London HTTP Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) skills within the London region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Location Abingdon Accrington Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Clydebank County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Douglas East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Usk Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Wimborne Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	300	301
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	398	586
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.230 %	0.252 %
As % of the category below	3.538 %	3.688 %
Salaries quoted	355	439
Average minimum salary	£43,293	£43,603
Average salary	£47,009	£46,802
% change on same period last year	+0.44 %
Average maximum salary	£50,725	£50,001
UK excluding London average salary	£40,095	£42,987
% change on same period last year	-6.72 %
Communications & Networking London
Matching permanent IT job ads	11249	15889
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	6.512 %	6.837 %
Salaries quoted	9823	12480
Average minimum salary	£42,785	£42,388
Average salary	£45,791	£45,341
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
Average maximum salary	£48,796	£48,294
UK excluding London average salary	£37,928	£38,940
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing HTTP across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing HTTP across the London region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing HTTP across the London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HTTP within the London region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
City of London	+60	108	£52,647	+17.83 %
Kingston Upon Thames	+17	8	£31,875	+6.25 %
Croydon	+2	6	-	-
Docklands, London	+32	6	£43,000	+59.25 %
Luton	-	4	-	-
Canary Wharf	+18	3	£57,500	-
Wimbledon	-	3	£41,000	-
Hendon	-	1	£50,000	-
Wembley	-	1	-	-
Hammersmith	+4	1	£45,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the London 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 IT job ads sampled that cited HTTP.

1 308 (34.68 %) XML 2 305 (34.35 %) Java 3 294 (33.11 %) Internet 4 259 (29.17 %) UNIX 5 249 (28.04 %) SQL 6 244 (27.48 %) TCP/IP 7 242 (27.25 %) HTML 8 238 (26.80 %) J2EE 9 232 (26.13 %) Windows 10 221 (24.89 %) JavaScript 11 185 (20.83 %) Oracle 12 178 (20.05 %) .NET 12 178 (20.05 %) WebServices 13 174 (19.59 %) Apache 14 165 (18.58 %) Perl

15 151 (17.00 %) Degree 16 150 (16.89 %) FTP 17 149 (16.78 %) Linux 18 146 (16.44 %) Finance 19 140 (15.77 %) C# 20 133 (14.98 %) Banking 21 131 (14.75 %) CSS 22 125 (14.08 %) OO 22 125 (14.08 %) WebSphere 23 124 (13.96 %) DNS 24 118 (13.29 %) SOAP 25 117 (13.18 %) SMTP 26 116 (13.06 %) SQL Server 27 113 (12.73 %) Tomcat 28 111 (12.50 %) Solaris

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the London 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 IT job ads sampled that cited HTTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 308 (34.68 %) XML 2 242 (27.25 %) HTML 3 238 (26.80 %) J2EE 4 178 (20.05 %) .NET 4 178 (20.05 %) WebServices 5 131 (14.75 %) CSS 6 125 (14.08 %) WebSphere 7 118 (13.29 %) SOAP 8 73 (8.221 %) Spring 9 68 (7.658 %) JSP 10 66 (7.432 %) EJB 11 65 (7.320 %) XHTML 12 60 (6.757 %) ASP.NET 13 59 (6.644 %) JMS 14 58 (6.532 %) AJAX 15 54 (6.081 %) Servlets 16 46 (5.180 %) Struts 17 45 (5.068 %) Hibernate 18 43 (4.842 %) JDBC 19 42 (4.730 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 174 (19.59 %) Apache 2 113 (12.73 %) Tomcat 3 88 (9.910 %) IIS 4 86 (9.685 %) WebLogic 5 68 (7.658 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 51 (5.743 %) JBoss 7 50 (5.631 %) IBM HTTP Server 8 45 (5.068 %) CMS 9 41 (4.617 %) SharePoint 10 29 (3.266 %) MS Exchange 11 27 (3.041 %) iPlanet 12 20 (2.252 %) TeamSite 12 20 (2.252 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 14 (1.577 %) Rendezvous 14 7 (0.788 %) WebLogic Portal 14 7 (0.788 %) Exchange Server 2007 15 6 (0.676 %) CICS 15 6 (0.676 %) WebSphere MQ 16 5 (0.563 %) Exchange Server 2000 17 3 (0.338 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 50 (5.631 %) MS Excel 2 16 (1.802 %) MS Office 3 15 (1.689 %) MS Visio 4 12 (1.351 %) Photoshop 5 11 (1.239 %) RoboHelp 5 11 (1.239 %) Paint Shop Pro 6 5 (0.563 %) MS PowerPoint 7 2 (0.225 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 5 (0.563 %) WebTrends 2 3 (0.338 %) SAP FI 2 3 (0.338 %) Oracle Financials 2 3 (0.338 %) Oracle 11i 2 3 (0.338 %) Oracle CRM 2 3 (0.338 %) SAP FI/CO 2 3 (0.338 %) SAP CO 3 2 (0.225 %) MAXIMO 4 1 (0.113 %) Oracle Applications 4 1 (0.113 %) SAP HR 4 1 (0.113 %) Oracle EBS 4 1 (0.113 %) Enfinity 4 1 (0.113 %) Retail-J 4 1 (0.113 %) SAP HCM 4 1 (0.113 %) SAP FI-GL 4 1 (0.113 %) Oracle General Ledger
Communications & Networking 1 294 (33.11 %) Internet 2 244 (27.48 %) TCP/IP 3 150 (16.89 %) FTP 4 124 (13.96 %) DNS 5 117 (13.18 %) SMTP 6 81 (9.122 %) SSL 7 79 (8.896 %) Firewall 8 63 (7.095 %) LDAP 9 47 (5.293 %) WAN 10 41 (4.617 %) LAN 11 40 (4.505 %) HTTPS 12 39 (4.392 %) Intranet 13 35 (3.941 %) SSH 14 31 (3.491 %) SNMP 15 20 (2.252 %) POP3 15 20 (2.252 %) IMAP 16 19 (2.140 %) VPN 17 17 (1.914 %) SAN 18 15 (1.689 %) Extranet 18 15 (1.689 %) BGP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 116 (13.06 %) SQL Server 2 101 (11.37 %) MySQL 3 30 (3.378 %) SQL Server 2005 4 28 (3.153 %) RDBMS 5 22 (2.477 %) SAP BW 6 13 (1.464 %) SQL Server 2000 7 12 (1.351 %) Oracle 10g 8 11 (1.239 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 9 (1.014 %) DB2 10 8 (0.901 %) Sybase ASE 11 7 (0.788 %) MS Access 12 6 (0.676 %) Oracle 9i 13 4 (0.450 %) SAP BI 14 3 (0.338 %) GIS 14 3 (0.338 %) BusinessObjects 15 2 (0.225 %) PostgreSQL 15 2 (0.225 %) Informix 15 2 (0.225 %) Oracle Reports 16 1 (0.113 %) Datawarehouse 16 1 (0.113 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 46 (5.180 %) Flash 2 32 (3.604 %) Ant 3 24 (2.703 %) JUnit 4 20 (2.252 %) OpenDeploy 5 18 (2.027 %) Eclipse 6 14 (1.577 %) LoadRunner 7 13 (1.464 %) Visual Studio 8 12 (1.351 %) NUnit 9 8 (0.901 %) Subversion 10 6 (0.676 %) CruiseControl 11 5 (0.563 %) TestDirector 12 4 (0.450 %) Dreamweaver 12 4 (0.450 %) Selenium 13 3 (0.338 %) FitNesse 13 3 (0.338 %) QARun 13 3 (0.338 %) QALoad 13 3 (0.338 %) VSS/SourceSafe 13 3 (0.338 %) QuickTest Pro 13 3 (0.338 %) WinRunner 14 2 (0.225 %) Rational Robot	General 1 146 (16.44 %) Finance 2 133 (14.98 %) Banking 3 96 (10.81 %) Games 4 65 (7.320 %) Investment Banking 5 39 (4.392 %) Online Games 6 30 (3.378 %) Education 7 25 (2.815 %) Publishing 8 23 (2.590 %) Telecoms 9 19 (2.140 %) Marketing 10 17 (1.914 %) Insurance 10 17 (1.914 %) Advertising 11 16 (1.802 %) Back Office 12 14 (1.577 %) Pensions 13 13 (1.464 %) Front Office 14 12 (1.351 %) Retail 15 11 (1.239 %) Health 16 9 (1.014 %) Electric 16 9 (1.014 %) Music 17 6 (0.676 %) Billing 17 6 (0.676 %) Mobile Games
Job Titles 1 280 (31.53 %) Developer 2 106 (11.94 %) Administrator 3 90 (10.14 %) Analyst 4 66 (7.432 %) Java Developer 5 47 (5.293 %) Architect 6 43 (4.842 %) Support Specialist 7 42 (4.730 %) J2EE Developer 7 42 (4.730 %) .NET Developer 8 41 (4.617 %) Systems Administrator 9 38 (4.279 %) Consultant 10 34 (3.829 %) Support Analyst 10 34 (3.829 %) Java/J2EE Developer 11 29 (3.266 %) Solutions Architect 11 29 (3.266 %) Web Developer 11 29 (3.266 %) Flash Developer 12 28 (3.153 %) Support Engineer 13 27 (3.041 %) C++ Developer 13 27 (3.041 %) Web Engineer 14 26 (2.928 %) Software Engineer 14 26 (2.928 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 67 (7.545 %) Computer Science 2 48 (5.405 %) Clustering 3 33 (3.716 %) PKI 4 25 (2.815 %) Management Information System 5 21 (2.365 %) Web 2.0 6 20 (2.252 %) Mathematics 6 20 (2.252 %) Streaming Video 7 17 (1.914 %) Fixed Income 7 17 (1.914 %) Derivative 8 16 (1.802 %) Physics 8 16 (1.802 %) French Language 8 16 (1.802 %) German Language 9 14 (1.577 %) Client/Server 10 11 (1.239 %) Multithreading 11 10 (1.126 %) W3C 12 7 (0.788 %) APACS 12 7 (0.788 %) Equity Derivative 13 6 (0.676 %) IVR 14 5 (0.563 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 15 4 (0.450 %) Speech Recognition
Operating Systems 1 259 (29.17 %) UNIX 2 232 (26.13 %) Windows 3 149 (16.78 %) Linux 4 111 (12.50 %) Solaris 5 89 (10.02 %) Windows Server 2003 6 63 (7.095 %) Windows 2000 7 26 (2.928 %) AIX 8 14 (1.577 %) Red Hat Linux 9 13 (1.464 %) Windows XP 10 12 (1.351 %) Windows NT 11 7 (0.788 %) zOS 11 7 (0.788 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 12 6 (0.676 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 6 (0.676 %) Mac OS X 13 5 (0.563 %) Windows Vista 14 2 (0.225 %) Windows Mobile 14 2 (0.225 %) FreeBSD 14 2 (0.225 %) Android 15 1 (0.113 %) Mac OS X Server 15 1 (0.113 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 125 (14.08 %) OO 2 89 (10.02 %) E-Commerce 3 66 (7.432 %) UML 4 43 (4.842 %) Web Development 5 42 (4.730 %) Service Management 6 39 (4.392 %) ITIL 7 38 (4.279 %) Content Management 8 33 (3.716 %) Scrum 9 31 (3.491 %) Load Balancing 10 29 (3.266 %) Unit Testing 11 27 (3.041 %) SEO 12 26 (2.928 %) Project Management 13 23 (2.590 %) Software Engineering 14 21 (2.365 %) Configuration Management 15 19 (2.140 %) Time Management 16 17 (1.914 %) Extreme Programming 16 17 (1.914 %) Software Testing 16 17 (1.914 %) TDD 16 17 (1.914 %) Automated Testing 17 16 (1.802 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 305 (34.35 %) Java 2 249 (28.04 %) SQL 3 221 (24.89 %) JavaScript 4 165 (18.58 %) Perl 5 140 (15.77 %) C# 6 104 (11.71 %) PHP 7 84 (9.459 %) Shell Script 8 83 (9.347 %) C++ 9 61 (6.869 %) VB 10 42 (4.730 %) ActionScript 11 37 (4.167 %) PL/SQL 12 20 (2.252 %) C 12 20 (2.252 %) XPath 13 18 (2.027 %) Ruby 13 18 (2.027 %) DHTML 14 16 (1.802 %) VBScript 15 15 (1.689 %) Transact-SQL 16 14 (1.577 %) VC++ 17 11 (1.239 %) Python 17 11 (1.239 %) AWK	Qualifications 1 151 (17.00 %) Degree 2 33 (3.716 %) Microsoft Certification 3 21 (2.365 %) MCSE 4 15 (1.689 %) ISEB 5 13 (1.464 %) MCP 5 13 (1.464 %) IBM WebSphere Certification 6 12 (1.351 %) MCAD 6 12 (1.351 %) MCSD 7 11 (1.239 %) CCNA 7 11 (1.239 %) Cisco Certification 8 6 (0.676 %) Oracle Certification 9 5 (0.563 %) Sun Certification 9 5 (0.563 %) SCWCD 9 5 (0.563 %) SCBCD 10 3 (0.338 %) MCSA 11 2 (0.225 %) Citrix Certification 12 1 (0.113 %) CISSP 12 1 (0.113 %) PhD 12 1 (0.113 %) ISEB Practitioner 12 1 (0.113 %) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 63 (7.095 %) QA 2 20 (2.252 %) WCAG 3 19 (2.140 %) WAI 3 19 (2.140 %) SLA	System Software 1 18 (2.027 %) NFS 1 18 (2.027 %) Active Directory 2 15 (1.689 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 13 (1.464 %) Squid 4 10 (1.126 %) Terminal Services 5 5 (0.563 %) VMware ESX 5 5 (0.563 %) VMware Server 6 4 (0.450 %) MSMQ 6 4 (0.450 %) Backup Exec 6 4 (0.450 %) Samba 7 2 (0.225 %) AquaLogic 7 2 (0.225 %) Xen 8 1 (0.113 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 8 1 (0.113 %) Snort 8 1 (0.113 %) ClearTrust
Systems Management 1 32 (3.604 %) Tivoli 2 11 (1.239 %) WSUS 3 7 (0.788 %) CA SiteMinder 4 6 (0.676 %) Nagios 5 4 (0.450 %) OpenView 6 2 (0.225 %) Unicenter 6 2 (0.225 %) Tivoli Identity Manager	Vendors 1 185 (20.83 %) Oracle 2 77 (8.671 %) IBM 3 62 (6.982 %) Microsoft 4 48 (5.405 %) Sybase 4 48 (5.405 %) Sun 5 38 (4.279 %) Cisco 6 36 (4.054 %) TIBCO 7 28 (3.153 %) SAP 8 25 (2.815 %) webMethods 9 17 (1.914 %) Mercator 10 16 (1.802 %) Interwoven 10 16 (1.802 %) VMware 11 15 (1.689 %) Juniper 12 11 (1.239 %) Red Hat 12 11 (1.239 %) Google 13 10 (1.126 %) Adobe 14 9 (1.014 %) BEA 14 9 (1.014 %) HP 15 8 (0.901 %) Remedy 16 7 (0.788 %) CheckPoint