South Wales HTTP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) skills within the South Wales 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 Wales 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	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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 South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	116	96
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.155 %	0.097 %
Daily rates quoted	25	26
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£400
Average daily rate	£375	£420
% change on same period last year	-10.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£439
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.45	£23.36
Average hourly rate	£29.06	£25.41
% change on same period last year	+14.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.68	£27.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
HTTP Wales

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 South Wales 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 South Wales 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 South Wales region.

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Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Linux 2 2 (66.67 %) Workflow 2 2 (66.67 %) PLM 2 2 (66.67 %) Document Management 2 2 (66.67 %) SAP ALE 2 2 (66.67 %) SAP PLM 2 2 (66.67 %) Test Management 2 2 (66.67 %) SAP Business Workflow 2 2 (66.67 %) SAP 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 1 (33.33 %) IIS 3 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005

3 1 (33.33 %) PKI 3 1 (33.33 %) Network Load Balancing 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware 3 1 (33.33 %) Clustering 3 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 3 1 (33.33 %) MCDBA 3 1 (33.33 %) SSL 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) Internet 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 %) SAP ALE 1 2 (66.67 %) SAP Business Workflow	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) IIS
Business Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) SAP PLM	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) SSL 1 1 (33.33 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Consultant 1 2 (66.67 %) SAP Consultant 2 1 (33.33 %) Server Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Management Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Clustering 1 1 (33.33 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Workflow 1 2 (66.67 %) PLM 1 2 (66.67 %) Document Management 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Load Balancing	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 1 1 (33.33 %) MCDBA 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) SAP 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware