The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 24 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 Belfast 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing HTTP 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 1.546% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £438 - -
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 £22.35 £30.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year
-25.51% +6.19%
All Communications & Networking
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
15 23 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 7.732% 14.20% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 19
Average daily rate £438 £260 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+68.26% -25.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £260 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
Average hourly rate - - £15.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
HTTP
County Antrim

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast HTTP Daily Rate Trend

HTTP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTTP across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Belfast HTTP Daily Rate Histogram

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) OOA/OOD
2 3 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) JMS
2 3 (60.00%) DHTML
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) JDBC
2 3 (60.00%) JSP
2 3 (60.00%) Servlets
2 3 (60.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) Dojo
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Security
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) Bash shell
3 2 (40.00%) ArcSight
3 2 (40.00%) LogLogic
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 2 (40.00%) Q1 Labs
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) Perl

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 3 (60.00%) JMS
1 3 (60.00%) DHTML
1 3 (60.00%) J2EE
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) JDBC
1 3 (60.00%) JSP
1 3 (60.00%) Servlets
1 3 (60.00%) XML
1 3 (60.00%) Dojo
1 3 (60.00%) Ajax
1 3 (60.00%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) SMTP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (40.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Information Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) OOA/OOD
1 3 (60.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Security
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ArcSight
1 2 (40.00%) LogLogic
1 2 (40.00%) Q1 Labs