The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services 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 Lotus 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within IBM Lotus Software.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lotus
Rank 165 186 178
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -8
Contract jobs citing Lotus 34 33 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.535% 0.419% 0.672%
As % of the Vendors category 1.185% 0.995% 1.595%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 36
Average daily rate £350 £280 £316
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -11.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £165 £173
10% offered a daily rate of more than £444 £498 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £298 £260
% change year-on-year
+7.56% +14.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 14
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.25 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.68% +18.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.80 £18.65 £12.51
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.80 £19.85 £48.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.50 £12.42
% change year-on-year
-9.67% +24.79%
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2870 3315 4200
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.18% 42.11% 42.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2036 2269 2905
Average daily rate £430 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 99 131
Average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% -6.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.70 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £93.00 £39.20 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Lotus
London

Lotus
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Lotus Jobs Demand Trend

Lotus
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Lotus Daily Rate Trend

Lotus
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lotus across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Lotus Daily Rate Histogram

Lotus
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Lotus Hourly Rate Trend

Lotus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 71 (85.54%) Lotus Notes
2 55 (66.27%) Windows
3 44 (53.01%) Active Directory
4 40 (48.19%) Banking
5 35 (42.17%) Microsoft
6 30 (36.14%) MS Office
6 30 (36.14%) Windows Server 2008
7 28 (33.73%) Migration
8 27 (32.53%) MS Exchange
8 27 (32.53%) Finance
8 27 (32.53%) Citrix
9 24 (28.92%) Blackberry
10 23 (27.71%) TCP/IP
11 22 (26.51%) Windows XP
11 22 (26.51%) Lotus Domino
11 22 (26.51%) Exchange Server 2003
12 21 (25.30%) Windows 7
12 21 (25.30%) Exchange Server 2010
13 17 (20.48%) LDAP
13 17 (20.48%) MS Excel
13 17 (20.48%) POP3
13 17 (20.48%) SMTP
13 17 (20.48%) SSL
14 16 (19.28%) HTML
15 15 (18.07%) C
15 15 (18.07%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 15 (18.07%) Symantec
15 15 (18.07%) PowerShell
16 14 (16.87%) Windows Server 2003
17 13 (15.66%) Symantec Enterprise Vault

Lotus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 16 (19.28%) HTML
2 11 (13.25%) XML
3 6 (7.229%) XHTML
3 6 (7.229%) Servlets
3 6 (7.229%) CSS
3 6 (7.229%) Middleware
4 5 (6.024%) jQuery
4 5 (6.024%) ASP
5 4 (4.819%) WSDL
5 4 (4.819%) .NET
5 4 (4.819%) J2EE
5 4 (4.819%) JSP
5 4 (4.819%) XSL
5 4 (4.819%) ODBC
5 4 (4.819%) FIXML
5 4 (4.819%) OLE DB
5 4 (4.819%) WebSphere
5 4 (4.819%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.205%) COM
Application Platforms
1 71 (85.54%) Lotus Notes
2 27 (32.53%) MS Exchange
3 22 (26.51%) Lotus Domino
3 22 (26.51%) Exchange Server 2003
4 21 (25.30%) Exchange Server 2010
5 15 (18.07%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 7 (8.434%) Office Communications Server
7 6 (7.229%) SharePoint
7 6 (7.229%) IIS
8 5 (6.024%) CMS
9 4 (4.819%) Apache
9 4 (4.819%) Tomcat
9 4 (4.819%) WebSphere MQ
9 4 (4.819%) Alfresco
10 2 (2.410%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (2.410%) Exchange Server 2007
11 1 (1.205%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (1.205%) Exchange Server 5.5
11 1 (1.205%) Exchange Server 2000
11 1 (1.205%) FileNet
Applications
1 30 (36.14%) MS Office
2 17 (20.48%) MS Excel
3 8 (9.639%) MS PowerPoint
4 4 (4.819%) MS Visio
5 2 (2.410%) MS Project
6 1 (1.205%) Google Apps
6 1 (1.205%) Office 365
6 1 (1.205%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (1.205%) RoboHelp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (27.71%) TCP/IP
2 17 (20.48%) LDAP
2 17 (20.48%) POP3
2 17 (20.48%) SMTP
2 17 (20.48%) SSL
3 7 (8.434%) Internet
4 3 (3.614%) NAS
4 3 (3.614%) SAN
4 3 (3.614%) VoIP
4 3 (3.614%) VPN
5 2 (2.410%) DNS
5 2 (2.410%) WAN
5 2 (2.410%) LAN
5 2 (2.410%) DHCP
5 2 (2.410%) HTTP
6 1 (1.205%) SMS
6 1 (1.205%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.024%) MS Access
2 4 (4.819%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.819%) WinDbg
2 2 (2.410%) MSI
General
1 40 (48.19%) Banking
2 27 (32.53%) Finance
3 12 (14.46%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.614%) Back Office
5 2 (2.410%) Marketing
6 1 (1.205%) Legal
6 1 (1.205%) Publishing
6 1 (1.205%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (39.76%) Analyst
2 15 (18.07%) Support Analyst
3 8 (9.639%) Consultant
3 8 (9.639%) Test Analyst
4 7 (8.434%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 6 (7.229%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (7.229%) Desktop Support
6 5 (6.024%) Exchange Engineer
6 5 (6.024%) Developer
6 5 (6.024%) 3rd Line Support
7 4 (4.819%) Service Analyst
7 4 (4.819%) Applications Support
7 4 (4.819%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.819%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.819%) Applications Support Analyst
7 4 (4.819%) Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (4.819%) Exchange Consultant
7 4 (4.819%) Domino Developer
7 4 (4.819%) Messaging Consultant
8 3 (3.614%) Messaging Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (28.92%) Blackberry
2 5 (6.024%) Fat Client
2 5 (6.024%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (6.024%) Thin Client
3 4 (4.819%) Open Source
3 4 (4.819%) SWIFT
4 3 (3.614%) FMCG
4 3 (3.614%) Kindle
5 2 (2.410%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.410%) iPad
6 1 (1.205%) iPhone
6 1 (1.205%) Derivative
6 1 (1.205%) Statistics
6 1 (1.205%) Mathematics
6 1 (1.205%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (1.205%) E-Learning
6 1 (1.205%) Equities
6 1 (1.205%) Clustering
6 1 (1.205%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 55 (66.27%) Windows
2 30 (36.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 22 (26.51%) Windows XP
4 21 (25.30%) Windows 7
5 14 (16.87%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (3.614%) Windows Vista
7 2 (2.410%) Windows 2000
7 2 (2.410%) Solaris
8 1 (1.205%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.205%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.205%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (33.73%) Migration
2 12 (14.46%) Project Management
3 9 (10.84%) ITIL
4 8 (9.639%) Business Continuity
5 5 (6.024%) Document Management
5 5 (6.024%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (6.024%) ITSM
6 4 (4.819%) Service Management
6 4 (4.819%) Content Management
7 3 (3.614%) Technical Architecture
7 3 (3.614%) Asset Management
7 3 (3.614%) Service Delivery
7 3 (3.614%) PRINCE2
8 2 (2.410%) Configuration Management
8 2 (2.410%) Change Management
8 2 (2.410%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (2.410%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (2.410%) Web Development
8 2 (2.410%) Incident Management
8 2 (2.410%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.07%) C
1 15 (18.07%) PowerShell
2 12 (14.46%) SQL
3 11 (13.25%) VBScript
4 10 (12.05%) Java
4 10 (12.05%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.024%) PHP
6 4 (4.819%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 8 (9.639%) MCSE
1 8 (9.639%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (8.434%) ISEB
3 4 (4.819%) MCITP
4 3 (3.614%) Degree
5 2 (2.410%) MCP
5 2 (2.410%) PMP
5 2 (2.410%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.410%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.410%) BC Cleared
5 2 (2.410%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.205%) MCDST
6 1 (1.205%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.205%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.205%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.205%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.46%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.205%) QA
2 1 (1.205%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (53.01%) Active Directory
2 11 (13.25%) XenApp
3 10 (12.05%) XenDesktop
3 10 (12.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.205%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (15.66%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 11 (13.25%) Norton AntiVirus
3 7 (8.434%) SCOM
3 7 (8.434%) Tivoli
3 7 (8.434%) MAILsweeper
4 3 (3.614%) SCCM
5 1 (1.205%) WSUS
5 1 (1.205%) DameWare
5 1 (1.205%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 35 (42.17%) Microsoft
2 27 (32.53%) Citrix
3 15 (18.07%) Symantec
4 11 (13.25%) VMware
5 8 (9.639%) IBM
5 8 (9.639%) Reuters
5 8 (9.639%) Bloomberg
6 7 (8.434%) McAfee
7 6 (7.229%) LANDesk
8 5 (6.024%) AppSense
8 5 (6.024%) Oracle
8 5 (6.024%) HP
9 4 (4.819%) Sun
9 4 (4.819%) JBoss
9 4 (4.819%) Plumtree
9 4 (4.819%) Remedy
10 2 (2.410%) Unisys
10 2 (2.410%) Apple
11 1 (1.205%) Maconomy
11 1 (1.205%) Sophos
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