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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 603 523 286
Rank change year-on-year -80 -237 +43
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 298 531 2,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.54% 1.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.21% 3.40% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 207 302 662
10th Percentile £32,000 £41,556 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,224 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% +10.76% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £77,188
90th Percentile £85,750 £97,500 £104,750
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 13,480 15,619 21,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.51% 15.74% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,399 7,893 11,735
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,540 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.26% +4.44%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -65 262 £55,000 -19.12% 107
UK excluding London -77 208 £52,500 -14.19% 67
Work from Home -59 114 £55,000 -20.80% 52
London -18 83 £63,750 -20.31% 62
South West -17 54 £53,750 -18.87% 6
South East -32 52 £42,500 -33.59% 32
North of England +15 30 £65,000 +13.04% 9
Midlands -6 29 £54,500 -12.80% 6
West Midlands +24 25 £57,500 +9.52% 4
Northern Ireland +33 19 £35,000 -17.65% 9
North West -11 19 £70,000 +40.00% 2
East of England +16 12 £34,500 +15.00% 4
Yorkshire +47 8 £55,000 -10.10% 7
Scotland -76 8 £50,000 -28.57% 1
Wales +9 6 £40,000 - 1
East Midlands -19 4 £39,750 -38.85% 2
North East -1 3 £65,000 -7.14% 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 17 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.35%) nginx
4 6 (2.01%) Apache
4 6 (2.01%) IIS
5 5 (1.68%) Drupal
6 4 (1.34%) Confluence
7 3 (1.01%) MQSeries
7 3 (1.01%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 3 (1.01%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.01%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.67%) CMS
8 2 (0.67%) Moodle
9 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.34%) SAS
9 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.02%) Trello
3 8 (2.68%) InfoPath
3 8 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (4.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.01%) Maximo
3 2 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.34%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 118 (39.60%) AWS
2 113 (37.92%) Azure
3 44 (14.77%) SaaS
4 36 (12.08%) OpenShift
5 25 (8.39%) Serverless
6 23 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (6.04%) Cloud Computing
8 17 (5.70%) Azure App Service
8 17 (5.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (5.70%) Matillion
9 16 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.36%) Entra ID
10 10 (3.36%) GCP
11 9 (3.02%) Azure Functions
11 9 (3.02%) PaaS
12 8 (2.68%) OneDrive
13 7 (2.35%) IaaS
13 7 (2.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 114 (38.26%) DNS
2 105 (35.23%) TCP/IP
3 52 (17.45%) DHCP
3 52 (17.45%) Internet
4 40 (13.42%) SMTP
5 26 (8.72%) MQTT
6 25 (8.39%) SSL
7 24 (8.05%) FTP
8 19 (6.38%) Firewall
8 19 (6.38%) VPN
9 14 (4.70%) HTTPS
9 14 (4.70%) SNMP
10 12 (4.03%) LAN
10 12 (4.03%) SSH
11 10 (3.36%) BGP
11 10 (3.36%) WAN
12 7 (2.35%) DWDM
12 7 (2.35%) EIGRP
12 7 (2.35%) MPLS
12 7 (2.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.42%) SQL Server
2 25 (8.39%) MySQL
3 22 (7.38%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.03%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.36%) GIS
6 10 (3.36%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.01%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (1.68%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.01%) DB2
12 2 (0.67%) Power BI
12 2 (0.67%) Redis
13 1 (0.34%) Big Data
13 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.34%) Sisense
13 1 (0.34%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 29 (9.73%) Git
2 17 (5.70%) JIRA
3 14 (4.70%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.36%) GitLab
5 5 (1.68%) Postman
6 4 (1.34%) Subversion
6 4 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.01%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.01%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.67%) Hudson
8 2 (0.67%) Moq
8 2 (0.67%) MSTest
8 2 (0.67%) Protractor
8 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.67%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.67%) webpack
9 1 (0.34%) Eclipse
General
1 89 (29.87%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.09%) Finance
3 34 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.72%) Manufacturing
6 21 (7.05%) Telecoms
7 20 (6.71%) Electronics
7 20 (6.71%) Marketing
8 18 (6.04%) Aerospace
9 11 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.02%) Retail
11 8 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.34%) Advertising
12 4 (1.34%) Automotive
12 4 (1.34%) Banking
13 2 (0.67%) Games
13 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.67%) Legal
13 2 (0.67%) Mandarin Language
14 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (25.50%) Senior
2 73 (24.50%) Developer
3 58 (19.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 41 (13.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 32 (10.74%) Software Engineer
6 26 (8.72%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (7.38%) Lead
8 16 (5.37%) Architect
9 13 (4.36%) Analyst
9 13 (4.36%) JavaScript Developer
10 12 (4.03%) Support Engineer
11 11 (3.69%) Full Stack Developer
12 10 (3.36%) ERP Developer
12 10 (3.36%) Graduate
12 10 (3.36%) Graduate Developer
12 10 (3.36%) Junior
12 10 (3.36%) Systems Engineer
13 9 (3.02%) AWS Developer
13 9 (3.02%) Azure Developer
13 9 (3.02%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (22.15%) HTML
2 65 (21.81%) REST
3 56 (18.79%) CSS
4 48 (16.11%) React
4 48 (16.11%) RESTful
5 38 (12.75%) JSON
6 37 (12.42%) Node.js
7 34 (11.41%) Web Services
8 30 (10.07%) .NET
9 27 (9.06%) XML
10 24 (8.05%) AngularJS
10 24 (8.05%) Laravel
11 17 (5.70%) JWT
12 11 (3.69%) Kafka
12 11 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (3.36%) Django
13 10 (3.36%) HTML5
13 10 (3.36%) Sass
14 9 (3.02%) Jest
14 9 (3.02%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.05%) Data Centre
1 21 (7.05%) IoT
1 21 (7.05%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (5.03%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.03%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.68%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.68%) CUDA
4 8 (2.68%) GNSS
4 8 (2.68%) Tandem
5 7 (2.35%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.35%) Arduino
5 7 (2.35%) Clustering
5 7 (2.35%) EFT
5 7 (2.35%) Raspberry Pi
6 6 (2.01%) Cyberattack
7 5 (1.68%) Blockchain
7 5 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.68%) NFT
Operating Systems
1 108 (36.24%) Linux
2 101 (33.89%) Windows
3 41 (13.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (8.05%) Unix
5 17 (5.70%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.01%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.67%) Android
7 2 (0.67%) CentOS
7 2 (0.67%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Solaris
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (35.23%) DevOps
2 72 (24.16%) Software Engineering
3 68 (22.82%) Computer Science
3 68 (22.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 67 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (19.46%) Agile
6 56 (18.79%) Microservices
7 51 (17.11%) Software Architecture
8 46 (15.44%) CI/CD
9 37 (12.42%) Full Stack Development
10 35 (11.74%) Actionable Insight
11 33 (11.07%) Test Automation
12 31 (10.40%) Artificial Intelligence
12 31 (10.40%) User Experience
13 29 (9.73%) Web Development
14 27 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (9.06%) Machine Learning
15 26 (8.72%) Mentoring
16 25 (8.39%) CRM
17 24 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 113 (37.92%) Python
2 83 (27.85%) SQL
3 75 (25.17%) JavaScript
4 69 (23.15%) Java
5 64 (21.48%) PowerShell
6 47 (15.77%) Bash
7 35 (11.74%) PHP
8 25 (8.39%) TypeScript
9 22 (7.38%) C#
10 21 (7.05%) T-SQL
11 14 (4.70%) C
12 13 (4.36%) C++
13 9 (3.02%) Apex Code
14 7 (2.35%) Ruby
15 5 (1.68%) VB
16 4 (1.34%) ActionScript
16 4 (1.34%) ActionScript 2.0
16 4 (1.34%) R
16 4 (1.34%) VBScript
17 3 (1.01%) Go
Qualifications
1 63 (21.14%) Degree
2 42 (14.09%) Security Cleared
3 33 (11.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (10.74%) DV Cleared
5 22 (7.38%) SC Cleared
6 15 (5.03%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.02%) CCNA
7 9 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.68%) PhD
9 6 (2.01%) CREST Certified
10 4 (1.34%) GIAC
11 3 (1.01%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.67%) CASP
12 2 (0.67%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.67%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.34%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.70%) QA
2 14 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.02%) GDPR
4 7 (2.35%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.01%) NIST
7 2 (0.67%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.67%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (20.47%) Docker
2 41 (13.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (12.75%) Hyper-V
4 23 (7.72%) Firmware
5 20 (6.71%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (4.03%) Active Directory
7 10 (3.36%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (3.02%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (1.01%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.67%) NFS
10 2 (0.67%) Varnish
10 2 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (21.48%) Kubernetes
2 55 (18.46%) Puppet
3 44 (14.77%) Ansible
4 36 (12.08%) Terraform
5 10 (3.36%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.35%) SCCM
6 7 (2.35%) vCenter Server
7 6 (2.01%) Grafana
8 5 (1.68%) Packer
8 5 (1.68%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.01%) Consul
10 2 (0.67%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.34%) Cacti
11 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.34%) HP SiteScope
11 1 (0.34%) Icinga
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.34%) Perfmon
11 1 (0.34%) Pingdom
11 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 68 (22.82%) Microsoft
2 58 (19.46%) VMware
3 41 (13.76%) Red Hat
4 25 (8.39%) Google
5 20 (6.71%) SAP
6 13 (4.36%) Salesforce
7 9 (3.02%) Cisco
7 9 (3.02%) Oracle
8 8 (2.68%) Citrix
8 8 (2.68%) Juniper
9 7 (2.35%) Arista
9 7 (2.35%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.35%) Globalscape
9 7 (2.35%) NVIDIA
9 7 (2.35%) Tufin
10 4 (1.34%) Apple
10 4 (1.34%) F5
10 4 (1.34%) IBM
11 3 (1.01%) UiPath
12 2 (0.67%) webMethods