The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Rank 42 24 28
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +4
Contract jobs citing HTTP 1 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 0.469% 2.162% 1.195%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.857% 8.333% 8.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £475 - £313
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.14 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-12.86% +9.09%
All Communications & Networking
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
35 48 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 16.43% 25.95% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 12
Average daily rate £375 £420 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +18.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £142 £219 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
HTTP
Hampshire

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HTTP across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Basingstoke HTTP Jobs Demand Trend

HTTP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HTTP across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke HTTP Daily Rate Trend

HTTP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HTTP across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke HTTP Hourly Rate Trend

HTTP
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing HTTP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited HTTP.

1 2 (40.00%) Perl
1 2 (40.00%) DWDM
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) OPNET
2 1 (20.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (20.00%) Jython
2 1 (20.00%) BSS
2 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) SMTP
2 1 (20.00%) FTP
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) Symantec

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing HTTP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited HTTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (20.00%) IBM HTTP Server
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DWDM
2 1 (20.00%) BSS
2 1 (20.00%) SMTP
2 1 (20.00%) FTP
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Planner
2 1 (20.00%) OSS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) Jython
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Symantec
1 1 (20.00%) OPNET