The first table below looks at the demand for the WebSphere Consultant role 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 Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WebSphere Consultant
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a WebSphere Consultant 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.226% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.242% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £420 £400
% change year-on-year
-28.61% +5.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
414 601 455
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 93.45% 95.09% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 324 253
Average daily rate £340 £325 £341
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -4.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £183 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 27
Average hourly rate £16.25 £14.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.00 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
WebSphere Consultant
West Midlands

WebSphere Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham WebSphere Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham WebSphere Consultant Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited WebSphere Consultant in their job title 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 with WebSphere Consultant in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) IBM
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (75.00%) ESB
2 3 (75.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 3 (75.00%) WebSphere Process Server
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) HTTP
2 3 (75.00%) DB2
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) JDBC
3 2 (50.00%) SOAP
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) JMS
3 2 (50.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (50.00%) FTP
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Middleware
4 1 (25.00%) JMX
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) BPEL
4 1 (25.00%) Jython
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008

WebSphere Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited WebSphere Consultant in their job title 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 with WebSphere Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (50.00%) JDBC
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) JMS
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware
3 1 (25.00%) JMX
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Java RMI
3 1 (25.00%) WSDL
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) ESB
1 3 (75.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere Process Server
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (25.00%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) HTTP
2 2 (50.00%) FTP
3 1 (25.00%) SMTP
3 1 (25.00%) IPv6
3 1 (25.00%) SNMP
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (25.00%) IIOP
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
3 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) BPEL
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Jython
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Business Objects
3 1 (25.00%) SAP