HTTP Contracts in Birmingham
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 22 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 Birmingham 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Rank 38 48 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing HTTP 5 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.129% 0.949% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.42% 9.231% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £375 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.35 £30.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-25.51% +16.50%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 48 65 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 10.84% 10.28% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 29 32
Average daily rate £388 £313 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% +20.19%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £100 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
Average hourly rate £13.00 £30.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.66% +100.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
HTTP
West Midlands

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Birmingham HTTP Daily Rate Histogram

HTTP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham HTTP Hourly Rate Trend

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 11 (64.71%) Linux
1 11 (64.71%) Red Hat
2 10 (58.82%) IBM
2 10 (58.82%) DB2
2 10 (58.82%) IBM HTTP Server
2 10 (58.82%) WebSphere Process Server
2 10 (58.82%) WebSphere
2 10 (58.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (52.94%) JMS
4 8 (47.06%) Web Services
4 8 (47.06%) .NET
4 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
4 8 (47.06%) TCP/IP
5 7 (41.18%) DNS
5 7 (41.18%) Middleware
5 7 (41.18%) Oracle
5 7 (41.18%) SOA
5 7 (41.18%) LDAP
6 6 (35.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
7 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
7 5 (29.41%) SQL
8 3 (17.65%) VMware
8 3 (17.65%) ESB
8 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
8 3 (17.65%) FTP
8 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
8 3 (17.65%) SOAP
9 2 (11.76%) Windows
9 2 (11.76%) JDBC

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 10 (58.82%) WebSphere
2 9 (52.94%) JMS
3 8 (47.06%) Web Services
3 8 (47.06%) .NET
4 7 (41.18%) Middleware
5 3 (17.65%) SOAP
6 2 (11.76%) JDBC
6 2 (11.76%) WSDL
7 1 (5.882%) RESTful
7 1 (5.882%) Ajax
7 1 (5.882%) JMX
7 1 (5.882%) HTML
7 1 (5.882%) J2EE
7 1 (5.882%) COM
7 1 (5.882%) CSS
7 1 (5.882%) JSP
7 1 (5.882%) XML
7 1 (5.882%) XHTML
7 1 (5.882%) Java RMI
Application Platforms
1 10 (58.82%) IBM HTTP Server
1 10 (58.82%) WebSphere Process Server
2 6 (35.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 3 (17.65%) ESB
4 2 (11.76%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (5.882%) Lync
5 1 (5.882%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (5.882%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (5.882%) Apache
5 1 (5.882%) Tomcat
5 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
5 1 (5.882%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) TCP/IP
2 7 (41.18%) DNS
2 7 (41.18%) LDAP
3 3 (17.65%) FTP
4 2 (11.76%) SAN
5 1 (5.882%) IPv6
5 1 (5.882%) SNMP
5 1 (5.882%) VPN
5 1 (5.882%) HTTPS
5 1 (5.882%) IIOP
5 1 (5.882%) SSL
5 1 (5.882%) Firewall
5 1 (5.882%) IPsec
5 1 (5.882%) NetScreen
5 1 (5.882%) SMTP
5 1 (5.882%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) DB2
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.882%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (11.76%) Banking
1 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Administrator
1 4 (23.53%) WebSphere Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) WebSphere Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Server Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) WebSphere Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (5.882%) SQL DBA
4 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Architect
4 1 (5.882%) BizTalk Developer
4 1 (5.882%) DBA
4 1 (5.882%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.882%) Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Clustering
2 1 (5.882%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Linux
2 10 (58.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Windows
4 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) SOA
2 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (5.882%) Migration
3 1 (5.882%) Business Continuity
3 1 (5.882%) Data Management
3 1 (5.882%) BPEL
3 1 (5.882%) RUP
3 1 (5.882%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Java
3 1 (5.882%) Bash shell
3 1 (5.882%) Jython
3 1 (5.882%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.882%) C#
3 1 (5.882%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.882%) XenServer
3 1 (5.882%) XenDesktop
3 1 (5.882%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Red Hat
2 10 (58.82%) IBM
3 7 (41.18%) Oracle
4 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.76%) Citrix
6 1 (5.882%) Cordys
6 1 (5.882%) NetApp
6 1 (5.882%) Juniper
6 1 (5.882%) Cisco
6 1 (5.882%) Business Objects
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