The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Middlesex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Rank 21 31 36
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +5
Contract jobs citing HTTP 4 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 2.000% 0.324% 0.893%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.756% 2.381% 7.317%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.35 £30.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year
-25.51% +6.19%
All Communications & Networking
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
41 42 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 20.50% 13.59% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 11
Average daily rate £313 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 8
Average hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.37% -6.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £12.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £27.25 £40.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
HTTP
South East

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex HTTP Hourly Rate Trend

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (16.67%) Celerra
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) ISEB
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) JBoss
3 1 (16.67%) Apache
3 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (16.67%) SMTP
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) J2EE

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
1 1 (16.67%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) SMTP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Management Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Celerra
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (16.67%) AIX
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle