Cambridgeshire IBM Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts within the Cambridgeshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM
Location Aberdeen Amersham Ashby-de-la-Zouch Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bootle Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Clydebank Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Great Yarmouth Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Kent Kilmarnock Kingswinford Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Ives Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Thurrock Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	57
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	22	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	6.854 %	2.065 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£283
Average daily rate	£338	£300
% change on same period last year	+12.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£356
% change on same period last year	+0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£23.00
Average hourly rate	-	£23.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.60	£26.04
% change on same period last year	+5.98 %
Vendors Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	321	339
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.428 %	0.343 %
Daily rates quoted	48	70
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£301
Average daily rate	£335	£316
% change on same period last year	+5.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	47	77
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.86	£25.41
Average hourly rate	£18.51	£27.15
% change on same period last year	-31.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.16	£28.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
IBM East of England

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).

IBM
Demand Trend

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

IBM
Daily Rate Trend

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

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IBM across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

IBM
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Peterborough	-	8	-	-
Cambridge	+12	6	£338	+12.50 %

IBM East of England

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 31 (56.36 %) J2EE 2 29 (52.73 %) Java 3 28 (50.91 %) WebSphere 4 26 (47.27 %) SQL 5 24 (43.64 %) DB2 5 24 (43.64 %) Linux 5 24 (43.64 %) Finance 6 23 (41.82 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 23 (41.82 %) UNIX 7 22 (40.00 %) Eclipse 8 21 (38.18 %) Hibernate 8 21 (38.18 %) Spring 9 20 (36.36 %) HPUX 9 20 (36.36 %) Solaris 10 15 (27.27 %) UML

10 15 (27.27 %) IntelliJ 11 14 (25.45 %) JUnit 12 12 (21.82 %) Ant 12 12 (21.82 %) OO 12 12 (21.82 %) CRM 12 12 (21.82 %) HP 13 11 (20.00 %) Continuous Integration 14 10 (18.18 %) SOA 14 10 (18.18 %) Data Management 14 10 (18.18 %) CruiseControl 14 10 (18.18 %) Atlassian Bamboo 15 9 (16.36 %) Windows 16 8 (14.55 %) Compaq 16 8 (14.55 %) Insurance 17 7 (12.73 %) JSP

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 31 (56.36 %) J2EE 2 28 (50.91 %) WebSphere 3 21 (38.18 %) Spring 3 21 (38.18 %) Hibernate 4 7 (12.73 %) JSP 5 6 (10.91 %) EJB 6 5 (9.091 %) Struts 7 4 (7.273 %) Servlets 7 4 (7.273 %) HTML 8 2 (3.636 %) XML 8 2 (3.636 %) XSL 8 2 (3.636 %) NetBeans 8 2 (3.636 %) JMS 9 1 (1.818 %) MVC 9 1 (1.818 %) PicoContainer 9 1 (1.818 %) XHTML 9 1 (1.818 %) .NET 9 1 (1.818 %) ASP 9 1 (1.818 %) CSS 9 1 (1.818 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 23 (41.82 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 4 (7.273 %) JBoss 2 4 (7.273 %) MQSeries 3 2 (3.636 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (3.636 %) WebLogic 4 1 (1.818 %) Tomcat 4 1 (1.818 %) SharePoint 4 1 (1.818 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (1.818 %) WebSphere MQ 4 1 (1.818 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 3 (5.455 %) MS Visio 2 2 (3.636 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.455 %) SAN 2 1 (1.818 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (43.64 %) DB2 2 1 (1.818 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (1.818 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 22 (40.00 %) Eclipse 2 15 (27.27 %) IntelliJ 3 14 (25.45 %) JUnit 4 12 (21.82 %) Ant 5 10 (18.18 %) Atlassian Bamboo 5 10 (18.18 %) CruiseControl 6 3 (5.455 %) Subversion 7 2 (3.636 %) JBuilder 7 2 (3.636 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 7 2 (3.636 %) JDeveloper 8 1 (1.818 %) Rational Robot
General 1 24 (43.64 %) Finance 2 8 (14.55 %) Insurance 3 2 (3.636 %) Pharmaceutical 3 2 (3.636 %) Health 4 1 (1.818 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 23 (41.82 %) Developer 2 22 (40.00 %) Java Developer 3 10 (18.18 %) DB2 DBA 3 10 (18.18 %) DBA 4 8 (14.55 %) Administrator 4 8 (14.55 %) Hardware Engineer 5 4 (7.273 %) J2EE Developer 6 3 (5.455 %) Java/J2EE Developer 7 2 (3.636 %) C++/Java Developer 7 2 (3.636 %) WebSphere Administrator 7 2 (3.636 %) Server Administrator 7 2 (3.636 %) Senior Technical Consultant 7 2 (3.636 %) Support Engineer 7 2 (3.636 %) Technical Consultant 7 2 (3.636 %) Senior Consultant 7 2 (3.636 %) Consultant 7 2 (3.636 %) Architect 8 1 (1.818 %) Tester 8 1 (1.818 %) Software Engineer 8 1 (1.818 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 5 (9.091 %) AS400 2 3 (5.455 %) PKI 3 2 (3.636 %) Replication 3 2 (3.636 %) Cryptography 3 2 (3.636 %) Blackberry 4 1 (1.818 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 24 (43.64 %) Linux 2 23 (41.82 %) UNIX 3 20 (36.36 %) HPUX 3 20 (36.36 %) Solaris 4 9 (16.36 %) Windows 5 4 (7.273 %) i5/OS 6 3 (5.455 %) AIX 7 2 (3.636 %) Windows 2000 7 2 (3.636 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (27.27 %) UML 2 12 (21.82 %) OO 2 12 (21.82 %) CRM 3 11 (20.00 %) Continuous Integration 4 10 (18.18 %) SOA 4 10 (18.18 %) Data Management 5 7 (12.73 %) RAD 6 6 (10.91 %) RUP 7 2 (3.636 %) E-Commerce 7 2 (3.636 %) BCP 7 2 (3.636 %) Disaster Recovery 7 2 (3.636 %) Logistics 7 2 (3.636 %) Unit Testing 7 2 (3.636 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (1.818 %) Enterprise Architecture 8 1 (1.818 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 1 (1.818 %) SC Cleared 8 1 (1.818 %) CTC Cleared 8 1 (1.818 %) Agile Software Development 8 1 (1.818 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 29 (52.73 %) Java 2 26 (47.27 %) SQL 3 3 (5.455 %) C 3 3 (5.455 %) C++ 4 1 (1.818 %) JavaScript 4 1 (1.818 %) Perl 4 1 (1.818 %) VB 4 1 (1.818 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 2 (3.636 %) Degree 2 1 (1.818 %) ISEB 2 1 (1.818 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.818 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (3.636 %) Active Directory 1 2 (3.636 %) VMware ESX 1 2 (3.636 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 2 (3.636 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 12 (21.82 %) HP 2 8 (14.55 %) Compaq 3 5 (9.091 %) Oracle 4 4 (7.273 %) Dell 5 2 (3.636 %) BEA 5 2 (3.636 %) Lotus 5 2 (3.636 %) Remedy 5 2 (3.636 %) VMware 5 2 (3.636 %) Microsoft 6 1 (1.818 %) Sun 6 1 (1.818 %) Brocade