The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales 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 Wales 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 38 41 44
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +3
Contract jobs citing HTTP 1 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 0.304% 0.498% 0.487%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.818% 2.941% 3.175%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £309
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 - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.35 £30.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-25.51% +16.50%
All Communications & Networking
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
55 68 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 16.72% 16.92% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 32 41
Average daily rate £260 £298 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.60% -8.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £123 £200 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £450 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 8
Average hourly rate £15.25 £15.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.61% +29.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £14.00 £9.14
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.65 £27.50 £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
HTTP
Wales

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 Wales region.

South Wales HTTP Daily Rate Trend

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 Wales region.

South Wales HTTP Hourly Rate Trend

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 Wales 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
Newport - 1 - -
HTTP
Wales

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) JMS
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) Middleware
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Perforce
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) CruiseControl
3 1 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Numerical Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) WATIR
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Firebug
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Ingres
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (25.00%) SAN

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (50.00%) JMS
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (25.00%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) WATIR
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) Firebug
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Hudson
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (25.00%) Capybara
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Testing Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (25.00%) AIX
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Numerical Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Perforce
2 1 (25.00%) IBM