The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 20 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 Nottingham 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Rank 35 30 -
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -
Contract jobs citing HTTP 4 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.394% 0.448% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.407% 4.167% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £394 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.14 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-12.86% +9.09%
All Communications & Networking
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
54 24 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 18.82% 10.76% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 11 13
Average daily rate £350 £238 £251
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+47.36% -5.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £205 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £423 £376
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
Average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +46.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £30.00 £13.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
HTTP
Nottinghamshire

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham HTTP Daily Rate Trend

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 5 (45.45%) SMTP
1 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco
1 5 (45.45%) Internet
1 5 (45.45%) BGP
2 4 (36.36%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (36.36%) XML Schema
2 4 (36.36%) SSL
2 4 (36.36%) WSDL
2 4 (36.36%) SOAP
2 4 (36.36%) Web Services
2 4 (36.36%) XML
2 4 (36.36%) XSD
2 4 (36.36%) XSLT
2 4 (36.36%) HTML
2 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) BIG-IP
2 4 (36.36%) WebSphere
2 4 (36.36%) XPath
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco PIX
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (36.36%) DataPower
2 4 (36.36%) F5
3 3 (27.27%) FWSM
3 3 (27.27%) CCNP
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (27.27%) Juniper
4 2 (18.18%) OSPF

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 4 (36.36%) HTML
1 4 (36.36%) SOAP
1 4 (36.36%) Web Services
1 4 (36.36%) XML
1 4 (36.36%) XSD
1 4 (36.36%) XSLT
1 4 (36.36%) WSDL
1 4 (36.36%) XML Schema
1 4 (36.36%) WebSphere
2 1 (9.091%) WCF
2 1 (9.091%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (18.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) SMTP
1 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
1 5 (45.45%) Internet
1 5 (45.45%) BGP
2 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) BIG-IP
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco PIX
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (36.36%) SSL
3 3 (27.27%) FWSM
4 2 (18.18%) OSPF
4 2 (18.18%) PBX
5 1 (9.091%) WAN
5 1 (9.091%) Network Security
5 1 (9.091%) Wireless
5 1 (9.091%) NetScreen
5 1 (9.091%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Maven
1 2 (18.18%) Hudson
2 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Middleware Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Project Planner
3 1 (9.091%) Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) SOA
1 2 (18.18%) Project Management
1 2 (18.18%) BPEL
2 1 (9.091%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) XPath
2 2 (18.18%) Java
3 1 (9.091%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) T-SQL
3 1 (9.091%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CCNP
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.091%) CCNA
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) F5
3 3 (27.27%) Juniper
4 1 (9.091%) CheckPoint