The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 18 June 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 West 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Rank 98 109 118
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +9
Contract jobs citing HTTP 12 28 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.584% 0.893% 0.299%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.013% 5.996% 2.413%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 3
Average daily rate £440 £375 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.33% +41.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £335 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £454 £425 £341
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.35 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-5.51% +9.09%
All Communications & Networking
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
299 467 373
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.55% 14.90% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 222 155
Average daily rate £375 £386 £368
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.72% +4.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £275 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 41 53
Average hourly rate £21.50 £24.38 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.79% -15.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £20.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.10 £45.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
HTTP
England

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Dorset -7 7 £440 +17.33% 2
Bristol +10 1 £400 +2.56% 2
Wiltshire -1 1 £440 +3.52% 3
Gloucestershire - - - -
HTTP
England

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 11 (37.93%) SQL
3 8 (27.59%) Java
3 8 (27.59%) Banking
4 7 (24.14%) HTTPS
5 6 (20.69%) LoadRunner
5 6 (20.69%) C
5 6 (20.69%) Oracle
5 6 (20.69%) UNIX
5 6 (20.69%) Windows
5 6 (20.69%) Linux
5 6 (20.69%) SWIFT
6 5 (17.24%) HP SiteScope
6 5 (17.24%) Test Management
6 5 (17.24%) HP Quality Center
6 5 (17.24%) Introscope
6 5 (17.24%) ISTQB
6 5 (17.24%) QA
6 5 (17.24%) Solaris
6 5 (17.24%) WebLogic
6 5 (17.24%) JDBC
6 5 (17.24%) Middleware
6 5 (17.24%) QuickTest Pro
6 5 (17.24%) TOAD
6 5 (17.24%) HP
6 5 (17.24%) ISEB
6 5 (17.24%) ODBC
7 4 (13.79%) Software Testing
7 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
7 4 (13.79%) Test Strategy

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 5 (17.24%) JDBC
1 5 (17.24%) ODBC
1 5 (17.24%) Middleware
2 3 (10.34%) Web Services
3 2 (6.897%) XML
3 2 (6.897%) REST
3 2 (6.897%) JSON
4 1 (3.448%) jQuery
4 1 (3.448%) Google Maps API
4 1 (3.448%) RESTful
4 1 (3.448%) LAMP
4 1 (3.448%) Ajax
4 1 (3.448%) WebSphere
4 1 (3.448%) Java EE
4 1 (3.448%) XHTML
4 1 (3.448%) JMS
4 1 (3.448%) WAP
4 1 (3.448%) SOAP
4 1 (3.448%) HTML
4 1 (3.448%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.24%) WebLogic
2 2 (6.897%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (3.448%) MS Office
1 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.448%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) HTTPS
2 3 (10.34%) FTP
3 2 (6.897%) IMAP
3 2 (6.897%) POP3
3 2 (6.897%) SMTP
4 1 (3.448%) Bluetooth
4 1 (3.448%) GSM
4 1 (3.448%) LTE
4 1 (3.448%) DNS
4 1 (3.448%) SSL
4 1 (3.448%) Intranet
4 1 (3.448%) Internet
4 1 (3.448%) ICMP
4 1 (3.448%) RTCP
4 1 (3.448%) RTP
4 1 (3.448%) Wireless
4 1 (3.448%) WiMAX
4 1 (3.448%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) TOAD
2 1 (3.448%) Star Schema
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.448%) Base SAS
2 1 (3.448%) MySQL
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) LoadRunner
2 5 (17.24%) QuickTest Pro
2 5 (17.24%) Introscope
3 2 (6.897%) JProfiler
3 2 (6.897%) JProbe
4 1 (3.448%) ProC
4 1 (3.448%) JIRA
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.897%) Marketing
5 1 (3.448%) Retail
5 1 (3.448%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.448%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (3.448%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.448%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.448%) Games
5 1 (3.448%) Back Office
5 1 (3.448%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Analyst
2 6 (20.69%) Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Test Analyst
4 2 (6.897%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.897%) Consultant
4 2 (6.897%) PHP Developer
4 2 (6.897%) QA Leader
5 1 (3.448%) Testing Manager
5 1 (3.448%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
5 1 (3.448%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (3.448%) Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) SAS Analyst
5 1 (3.448%) Citrix Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Contracts Manager
5 1 (3.448%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 1 (3.448%) Server Administrator
5 1 (3.448%) PHP Web Developer
5 1 (3.448%) Senior SAS Analyst
5 1 (3.448%) Embedded C Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Financial Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) SWIFT
2 2 (6.897%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.897%) Mathematics
3 1 (3.448%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.448%) Data Extraction
3 1 (3.448%) Visualisation
3 1 (3.448%) Open Source
3 1 (3.448%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (3.448%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.448%) Streaming Media
3 1 (3.448%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) UNIX
1 6 (20.69%) Windows
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Solaris
3 1 (3.448%) Android
3 1 (3.448%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.24%) Test Management
2 4 (13.79%) Test Strategy
2 4 (13.79%) Software Testing
3 2 (6.897%) Operations Research
3 2 (6.897%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (6.897%) MVC
3 2 (6.897%) Investment Management
4 1 (3.448%) Data Migration
4 1 (3.448%) Cash Management
4 1 (3.448%) Digital Signal Processing
4 1 (3.448%) Signal Processing
4 1 (3.448%) High Availability
4 1 (3.448%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (3.448%) Statistical Modelling
4 1 (3.448%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (3.448%) Inmon Methodology
4 1 (3.448%) Test Scripting
4 1 (3.448%) Multithreading
4 1 (3.448%) Risk Management
4 1 (3.448%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) SQL
2 8 (27.59%) Java
3 6 (20.69%) C
4 3 (10.34%) VB
5 2 (6.897%) VBA
5 2 (6.897%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.897%) SAS Macro
5 2 (6.897%) C#
5 2 (6.897%) C++
5 2 (6.897%) T-SQL
5 2 (6.897%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.897%) Perl
5 2 (6.897%) PHP
6 1 (3.448%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.448%) Bash shell
6 1 (3.448%) Ruby
6 1 (3.448%) PHP5
6 1 (3.448%) Python
6 1 (3.448%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) ISEB
1 5 (17.24%) ISTQB
2 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) HP Quality Center
1 5 (17.24%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle
2 5 (17.24%) HP
3 2 (6.897%) Facebook
3 2 (6.897%) Twitter
4 1 (3.448%) JBoss
4 1 (3.448%) Citrix
4 1 (3.448%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.448%) Teradata
4 1 (3.448%) Google
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