The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term DataPower in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DataPower over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere DataPower
Rank 190 217 243
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +26
Contract jobs citing DataPower 9 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.142% 0.025% 0.020%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.448% 0.078% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
Average daily rate £600 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+84.61% -23.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
-1.17% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £21.00
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2008 2575 4008
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.61% 32.71% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1491 1993 3106
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 66 54
Average hourly rate £24.00 £21.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.62% +2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.39 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £44.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
DataPower
London

DataPower
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DataPower across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

City of London DataPower Jobs Demand Trend

DataPower
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DataPower across the City of London region.

City of London DataPower Daily Rate Trend

DataPower
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing DataPower 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 DataPower.

1 10 (76.92%) WebSphere
2 9 (69.23%) Finance
3 7 (53.85%) Online Banking
3 7 (53.85%) Banking
3 7 (53.85%) WebSphere Process Server
3 7 (53.85%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (53.85%) Internet
4 6 (46.15%) ESB
5 5 (38.46%) Oracle
5 5 (38.46%) DB2
5 5 (38.46%) Linux
6 4 (30.77%) Retail
6 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (30.77%) BAPI
6 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
6 4 (30.77%) Tivoli
6 4 (30.77%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 3 (23.08%) PKI
7 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (23.08%) C
7 3 (23.08%) SOAP
7 3 (23.08%) WebSphere MQ
7 3 (23.08%) TeamSite
7 3 (23.08%) HP
7 3 (23.08%) HTTP
7 3 (23.08%) LogLogic
8 2 (15.38%) F5
8 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (15.38%) WebSphere Message Broker
8 2 (15.38%) Data Protection

DataPower
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing DataPower 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 DataPower. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (76.92%) WebSphere
2 4 (30.77%) BAPI
3 3 (23.08%) SOAP
4 2 (15.38%) XML
4 2 (15.38%) XSL
4 2 (15.38%) XSLT
4 2 (15.38%) Middleware
5 1 (7.692%) XML Messaging
5 1 (7.692%) JMS
5 1 (7.692%) Web Services
5 1 (7.692%) JDBC
5 1 (7.692%) WSDL
5 1 (7.692%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) WebSphere Process Server
1 7 (53.85%) WebSphere Application Server
2 6 (46.15%) ESB
3 3 (23.08%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (23.08%) TeamSite
4 2 (15.38%) WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) Internet
2 3 (23.08%) HTTP
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) HTTPS
3 2 (15.38%) X.509
4 1 (7.692%) Firewall
4 1 (7.692%) LDAP
4 1 (7.692%) SMTP
4 1 (7.692%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) DB2
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 7 (53.85%) Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Retail
4 2 (15.38%) Publishing
5 1 (7.692%) Advertising
5 1 (7.692%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Solutions Architect
1 9 (69.23%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Middleware Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.692%) WebSphere Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Security Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Online Banking
2 3 (23.08%) PKI
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) AIX
3 1 (7.692%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
2 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
3 2 (15.38%) B2B
3 2 (15.38%) Information Security
3 2 (15.38%) Security Management
4 1 (7.692%) Content Management
4 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
4 1 (7.692%) SOA
4 1 (7.692%) Security Architecture
4 1 (7.692%) Waterfall
4 1 (7.692%) Integration Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) C
2 2 (15.38%) ActionScript 2.0
2 2 (15.38%) ActionScript
3 1 (7.692%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.692%) XPath
3 1 (7.692%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
1 2 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (7.692%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Tivoli
1 4 (30.77%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) HP
2 3 (23.08%) LogLogic
3 2 (15.38%) F5
4 1 (7.692%) IBM
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