Leeds HTTP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) skills within the Leeds 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Location Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Basildon Berkshire Bexleyheath Borehamwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Knutsford Leeds Lincolnshire London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	60
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	11	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	8.462 %	6.395 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£300
Average daily rate	£325	£300
% change on same period last year	+8.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£409	£369
% change on same period last year	+10.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	-
Average hourly rate	£15.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.69	£38.35
% change on same period last year	-27.78 %
Communications & Networking Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	130	172
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.173 %	0.174 %
Daily rates quoted	33	47
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£331
Average daily rate	£305	£337
% change on same period last year	-9.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.91	£18.63
Average hourly rate	£23.07	£19.88
% change on same period last year	+16.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.24	£21.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HTTP across the Leeds region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTTP across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HTTP across the Leeds region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 10 (76.92 %) Shell Script 2 7 (53.85 %) Solaris 3 6 (46.15 %) Java 3 6 (46.15 %) J2EE 3 6 (46.15 %) Ant 3 6 (46.15 %) XML 3 6 (46.15 %) ATG 3 6 (46.15 %) ATG Dynamo 4 5 (38.46 %) HTML 4 5 (38.46 %) Government 4 5 (38.46 %) TCP/IP 4 5 (38.46 %) Firewall 4 5 (38.46 %) UNIX 4 5 (38.46 %) OO 4 5 (38.46 %) Sun

4 5 (38.46 %) Sun Certification 4 5 (38.46 %) Internet 4 5 (38.46 %) Extranet 5 4 (30.77 %) Perl 5 4 (30.77 %) C 5 4 (30.77 %) DNS 5 4 (30.77 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (15.38 %) Telecoms 7 1 (7.692 %) Network Security 7 1 (7.692 %) Subversion 7 1 (7.692 %) C++ 7 1 (7.692 %) Windows 7 1 (7.692 %) Visual Studio 7 1 (7.692 %) VC++ 7 1 (7.692 %) Windows XP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (46.15 %) J2EE 1 6 (46.15 %) XML 2 5 (38.46 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 6 (46.15 %) ATG Dynamo
Communications & Networking 1 5 (38.46 %) Internet 1 5 (38.46 %) Extranet 1 5 (38.46 %) Firewall 1 5 (38.46 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (30.77 %) DNS 3 1 (7.692 %) VoIP 3 1 (7.692 %) Network Security	Development Applications 1 6 (46.15 %) Ant 2 1 (7.692 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (7.692 %) Subversion
General 1 5 (38.46 %) Government 2 2 (15.38 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 7 (53.85 %) Developer 2 6 (46.15 %) Lead Developer 2 6 (46.15 %) J2EE Developer 3 4 (30.77 %) Systems Integrator 4 1 (7.692 %) Helpdesk Support 4 1 (7.692 %) 2nd Line Support
Operating Systems 1 7 (53.85 %) Solaris 2 5 (38.46 %) UNIX 3 1 (7.692 %) Windows 3 1 (7.692 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (38.46 %) OO 2 4 (30.77 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 10 (76.92 %) Shell Script 2 6 (46.15 %) Java 3 4 (30.77 %) Perl 3 4 (30.77 %) C 4 1 (7.692 %) C++ 4 1 (7.692 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 5 (38.46 %) Sun Certification
Vendors 1 6 (46.15 %) ATG 2 5 (38.46 %) Sun