Halifax HTTP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) skills within the Halifax region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Location Abingdon Aylesbury Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	60.00 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£400
% change on same period last year	-11.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.52	£39.76
% change on same period last year	-15.69 %
Communications & Networking Halifax
Matching contract IT job ads	5	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.004 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£130	£275
Average daily rate	£130	£288
% change on same period last year	-54.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£130	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
HTTP West Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

HTTP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing HTTP across the Halifax region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

HTTP
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 6 (100.00 %) XML 2 1 (16.67 %) Finance 2 1 (16.67 %) WBIMB 2 1 (16.67 %) WebSphere

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 6 (100.00 %) XML 2 1 (16.67 %) WBIMB 2 1 (16.67 %) WebSphere	General 1 1 (16.67 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 5 (83.33 %) Developer 1 5 (83.33 %) Senior Developer