The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 21 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 Staffordshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Rank 19 - 38
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing HTTP 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 1.176% - 0.457%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.692% - 2.564%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £135 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.14 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-12.86% +9.09%
All Communications & Networking
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
13 45 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 15.29% 20.74% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 17
Average daily rate £175 £175 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -50.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
Average hourly rate £17.00 £22.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.44% +55.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
HTTP
West Midlands

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire HTTP Daily Rate Trend

HTTP
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 5 (83.33%) SQL
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
1 5 (83.33%) EMC
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) Solaris
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Back Office
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
4 1 (16.67%) MS Office
4 1 (16.67%) COM
4 1 (16.67%) UNIX

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 1 (16.67%) COM
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Solaris
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
1 5 (83.33%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix