Scotland HTTP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) skills within the Scotland 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	89	120
Rank change on same period last year	+31
Matching contract IT job ads	11	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	3.667 %	1.728 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£355
Average daily rate	£300	£368
% change on same period last year	-18.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£380
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 Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	300	463
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.400 %	0.468 %
Daily rates quoted	60	85
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£348
Average daily rate	£308	£358
% change on same period last year	-14.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.32	£18.73
Average hourly rate	£26.37	£19.84
% change on same period last year	+32.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.43	£20.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
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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 Scotland 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 Scotland region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HTTP across the Scotland region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Glasgow	+15	7	£350	-4.76 %
Edinburgh	+6	1	£250	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 16 (66.67 %) IBM 1 16 (66.67 %) IBM HTTP Server 1 16 (66.67 %) WebSphere 2 11 (45.83 %) Finance 2 11 (45.83 %) UNIX 2 11 (45.83 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 11 (45.83 %) Solaris 3 10 (41.67 %) J2EE 4 8 (33.33 %) .NET 4 8 (33.33 %) Tivoli 5 6 (25.00 %) C# 5 6 (25.00 %) Ethernet 5 6 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 6 5 (20.83 %) Windows 6 5 (20.83 %) Sun

6 5 (20.83 %) UPnP 7 4 (16.67 %) WinForms 7 4 (16.67 %) Dell 7 4 (16.67 %) Music 8 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft 8 3 (12.50 %) Java 8 3 (12.50 %) Windows Mobile 8 3 (12.50 %) Clustering 9 2 (8.333 %) Service Management 9 2 (8.333 %) Wireless 9 2 (8.333 %) CruiseControl 9 2 (8.333 %) ITIL 9 2 (8.333 %) C++ 9 2 (8.333 %) SQL 9 2 (8.333 %) Oracle

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 16 (66.67 %) WebSphere 2 10 (41.67 %) J2EE 3 8 (33.33 %) .NET 4 4 (16.67 %) WinForms 5 2 (8.333 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (4.167 %) BREW 6 1 (4.167 %) HTML 6 1 (4.167 %) DOM 6 1 (4.167 %) WAP 6 1 (4.167 %) OpenGL 6 1 (4.167 %) UIQ 6 1 (4.167 %) Series 60	Application Platforms 1 16 (66.67 %) IBM HTTP Server 2 11 (45.83 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 2 (8.333 %) IIS 3 2 (8.333 %) Apache 3 2 (8.333 %) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 6 (25.00 %) Ethernet 1 6 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 2 5 (20.83 %) UPnP 3 2 (8.333 %) Internet 3 2 (8.333 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (8.333 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) ClearCase 1 2 (8.333 %) CruiseControl 2 1 (4.167 %) Subversion 2 1 (4.167 %) Visual Studio
General 1 11 (45.83 %) Finance 2 4 (16.67 %) Music 3 2 (8.333 %) Pensions 4 1 (4.167 %) Music Industry 4 1 (4.167 %) 3D Graphics 4 1 (4.167 %) Games	Job Titles 1 8 (33.33 %) Developer 2 6 (25.00 %) WebSphere Specialist 3 5 (20.83 %) Consultant 3 5 (20.83 %) Infrastructure Consultant 3 5 (20.83 %) WebSphere Consultant 4 4 (16.67 %) WinForms Developer 4 4 (16.67 %) C# Developer 4 4 (16.67 %) .NET Developer 5 3 (12.50 %) Administrator 5 3 (12.50 %) Applications Developer 5 3 (12.50 %) WebSphere Administrator 6 2 (8.333 %) Senior Developer 6 2 (8.333 %) C++ Developer 6 2 (8.333 %) Senior .NET Developer 6 2 (8.333 %) Senior C# Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) Architect 7 1 (4.167 %) Technical Specialist 7 1 (4.167 %) Symbian Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) Infrastructure Designer 7 1 (4.167 %) C# Application Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (12.50 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 11 (45.83 %) UNIX 1 11 (45.83 %) Solaris 2 5 (20.83 %) Windows 3 3 (12.50 %) Windows Mobile 4 2 (8.333 %) Windows CE 4 2 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (4.167 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.333 %) ITIL 1 2 (8.333 %) Service Management 1 2 (8.333 %) Load Balancing 2 1 (4.167 %) Web Development 2 1 (4.167 %) UML 2 1 (4.167 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 6 (25.00 %) C# 2 3 (12.50 %) Java 3 2 (8.333 %) C++ 3 2 (8.333 %) SQL 4 1 (4.167 %) JavaScript
Systems Management 1 8 (33.33 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 16 (66.67 %) IBM 2 5 (20.83 %) Sun 3 4 (16.67 %) Dell 4 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft 5 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 5 2 (8.333 %) HP 5 2 (8.333 %) Cisco 6 1 (4.167 %) Motorola 6 1 (4.167 %) Nokia 6 1 (4.167 %) Symbian