The first table below looks at the demand for IBM Certification 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 IBM Certification over the 3 months to 21 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 Qualifications 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Certification
Rank 202 - 229
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing IBM Certification 1 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% - 0.072%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.104% - 0.589%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
Average daily rate £400 - £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £391 £230
% change year-on-year
+15.08% +70.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £43.50 -
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
963 1066 1188
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 14.99% 13.56% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 638 756
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £253 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £564 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 50 51
Average hourly rate £41.50 £17.93 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+131.42% -14.60%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £14.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £23.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
IBM Certification
London

IBM Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London IBM Certification Jobs Demand Trend

IBM Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London IBM Certification Daily Rate Trend

IBM Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing IBM Certification 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 Certification.

1 4 (100.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) MCITP
2 3 (75.00%) Statistics
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Replication
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) JSP
4 1 (25.00%) Servlets
4 1 (25.00%) J2EE
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Content Management
4 1 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (25.00%) JSF

IBM Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing IBM Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) JSP
1 1 (25.00%) Servlets
1 1 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) JSF
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (25.00%) Dojo
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DBA
2 2 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (50.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Portal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Statistics
2 2 (50.00%) Replication
3 1 (25.00%) Web 2.0
3 1 (25.00%) Graphic Design
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Content Management
2 1 (25.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Certification
1 3 (75.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle