Newbury HTTP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) skills within the Newbury 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	21	33
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	1	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	2.222 %	4.286 %
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	£409	£369
% change on same period last year	+10.74 %
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	£27.69	£38.35
% change on same period last year	-27.78 %
Communications & Networking Newbury
Matching contract IT job ads	45	70
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.060 %	0.071 %
Daily rates quoted	9	18
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£424
Average daily rate	£406	£426
% change on same period last year	-4.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£432	£427
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£22.90
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£23.10
% change on same period last year	+19.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£23.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
HTTP Berkshire

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 Newbury 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 Newbury region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 (100.00 %) Telecoms 1 3 (100.00 %) Internet 2 2 (66.67 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 3 1 (33.33 %) LDAP 3 1 (33.33 %) CRM 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT 3 1 (33.33 %) Client/Server 3 1 (33.33 %) GSM 3 1 (33.33 %) SMS 3 1 (33.33 %) UMTS 3 1 (33.33 %) SMTP 3 1 (33.33 %) FTP 3 1 (33.33 %) Kerberos

3 1 (33.33 %) NFS 3 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (33.33 %) VPN 3 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (33.33 %) SSL 3 1 (33.33 %) SAX 3 1 (33.33 %) SAML 3 1 (33.33 %) Banking 3 1 (33.33 %) Billing 3 1 (33.33 %) SSH 3 1 (33.33 %) Intrusion Detection 3 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (33.33 %) Requirements Analysis 3 1 (33.33 %) Marketing 3 1 (33.33 %) JSR 168

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 (66.67 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 2 1 (33.33 %) SAX 2 1 (33.33 %) SAML 2 1 (33.33 %) JSR 168 2 1 (33.33 %) JSR 170 2 1 (33.33 %) CSS 2 1 (33.33 %) SOAP	Communications & Networking 1 3 (100.00 %) Internet 2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (33.33 %) SSH 2 1 (33.33 %) Intrusion Detection 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Security 2 1 (33.33 %) LDAP 2 1 (33.33 %) GSM 2 1 (33.33 %) SMS 2 1 (33.33 %) UMTS 2 1 (33.33 %) SMTP 2 1 (33.33 %) FTP 2 1 (33.33 %) Kerberos 2 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (33.33 %) VPN 2 1 (33.33 %) SSL
General 1 3 (100.00 %) Telecoms 2 1 (33.33 %) Banking 2 1 (33.33 %) Billing 2 1 (33.33 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Project Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Solutions Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Lead 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) CRM 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 1 1 (33.33 %) Requirements Analysis 1 1 (33.33 %) Matrix Management	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) NFS