The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 75 85 82
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -3
Contract jobs citing HTTP 11 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.872% 0.072% 0.147%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.237% 0.578% 1.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
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
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
152 173 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 12.04% 12.37% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 77 43
Average daily rate £313 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £232 £173 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £461 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 18
Average hourly rate £15.50 £33.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.73% +67.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.21 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.90 £57.50 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
HTTP
England

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands HTTP Hourly Rate Trend

HTTP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottinghamshire +1 4 £394 -
Northamptonshire - 2 £425 -
Derbyshire +16 1 - -
HTTP
England

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 (27.50%) XML
2 10 (25.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 10 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 9 (22.50%) Web Services
4 8 (20.00%) SOAP
4 8 (20.00%) HTML
4 8 (20.00%) XSD
4 8 (20.00%) XSLT
4 8 (20.00%) XML Schema
4 8 (20.00%) WSDL
4 8 (20.00%) SSL
4 8 (20.00%) XPath
4 8 (20.00%) Migration
4 8 (20.00%) DataPower
5 7 (17.50%) DNS
5 7 (17.50%) Windows
5 7 (17.50%) Oracle
6 6 (15.00%) SQL
6 6 (15.00%) Cisco
6 6 (15.00%) SMTP
6 6 (15.00%) TCP/IP
6 6 (15.00%) BGP
6 6 (15.00%) Internet
7 5 (12.50%) BIG-IP
7 5 (12.50%) Finance
7 5 (12.50%) Firewall
7 5 (12.50%) HP
7 5 (12.50%) SAN
7 5 (12.50%) IBM
7 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 11 (27.50%) XML
2 10 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 9 (22.50%) Web Services
4 8 (20.00%) SOAP
4 8 (20.00%) HTML
4 8 (20.00%) XSD
4 8 (20.00%) XSLT
4 8 (20.00%) XML Schema
4 8 (20.00%) WSDL
5 2 (5.000%) Middleware
5 2 (5.000%) COM
6 1 (2.500%) WCF
6 1 (2.500%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 10 (25.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (5.000%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.500%) ESB
3 1 (2.500%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (2.500%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.500%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) MS Office
1 4 (10.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.500%) MS Visio
3 2 (5.000%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (2.500%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.500%) Oracle Payroll
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) SSL
2 7 (17.50%) DNS
3 6 (15.00%) SMTP
3 6 (15.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (15.00%) BGP
3 6 (15.00%) Internet
4 5 (12.50%) BIG-IP
4 5 (12.50%) Firewall
4 5 (12.50%) SAN
4 5 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (12.50%) Cisco PIX
5 4 (10.00%) FWSM
6 3 (7.500%) PBX
6 3 (7.500%) HTTPS
7 2 (5.000%) Network Security
7 2 (5.000%) OSPF
7 2 (5.000%) WAN
8 1 (2.500%) VLAN
8 1 (2.500%) Wireless
8 1 (2.500%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.500%) Oracle OLAP
1 3 (7.500%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (7.500%) OLAP
1 3 (7.500%) Star Schema
1 3 (7.500%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (5.000%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.000%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (2.500%) DB2
3 1 (2.500%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (5.000%) Hudson
1 2 (5.000%) Maven
2 1 (2.500%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.500%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 5 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (2.500%) Banking
2 1 (2.500%) Retail
2 1 (2.500%) Retail Banking
2 1 (2.500%) Back Office
2 1 (2.500%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.500%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (15.00%) Administrator
2 5 (12.50%) Analyst
3 4 (10.00%) Developer
3 4 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) WebSphere Administrator
4 3 (7.500%) OBIEE Developer
5 2 (5.000%) SAN Storage Engineer
5 2 (5.000%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (5.000%) Test Manager
5 2 (5.000%) DBA
5 2 (5.000%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (5.000%) SAN Engineer
5 2 (5.000%) WebSphere Specialist
6 1 (2.500%) Data Centre Manager
6 1 (2.500%) SQL DBA
6 1 (2.500%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (2.500%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (2.500%) Data Manager
6 1 (2.500%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) DataPower
2 3 (7.500%) Data Integration
3 2 (5.000%) Firmware
3 2 (5.000%) Replication
4 1 (2.500%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.500%) Clustering
4 1 (2.500%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
2 3 (7.500%) UNIX
2 3 (7.500%) Windows 7
3 2 (5.000%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.500%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.500%) Solaris
4 1 (2.500%) Linux
4 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.500%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.00%) Migration
2 5 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 4 (10.00%) SOA
4 3 (7.500%) Data Analysis
4 3 (7.500%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (7.500%) Project Management
4 3 (7.500%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (7.500%) Data Modelling
4 3 (7.500%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (7.500%) Analytics
5 2 (5.000%) BPEL
6 1 (2.500%) TDD
6 1 (2.500%) Data Management
6 1 (2.500%) Business Analysis
6 1 (2.500%) Test Management
6 1 (2.500%) Test Scripting
6 1 (2.500%) Risk Management
6 1 (2.500%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (2.500%) ETL
6 1 (2.500%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) XPath
2 6 (15.00%) SQL
3 3 (7.500%) Java
4 1 (2.500%) C#
4 1 (2.500%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.500%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.500%) CCNP
3 1 (2.500%) CCNA
3 1 (2.500%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.000%) ISO 9001
1 2 (5.000%) TickIT
System Software
1 3 (7.500%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.000%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.500%) VMware ESX
3 1 (2.500%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.500%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (5.000%) SCOM
2 1 (2.500%) OpenView
2 1 (2.500%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Oracle
2 6 (15.00%) Cisco
3 5 (12.50%) HP
3 5 (12.50%) IBM
3 5 (12.50%) F5
4 4 (10.00%) Juniper
5 3 (7.500%) EMC
6 2 (5.000%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.000%) Hitachi
6 2 (5.000%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.500%) LANDesk
7 1 (2.500%) VMware
7 1 (2.500%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (2.500%) SAP
7 1 (2.500%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.500%) Citrix
7 1 (2.500%) Talend
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