City of London Lotus Notes Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM Lotus Notes skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Lotus Notes over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Lotus Notes
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Atherstone Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Channel Islands Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Deeside Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Hartlepool Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newbury Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Port Talbot Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochdale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windlesham Windsor Wolverhampton Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	137	124
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	69	70
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.097 %	0.071 %
As % of the category below	6.680 %	9.447 %
Daily rates quoted	31	22
Average minimum daily rate	£236	£240
Average daily rate	£244	£248
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£252	£256
UK excluding London average daily rate	£187	£205
% change on same period last year	-8.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.78	£18.67
Average hourly rate	£19.04	£19.33
% change on same period last year	-1.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.30	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.16	£17.53
% change on same period last year	+9.30 %
Application Platforms City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	1033	741
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.454 %	0.749 %
Daily rates quoted	538	277
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£396
Average daily rate	£392	£417
% change on same period last year	-5.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£437
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£338
% change on same period last year	+3.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	53	63
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.30	£22.13
Average hourly rate	£22.77	£23.39
% change on same period last year	-2.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.24	£24.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.69	£24.06
% change on same period last year	+2.63 %
Lotus Notes London

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.

Lotus Notes
Demand Trend

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

Lotus Notes
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lotus Notes
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lotus Notes across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Lotus Notes
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Lotus Notes across the City of London region.

Lotus Notes
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lotus Notes across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Lotus Notes
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Lotus Notes 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 Lotus Notes.

1 171 (100.00 %) Lotus 2 77 (45.03 %) Windows 3 68 (39.77 %) MS Office 4 59 (34.50 %) Active Directory 5 53 (30.99 %) Microsoft 6 52 (30.41 %) Windows XP 7 35 (20.47 %) MS Excel 8 34 (19.88 %) Lotus Domino 9 31 (18.13 %) Blackberry 10 30 (17.54 %) Finance 11 28 (16.37 %) Banking 12 22 (12.87 %) Windows Server 2003 13 21 (12.28 %) Remedy 13 21 (12.28 %) MS Exchange 13 21 (12.28 %) Windows 2000

14 17 (9.942 %) Migration 15 16 (9.357 %) Investment Banking 15 16 (9.357 %) Citrix 16 14 (8.187 %) Reuters 17 13 (7.602 %) Bloomberg 17 13 (7.602 %) ITIL 17 13 (7.602 %) .NET 18 12 (7.018 %) SQL Server 18 12 (7.018 %) ASP.NET 18 12 (7.018 %) MS Visio 19 11 (6.433 %) SharePoint 20 10 (5.848 %) IBM 20 10 (5.848 %) SAN 20 10 (5.848 %) Microsoft Certification 20 10 (5.848 %) Law

Lotus Notes
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Lotus Notes 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 Lotus Notes. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 13 (7.602 %) .NET 2 12 (7.018 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (2.924 %) WSE 4 4 (2.339 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 4 (2.339 %) Application Packaging 4 4 (2.339 %) MVC 5 3 (1.754 %) .NET Framework 6 2 (1.170 %) WebServices 7 1 (0.585 %) XML 7 1 (0.585 %) HTML 7 1 (0.585 %) Hibernate 7 1 (0.585 %) WinForms 7 1 (0.585 %) AJAX 7 1 (0.585 %) WebSphere 7 1 (0.585 %) CSS 7 1 (0.585 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 34 (19.88 %) Lotus Domino 2 21 (12.28 %) MS Exchange 3 11 (6.433 %) SharePoint 4 9 (5.263 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 8 (4.678 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 7 (4.094 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 4 (2.339 %) Office Communications Server 7 4 (2.339 %) IIS 8 2 (1.170 %) SharePoint Portal Server 8 2 (1.170 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 1 (0.585 %) Rendezvous
Applications 1 68 (39.77 %) MS Office 2 35 (20.47 %) MS Excel 3 12 (7.018 %) MS Visio 4 9 (5.263 %) MS PowerPoint 5 4 (2.339 %) CA Clarity 5 4 (2.339 %) Acrobat 6 3 (1.754 %) Spreadsheet 6 3 (1.754 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (1.170 %) WebTrends 2 1 (0.585 %) SoftGrid 2 1 (0.585 %) Kondor+
Communications & Networking 1 10 (5.848 %) SAN 2 9 (5.263 %) LAN 3 8 (4.678 %) SMTP 3 8 (4.678 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (4.678 %) Firewall 4 7 (4.094 %) WAN 5 5 (2.924 %) PBX 6 4 (2.339 %) Ethereal 6 4 (2.339 %) Wireshark 7 3 (1.754 %) VPN 7 3 (1.754 %) DHCP 8 2 (1.170 %) Ethernet 8 2 (1.170 %) POP3 8 2 (1.170 %) DNS 8 2 (1.170 %) Intranet 8 2 (1.170 %) IMAP 8 2 (1.170 %) IP Telephony 9 1 (0.585 %) VLAN 9 1 (0.585 %) Internet 9 1 (0.585 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (7.018 %) SQL Server 2 7 (4.094 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (0.585 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (0.585 %) DTS 3 1 (0.585 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (0.585 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 2 (1.170 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 2 (1.170 %) MSI 2 1 (0.585 %) InstallShield 2 1 (0.585 %) JIRA 2 1 (0.585 %) Visual Studio	General 1 30 (17.54 %) Finance 2 28 (16.37 %) Banking 3 16 (9.357 %) Investment Banking 4 10 (5.848 %) Law 4 10 (5.848 %) Legal 5 8 (4.678 %) Health 6 6 (3.509 %) Front Office 7 4 (2.339 %) Insurance 8 3 (1.754 %) Financial Institution 8 3 (1.754 %) Government 9 2 (1.170 %) Telecoms 10 1 (0.585 %) Education 10 1 (0.585 %) Advertising 10 1 (0.585 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 36 (21.05 %) Analyst 2 28 (16.37 %) Administrator 3 18 (10.53 %) 2nd Line Support 3 18 (10.53 %) Developer 4 14 (8.187 %) Support Engineer 4 14 (8.187 %) Lotus Notes Developer 5 13 (7.602 %) Desktop Support 6 12 (7.018 %) Support Analyst 7 10 (5.848 %) Systems Administrator 8 9 (5.263 %) Service Analyst 9 8 (4.678 %) Service Desk Analyst 9 8 (4.678 %) Desktop Engineer 10 6 (3.509 %) Server Engineer 10 6 (3.509 %) Server Support 10 6 (3.509 %) Business Analyst 11 5 (2.924 %) 1st Line Support 11 5 (2.924 %) 3rd Line Support 11 5 (2.924 %) Security Administrator 11 5 (2.924 %) Server Support Engineer 12 4 (2.339 %) IT Trainer	Miscellaneous 1 31 (18.13 %) Blackberry 2 6 (3.509 %) Clustering 3 5 (2.924 %) Equities 3 5 (2.924 %) NHS 4 4 (2.339 %) Fixed Income 5 3 (1.754 %) Video Conferencing 6 2 (1.170 %) French Language 6 2 (1.170 %) PDA 7 1 (0.585 %) Derivative 7 1 (0.585 %) Equity Derivative 7 1 (0.585 %) Smartphone 7 1 (0.585 %) Client/Server 7 1 (0.585 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 77 (45.03 %) Windows 2 52 (30.41 %) Windows XP 3 22 (12.87 %) Windows Server 2003 4 21 (12.28 %) Windows 2000 5 7 (4.094 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 5 (2.924 %) Windows NT 6 5 (2.924 %) UNIX 7 4 (2.339 %) Mac OS X 7 4 (2.339 %) Windows Mobile 8 3 (1.754 %) NetWare 9 2 (1.170 %) Solaris 9 2 (1.170 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (9.942 %) Migration 2 13 (7.602 %) ITIL 3 6 (3.509 %) SOA 3 6 (3.509 %) Project Management 4 5 (2.924 %) Change Management 4 5 (2.924 %) Incident Management 5 4 (2.339 %) Systems Analysis 5 4 (2.339 %) Validation 6 3 (1.754 %) Unit Testing 6 3 (1.754 %) Continuous Integration 6 3 (1.754 %) TDD 6 3 (1.754 %) Service Management 6 3 (1.754 %) CRM 7 2 (1.170 %) Configuration Management 7 2 (1.170 %) Service Delivery 7 2 (1.170 %) Risk Assessment 7 2 (1.170 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (1.170 %) Time Management 7 2 (1.170 %) Content Management 7 2 (1.170 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (3.509 %) SQL 2 4 (2.339 %) LotusScript 3 3 (1.754 %) VB 4 2 (1.170 %) C# 4 2 (1.170 %) Java 5 1 (0.585 %) JavaScript 5 1 (0.585 %) C++ 5 1 (0.585 %) DHTML 5 1 (0.585 %) JCL 5 1 (0.585 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 10 (5.848 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (4.678 %) MCSE 3 4 (2.339 %) MCSA 4 3 (1.754 %) MCP 4 3 (1.754 %) IBM Certification 5 2 (1.170 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (0.585 %) MCDST 6 1 (0.585 %) HNC 6 1 (0.585 %) CCNA 6 1 (0.585 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (0.585 %) CNA 6 1 (0.585 %) CNE 6 1 (0.585 %) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (2.339 %) SLA	System Software 1 59 (34.50 %) Active Directory 2 8 (4.678 %) ISA Server 3 3 (1.754 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (0.585 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (0.585 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (0.585 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (0.585 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 1 (0.585 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 6 (3.509 %) Tivoli 1 6 (3.509 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 6 (3.509 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 4 (2.339 %) WSUS 3 2 (1.170 %) OpenView 4 1 (0.585 %) ARCserve 4 1 (0.585 %) DameWare 4 1 (0.585 %) MOM 4 1 (0.585 %) Tivoli Monitoring	Vendors 1 171 (100.00 %) Lotus 2 53 (30.99 %) Microsoft 3 21 (12.28 %) Remedy 4 16 (9.357 %) Citrix 5 14 (8.187 %) Reuters 6 13 (7.602 %) Bloomberg 7 10 (5.848 %) IBM 8 8 (4.678 %) Cisco 9 6 (3.509 %) Novell 9 6 (3.509 %) Websense 10 5 (2.924 %) McAfee Security 10 5 (2.924 %) Siemens 10 5 (2.924 %) HP 10 5 (2.924 %) Dell 10 5 (2.924 %) Polycom 11 4 (2.339 %) Tandberg 11 4 (2.339 %) Nokia 11 4 (2.339 %) CheckPoint 12 3 (1.754 %) VMware 12 3 (1.754 %) Altiris