Cheshire WebSphere Application Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) skills within the Cheshire 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 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
Location Ashby-de-la-Zouch Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Corby East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Slough Solihull South East South West Stockport Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	52
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	49	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	19.52 %	2.667 %
Daily rates quoted	21	0
Average minimum daily rate	£399	-
Average daily rate	£431	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£464	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£405	£382
% change on same period last year	+6.09 %
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	£35.00
% change on same period last year	+23.33 %
Application Platforms Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	251	150
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.331 %	0.159 %
Daily rates quoted	83	36
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£292
Average daily rate	£382	£299
% change on same period last year	+27.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£305
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.37	£31.91
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£35.24
% change on same period last year	-14.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.63	£38.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
WebSphere Application Server 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.

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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere Application Server across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

WebSphere Application Server
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere Application Server across the Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 4 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	-	20	£454	-
Warrington	-	1	£300	-

WebSphere Application Server North West

WebSphere Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 66 (100.00 %) WebSphere 2 51 (77.27 %) AIX 3 47 (71.21 %) Unix 4 44 (66.67 %) Middleware 5 39 (59.09 %) Shell Script 6 30 (45.45 %) Windows 7 29 (43.94 %) Mainframe 7 29 (43.94 %) Tivoli 8 28 (42.42 %) Tandem 9 25 (37.88 %) Cisco 10 23 (34.85 %) WebSphere MQ 11 21 (31.82 %) HPUX 11 21 (31.82 %) Solaris 12 19 (28.79 %) OMEGAMON 13 17 (25.76 %) Change Management

14 15 (22.73 %) HTTP 15 14 (21.21 %) Finance 16 10 (15.15 %) Load Balancing 16 10 (15.15 %) WBIMB 17 9 (13.64 %) Firewall 18 7 (10.61 %) Gentran 19 6 (9.091 %) LDAP 19 6 (9.091 %) SSL 19 6 (9.091 %) Java 20 5 (7.576 %) HP 20 5 (7.576 %) Financial Institution 21 4 (6.061 %) IBM 21 4 (6.061 %) JMS 21 4 (6.061 %) J2EE 21 4 (6.061 %) DB2

WebSphere Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 66 (100.00 %) WebSphere 2 44 (66.67 %) Middleware 3 10 (15.15 %) WBIMB 4 4 (6.061 %) JMS 4 4 (6.061 %) J2EE 4 4 (6.061 %) JSP 5 3 (4.545 %) Hibernate 5 3 (4.545 %) Spring 5 3 (4.545 %) Java EE 6 2 (3.030 %) EJB 6 2 (3.030 %) JDBC 6 2 (3.030 %) Servlets 6 2 (3.030 %) Struts 7 1 (1.515 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 23 (34.85 %) WebSphere MQ 2 7 (10.61 %) Gentran 3 2 (3.030 %) WebLogic 3 2 (3.030 %) Tomcat 4 1 (1.515 %) WPS
Communications & Networking 1 15 (22.73 %) HTTP 2 9 (13.64 %) Firewall 3 6 (9.091 %) LDAP 3 6 (9.091 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (6.061 %) DB2 2 2 (3.030 %) Oracle 9i 2 2 (3.030 %) RDBMS 2 2 (3.030 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (1.515 %) Oracle Discoverer
General 1 14 (21.21 %) Finance 2 5 (7.576 %) Financial Institution 3 2 (3.030 %) Banking 4 1 (1.515 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 21 (31.82 %) WebSphere Specialist 2 14 (21.21 %) Infrastructure Specialist 3 13 (19.70 %) Consultant 4 11 (16.67 %) WebSphere Consultant 5 5 (7.576 %) Developer 5 5 (7.576 %) Java Developer 6 3 (4.545 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 3 (4.545 %) Infrastructure Manager 6 3 (4.545 %) Infrastructure Consultant 7 2 (3.030 %) WebSphere Application Server Administra… 7 2 (3.030 %) Server Administrator 7 2 (3.030 %) J2EE Developer 7 2 (3.030 %) WebSphere Administrator 7 2 (3.030 %) Infrastructure Architect 7 2 (3.030 %) Architect 7 2 (3.030 %) Administrator 8 1 (1.515 %) UNIX Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 29 (43.94 %) Mainframe 2 28 (42.42 %) Tandem	Operating Systems 1 51 (77.27 %) AIX 2 47 (71.21 %) Unix 3 30 (45.45 %) Windows 4 21 (31.82 %) HPUX 4 21 (31.82 %) Solaris 5 1 (1.515 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (25.76 %) Change Management 2 10 (15.15 %) Load Balancing 3 3 (4.545 %) Knowledge Management 3 3 (4.545 %) UML 4 2 (3.030 %) OOA/OOD 4 2 (3.030 %) RUP 5 1 (1.515 %) Time Management 5 1 (1.515 %) RAD 5 1 (1.515 %) E-business	Programming Languages 1 39 (59.09 %) Shell Script 2 6 (9.091 %) Java 3 1 (1.515 %) Jython
Systems Management 1 29 (43.94 %) Tivoli 2 19 (28.79 %) OMEGAMON 3 3 (4.545 %) Tivoli Identity Manager	Vendors 1 25 (37.88 %) Cisco 2 5 (7.576 %) HP 3 4 (6.061 %) IBM 4 3 (4.545 %) Sun 4 3 (4.545 %) Oracle 5 1 (1.515 %) ILOG