39% 2.28% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 79 211 282
10th Percentile £35,500 £32,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,625 £38,750 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -19.12% +8.80%
75th Percentile £70,625 £68,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £52,500 £60,590
% change year-on-year +18.10% -13.35% +10.16%

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 10,094 13,581 15,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.08% 13.10% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,436 9,413 7,713
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £26,625 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%

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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for HTTP in the UK

HTTP
Top 14 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 31 May 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 +39 129 £62,500 +13.64% 245
UK excluding London +41 69 £62,000 +18.10% 161
London +79 61 £62,500 - 96
Work from Home +56 52 £62,500 +13.64% 159
East of England +58 20 £62,000 +79.71% 23
North of England +28 20 £65,000 - 36
North West +2 19 £65,000 -7.14% 14
Midlands +53 15 £60,000 +10.09% 32
West Midlands +48 15 £60,000 +2.13% 18
South East +32 10 £75,000 +76.47% 38
South West +57 2 £51,250 -4.65% 24
Scotland +115 1 £37,500 -25.00% 6
Yorkshire +49 1 £47,500 -13.64% 19
Northern Ireland +22 1 - - 4

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 16 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 12 (8.57%) Confluence
3 3 (2.14%) IIS
3 3 (2.14%) nginx
4 2 (1.43%) Apache
4 2 (1.43%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.71%) CMS
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.71%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.71%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 8 (5.71%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (23.57%) AWS
2 27 (19.29%) Azure
3 16 (11.43%) Cloud Computing
3 16 (11.43%) Serverless
4 9 (6.43%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (6.43%) Amazon S3
4 9 (6.43%) GCP
4 9 (6.43%) SaaS
4 9 (6.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (5.71%) Amazon ELB
5 8 (5.71%) AWS KMS
5 8 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.57%) Amazon Glacier
7 4 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.86%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.14%) Route 53
9 2 (1.43%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 41 (29.29%) DNS
1 41 (29.29%) TCP/IP
2 36 (25.71%) SMTP
3 35 (25.00%) Firewall
4 21 (15.00%) FTP
5 18 (12.86%) VPN
6 16 (11.43%) WAN
7 15 (10.71%) Internet
7 15 (10.71%) LAN
8 12 (8.57%) Network Security
8 12 (8.57%) SSH
9 11 (7.86%) SSL
10 6 (4.29%) HTTPS
10 6 (4.29%) VLAN
11 5 (3.57%) 5G
11 5 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (2.86%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (2.86%) OpenLDAP
12 4 (2.86%) SD-WAN
13 3 (2.14%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.57%) NoSQL
3 11 (7.86%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.29%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.86%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.43%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.43%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.43%) MySQL
9 1 (0.71%) DB2
9 1 (0.71%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 42 (30.00%) Git
2 31 (22.14%) JIRA
3 17 (12.14%) Jenkins
4 14 (10.00%) JUnit
5 11 (7.86%) PowerBuilder
6 9 (6.43%) Subversion
7 8 (5.71%) NUnit
7 8 (5.71%) Vagrant
8 3 (2.14%) Appium
8 3 (2.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.14%) XCUITest
9 2 (1.43%) Maven
9 2 (1.43%) Xcode
10 1 (0.71%) GitLab
10 1 (0.71%) Gradle
10 1 (0.71%) Log4Net
10 1 (0.71%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.71%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 46 (32.86%) Finance
2 42 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 41 (29.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (14.29%) Retail
6 18 (12.86%) Games
7 17 (12.14%) Advertising
8 13 (9.29%) Telecoms
9 12 (8.57%) Law
10 9 (6.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (6.43%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (5.71%) Manufacturing
12 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
13 5 (3.57%) Aerospace
13 5 (3.57%) Electronics
14 4 (2.86%) Marketing
15 3 (2.14%) Banking
16 1 (0.71%) Automotive
16 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.71%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 42 (30.00%) Senior
2 24 (17.14%) Lead
2 24 (17.14%) Software Engineer
3 20 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 18 (12.86%) Developer
5 16 (11.43%) Development Engineer
6 13 (9.29%) Automation Engineer
6 13 (9.29%) Security Engineer
7 11 (7.86%) Technical Leader
8 10 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (6.43%) C# Developer
9 9 (6.43%) Information Security Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Analyst
10 8 (5.71%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.00%) .NET Developer
12 6 (4.29%) C# .NET Developer
12 6 (4.29%) Technical Support
13 5 (3.57%) Embedded Engineer
13 5 (3.57%) IT Support
13 5 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.71%) REST
2 25 (17.86%) Kafka
3 23 (16.43%) .NET
4 22 (15.71%) React
5 20 (14.29%) LDAP
6 17 (12.14%) JSON
7 14 (10.00%) HTML
7 14 (10.00%) SOAP
8 12 (8.57%) GraphQL
9 11 (7.86%) CSS
10 10 (7.14%) RESTful
11 9 (6.43%) Jest
12 8 (5.71%) .NET Core
12 8 (5.71%) Node.js
13 7 (5.00%) gRPC
13 7 (5.00%) HTML5
13 7 (5.00%) Spring
14 6 (4.29%) AngularJS
15 5 (3.57%) CSS3
15 5 (3.57%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.71%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (12.86%) Product Ownership
3 13 (9.29%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (8.57%) Client/Server
4 12 (8.57%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (7.86%) Reinsurance
6 7 (5.00%) Management Information System
7 6 (4.29%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.29%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (3.57%) Mobile App
8 5 (3.57%) Replication
9 4 (2.86%) Algorithms
9 4 (2.86%) FPGA
9 4 (2.86%) GNSS
9 4 (2.86%) Robotics
9 4 (2.86%) SCADA
9 4 (2.86%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.86%) Self-Driving Car
9 4 (2.86%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 32 (22.86%) Linux
2 23 (16.43%) Windows
3 9 (6.43%) Android
4 8 (5.71%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (5.71%) Apple iOS
4 8 (5.71%) VMS
5 6 (4.29%) Ubuntu
5 6 (4.29%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.57%) Unix
7 4 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (2.14%) Debian
9 1 (0.71%) CentOS
9 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (33.57%) Agile
2 37 (26.43%) Computer Science
2 37 (26.43%) DevOps
3 36 (25.71%) CI/CD
4 35 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (17.86%) API Integration
5 25 (17.86%) Software Engineering
6 23 (16.43%) Microservices
7 22 (15.71%) Information Security
8 21 (15.00%) Security Operations
9 20 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
10 19 (13.57%) Containerisation
10 19 (13.57%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (12.14%) Requirements Gathering
11 17 (12.14%) Roadmaps
12 16 (11.43%) Machine Learning
12 16 (11.43%) Programmatic Advertising
12 16 (11.43%) Unit Testing
13 15 (10.71%) SDLC
14 14 (10.00%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 70 (50.00%) Python
2 37 (26.43%) SQL
3 30 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 27 (19.29%) C#
5 20 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 17 (12.14%) Java
7 16 (11.43%) C++
7 16 (11.43%) Scala
8 15 (10.71%) Bash
9 14 (10.00%) C
10 11 (7.86%) Perl
11 9 (6.43%) Groovy
12 6 (4.29%) Ruby
12 6 (4.29%) TypeScript
13 4 (2.86%) Kotlin
13 4 (2.86%) Objective-C
13 4 (2.86%) R
14 3 (2.14%) Swift
15 2 (1.43%) Go
15 2 (1.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 56 (40.00%) Degree
2 25 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 18 (12.86%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 7 (5.00%) Master's Degree
7 6 (4.29%) CISSP
8 5 (3.57%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.57%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.86%) CISM
9 4 (2.86%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (2.14%) RHCSA
11 2 (1.43%) A+ Certification
11 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.43%) CEH
11 2 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.71%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.71%) GCIA
12 1 (0.71%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (4.29%) NIST
1 6 (4.29%) SLA
2 3 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.71%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (18.57%) Docker
2 13 (9.29%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.57%) DFS Replication
5 4 (2.86%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (2.86%) Firmware
6 3 (2.14%) Dovecot
6 3 (2.14%) Postfix
6 3 (2.14%) Squid
7 2 (1.43%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.14%) QRadar
3 9 (6.43%) Ansible
3 9 (6.43%) Grafana
3 9 (6.43%) Prometheus
3 9 (6.43%) Terraform
4 4 (2.86%) Nessus
4 4 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.14%) Nagios
5 3 (2.14%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.43%) Graylog
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.71%) Puppet
7 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (33.57%) Microsoft
2 30 (21.43%) Google
3 16 (11.43%) Apple
4 15 (10.71%) Splunk
5 12 (8.57%) Okta
5 12 (8.57%) ServiceNow
6 9 (6.43%) Oracle
6 9 (6.43%) VMware
7 6 (4.29%) Cisco
8 4 (2.86%) Bloomberg
8 4 (2.86%) Perforce
8 4 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.86%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.14%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (1.43%) Blue Coat
10 2 (1.43%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.43%) Mercator
10 2 (1.43%) Nokia
10 2 (1.43%) SAP
10 2 (1.43%) Symantec