The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere Application Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere Application Server over the 3 months to 17 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 Application Platforms category for the Birmingham 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £381 £375 £425
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- +27.77%
All Application Platforms
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
66 114 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 15.07% 18.60% 22.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 57 64
Average daily rate £318 £316 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.39% -6.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £188 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 7
Average hourly rate £13.25 £30.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-55.83% +150.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
WebSphere Application Server
West Midlands

WebSphere Application Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere Application Server across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Birmingham WebSphere Application Server Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham WebSphere Application Server Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Application Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere Application Server across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham WebSphere Application Server Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing WebSphere Application Server 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 WebSphere Application Server.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) JMS
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) FTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) ESB
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) BPEL
2 1 (50.00%) Jython
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) JMX
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

WebSphere Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing WebSphere Application Server 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 WebSphere Application Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) JMS
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) Java RMI
2 1 (50.00%) WSDL
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) JMX
2 1 (50.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 2 (100.00%) ESB
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) FTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (50.00%) IIOP
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) IPv6
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) BPEL
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Jython
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Business Objects