South Yorkshire HTTP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) skills within the South Yorkshire 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	40	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.176 %	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 Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	85	83
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.113 %	0.084 %
Daily rates quoted	21	17
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£274
Average daily rate	£338	£291
% change on same period last year	+15.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.66	£22.99
Average hourly rate	£25.71	£23.21
% change on same period last year	+10.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.76	£23.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
HTTP Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield	-	1	-	-

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Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (66.67 %) HTML 1 2 (66.67 %) Java 1 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 1 2 (66.67 %) JUnit 1 2 (66.67 %) CSS 1 2 (66.67 %) JSP 1 2 (66.67 %) Struts 1 2 (66.67 %) XML 1 2 (66.67 %) RSS 1 2 (66.67 %) Identity Management 1 2 (66.67 %) Education 1 2 (66.67 %) Hibernate 1 2 (66.67 %) Content Management 1 2 (66.67 %) Lucene 1 2 (66.67 %) Spring

1 2 (66.67 %) JSTL 1 2 (66.67 %) HttpUnit 2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (33.33 %) Load Balancing 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Security 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Design 2 1 (33.33 %) LAN 2 1 (33.33 %) FTP 2 1 (33.33 %) DNS 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) SAN 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Linux

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 %) HTML 1 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 1 2 (66.67 %) CSS 1 2 (66.67 %) JSP 1 2 (66.67 %) Struts 1 2 (66.67 %) XML 1 2 (66.67 %) RSS 1 2 (66.67 %) Hibernate 1 2 (66.67 %) Lucene 1 2 (66.67 %) Spring 1 2 (66.67 %) JSTL	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN 1 1 (33.33 %) FTP 1 1 (33.33 %) DNS 1 1 (33.33 %) SAN 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Security
Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) JUnit 1 2 (66.67 %) HttpUnit	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Education
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 1 2 (66.67 %) Web Developer 1 2 (66.67 %) Java Developer 1 2 (66.67 %) Java Web Developer	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Identity Management 1 2 (66.67 %) Content Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Design 2 1 (33.33 %) Load Balancing	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) Java
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco