The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf 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 47 48 59
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +11
Contract jobs citing HTTP 4 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.036% 0.529% 0.388%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.76% 6.452% 7.407%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
Average daily rate £200 £525 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-61.90% +31.25%
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
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
34 31 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 8.808% 8.201% 5.243%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 14
Average daily rate £320 £500 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.00% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £176 £196 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
HTTP
London

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf HTTP Daily Rate Trend

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
1 3 (42.86%) XML
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Document Management
1 3 (42.86%) Wiki
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) XSD
2 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) VB
3 1 (14.29%) VBA
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) VBScript
3 1 (14.29%) XSL
3 1 (14.29%) ActiveX
3 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
3 1 (14.29%) DNA
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) Sybase
3 1 (14.29%) IIS
3 1 (14.29%) ASP
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) 3D Graphics

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) XSD
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) XSL
3 1 (14.29%) ActiveX
3 1 (14.29%) ASP
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) OpenGL
3 1 (14.29%) DirectX
3 1 (14.29%) WPF
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) WebGL
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Support Technician
1 3 (42.86%) Support Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Excel Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Front Office Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Market Data Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Wiki
2 1 (14.29%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
2 1 (14.29%) GPGPU
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (42.86%) Document Management
2 1 (14.29%) DNA
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) VB
3 1 (14.29%) VBA
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) VBScript
3 1 (14.29%) C
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Sybase
2 1 (14.29%) TIBCO
2 1 (14.29%) Reuters
2 1 (14.29%) Bloomberg