Buckinghamshire IBM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts within the Buckinghamshire 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Andover Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guernsey Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rotherham Sale Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Strathclyde Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	44
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	30	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	5.736 %	6.790 %
Daily rates quoted	2	9
Average minimum daily rate	£255	£381
Average daily rate	£280	£417
% change on same period last year	-32.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£453
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£368
% change on same period last year	+0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£21.38
Average hourly rate	£10.00	£21.88
% change on same period last year	-54.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.00	£22.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.05	£25.25
% change on same period last year	+19.00 %
Vendors Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	523	648
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.824 %	0.694 %
Daily rates quoted	178	138
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£265
Average daily rate	£318	£281
% change on same period last year	+13.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£296
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	118
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.23	£22.51
Average hourly rate	£20.55	£23.91
% change on same period last year	-14.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.87	£25.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.26	£24.41
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
IBM South East

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 Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire 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 IBM across the Buckinghamshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IBM across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	+4	27	£280	-33.17 %
Marlow	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 50 (54.95 %) Finance 2 47 (51.65 %) Mainframe 3 46 (50.55 %) DB2 4 44 (48.35 %) IBM Mainframe 5 36 (39.56 %) COBOL 6 30 (32.97 %) Banking 7 20 (21.98 %) Systems Analysis 8 17 (18.68 %) JCL 9 15 (16.48 %) Retail 9 15 (16.48 %) Oracle 9 15 (16.48 %) UNIX 10 11 (12.09 %) SQL 10 11 (12.09 %) Financial Institution 11 9 (9.890 %) Sun 12 8 (8.791 %) HP

12 8 (8.791 %) Windows 13 7 (7.692 %) Solaris 13 7 (7.692 %) CRM 13 7 (7.692 %) SAN 13 7 (7.692 %) iSeries 14 6 (6.593 %) Test Scripting 14 6 (6.593 %) Requirements Analysis 14 6 (6.593 %) CICS 14 6 (6.593 %) Unicenter 14 6 (6.593 %) PRINCE 14 6 (6.593 %) EMC 14 6 (6.593 %) HPUX 14 6 (6.593 %) AS400 14 6 (6.593 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 14 6 (6.593 %) Sarbanes-Oxley

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 3 (3.297 %) ISPF 2 2 (2.198 %) J2EE 3 1 (1.099 %) Middleware 3 1 (1.099 %) JNDI 3 1 (1.099 %) .NET 3 1 (1.099 %) EJB 3 1 (1.099 %) JDBC 3 1 (1.099 %) JSP 3 1 (1.099 %) Servlets 3 1 (1.099 %) XSLT 3 1 (1.099 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 6 (6.593 %) CICS 2 1 (1.099 %) Oracle Application Server 2 1 (1.099 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (1.099 %) WebLogic 2 1 (1.099 %) JBoss
Applications 1 3 (3.297 %) MS Office 1 3 (3.297 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 7 (7.692 %) SAN 2 5 (5.495 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (2.198 %) ATM 3 2 (2.198 %) X.25 4 1 (1.099 %) DHCP 4 1 (1.099 %) DNS 4 1 (1.099 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 46 (50.55 %) DB2 2 5 (5.495 %) PowerCenter 3 3 (3.297 %) DB2 UDB 4 2 (2.198 %) SQL Server 5 1 (1.099 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (1.099 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (1.099 %) ETL 5 1 (1.099 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (1.099 %) DataStage	Development Applications 1 1 (1.099 %) Bugzilla 1 1 (1.099 %) QuickTest Pro
General 1 50 (54.95 %) Finance 2 30 (32.97 %) Banking 3 15 (16.48 %) Retail 4 11 (12.09 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (2.198 %) Music 5 2 (2.198 %) Retail Banking 5 2 (2.198 %) Investment Banking 5 2 (2.198 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.099 %) Automotive 6 1 (1.099 %) Construction 6 1 (1.099 %) Corporate Banking	Job Titles 1 50 (54.95 %) Analyst 2 27 (29.67 %) Systems Analyst 3 16 (17.58 %) Developer 4 11 (12.09 %) Business Analyst 5 9 (9.890 %) IT Business Analyst 6 6 (6.593 %) Consultant 7 5 (5.495 %) Business Systems Analyst 7 5 (5.495 %) Analyst Developer 8 4 (4.396 %) COBOL Analyst 8 4 (4.396 %) COBOL Developer 8 4 (4.396 %) Technical Analyst 8 4 (4.396 %) Programmer 8 4 (4.396 %) Project Leader 9 3 (3.297 %) Analyst Programmer 9 3 (3.297 %) DBA 9 3 (3.297 %) Software Engineer 9 3 (3.297 %) Test Analyst 9 3 (3.297 %) Test Engineer 9 3 (3.297 %) Administrator 9 3 (3.297 %) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 47 (51.65 %) Mainframe 2 44 (48.35 %) IBM Mainframe 3 7 (7.692 %) iSeries 4 6 (6.593 %) AS400 5 4 (4.396 %) Spanish Language 6 2 (2.198 %) Management Information System 7 1 (1.099 %) Clustering 7 1 (1.099 %) EPoS 7 1 (1.099 %) Thin Client 7 1 (1.099 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 15 (16.48 %) UNIX 2 8 (8.791 %) Windows 3 7 (7.692 %) Solaris 4 6 (6.593 %) HPUX 5 3 (3.297 %) AIX 6 2 (2.198 %) VME 6 2 (2.198 %) MVS 6 2 (2.198 %) Windows XP 7 1 (1.099 %) SUSE 7 1 (1.099 %) Linux 7 1 (1.099 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (21.98 %) Systems Analysis 2 7 (7.692 %) CRM 3 6 (6.593 %) Test Scripting 3 6 (6.593 %) Requirements Analysis 3 6 (6.593 %) PRINCE 4 5 (5.495 %) Project Management 4 5 (5.495 %) Business Analysis 5 4 (4.396 %) Migration 6 3 (3.297 %) Disaster Recovery 6 3 (3.297 %) E-Commerce 7 2 (2.198 %) Time Management 7 2 (2.198 %) Change Management 8 1 (1.099 %) Automated Testing 8 1 (1.099 %) Software Engineering 8 1 (1.099 %) ITIL 8 1 (1.099 %) RAD 8 1 (1.099 %) EAI 8 1 (1.099 %) Data Modelling 8 1 (1.099 %) SOA 8 1 (1.099 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 36 (39.56 %) COBOL 2 17 (18.68 %) JCL 3 11 (12.09 %) SQL 4 4 (4.396 %) PL/SQL 5 3 (3.297 %) Java 5 3 (3.297 %) REXX 6 2 (2.198 %) Perl 6 2 (2.198 %) RPG 7 1 (1.099 %) C 7 1 (1.099 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 4 (4.396 %) Citrix Certification 2 3 (3.297 %) MCSE 2 3 (3.297 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (3.297 %) Degree 3 1 (1.099 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (6.593 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 4 (4.396 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (1.099 %) VMware ESX 1 1 (1.099 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 6 (6.593 %) Unicenter 1 6 (6.593 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 3 (3.297 %) MAINVIEW 2 3 (3.297 %) Tivoli 3 2 (2.198 %) Tivoli Monitoring 4 1 (1.099 %) CONTROL-M 4 1 (1.099 %) EMC NetWorker 4 1 (1.099 %) OMEGAMON
Vendors 1 15 (16.48 %) Oracle 2 9 (9.890 %) Sun 3 8 (8.791 %) HP 4 6 (6.593 %) EMC 5 4 (4.396 %) BMC 6 3 (3.297 %) Microsoft 6 3 (3.297 %) PlateSpin 7 2 (2.198 %) VMware 8 1 (1.099 %) SAP 8 1 (1.099 %) Business Objects 8 1 (1.099 %) BEA 8 1 (1.099 %) Citrix 8 1 (1.099 %) Dell 8 1 (1.099 %) Informatica 8 1 (1.099 %) Ascential