The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Rank 66 100 95
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -5
Contract jobs citing HTTP 44 12 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 2.368% 0.537% 0.164%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.01% 4.270% 1.546%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 9 2
Average daily rate £325 £280 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% -22.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £280 £353
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £300 £373
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 £28.25
% change year-on-year
-25.51% +6.19%
All Communications & Networking
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
314 281 194
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 16.90% 12.58% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 141 81
Average daily rate £300 £280 £336
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -16.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £190 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 37 32
Average hourly rate £16.50 £14.25 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.78% -54.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £11.90 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £35.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
HTTP
England

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
West Yorkshire +31 40 £325 +16.07%
South Yorkshire +4 2 £400 -
HTTP
England

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 32 (45.71%) Linux
2 28 (40.00%) Oracle
3 27 (38.57%) Bash shell
4 26 (37.14%) PHP
5 24 (34.29%) Apache
5 24 (34.29%) Internet
6 23 (32.86%) Python
6 23 (32.86%) DNS
6 23 (32.86%) C++
6 23 (32.86%) MySQL
6 23 (32.86%) Web Services
6 23 (32.86%) nginx
6 23 (32.86%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (32.86%) Amazon S3
6 23 (32.86%) Amazon AWS
6 23 (32.86%) Kanban
6 23 (32.86%) MongoDB
6 23 (32.86%) Node.js
6 23 (32.86%) Redis
6 23 (32.86%) Route 53
6 23 (32.86%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (32.86%) TDD
6 23 (32.86%) Ruby
7 21 (30.00%) Scrum
8 18 (25.71%) Java
9 17 (24.29%) SOA
10 16 (22.86%) Configuration Management
10 16 (22.86%) RDBMS
10 16 (22.86%) POSIX
10 16 (22.86%) SQL

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 (32.86%) Web Services
1 23 (32.86%) Node.js
2 16 (22.86%) POSIX
2 16 (22.86%) SOAP
3 14 (20.00%) REST
4 11 (15.71%) LAMP
4 11 (15.71%) J2EE
5 10 (14.29%) .NET
6 8 (11.43%) Spring
6 8 (11.43%) CSS
7 7 (10.00%) XML
7 7 (10.00%) Java EE
7 7 (10.00%) jQuery
7 7 (10.00%) HTML5
7 7 (10.00%) Hibernate
7 7 (10.00%) CSS3
8 6 (8.571%) Middleware
9 4 (5.714%) WebSphere
9 4 (5.714%) JDBC
10 2 (2.857%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 24 (34.29%) Apache
2 23 (32.86%) nginx
2 23 (32.86%) Amazon EC2
2 23 (32.86%) Amazon S3
2 23 (32.86%) Amazon AWS
2 23 (32.86%) Route 53
3 11 (15.71%) Tomcat
4 7 (10.00%) Apache Solr
4 7 (10.00%) Adobe CQ
5 5 (7.143%) IIS
5 5 (7.143%) ESB
6 4 (5.714%) IBM HTTP Server
6 4 (5.714%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (5.714%) MQSeries
7 2 (2.857%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (2.857%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (1.429%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (1.429%) WebLogic
8 1 (1.429%) Lotus Notes
8 1 (1.429%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.714%) MS Office
2 1 (1.429%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.429%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.286%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 24 (34.29%) Internet
2 23 (32.86%) DNS
3 5 (7.143%) FTP
4 3 (4.286%) DHCP
5 2 (2.857%) SSH
5 2 (2.857%) VLAN
5 2 (2.857%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (2.857%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.857%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.857%) Firewall
6 1 (1.429%) OSPF
6 1 (1.429%) BGP
6 1 (1.429%) VRRP
6 1 (1.429%) SSL
6 1 (1.429%) SMTP
6 1 (1.429%) VPN
6 1 (1.429%) SNMP
6 1 (1.429%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.429%) HSRP
6 1 (1.429%) GLBP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (32.86%) MySQL
1 23 (32.86%) MongoDB
1 23 (32.86%) Redis
1 23 (32.86%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (22.86%) RDBMS
2 16 (22.86%) Couchbase
2 16 (22.86%) NoSQL
2 16 (22.86%) SimpleDB
3 4 (5.714%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.714%) DB2
3 4 (5.714%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.286%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (2.857%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.857%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (2.857%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (1.429%) MS Access
6 1 (1.429%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.429%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.429%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Maven
1 7 (10.00%) Git (software)
1 7 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.286%) Rational Performance Tester
3 2 (2.857%) JDeveloper
3 2 (2.857%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.429%) Ant
4 1 (1.429%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.429%) JIRA
4 1 (1.429%) Selenium
General
1 11 (15.71%) Finance
2 9 (12.86%) Telecoms
3 8 (11.43%) Retail
4 5 (7.143%) Games
5 2 (2.857%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.429%) Legal
6 1 (1.429%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.429%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Developer
2 16 (22.86%) Software Engineer
3 12 (17.14%) Analyst
4 9 (12.86%) Java Developer
5 7 (10.00%) Architect
6 5 (7.143%) Tester
6 5 (7.143%) Technical Architect
6 5 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (7.143%) Performance Tester
7 4 (5.714%) Operations Analyst
7 4 (5.714%) Operations Support Analyst
7 4 (5.714%) Consultant
7 4 (5.714%) Support Analyst
8 2 (2.857%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (2.857%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (2.857%) Team Leader
8 2 (2.857%) Development Team Leader
8 2 (2.857%) UAT Analyst
8 2 (2.857%) Administrator
8 2 (2.857%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) Client/Server
2 5 (7.143%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.857%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.429%) Firmware
4 1 (1.429%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.429%) Open Source
4 1 (1.429%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 32 (45.71%) Linux
2 10 (14.29%) Windows
3 7 (10.00%) UNIX
4 4 (5.714%) AIX
4 4 (5.714%) Solaris
5 2 (2.857%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (2.857%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.429%) Debian
6 1 (1.429%) VMS
6 1 (1.429%) CentOS
6 1 (1.429%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.86%) Kanban
1 23 (32.86%) TDD
2 21 (30.00%) Scrum
3 17 (24.29%) SOA
4 16 (22.86%) Configuration Management
4 16 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (15.71%) Test Automation
6 9 (12.86%) Security Testing
7 7 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 7 (10.00%) BDD
8 5 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (7.143%) Unified Process
9 4 (5.714%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (4.286%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (4.286%) Performance Testing
10 3 (4.286%) Web Testing
10 3 (4.286%) Data Management
11 2 (2.857%) Network Design
11 2 (2.857%) Test Scripting
11 2 (2.857%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (38.57%) Bash shell
2 26 (37.14%) PHP
3 23 (32.86%) Python
3 23 (32.86%) C++
3 23 (32.86%) Ruby
4 18 (25.71%) Java
5 16 (22.86%) SQL
6 11 (15.71%) Perl
7 7 (10.00%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.857%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.857%) C
8 2 (2.857%) C#
9 1 (1.429%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.429%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (5.714%) Degree
2 1 (1.429%) CCNP
2 1 (1.429%) CCNA
2 1 (1.429%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.429%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.429%) MCP
2 1 (1.429%) MCSE
2 1 (1.429%) BC Cleared
2 1 (1.429%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.714%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.857%) VMware Server
1 2 (2.857%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.429%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.429%) XenServer
2 1 (1.429%) vSphere
2 1 (1.429%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.429%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 16 (22.86%) Puppet
2 2 (2.857%) CA Wily
2 2 (2.857%) OpenView
3 1 (1.429%) HP SiteScope
3 1 (1.429%) PureDisk
3 1 (1.429%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 28 (40.00%) Oracle
2 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) Adobe
2 7 (10.00%) hybris
2 7 (10.00%) Percona
3 5 (7.143%) IBM
3 5 (7.143%) HP
4 3 (4.286%) VMware
5 2 (2.857%) Citrix
5 2 (2.857%) Cisco
5 2 (2.857%) Informatica
5 2 (2.857%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.429%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.429%) Nokia
6 1 (1.429%) Lotus
6 1 (1.429%) Juniper
6 1 (1.429%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.429%) F5
6 1 (1.429%) TippingPoint
6 1 (1.429%) Syncsort
West Yorkshire
My client, a large and prestigious banking organisation seek a Project Manager to assist in the delivery of a re-branding project. A key part of your role...
TEKsystems
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013