Cheshire IBM Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts within the Cheshire 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.

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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	33	45
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	40	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.053 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	8.602 %	4.167 %
Daily rates quoted	9	3
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£343
Average daily rate	£337	£352
% change on same period last year	-4.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£356
% change on same period last year	+0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£45.00
Average hourly rate	-	£53.75
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£62.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.60	£26.04
% change on same period last year	+5.98 %
Vendors Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	465	384
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.620 %	0.388 %
Daily rates quoted	143	112
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£314
Average daily rate	£348	£324
% change on same period last year	+7.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.17	£22.07
Average hourly rate	£25.57	£24.08
% change on same period last year	+6.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.98	£26.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
IBM North West

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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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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 Cheshire region.

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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 Cheshire 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
Knutsford	-	13	£445	-
Wilmslow	-	3	£177	-
Warrington	-	2	-	-
Chester	-1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 55 (56.12 %) UNIX 2 45 (45.92 %) Mainframe 3 36 (36.73 %) HP 4 31 (31.63 %) Windows 5 28 (28.57 %) AIX 6 25 (25.51 %) Finance 7 22 (22.45 %) Citrix 8 20 (20.41 %) Tivoli 9 19 (19.39 %) Internet 10 18 (18.37 %) WebSphere 11 14 (14.29 %) Banking 11 14 (14.29 %) Perl 12 12 (12.24 %) Middleware 12 12 (12.24 %) IBM Mainframe 13 11 (11.22 %) Network Security

13 11 (11.22 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 14 10 (10.20 %) Shell Script 14 10 (10.20 %) Tivoli Monitoring 14 10 (10.20 %) Clustering 15 9 (9.184 %) Firewall 15 9 (9.184 %) OpenView 15 9 (9.184 %) SAN 15 9 (9.184 %) OMEGAMON 16 8 (8.163 %) Project Management 17 7 (7.143 %) Change Management 17 7 (7.143 %) SAP 18 6 (6.122 %) Solaris 18 6 (6.122 %) C 18 6 (6.122 %) Java 18 6 (6.122 %) MQSeries

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 18 (18.37 %) WebSphere 2 12 (12.24 %) Middleware 3 2 (2.041 %) J2EE 4 1 (1.020 %) WBIMB	Application Platforms 1 6 (6.122 %) MQSeries 1 6 (6.122 %) WebSphere MQ 2 5 (5.102 %) MQSI 2 5 (5.102 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 2 (2.041 %) Gentran 3 2 (2.041 %) SharePoint 3 2 (2.041 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (2.041 %) CICS 4 1 (1.020 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 2 (2.041 %) MS Visio 2 1 (1.020 %) MS Project 2 1 (1.020 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 19 (19.39 %) Internet 2 11 (11.22 %) Network Security 3 9 (9.184 %) Firewall 3 9 (9.184 %) SAN 4 3 (3.061 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (2.041 %) LDAP 5 2 (2.041 %) iSCSI 6 1 (1.020 %) SNA 6 1 (1.020 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (4.082 %) DB2 2 1 (1.020 %) RDBMS 2 1 (1.020 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 3 (3.061 %) TestDirector
General 1 25 (25.51 %) Finance 2 14 (14.29 %) Banking 3 5 (5.102 %) Auditing 4 4 (4.082 %) Retail 5 3 (3.061 %) Retail Banking 6 2 (2.041 %) Billing 7 1 (1.020 %) Pensions 7 1 (1.020 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (1.020 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (1.020 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 18 (18.37 %) Infrastructure Designer 2 16 (16.33 %) Administrator 3 10 (10.20 %) Analyst 4 9 (9.184 %) Architect 5 8 (8.163 %) Hardware Engineer 6 6 (6.122 %) Infrastructure Architect 6 6 (6.122 %) Service Manager 7 5 (5.102 %) WebSphere Administrator 7 5 (5.102 %) AIX Administrator 8 4 (4.082 %) Consultant 9 3 (3.061 %) Systems Administrator 9 3 (3.061 %) Business Analyst 9 3 (3.061 %) UNIX Administrator 9 3 (3.061 %) Infrastructure Specialist 9 3 (3.061 %) Storage Specialist 9 3 (3.061 %) Coordinator 10 2 (2.041 %) Server Administrator 10 2 (2.041 %) Senior Project Coordinator 10 2 (2.041 %) Infrastructure Consultant 10 2 (2.041 %) Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous 1 45 (45.92 %) Mainframe 2 12 (12.24 %) IBM Mainframe 3 10 (10.20 %) Clustering 4 5 (5.102 %) VAX 4 5 (5.102 %) Replication 4 5 (5.102 %) HACMP 5 3 (3.061 %) CMDB 6 2 (2.041 %) Tandem 7 1 (1.020 %) VSAM 7 1 (1.020 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 55 (56.12 %) UNIX 2 31 (31.63 %) Windows 3 28 (28.57 %) AIX 4 6 (6.122 %) Solaris 5 4 (4.082 %) Linux 6 3 (3.061 %) HPUX 7 2 (2.041 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (8.163 %) Project Management 2 7 (7.143 %) Change Management 3 3 (3.061 %) Disaster Recovery 3 3 (3.061 %) Service Delivery 3 3 (3.061 %) Supplier Management 4 2 (2.041 %) Data Migration 4 2 (2.041 %) Migration 4 2 (2.041 %) ITIL 5 1 (1.020 %) CRM 5 1 (1.020 %) ERP 5 1 (1.020 %) Service Management 5 1 (1.020 %) E-business 5 1 (1.020 %) Incident Management 5 1 (1.020 %) Problem Management 5 1 (1.020 %) SAP Implementation 5 1 (1.020 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (1.020 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (1.020 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 14 (14.29 %) Perl 2 10 (10.20 %) Shell Script 3 6 (6.122 %) C 3 6 (6.122 %) Java 4 3 (3.061 %) SQL 5 2 (2.041 %) COBOL 6 1 (1.020 %) JCL 6 1 (1.020 %) LotusScript 6 1 (1.020 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 1 (1.020 %) ISEB 1 1 (1.020 %) IBM Certification	System Software 1 3 (3.061 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 2 (2.041 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 20 (20.41 %) Tivoli 2 11 (11.22 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 10 (10.20 %) Tivoli Monitoring 4 9 (9.184 %) OpenView 4 9 (9.184 %) OMEGAMON 5 2 (2.041 %) Tivoli Identity Manager	Vendors 1 36 (36.73 %) HP 2 22 (22.45 %) Citrix 3 7 (7.143 %) SAP 4 6 (6.122 %) StorageTek 5 4 (4.082 %) Microsoft 5 4 (4.082 %) Sun 5 4 (4.082 %) Hitachi 5 4 (4.082 %) Brocade 6 3 (3.061 %) Oracle 6 3 (3.061 %) BT 7 2 (2.041 %) NetApp 8 1 (1.020 %) Siemens 8 1 (1.020 %) Cisco 8 1 (1.020 %) EMC 8 1 (1.020 %) VERITAS 8 1 (1.020 %) Lotus 8 1 (1.020 %) Toshiba 8 1 (1.020 %) Fujitsu Siemens