The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lotus 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 Vendors for the Bradford 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within IBM Lotus Software.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lotus
Rank 21 23 24
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +1
Contract jobs citing Lotus 3 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 1.899% 2.649% 0.833%
As % of the Vendors category 3.191% 4.348% 1.190%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £298 £260
% change year-on-year
+7.56% +14.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £6.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.50 £12.42
% change year-on-year
-9.67% +24.79%
All Vendors
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
94 92 84
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 59.49% 60.93% 70.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 31 15
Average daily rate £250 £191 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.71% -23.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £483 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 6
Average hourly rate £15.25 £32.50 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.07% +52.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.40 £27.25 £6.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £130.00 £32.50 £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Lotus
West Yorkshire

Lotus
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Lotus across the Bradford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Bradford Lotus Jobs Demand Trend

Lotus
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bradford Lotus Daily Rate Trend

Lotus
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bradford Lotus Hourly Rate Trend

Lotus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
2 6 (85.71%) SharePoint
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 4 (57.14%) MS Excel
3 4 (57.14%) Wireless
4 3 (42.86%) LANDesk
4 3 (42.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (42.86%) Firewall
4 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco
4 3 (42.86%) Windows XP
4 3 (42.86%) VoIP
4 3 (42.86%) Lotus Domino
4 3 (42.86%) MCSE
4 3 (42.86%) MCSA
4 3 (42.86%) VBA
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
4 3 (42.86%) MS Office
4 3 (42.86%) ITIL
4 3 (42.86%) CCNA
4 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
4 3 (42.86%) Citrix
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (42.86%) SAN
4 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (42.86%) Replication

Lotus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
2 6 (85.71%) SharePoint
3 3 (42.86%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) MS Excel
2 3 (42.86%) MS Office
3 2 (28.57%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Wireless
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) VoIP
2 3 (42.86%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Support Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Support Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Coordinator
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (42.86%) Windows XP
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 3 (42.86%) MCSE
1 3 (42.86%) MCSA
1 3 (42.86%) CCNA
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) LANDesk
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Citrix
2 3 (42.86%) VMware