Merseyside HTTP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) skills within the Merseyside 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 13 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 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	3.125 %	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	£359	£401
% change on same period last year	-10.38 %
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	£39.80
% change on same period last year	-15.76 %
Communications & Networking Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	32	80
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.081 %
Daily rates quoted	7	20
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£273
Average daily rate	£386	£278
% change on same period last year	+38.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£336
% change on same period last year	+5.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.61	£27.26
Average hourly rate	£26.69	£29.04
% change on same period last year	-8.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.77	£30.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.44	£28.92
% change on same period last year	-5.09 %
HTTP North West

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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

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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 Merseyside region.

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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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	-	1	-	-

HTTP North West

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (100.00 %) LoadRunner 1 1 (100.00 %) Government 1 1 (100.00 %) Performance Testing 1 1 (100.00 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (100.00 %) Security Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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.

Development Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) LoadRunner	General 1 1 (100.00 %) Government
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Consultant 1 1 (100.00 %) LoadRunner Consultant	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Performance Testing 1 1 (100.00 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (100.00 %) Security Cleared