The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 19 June 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 England 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Rank 154 203 229
Rank change year-on-year
+49 +26
Contract jobs citing HTTP 602 463 444
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 1.391% 0.874% 0.775%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.637% 5.599% 5.896%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 256 256
Average daily rate £400 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £253 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £508 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £355
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 22 12
Average hourly rate £22.35 £30.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.51% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.60 £19.20 £16.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.25 £45.00 £34.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.35 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-5.51% +9.09%
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6247 8269 7531
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.44% 15.61% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3225 3820 3506
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £210 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £499 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 564 756
Average hourly rate £24.00 £24.38 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
HTTP
UK

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England 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 England region.

England HTTP Hourly Rate Trend

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTTP across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England HTTP Hourly Rate Histogram

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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +67 393 £425 +6.25% 308
South East +47 97 £350 +3.70% 60
Yorkshire +18 34 £325 -7.14% 14
East of England +14 27 £325 +4.00% 34
North West +16 22 £375 +11.11% 31
South West +19 12 £440 +17.33% 10
East Midlands +5 7 £425 - 9
West Midlands -4 7 £205 -45.33% 18
North East - 3 £250 - 3
HTTP
UK

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 361 (26.68%) SQL
2 339 (25.06%) Java
3 282 (20.84%) Finance
4 270 (19.96%) Oracle
5 264 (19.51%) XML
6 239 (17.66%) Linux
7 235 (17.37%) JavaScript
8 222 (16.41%) Windows
9 220 (16.26%) Web Services
10 213 (15.74%) .NET
11 197 (14.56%) HTML
12 176 (13.01%) Banking
13 175 (12.93%) TCP/IP
14 174 (12.86%) C#
15 171 (12.64%) UNIX
16 162 (11.97%) CSS
17 158 (11.68%) SQL Server
18 155 (11.46%) Agile Software Development
19 146 (10.79%) SOAP
20 139 (10.27%) Apache
21 137 (10.13%) TDD
22 132 (9.756%) DNS
23 129 (9.534%) REST
24 121 (8.943%) OO
25 120 (8.869%) HTTPS
26 118 (8.721%) Internet
26 118 (8.721%) Scrum
27 117 (8.647%) MySQL
28 116 (8.574%) JSON
29 110 (8.130%) Continuous Integration

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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
1 264 (19.51%) XML
2 220 (16.26%) Web Services
3 213 (15.74%) .NET
4 197 (14.56%) HTML
5 162 (11.97%) CSS
6 146 (10.79%) SOAP
7 129 (9.534%) REST
8 116 (8.574%) JSON
9 97 (7.169%) jQuery
10 93 (6.874%) WebSphere
11 89 (6.578%) HTML5
12 84 (6.208%) RESTful
13 76 (5.617%) Ajax
14 72 (5.322%) ASP
15 67 (4.952%) COM
16 66 (4.878%) J2EE
17 65 (4.804%) ASP.NET
18 63 (4.656%) Spring
18 63 (4.656%) Middleware
19 54 (3.991%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 139 (10.27%) Apache
2 75 (5.543%) IIS
3 66 (4.878%) Tomcat
4 44 (3.252%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 43 (3.178%) Amazon AWS
6 40 (2.956%) SharePoint
7 36 (2.661%) Amazon EC2
7 36 (2.661%) nginx
8 35 (2.587%) IBM HTTP Server
9 34 (2.513%) WebLogic
10 28 (2.069%) WebSphere Application Server
10 28 (2.069%) Amazon S3
11 25 (1.848%) Route 53
12 23 (1.700%) ESB
12 23 (1.700%) MS Exchange
12 23 (1.700%) CMS
13 20 (1.478%) WebSphere Process Server
14 14 (1.035%) Exchange Server 2010
15 13 (0.961%) WebSphere Message Broker
16 12 (0.887%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 54 (3.991%) MS Excel
2 45 (3.326%) MS Office
3 14 (1.035%) Photoshop
4 12 (0.887%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.813%) MS Project
6 9 (0.665%) GIMP
7 8 (0.591%) MS PowerPoint
8 7 (0.517%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.222%) SPSS
9 3 (0.222%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.074%) Fireworks
10 1 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 14 (1.035%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (0.887%) Oracle EBS R12
3 9 (0.665%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.370%) Oracle Financials
4 5 (0.370%) LatentZero
5 4 (0.296%) Remedy AR System
5 4 (0.296%) SAP CRM
5 4 (0.296%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.222%) Oracle iProcurement
6 3 (0.222%) RMDS
6 3 (0.222%) Capstone
6 3 (0.222%) Tesseract
6 3 (0.222%) Minerva
6 3 (0.222%) Sentinel
7 2 (0.148%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.148%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.148%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.148%) Google Analytics
7 2 (0.148%) Cognos Business Intelligence
7 2 (0.148%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 175 (12.93%) TCP/IP
2 132 (9.756%) DNS
3 120 (8.869%) HTTPS
4 118 (8.721%) Internet
5 94 (6.948%) SSL
6 70 (5.174%) FTP
7 65 (4.804%) Firewall
8 63 (4.656%) SMTP
9 57 (4.213%) SAN
10 44 (3.252%) DHCP
11 43 (3.178%) LDAP
12 38 (2.809%) WAN
13 37 (2.735%) LAN
14 34 (2.513%) VPN
15 26 (1.922%) Network Security
16 25 (1.848%) NAS
17 22 (1.626%) BGP
18 21 (1.552%) 3G
19 19 (1.404%) VLAN
20 15 (1.109%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (11.68%) SQL Server
2 117 (8.647%) MySQL
3 50 (3.695%) MongoDB
4 48 (3.548%) NoSQL
5 41 (3.030%) Redis
6 39 (2.882%) RDBMS
7 36 (2.661%) DB2
8 32 (2.365%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (2.365%) SQL Server 2008
9 26 (1.922%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 25 (1.848%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (1.478%) Oracle 8/8i
11 20 (1.478%) Couchbase
12 19 (1.404%) SimpleDB
12 19 (1.404%) Oracle 10g
13 17 (1.256%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 16 (1.183%) PostgreSQL
14 16 (1.183%) Hadoop
15 14 (1.035%) SQL Server 2005
15 14 (1.035%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 74 (5.469%) Git (software)
2 60 (4.435%) Subversion
3 57 (4.213%) Maven
4 55 (4.065%) Jenkins
5 42 (3.104%) JIRA
6 40 (2.956%) Selenium
7 38 (2.809%) Hudson
8 24 (1.774%) LoadRunner
8 24 (1.774%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.552%) JUnit
10 20 (1.478%) Eclipse
11 19 (1.404%) Team Foundation Server
12 17 (1.256%) TeamCity
12 17 (1.256%) Ant
12 17 (1.256%) Visual Studio
13 15 (1.109%) WebDriver
14 13 (0.961%) SpecFlow
15 12 (0.887%) NUnit
16 11 (0.813%) CruiseControl
17 10 (0.739%) WATIR
General
1 282 (20.84%) Finance
2 176 (13.01%) Banking
3 79 (5.839%) Investment Banking
4 68 (5.026%) Telecoms
5 56 (4.139%) Front Office
6 43 (3.178%) Retail
7 24 (1.774%) Marketing
8 19 (1.404%) Back Office
8 19 (1.404%) Games
9 18 (1.330%) Legal
9 18 (1.330%) Financial Institution
10 17 (1.256%) Publishing
11 9 (0.665%) Law
12 8 (0.591%) Billing
12 8 (0.591%) Online Betting
13 7 (0.517%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.517%) Retail Banking
13 7 (0.517%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (0.443%) Electronics
15 3 (0.222%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 441 (32.59%) Developer
2 204 (15.08%) Analyst
3 78 (5.765%) Architect
4 67 (4.952%) Business Analyst
5 62 (4.582%) Project Manager
5 62 (4.582%) Consultant
6 60 (4.435%) Administrator
7 53 (3.917%) Java Developer
8 49 (3.622%) Tester
9 45 (3.326%) Senior Developer
10 42 (3.104%) Android Developer
11 39 (2.882%) C# Developer
12 38 (2.809%) Support Analyst
12 38 (2.809%) Test Analyst
12 38 (2.809%) Web Developer
13 30 (2.217%) Software Engineer
14 27 (1.996%) Network Engineer
15 24 (1.774%) .NET Developer
16 22 (1.626%) Support Engineer
16 22 (1.626%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 76 (5.617%) Open Source
2 63 (4.656%) Mobile App
3 40 (2.956%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 31 (2.291%) Clustering
5 29 (2.143%) Derivative
6 26 (1.922%) Computer Science
7 25 (1.848%) Fixed Income
8 21 (1.552%) Client/Server
9 20 (1.478%) Mathematics
9 20 (1.478%) Blackberry
10 17 (1.256%) Equities
11 16 (1.183%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.109%) Replication
13 14 (1.035%) Management Information System
13 14 (1.035%) N-Tier
14 12 (0.887%) PKI
14 12 (0.887%) Handset
15 11 (0.813%) iPhone
16 10 (0.739%) W3C
16 10 (0.739%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 239 (17.66%) Linux
2 222 (16.41%) Windows
3 171 (12.64%) UNIX
4 72 (5.322%) Android
5 53 (3.917%) Apple iOS
6 49 (3.622%) Windows Server 2003
7 47 (3.474%) Windows Server 2008
8 40 (2.956%) Windows 7
8 40 (2.956%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 38 (2.809%) Solaris
10 26 (1.922%) Windows XP
11 22 (1.626%) AIX
12 7 (0.517%) CentOS
13 6 (0.443%) SUSE
14 5 (0.370%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.370%) Windows Mobile
15 4 (0.296%) Windows Vista
15 4 (0.296%) Embedded Linux
15 4 (0.296%) Debian
15 4 (0.296%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (11.46%) Agile Software Development
2 137 (10.13%) TDD
3 121 (8.943%) OO
4 118 (8.721%) Scrum
5 110 (8.130%) Continuous Integration
6 93 (6.874%) MVC
7 86 (6.356%) SOA
8 68 (5.026%) BDD
9 62 (4.582%) E-Commerce
10 61 (4.508%) ITIL
11 53 (3.917%) UML
12 52 (3.843%) Kanban
13 51 (3.769%) Configuration Management
14 50 (3.695%) Multithreading
15 48 (3.548%) Project Management
16 46 (3.400%) Unit Testing
17 43 (3.178%) Migration
18 41 (3.030%) Stakeholder Management
19 40 (2.956%) Test Automation
20 39 (2.882%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 361 (26.68%) SQL
2 339 (25.06%) Java
3 235 (17.37%) JavaScript
4 174 (12.86%) C#
5 106 (7.834%) C++
5 106 (7.834%) Python
6 96 (7.095%) PHP
7 85 (6.282%) Perl
8 64 (4.730%) Ruby
9 59 (4.361%) Bash shell
10 55 (4.065%) PL/SQL
11 52 (3.843%) VB
12 44 (3.252%) Shell Script
13 40 (2.956%) C
14 33 (2.439%) T-SQL
15 32 (2.365%) VBA
16 30 (2.217%) Objective-C
17 27 (1.996%) XPath
18 25 (1.848%) VBScript
19 22 (1.626%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 68 (5.026%) Degree
2 53 (3.917%) Security Cleared
3 33 (2.439%) SC Cleared
4 32 (2.365%) ISEB
5 23 (1.700%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (1.109%) ISTQB
7 14 (1.035%) CCNP
8 10 (0.739%) DV Cleared
9 9 (0.665%) CISSP
10 8 (0.591%) CCNA
11 7 (0.517%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.517%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.443%) MCSE
13 4 (0.296%) CCIE
13 4 (0.296%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.222%) Sun Certification
14 3 (0.222%) CISA
14 3 (0.222%) CISM
14 3 (0.222%) MCITP
14 3 (0.222%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (3.622%) QA
2 24 (1.774%) SLA
3 15 (1.109%) WCAG
4 3 (0.222%) HL7
5 1 (0.074%) Basel III
5 1 (0.074%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.074%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.074%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.074%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.074%) TickIT
5 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.074%) WAI
System Software
1 61 (4.508%) Active Directory
2 47 (3.474%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.035%) NFS
4 12 (0.887%) Oracle RAC
5 11 (0.813%) Samba
6 10 (0.739%) Squid
7 9 (0.665%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.665%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.591%) Postfix
8 8 (0.591%) vSphere
9 7 (0.517%) XenServer
10 6 (0.443%) VMware ESX
11 5 (0.370%) XenApp
11 5 (0.370%) Nmap
12 4 (0.296%) VMware Server
13 3 (0.222%) SRDF
13 3 (0.222%) ProxySG
14 2 (0.148%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.148%) ISA Server
14 2 (0.148%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 36 (2.661%) Puppet
2 27 (1.996%) HP Quality Center
3 23 (1.700%) Nagios
4 9 (0.665%) HP SiteScope
5 7 (0.517%) HP SIM
5 7 (0.517%) SCOM
5 7 (0.517%) OpenView
6 6 (0.443%) Foglight
6 6 (0.443%) SCCM
7 5 (0.370%) Cacti
7 5 (0.370%) Tivoli
8 4 (0.296%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.222%) ARCserve
9 3 (0.222%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.148%) Cisco IPCC
10 2 (0.148%) DameWare
10 2 (0.148%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.148%) CA SiteMinder
10 2 (0.148%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.148%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 270 (19.96%) Oracle
2 105 (7.761%) Microsoft
3 75 (5.543%) VMware
4 71 (5.248%) IBM
5 70 (5.174%) Twitter
6 66 (4.878%) HP
7 57 (4.213%) Cisco
8 52 (3.843%) Red Hat
9 51 (3.769%) SAP
10 42 (3.104%) Citrix
11 36 (2.661%) JBoss
12 24 (1.774%) TIBCO
12 24 (1.774%) Facebook
13 23 (1.700%) EMC
14 20 (1.478%) Adobe
15 19 (1.404%) Sybase
16 18 (1.330%) Juniper
17 17 (1.256%) Business Objects
17 17 (1.256%) CheckPoint
17 17 (1.256%) Zend
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Rate: £400 - £450 per annum
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Rate: £600 - £650 per day
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London
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Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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Rate: Up to £35,000 per annum
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Rate: £450 - £600 per day
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City, London
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Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
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High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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City, London
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