Blackburn IBM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts within the Blackburn region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeenshire Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hertfordshire Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Strathclyde Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£378
% change on same period last year	-6.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.54	£26.24
% change on same period last year	+12.56 %
Vendors Blackburn
Matching contract IT job ads	4	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.010 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£286
Average daily rate	£342	£319
% change on same period last year	+7.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£8.00
Average hourly rate	-	£11.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.83	£23.31
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
IBM Lancashire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Blackburn region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IBM across the Blackburn region.

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Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Blackburn region citing IBM 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 IBM.

1 1 (100.00 %) Java 1 1 (100.00 %) WebLogic 1 1 (100.00 %) Apache 1 1 (100.00 %) Tomcat 1 1 (100.00 %) Hibernate 1 1 (100.00 %) Spring 1 1 (100.00 %) WebSphere

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Blackburn region citing IBM 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 IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) Hibernate 1 1 (100.00 %) Spring 1 1 (100.00 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (100.00 %) WebLogic 1 1 (100.00 %) Apache 1 1 (100.00 %) Tomcat
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) Java Developer	Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) Java