The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 51 75 81
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +6
Contract jobs citing HTTP 19 9 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.275% 0.807% 0.384%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.645% 1.919% 1.932%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 2
Average daily rate £363 £320 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.28% -48.80%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £9.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.35 £30.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year
-25.51% +6.19%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
197 469 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.59% 42.06% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 112 71
Average daily rate £275 £280 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% -25.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £213 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 6
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.58 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.99% -2.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.20 £14.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
HTTP
Berkshire

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading HTTP Hourly Rate Trend

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 20 (68.97%) TCP/IP
2 13 (44.83%) Windows
3 12 (41.38%) Apache
4 10 (34.48%) ITIL
4 10 (34.48%) Oracle
5 9 (31.03%) SLA
6 8 (27.59%) IBM
6 8 (27.59%) VPN
6 8 (27.59%) FTP
6 8 (27.59%) LAN
6 8 (27.59%) SMTP
6 8 (27.59%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (27.59%) Web Services
6 8 (27.59%) WebLogic
6 8 (27.59%) IIS
6 8 (27.59%) .NET
6 8 (27.59%) Tomcat
6 8 (27.59%) Telecoms
6 8 (27.59%) IBM HTTP Server
6 8 (27.59%) Fault Management
6 8 (27.59%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (24.14%) Workflow
7 7 (24.14%) VMware
7 7 (24.14%) J2EE
7 7 (24.14%) SQL
7 7 (24.14%) MS Office
7 7 (24.14%) 3G
7 7 (24.14%) WAN
7 7 (24.14%) Citrix

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 8 (27.59%) Web Services
1 8 (27.59%) .NET
2 7 (24.14%) J2EE
3 5 (17.24%) XHTML
3 5 (17.24%) HTML
4 4 (13.79%) WebSphere
5 2 (6.897%) Middleware
6 1 (3.448%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.448%) WCF
6 1 (3.448%) Spring
6 1 (3.448%) JavaFX
6 1 (3.448%) XML
6 1 (3.448%) XSLT
6 1 (3.448%) COM
6 1 (3.448%) CSS
6 1 (3.448%) ActiveX
6 1 (3.448%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 12 (41.38%) Apache
2 8 (27.59%) WebLogic
2 8 (27.59%) IIS
2 8 (27.59%) Tomcat
2 8 (27.59%) IBM HTTP Server
3 6 (20.69%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 4 (13.79%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (13.79%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (3.448%) CMS
5 1 (3.448%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (3.448%) FileNet
Applications
1 7 (24.14%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 20 (68.97%) TCP/IP
2 8 (27.59%) VPN
2 8 (27.59%) FTP
2 8 (27.59%) LAN
2 8 (27.59%) SMTP
3 7 (24.14%) 3G
3 7 (24.14%) WAN
4 6 (20.69%) Internet
4 6 (20.69%) SAN
5 4 (13.79%) SSL
6 3 (10.34%) GGSN
6 3 (10.34%) SGSN
7 2 (6.897%) SSH
7 2 (6.897%) Firewall
8 1 (3.448%) Symposium
8 1 (3.448%) VLAN
8 1 (3.448%) DNS
8 1 (3.448%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) MySQL
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.897%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (6.897%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (6.897%) Oracle 11g
General
1 8 (27.59%) Telecoms
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Marketing
4 2 (6.897%) Banking
4 2 (6.897%) Retail
5 1 (3.448%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Administrator
2 3 (10.34%) WebSphere Consultant
2 3 (10.34%) Developer
2 3 (10.34%) Consultant
3 2 (6.897%) DBA
3 2 (6.897%) Applications Support
3 2 (6.897%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (3.448%) C# Developer
4 1 (3.448%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (3.448%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (3.448%) Project Administrator
4 1 (3.448%) Systems Support Analyst
4 1 (3.448%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (3.448%) Senior Developer
4 1 (3.448%) Systems Support
4 1 (3.448%) Support Analyst
4 1 (3.448%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (3.448%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.448%) Java Developer
4 1 (3.448%) Avaya Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Clustering
2 1 (3.448%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (27.59%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (20.69%) UNIX
3 6 (20.69%) Windows 7
4 2 (6.897%) Windows XP
4 2 (6.897%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) ITIL
2 8 (27.59%) Fault Management
3 7 (24.14%) Workflow
4 6 (20.69%) Content Management
5 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (10.34%) Problem Management
5 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (10.34%) Product Marketing
6 2 (6.897%) Project Management
6 2 (6.897%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.897%) Scrum
7 1 (3.448%) Change Management
7 1 (3.448%) MVC
7 1 (3.448%) Web Development
7 1 (3.448%) Incident Management
7 1 (3.448%) TDD
7 1 (3.448%) Performance Management
7 1 (3.448%) Waterfall
7 1 (3.448%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.79%) Perl
3 4 (13.79%) PHP
4 2 (6.897%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.448%) C#
5 1 (3.448%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (6.897%) OCP
1 2 (6.897%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (3.448%) ACSA
2 1 (3.448%) HNC
2 1 (3.448%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (6.897%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) HP SIM
2 4 (13.79%) Foglight
3 2 (6.897%) MOM
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Oracle
2 8 (27.59%) IBM
3 7 (24.14%) VMware
3 7 (24.14%) Citrix
4 6 (20.69%) HP
5 4 (13.79%) JBoss
5 4 (13.79%) Ericsson
6 3 (10.34%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 2 (6.897%) Microsoft
7 2 (6.897%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.448%) ReadSoft
8 1 (3.448%) Cisco
8 1 (3.448%) Avaya
8 1 (3.448%) Nortel