The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 22 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 South East 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Rank 128 175 161
Rank change year-on-year
+47 -14
Contract jobs citing HTTP 102 72 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 1.288% 0.696% 0.789%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.805% 3.283% 4.318%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 29 33
Average daily rate £350 £350 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +10.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £430 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
Average hourly rate £22.69 £45.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-49.57% +55.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.10 £45.00 £21.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £29.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.35 £30.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-25.51% +16.50%
All Communications & Networking
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1499 2193 1876
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 18.92% 21.20% 18.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 637 654
Average daily rate £315 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £190 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 193 231
Average hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +22.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.18 £13.68 £12.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
HTTP
England

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East HTTP Hourly Rate Trend

HTTP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTTP across the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East HTTP Hourly Rate Histogram

HTTP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Berkshire +24 36 £350 +3.70%
Hampshire +14 26 £325 -8.56%
Oxfordshire +8 12 £320 +2.40%
Kent - 7 £325 -
Buckinghamshire +3 6 £380 -1.93%
East Sussex - 5 £350 -
Middlesex +8 4 £425 +21.42%
West Sussex +13 3 £325 -7.14%
Surrey +8 2 £363 +11.53%
HTTP
England

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 61 (32.28%) Windows
2 54 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 52 (27.51%) SQL
4 45 (23.81%) Java
4 45 (23.81%) Oracle
5 32 (16.93%) Windows Server 2003
6 31 (16.40%) Apache
7 30 (15.87%) ITIL
8 29 (15.34%) UNIX
8 29 (15.34%) Telecoms
8 29 (15.34%) VMware
8 29 (15.34%) Internet
9 27 (14.29%) Finance
9 27 (14.29%) Linux
9 27 (14.29%) XML
10 26 (13.76%) DNS
10 26 (13.76%) SMTP
11 25 (13.23%) SAN
12 24 (12.70%) .NET
13 23 (12.17%) Windows Server 2008
14 22 (11.64%) VMware Infrastructure
14 22 (11.64%) HP
15 21 (11.11%) Web Services
16 20 (10.58%) LAN
17 19 (10.05%) Oracle HTTP Server
17 19 (10.05%) JavaScript
17 19 (10.05%) JDBC
17 19 (10.05%) Disaster Recovery
18 17 (8.995%) J2EE
18 17 (8.995%) Tomcat

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 27 (14.29%) XML
2 24 (12.70%) .NET
3 21 (11.11%) Web Services
4 19 (10.05%) JDBC
5 17 (8.995%) J2EE
6 16 (8.466%) REST
7 15 (7.937%) HTML
8 14 (7.407%) JMS
8 14 (7.407%) Hibernate
8 14 (7.407%) Spring
9 12 (6.349%) CSS
10 11 (5.820%) JSON
11 10 (5.291%) SOAP
11 10 (5.291%) WebSphere
11 10 (5.291%) Java EE
11 10 (5.291%) Ajax
12 9 (4.762%) OC4J
13 7 (3.704%) HTML5
13 7 (3.704%) JPA
13 7 (3.704%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 31 (16.40%) Apache
2 19 (10.05%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 17 (8.995%) Tomcat
4 14 (7.407%) IIS
5 11 (5.820%) IBM HTTP Server
5 11 (5.820%) SharePoint
6 10 (5.291%) WebLogic
6 10 (5.291%) Oracle Application Server
6 10 (5.291%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (4.233%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (2.646%) Lync
8 5 (2.646%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (2.646%) ActiveMQ
8 5 (2.646%) Windows Azure
8 5 (2.646%) MS Exchange
9 4 (2.116%) WebLogic Portal
9 4 (2.116%) Liferay
10 3 (1.587%) SharePoint 2010
10 3 (1.587%) FileNet
11 2 (1.058%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 15 (7.937%) MS Office
2 9 (4.762%) MS Excel
3 3 (1.587%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.058%) MS Project
4 2 (1.058%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.058%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.529%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (1.587%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.058%) SAP CRM
2 2 (1.058%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.529%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.529%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.529%) SAP FI-GL
3 1 (0.529%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.529%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.529%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.529%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.529%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.529%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 54 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 29 (15.34%) Internet
3 26 (13.76%) DNS
3 26 (13.76%) SMTP
4 25 (13.23%) SAN
5 20 (10.58%) LAN
6 17 (8.995%) WAN
7 16 (8.466%) VPN
8 14 (7.407%) SSL
9 13 (6.878%) DHCP
10 12 (6.349%) FTP
10 12 (6.349%) LDAP
11 11 (5.820%) Firewall
11 11 (5.820%) 3G
12 8 (4.233%) tcpdump
13 6 (3.175%) MPLS
13 6 (3.175%) HTTPS
14 5 (2.646%) Wireshark
14 5 (2.646%) NAS
14 5 (2.646%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.466%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.878%) Oracle 10g
3 11 (5.820%) MySQL
4 7 (3.704%) SQL Server 2008
5 6 (3.175%) Oracle 8/8i
5 6 (3.175%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (3.175%) Oracle Discoverer
5 6 (3.175%) Oracle 11g
5 6 (3.175%) InterSystems Cache
6 4 (2.116%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.058%) EDRMS
7 2 (1.058%) DB2
7 2 (1.058%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (1.058%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.058%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.529%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (0.529%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.529%) JasperReports
8 1 (0.529%) SQLite
8 1 (0.529%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 12 (6.349%) Git (software)
2 9 (4.762%) Maven
3 6 (3.175%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (3.175%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.646%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.646%) LoadRunner
5 4 (2.116%) Hudson
6 3 (1.587%) Selenium
6 3 (1.587%) JIRA
6 3 (1.587%) Ant
7 2 (1.058%) TestDirector
7 2 (1.058%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.058%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.058%) StarTeam
7 2 (1.058%) Subversion
8 1 (0.529%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.529%) StyleCop
8 1 (0.529%) MSTest
8 1 (0.529%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.529%) NUnit
General
1 29 (15.34%) Telecoms
2 27 (14.29%) Finance
3 9 (4.762%) Banking
4 5 (2.646%) Retail
5 3 (1.587%) Billing
5 3 (1.587%) Marketing
6 2 (1.058%) Law
6 2 (1.058%) Advertising
7 1 (0.529%) Military
7 1 (0.529%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.529%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.529%) Back Office
7 1 (0.529%) Electronics
7 1 (0.529%) Publishing
7 1 (0.529%) Legal
7 1 (0.529%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (18.52%) Developer
2 31 (16.40%) Administrator
3 25 (13.23%) Analyst
4 18 (9.524%) Consultant
5 11 (5.820%) Architect
6 10 (5.291%) Business Analyst
7 7 (3.704%) Support Engineer
7 7 (3.704%) Applications Support
7 7 (3.704%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.175%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (3.175%) Technical Business Analyst
8 6 (3.175%) Java Developer
8 6 (3.175%) C# Developer
8 6 (3.175%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (2.646%) Oracle DBA
9 5 (2.646%) Software Engineer
9 5 (2.646%) Support Analyst
9 5 (2.646%) DBA
10 4 (2.116%) Network Engineer
10 4 (2.116%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.878%) Clustering
2 9 (4.762%) Open Source
3 6 (3.175%) DTV
3 6 (3.175%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.175%) Computer Science
3 6 (3.175%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.116%) Cryptography
5 3 (1.587%) Mathematics
6 2 (1.058%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.058%) Replication
6 2 (1.058%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.058%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.058%) Smartphone
6 2 (1.058%) SecurID
6 2 (1.058%) IVR
6 2 (1.058%) SaaS
7 1 (0.529%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.529%) PaaS
7 1 (0.529%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (0.529%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 61 (32.28%) Windows
2 32 (16.93%) Windows Server 2003
3 29 (15.34%) UNIX
4 27 (14.29%) Linux
5 23 (12.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 14 (7.407%) Solaris
7 13 (6.878%) Windows 7
8 7 (3.704%) Apple iOS
8 7 (3.704%) Android
9 6 (3.175%) AIX
9 6 (3.175%) Windows XP
10 3 (1.587%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.058%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.529%) Fedora
12 1 (0.529%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.529%) CentOS
12 1 (0.529%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.529%) Windows 2000
12 1 (0.529%) Debian
12 1 (0.529%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (15.87%) ITIL
2 19 (10.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (7.407%) OO
4 12 (6.349%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (5.820%) Multithreading
5 11 (5.820%) PRINCE2
5 11 (5.820%) Migration
5 11 (5.820%) Workflow
5 11 (5.820%) MVC
6 10 (5.291%) SOA
6 10 (5.291%) Fault Management
6 10 (5.291%) TDD
7 9 (4.762%) Project Management
7 9 (4.762%) Service Delivery
7 9 (4.762%) Scrum
8 8 (4.233%) OOA/OOD
8 8 (4.233%) Use Case
8 8 (4.233%) Content Management
8 8 (4.233%) Memory Management
9 7 (3.704%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (27.51%) SQL
2 45 (23.81%) Java
3 19 (10.05%) JavaScript
4 15 (7.937%) Perl
5 13 (6.878%) C#
6 11 (5.820%) PHP
7 10 (5.291%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.233%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.233%) Bash shell
9 7 (3.704%) Objective-C
10 5 (2.646%) XPath
10 5 (2.646%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.116%) C++
11 4 (2.116%) Python
11 4 (2.116%) AWK
11 4 (2.116%) sed
12 3 (1.587%) C
12 3 (1.587%) ABAP
12 3 (1.587%) VB
13 2 (1.058%) Korn
Qualifications
1 17 (8.995%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.407%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.820%) ISEB
4 8 (4.233%) Degree
5 4 (2.116%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.116%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.058%) OCP
6 2 (1.058%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.058%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.058%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.529%) CCSA
7 1 (0.529%) ACSA
7 1 (0.529%) CCSE
7 1 (0.529%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.529%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.529%) CCIE
7 1 (0.529%) CCSP
7 1 (0.529%) CCNP
7 1 (0.529%) CCNA
7 1 (0.529%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.407%) SLA
2 4 (2.116%) QA
System Software
1 22 (11.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (5.820%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.762%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (4.233%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (3.704%) vSphere
6 6 (3.175%) Squid
7 5 (2.646%) Hyper-V
8 4 (2.116%) VMware ESX
8 4 (2.116%) NFS
8 4 (2.116%) Postfix
8 4 (2.116%) Nmap
9 2 (1.058%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.529%) Tivoli Directory Server
10 1 (0.529%) Snort
10 1 (0.529%) XenApp
10 1 (0.529%) NDS
Systems Management
1 8 (4.233%) HP SIM
2 6 (3.175%) Foglight
3 5 (2.646%) Nagios
4 4 (2.116%) SCCM
4 4 (2.116%) HP Quality Center
4 4 (2.116%) Puppet
5 2 (1.058%) MOM
5 2 (1.058%) Cisco IPCC
5 2 (1.058%) SCOM
6 1 (0.529%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.529%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.529%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.529%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 45 (23.81%) Oracle
2 29 (15.34%) VMware
3 22 (11.64%) HP
4 15 (7.937%) Microsoft
5 12 (6.349%) IBM
5 12 (6.349%) SAP
6 11 (5.820%) Citrix
7 10 (5.291%) Cisco
7 10 (5.291%) JBoss
8 9 (4.762%) EMC
9 7 (3.704%) CheckPoint
9 7 (3.704%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.646%) Blue Coat
10 5 (2.646%) Ericsson
11 4 (2.116%) NetApp
11 4 (2.116%) Brocade
11 4 (2.116%) Nokia Siemens Networks
12 3 (1.587%) Nortel
12 3 (1.587%) Avaya
12 3 (1.587%) Juniper
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