The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes 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 52 57 54
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -3
Contract jobs citing HTTP 3 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.565% 0.716% 0.332%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.882% 4.310% 1.942%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £575 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £21.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.35 £30.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year
-25.51% +6.19%
All Communications & Networking
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
51 116 103
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 9.605% 16.62% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 48
Average daily rate £425 £313 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 12
Average hourly rate £14.96 £13.50 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.81% -12.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
HTTP
Buckinghamshire

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes HTTP Hourly Rate Trend

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JDBC
1 7 (100.00%) XML
1 7 (100.00%) JMS
2 6 (85.71%) Finance
3 5 (71.43%) Spring
3 5 (71.43%) Ajax
3 5 (71.43%) Dojo
3 5 (71.43%) Use Case
3 5 (71.43%) Software Architecture
3 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
3 5 (71.43%) Struts
3 5 (71.43%) CSS
3 5 (71.43%) OOA/OOD
3 5 (71.43%) OO
3 5 (71.43%) JSP
3 5 (71.43%) Servlets
3 5 (71.43%) DHTML
3 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 5 (71.43%) J2EE
4 4 (57.14%) Open Source
4 4 (57.14%) JSON
4 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
5 3 (42.86%) Web Services
6 2 (28.57%) CRM
6 2 (28.57%) XSLT
6 2 (28.57%) ABAP
6 2 (28.57%) SAP
6 2 (28.57%) SOAP
6 2 (28.57%) Scrum

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 7 (100.00%) JDBC
1 7 (100.00%) XML
1 7 (100.00%) JMS
2 5 (71.43%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) Ajax
2 5 (71.43%) Dojo
2 5 (71.43%) Struts
2 5 (71.43%) CSS
2 5 (71.43%) JSP
2 5 (71.43%) Servlets
2 5 (71.43%) DHTML
2 5 (71.43%) J2EE
3 4 (57.14%) JSON
3 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
4 3 (42.86%) Web Services
5 2 (28.57%) XSLT
5 2 (28.57%) SOAP
5 2 (28.57%) BAPI
5 2 (28.57%) SAP XI
5 2 (28.57%) SAP ALE
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) NetWeaver
1 2 (28.57%) ESB
2 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
2 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) Ant
1 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SAP PI Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Architect
3 1 (14.29%) NetWeaver Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) UNIX
1 1 (14.29%) AIX
1 1 (14.29%) Solaris
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Use Case
1 5 (71.43%) Software Architecture
1 5 (71.43%) OOA/OOD
1 5 (71.43%) OO
2 2 (28.57%) CRM
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) ABAP
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft