West Yorkshire HTTP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) skills within the West 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Basildon Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Knutsford Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire London Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Redhill Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South West Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	64	80
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	27	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	13.30 %	5.556 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£350
Average daily rate	£413	£350
% change on same period last year	+17.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£369
% change on same period last year	-1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	-
Average hourly rate	£15.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.77	£39.45
% change on same period last year	-9.32 %
Communications & Networking West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	203	288
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.268 %	0.287 %
Daily rates quoted	37	52
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£332
Average daily rate	£314	£340
% change on same period last year	-7.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.95	£22.37
Average hourly rate	£25.54	£24.75
% change on same period last year	+3.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.14	£27.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.88	£28.72
% change on same period last year	-9.87 %
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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 West 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 West Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HTTP across the West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Leeds	-3	17	£325	-7.14 %
Halifax	-	6	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West 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 21 (63.64 %) XML 2 13 (39.39 %) Shell Script 3 10 (30.30 %) Solaris 4 9 (27.27 %) Java 4 9 (27.27 %) J2EE 4 9 (27.27 %) Ant 4 9 (27.27 %) ATG 4 9 (27.27 %) ATG Dynamo 5 8 (24.24 %) Extranet 5 8 (24.24 %) OO 5 8 (24.24 %) HTML 5 8 (24.24 %) Sun 5 8 (24.24 %) Sun Certification 6 7 (21.21 %) UNIX 7 6 (18.18 %) Perl

8 5 (15.15 %) Firewall 8 5 (15.15 %) Government 8 5 (15.15 %) HL7 8 5 (15.15 %) SOAP 8 5 (15.15 %) ebXML 8 5 (15.15 %) Internet 8 5 (15.15 %) TCP/IP 9 4 (12.12 %) DNS 9 4 (12.12 %) C 9 4 (12.12 %) Security Cleared 10 3 (9.091 %) Health 10 3 (9.091 %) Finance 10 3 (9.091 %) WBIMB 10 3 (9.091 %) NHS 10 3 (9.091 %) Configuration Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West 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 21 (63.64 %) XML 2 9 (27.27 %) J2EE 3 8 (24.24 %) HTML 4 5 (15.15 %) SOAP 4 5 (15.15 %) ebXML 5 3 (9.091 %) WBIMB 6 2 (6.061 %) ASP 6 2 (6.061 %) XSLT 7 1 (3.030 %) XML Messaging 7 1 (3.030 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 9 (27.27 %) ATG Dynamo 2 2 (6.061 %) IIS 2 2 (6.061 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 8 (24.24 %) Extranet 2 5 (15.15 %) Firewall 2 5 (15.15 %) Internet 2 5 (15.15 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (12.12 %) DNS 4 2 (6.061 %) HTTPS 5 1 (3.030 %) Network Security	Development Applications 1 9 (27.27 %) Ant 2 2 (6.061 %) TestDirector 3 1 (3.030 %) LoadRunner
General 1 5 (15.15 %) Government 2 3 (9.091 %) Health 2 3 (9.091 %) Finance 3 2 (6.061 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 15 (45.45 %) Developer 2 9 (27.27 %) Lead Developer 2 9 (27.27 %) J2EE Developer 3 6 (18.18 %) Senior Developer 4 4 (12.12 %) Systems Integrator 4 4 (12.12 %) Analyst 5 3 (9.091 %) Senior Analyst 6 2 (6.061 %) Environment Manager 6 2 (6.061 %) Technical Lead 7 1 (3.030 %) 2nd Line Support 7 1 (3.030 %) Test Manager 7 1 (3.030 %) Performance Tester 7 1 (3.030 %) Helpdesk Support 7 1 (3.030 %) Tester
Miscellaneous 1 3 (9.091 %) NHS 2 2 (6.061 %) Mainframe 2 2 (6.061 %) Client/Server 3 1 (3.030 %) PACS	Operating Systems 1 10 (30.30 %) Solaris 2 7 (21.21 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (24.24 %) OO 2 4 (12.12 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (9.091 %) Configuration Management 4 2 (6.061 %) Web Design 5 1 (3.030 %) Change Management 5 1 (3.030 %) Migration 5 1 (3.030 %) Software Testing 5 1 (3.030 %) Performance Testing 5 1 (3.030 %) Test Management 5 1 (3.030 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 13 (39.39 %) Shell Script 2 9 (27.27 %) Java 3 6 (18.18 %) Perl 4 4 (12.12 %) C 5 2 (6.061 %) Assembly Language 5 2 (6.061 %) COBOL
Qualifications 1 8 (24.24 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (15.15 %) HL7
Vendors 1 9 (27.27 %) ATG 2 8 (24.24 %) Sun 3 1 (3.030 %) PTC 3 1 (3.030 %) IBM