The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 23 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 Yorkshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Rank 30 33 36
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +3
Contract jobs citing HTTP 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 0.758% 0.385% 0.333%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.545% 2.222% 1.786%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £400 - £375
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 - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.35 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-25.51% +9.09%
All Communications & Networking
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
44 45 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 16.67% 17.31% 18.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 26
Average daily rate £360 £340 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% +23.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £220 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £525 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £30.00 £48.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% -37.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £12.00 £33.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.10 £35.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
HTTP
Yorkshire

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire HTTP Daily 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Sheffield 0 1 £400 -
HTTP
Yorkshire

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) LoadRunner
1 2 (28.57%) C
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
1 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (28.57%) Load Testing
1 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
1 2 (28.57%) Business Development
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) TippingPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (14.29%) Data Guard
2 1 (14.29%) Network Management
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) HSRP
2 1 (14.29%) GLBP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (14.29%) Blue Coat
2 1 (14.29%) SecurID
2 1 (14.29%) VLAN
2 1 (14.29%) NetScout
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 (28.57%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (14.29%) HSRP
1 1 (14.29%) GLBP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) OSPF
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) VRRP
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) SNMP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Tester
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Performance Tester
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Support
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Operator
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) UNIX
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
1 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (28.57%) Load Testing
1 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
1 2 (28.57%) Business Development
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Network Management
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) TippingPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Blue Coat
2 1 (14.29%) NetScout
2 1 (14.29%) Nokia
2 1 (14.29%) Lotus
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco