Cambridgeshire WebSphere Application Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) skills within the Cambridgeshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited WebSphere Application Server over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
Location Ascot Ashby-de-la-Zouch Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Corby Devon East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Slough Solihull South East South West Staffordshire Stockport Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	64
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.629 %	0.926 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£401	£390
% change on same period last year	+2.85 %
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	£43.17	£31.67
% change on same period last year	+36.31 %
Application Platforms Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	159	108
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.211 %	0.111 %
Daily rates quoted	18	19
Average minimum daily rate	£259	£311
Average daily rate	£264	£315
% change on same period last year	-16.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£268	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£349
% change on same period last year	+2.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.28	£22.15
Average hourly rate	£22.34	£24.02
% change on same period last year	-6.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.41	£25.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.09	£24.06
% change on same period last year	+0.13 %
WebSphere Application Server 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.

WebSphere Application Server
Demand Trend

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

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

WebSphere Application Server
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing WebSphere Application Server within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 18 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	-	1	-	-

WebSphere Application Server East of England

WebSphere Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing WebSphere Application Server 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 Application Server.

1 30 (100.00 %) WebSphere 2 27 (90.00 %) J2EE 2 27 (90.00 %) UNIX 3 25 (83.33 %) DB2 4 24 (80.00 %) SQL 4 24 (80.00 %) Solaris 4 24 (80.00 %) Linux 4 24 (80.00 %) Spring 5 23 (76.67 %) Hibernate 5 23 (76.67 %) Eclipse 5 23 (76.67 %) IBM 6 22 (73.33 %) HPUX 7 21 (70.00 %) Finance 7 21 (70.00 %) Java 8 18 (60.00 %) IntelliJ

9 15 (50.00 %) Ant 9 15 (50.00 %) JUnit 10 14 (46.67 %) UML 10 14 (46.67 %) OO 10 14 (46.67 %) CRM 11 13 (43.33 %) SOA 11 13 (43.33 %) CruiseControl 11 13 (43.33 %) Atlassian Bamboo 12 12 (40.00 %) Continuous Integration 13 9 (30.00 %) Data Management 14 7 (23.33 %) Insurance 15 4 (13.33 %) i5/OS 16 2 (6.667 %) Replication 16 2 (6.667 %) BCP 16 2 (6.667 %) Disaster Recovery

WebSphere Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing WebSphere Application Server 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 Application Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 30 (100.00 %) WebSphere 2 27 (90.00 %) J2EE 3 24 (80.00 %) Spring 4 23 (76.67 %) Hibernate 5 1 (3.333 %) Java EE	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.333 %) WebLogic 1 1 (3.333 %) Apache 1 1 (3.333 %) Tomcat 1 1 (3.333 %) Oracle Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (83.33 %) DB2 2 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 23 (76.67 %) Eclipse 2 18 (60.00 %) IntelliJ 3 15 (50.00 %) Ant 3 15 (50.00 %) JUnit 4 13 (43.33 %) CruiseControl 4 13 (43.33 %) Atlassian Bamboo
General 1 21 (70.00 %) Finance 2 7 (23.33 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 15 (50.00 %) Developer 2 13 (43.33 %) Java Developer 3 10 (33.33 %) DBA 4 9 (30.00 %) DB2 DBA 5 6 (20.00 %) Administrator 6 5 (16.67 %) J2EE Developer 7 4 (13.33 %) Senior Developer 7 4 (13.33 %) Senior J2EE Developer 8 3 (10.00 %) Senior Java Developer 8 3 (10.00 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 8 3 (10.00 %) Java/J2EE Developer 9 2 (6.667 %) Web Analyst 9 2 (6.667 %) Analyst 9 2 (6.667 %) WebSphere Administrator 9 2 (6.667 %) Development DBA 10 1 (3.333 %) Tester 10 1 (3.333 %) Functional Tester 10 1 (3.333 %) Non-Functional Tester
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.667 %) AS400 1 2 (6.667 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 27 (90.00 %) UNIX 2 24 (80.00 %) Solaris 2 24 (80.00 %) Linux 3 22 (73.33 %) HPUX 4 4 (13.33 %) i5/OS 5 2 (6.667 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (46.67 %) UML 1 14 (46.67 %) OO 1 14 (46.67 %) CRM 2 13 (43.33 %) SOA 3 12 (40.00 %) Continuous Integration 4 9 (30.00 %) Data Management 5 2 (6.667 %) BCP 5 2 (6.667 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (3.333 %) Agile Software Development	Programming Languages 1 24 (80.00 %) SQL 2 21 (70.00 %) Java
System Software 1 1 (3.333 %) Samba	Vendors 1 23 (76.67 %) IBM 2 1 (3.333 %) BEA 2 1 (3.333 %) Oracle