The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 53 60 70
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +10
Contract jobs citing HTTP 5 19 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.782% 1.908% 0.326%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.545% 8.676% 1.685%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
Average daily rate £276 £190 £401
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.00% -52.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £190 £390
10% offered a daily rate of more than £307 £358 £412
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £355
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.35 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-5.51% +9.09%
All Communications & Networking
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
110 219 178
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 17.21% 21.99% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 46 39
Average daily rate £313 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £197 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £374 £500 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 27
Average hourly rate £32.50 £17.43 £33.47
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.46% -47.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £10.50 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £32.50 £42.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
HTTP
East of England

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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
Hemel Hempstead - - - -
Rickmansworth - - - - 3
St Albans - - - -
Stevenage - - - -
Watford - - - -
Welwyn Garden City - - - - 2
HTTP
East of England

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) WebSphere
2 2 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (14.29%) iSCSI
2 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 2 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (14.29%) Middleware
2 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 2 (14.29%) IBM
2 2 (14.29%) HP
2 2 (14.29%) EMC
2 2 (14.29%) SAN
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) UNIX
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.143%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (7.143%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2
3 1 (7.143%) UML
3 1 (7.143%) IIS
3 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (14.29%) WebSphere
1 2 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.143%) Web Services
2 1 (7.143%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (7.143%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) iSCSI
1 2 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (7.143%) Axure RP
1 1 (7.143%) Selenium
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (7.143%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Network Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Coordinator
4 1 (7.143%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Functional Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle Support Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (7.143%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Junior Project Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (7.143%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) UNIX
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.143%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
1 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2
2 1 (7.143%) UML
2 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
2 1 (7.143%) BDD
2 1 (7.143%) Data Governance
2 1 (7.143%) User Stories
2 1 (7.143%) Scrum
2 1 (7.143%) Use Case
2 1 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (7.143%) Time Management
2 1 (7.143%) BPMN
2 1 (7.143%) Data Management
2 1 (7.143%) Business Analysis
2 1 (7.143%) TDD
2 1 (7.143%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.143%) Java
1 1 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 2 (14.29%) IBM
1 2 (14.29%) HP
1 2 (14.29%) EMC
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft