WebSphere Contracts in Birmingham
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere 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 over the 3 months to 23 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 Development 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank 42 53 46
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -7
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 2 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.458% 0.479% 0.580%
As % of the Application Development category 2.020% 1.744% 2.222%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £413 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.23% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £33.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £45.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-33.70% +39.23%
All Application Development
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 99 172 135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 22.65% 27.48% 26.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 106 76
Average daily rate £300 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £375 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £36.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.36% -8.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WebSphere
West Midlands

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham WebSphere Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham WebSphere Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham WebSphere Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing WebSphere 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.

1 12 (75.00%) Linux
1 12 (75.00%) IBM
1 12 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 12 (75.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 12 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (62.50%) IBM HTTP Server
2 10 (62.50%) HTTP
2 10 (62.50%) DB2
3 9 (56.25%) JMS
4 8 (50.00%) Middleware
4 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
5 7 (43.75%) LDAP
5 7 (43.75%) TCP/IP
5 7 (43.75%) DNS
5 7 (43.75%) .NET
5 7 (43.75%) Web Services
6 6 (37.50%) Oracle
6 6 (37.50%) SOA
6 6 (37.50%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
8 4 (25.00%) Java
9 3 (18.75%) J2EE
9 3 (18.75%) ESB
10 2 (12.50%) Refactoring
10 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (12.50%) Kanban
10 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
10 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
10 2 (12.50%) Open Source

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing WebSphere 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (56.25%) JMS
2 8 (50.00%) Middleware
3 7 (43.75%) .NET
3 7 (43.75%) Web Services
4 3 (18.75%) J2EE
5 2 (12.50%) JDBC
5 2 (12.50%) SOAP
5 2 (12.50%) Java EE
6 1 (6.250%) JMX
6 1 (6.250%) XML
6 1 (6.250%) Java RMI
6 1 (6.250%) WSDL
6 1 (6.250%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 12 (75.00%) WebSphere Process Server
2 10 (62.50%) IBM HTTP Server
3 6 (37.50%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 3 (18.75%) ESB
5 2 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (12.50%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (6.250%) MQSeries
6 1 (6.250%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) HTTP
2 7 (43.75%) LDAP
2 7 (43.75%) TCP/IP
2 7 (43.75%) DNS
3 2 (12.50%) FTP
3 2 (12.50%) Internet
4 1 (6.250%) IPv6
4 1 (6.250%) SMTP
4 1 (6.250%) SNMP
4 1 (6.250%) HTTPS
4 1 (6.250%) IIOP
4 1 (6.250%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) DB2
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (12.50%) Banking
1 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Consultant
1 4 (25.00%) Administrator
1 4 (25.00%) WebSphere Administrator
1 4 (25.00%) WebSphere Specialist
1 4 (25.00%) WebSphere Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Agile Java Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Server Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 2 (12.50%) WebSphere Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (6.250%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Linux
1 12 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) SOA
2 2 (12.50%) Refactoring
2 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (12.50%) Kanban
2 2 (12.50%) BDD
2 2 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (12.50%) TDD
2 2 (12.50%) Pair Programming
2 2 (12.50%) Scrum
2 2 (12.50%) Extreme Programming
3 1 (6.250%) Project Management
3 1 (6.250%) Migration
3 1 (6.250%) Logistics
3 1 (6.250%) Data Management
3 1 (6.250%) BPEL
3 1 (6.250%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (6.250%) Matrix Management
3 1 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (6.250%) Jython
2 1 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) IBM
1 12 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (37.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.250%) VMware
3 1 (6.250%) Business Objects
3 1 (6.250%) SAP
3 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
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