Bradford WebSphere Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere skills within the Bradford region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Ascot Ashby-de-la-Zouch Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isle of Man Jersey Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peel Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	8
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	2	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	10.00 %	29.79 %
Daily rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum daily rate	£500	£426
Average daily rate	£550	£438
% change on same period last year	+25.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£600	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£396	£384
% change on same period last year	+2.96 %
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	£41.69	£37.57
% change on same period last year	+10.94 %
Application Development Bradford
Matching contract IT job ads	20	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.047 %
Daily rates quoted	2	7
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£430
Average daily rate	£383	£440
% change on same period last year	-12.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£28.50	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-28.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.73	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
WebSphere West Yorkshire

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere across the Bradford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development 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 WebSphere across the Bradford region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 2 (100.00 %) E-Commerce 1 2 (100.00 %) Project Management 1 2 (100.00 %) ATG 1 2 (100.00 %) Retail 1 2 (100.00 %) Intershop

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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.

General 1 2 (100.00 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Project Manager 2 1 (50.00 %) E-Commerce Manager 2 1 (50.00 %) IT Project Manager 2 1 (50.00 %) E-Commerce Project Manager 2 1 (50.00 %) IT Manager
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) E-Commerce 1 2 (100.00 %) Project Management	Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) ATG 1 2 (100.00 %) Intershop