The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Bristol 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 the International Business Machines Corporation.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 40 59 45
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -14
Contract jobs citing IBM 5 5 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 1.014% 0.571% 1.732%
As % of the Vendors category 2.717% 1.754% 4.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
Average daily rate £300 £183 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+64.38% -41.60%
UK excluding London average daily rate £384 £386 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.58% +2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £22.50 - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
All Vendors
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
184 285 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 37.32% 32.53% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 168 132
Average daily rate £325 £301 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.15% +0.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £135 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 26
Average hourly rate £16.00 £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.88% +28.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £12.90 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.50 £41.20 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
IBM
South West

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol IBM Jobs Demand Trend

IBM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol IBM Daily Rate Trend

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol IBM Hourly Rate Trend

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 12 (42.86%) Finance
2 9 (32.14%) Data Modelling
3 8 (28.57%) ERwin
4 7 (25.00%) ETL
4 7 (25.00%) Banking
4 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 6 (21.43%) Waterfall
5 6 (21.43%) Data Quality
5 6 (21.43%) Kimball Methodology
5 6 (21.43%) Inmon Methodology
5 6 (21.43%) Metadata Management
5 6 (21.43%) Zachman Framework
5 6 (21.43%) TOGAF
5 6 (21.43%) Business Analysis
5 6 (21.43%) DataFlux
5 6 (21.43%) Informatica
5 6 (21.43%) Ab Initio
6 5 (17.86%) CA
6 5 (17.86%) HP
6 5 (17.86%) DB2
6 5 (17.86%) Corporate Banking
6 5 (17.86%) WebSphere
6 5 (17.86%) Retail
6 5 (17.86%) IBM InfoSphere
7 4 (14.29%) SolarWinds
7 4 (14.29%) FWSM
7 4 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (14.29%) Network Management
7 4 (14.29%) Unified Communications

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 5 (17.86%) WebSphere
2 3 (10.71%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (7.143%) ISPF
4 1 (3.571%) ASP
4 1 (3.571%) XSD
4 1 (3.571%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.71%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 2 (7.143%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Cognos Planning
1 1 (3.571%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) FWSM
1 4 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (14.29%) Unified Communications
1 4 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (14.29%) IP Telephony
1 4 (14.29%) Cisco IPT
1 4 (14.29%) VPN
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
1 4 (14.29%) Wireless
1 4 (14.29%) MPLS
1 4 (14.29%) OSPF
1 4 (14.29%) BGP
2 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (7.143%) SSL
3 2 (7.143%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) DB2
1 5 (17.86%) IBM InfoSphere
2 4 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.143%) OLAP
3 2 (7.143%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.143%) Essbase
4 1 (3.571%) Star Schema
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.571%) MS Access
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) ERwin
2 1 (3.571%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (42.86%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Banking
3 5 (17.86%) Corporate Banking
3 5 (17.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Consultant
2 7 (25.00%) Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) WebSphere Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Network Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Network Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Developer
5 2 (7.143%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 2 (7.143%) UNIX Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) UNIX Support Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Storage Consultant
5 2 (7.143%) Data Modeller
5 2 (7.143%) Storage Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) UNIX Support
5 2 (7.143%) AIX Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Applications Consultant
6 1 (3.571%) Architect
6 1 (3.571%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.571%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 2 (7.143%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (7.143%) DataPower
3 1 (3.571%) CLARiiON
3 1 (3.571%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) zOS
1 3 (10.71%) UNIX
2 2 (7.143%) AIX
2 2 (7.143%) OS/390
3 1 (3.571%) Linux
3 1 (3.571%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Data Modelling
2 7 (25.00%) ETL
3 6 (21.43%) Waterfall
3 6 (21.43%) Kimball Methodology
3 6 (21.43%) Inmon Methodology
3 6 (21.43%) Metadata Management
3 6 (21.43%) Zachman Framework
3 6 (21.43%) TOGAF
3 6 (21.43%) Business Analysis
4 4 (14.29%) Network Management
5 3 (10.71%) Migration
5 3 (10.71%) Network Load Balancing
6 2 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (7.143%) Unit Testing
6 2 (7.143%) Data Analysis
6 2 (7.143%) System Testing
6 2 (7.143%) Problem Management
6 2 (7.143%) Data Mapping
6 2 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (3.571%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) JCL
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
3 2 (7.143%) REXX
4 1 (3.571%) VB
4 1 (3.571%) C
4 1 (3.571%) C++
4 1 (3.571%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.143%) SLA
3 1 (3.571%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (7.143%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (7.143%) Tivoli
3 1 (3.571%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.571%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) DataFlux
1 6 (21.43%) Informatica
1 6 (21.43%) Ab Initio
2 5 (17.86%) CA
2 5 (17.86%) HP
3 4 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 4 (14.29%) IronPort
3 4 (14.29%) Cisco
3 4 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 4 (14.29%) Nokia
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.71%) Teradata
4 3 (10.71%) Blue Coat
5 2 (7.143%) EMC
5 2 (7.143%) Hyperion
5 2 (7.143%) Cognos
6 1 (3.571%) Symantec
6 1 (3.571%) VMware
6 1 (3.571%) NetApp