The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 19 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 West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Rank 65 76 80
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +4
Contract jobs citing HTTP 31 21 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.259% 1.207% 0.250%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.25% 9.333% 2.679%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 1
Average daily rate £325 £350 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +27.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £355
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.35 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-5.51% +9.09%
All Communications & Networking
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
253 225 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 18.44% 12.93% 9.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 124 30
Average daily rate £275 £298 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.56% -0.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £176 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £420 £453
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 19 15
Average hourly rate £20.75 £13.00 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+59.61% -46.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.33 £11.70 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £35.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
HTTP
Yorkshire

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Leeds +1 27 £325 -7.14% 7
Halifax - 3 £445 - 2
Bradford - - - -
HTTP
Yorkshire

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 28 (50.00%) Linux
2 26 (46.43%) PHP
3 25 (44.64%) Bash shell
4 24 (42.86%) Apache
4 24 (42.86%) Internet
5 23 (41.07%) TDD
5 23 (41.07%) Web Services
5 23 (41.07%) C++
5 23 (41.07%) MySQL
5 23 (41.07%) Python
5 23 (41.07%) DNS
5 23 (41.07%) MongoDB
5 23 (41.07%) nginx
5 23 (41.07%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (41.07%) Amazon S3
5 23 (41.07%) Amazon AWS
5 23 (41.07%) Ruby
5 23 (41.07%) Kanban
5 23 (41.07%) Node.js
5 23 (41.07%) Redis
5 23 (41.07%) Route 53
5 23 (41.07%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (37.50%) Oracle
6 21 (37.50%) Scrum
7 18 (32.14%) SOAP
8 16 (28.57%) Java
8 16 (28.57%) RDBMS
8 16 (28.57%) SOA
8 16 (28.57%) POSIX
8 16 (28.57%) Configuration Management

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 23 (41.07%) Web Services
1 23 (41.07%) Node.js
2 18 (32.14%) SOAP
3 16 (28.57%) POSIX
4 14 (25.00%) REST
5 11 (19.64%) LAMP
6 10 (17.86%) .NET
7 9 (16.07%) J2EE
8 8 (14.29%) Spring
9 7 (12.50%) CSS
9 7 (12.50%) XML
9 7 (12.50%) Hibernate
9 7 (12.50%) jQuery
9 7 (12.50%) Java EE
9 7 (12.50%) HTML5
9 7 (12.50%) CSS3
10 2 (3.571%) WebSphere
10 2 (3.571%) RESTful
10 2 (3.571%) JMS
10 2 (3.571%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 24 (42.86%) Apache
2 23 (41.07%) nginx
2 23 (41.07%) Amazon EC2
2 23 (41.07%) Amazon S3
2 23 (41.07%) Amazon AWS
2 23 (41.07%) Route 53
3 9 (16.07%) Tomcat
4 7 (12.50%) Apache Solr
4 7 (12.50%) Adobe CQ
5 5 (8.929%) ESB
6 3 (5.357%) IIS
7 2 (3.571%) MQSeries
7 2 (3.571%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (3.571%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (1.786%) SharePoint
8 1 (1.786%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (3.571%) MS Office
2 1 (1.786%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.786%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 24 (42.86%) Internet
2 23 (41.07%) DNS
3 3 (5.357%) FTP
3 3 (5.357%) VLAN
4 2 (3.571%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.571%) DHCP
4 2 (3.571%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.571%) SSH
5 1 (1.786%) Firewall
5 1 (1.786%) SSL
5 1 (1.786%) SMTP
5 1 (1.786%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.786%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (41.07%) MySQL
1 23 (41.07%) MongoDB
1 23 (41.07%) Redis
1 23 (41.07%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (28.57%) RDBMS
2 16 (28.57%) Couchbase
2 16 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 16 (28.57%) SimpleDB
3 3 (5.357%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.571%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (3.571%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.571%) DB2
5 1 (1.786%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.786%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.786%) MS Access
5 1 (1.786%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.786%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.786%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Maven
1 7 (12.50%) Git (software)
1 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.357%) Rational Performance Tester
3 1 (1.786%) JDeveloper
3 1 (1.786%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.786%) Selenium
3 1 (1.786%) JIRA
General
1 9 (16.07%) Telecoms
2 6 (10.71%) Retail
3 5 (8.929%) Finance
4 3 (5.357%) Games
5 1 (1.786%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.786%) Legal
5 1 (1.786%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.786%) Banking
5 1 (1.786%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (28.57%) Software Engineer
1 16 (28.57%) Developer
2 13 (23.21%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Java Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Analyst
4 7 (12.50%) Architect
5 5 (8.929%) Technical Architect
5 5 (8.929%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.357%) Consultant
6 3 (5.357%) Tester
6 3 (5.357%) Performance Tester
7 2 (3.571%) UAT Analyst
7 2 (3.571%) Operations Support Analyst
7 2 (3.571%) Technical Specialist
7 2 (3.571%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (3.571%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.571%) Project Manager
8 1 (1.786%) Software Developer
8 1 (1.786%) Business Analyst
8 1 (1.786%) IT Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Client/Server
2 5 (8.929%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.571%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.786%) Firmware
4 1 (1.786%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.786%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 28 (50.00%) Linux
2 8 (14.29%) Windows
3 4 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (7.143%) UNIX
3 4 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (3.571%) AIX
4 2 (3.571%) Solaris
5 1 (1.786%) Debian
5 1 (1.786%) CentOS
5 1 (1.786%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.07%) TDD
1 23 (41.07%) Kanban
2 21 (37.50%) Scrum
3 16 (28.57%) SOA
3 16 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 16 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (19.64%) Test Automation
5 9 (16.07%) Security Testing
6 7 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 7 (12.50%) BDD
7 5 (8.929%) Unified Process
8 3 (5.357%) BPR
8 3 (5.357%) Service Management
8 3 (5.357%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (5.357%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (5.357%) Business Process Improvement
8 3 (5.357%) Web Testing
8 3 (5.357%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (5.357%) Performance Testing
9 2 (3.571%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (46.43%) PHP
2 25 (44.64%) Bash shell
3 23 (41.07%) C++
3 23 (41.07%) Python
3 23 (41.07%) Ruby
4 16 (28.57%) Java
5 9 (16.07%) Perl
6 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 7 (12.50%) SQL
7 2 (3.571%) C#
8 1 (1.786%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.786%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (7.143%) Degree
2 1 (1.786%) MCP
2 1 (1.786%) MCSE
2 1 (1.786%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.786%) BC Cleared
2 1 (1.786%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.143%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.571%) VMware Server
1 2 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.786%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.786%) XenServer
2 1 (1.786%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (28.57%) Puppet
2 3 (5.357%) HP SiteScope
3 2 (3.571%) CA Wily
3 2 (3.571%) OpenView
4 1 (1.786%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 21 (37.50%) Oracle
2 7 (12.50%) Adobe
2 7 (12.50%) hybris
2 7 (12.50%) Percona
3 5 (8.929%) HP
4 4 (7.143%) Citrix
4 4 (7.143%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.357%) VMware
5 3 (5.357%) IBM
5 3 (5.357%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.571%) Informatica
7 1 (1.786%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.786%) Juniper
7 1 (1.786%) Cisco
7 1 (1.786%) Syncsort
7 1 (1.786%) Brocade
7 1 (1.786%) F5
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