The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of webMethods 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 webMethods over the 3 months to 22 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 webMethods, Inc.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
webMethods
Rank 202 207 240
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +33
Contract jobs citing webMethods 3 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% 0.100% 0.010%
As % of the Vendors category 0.103% 0.238% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £525 £444 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.30% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £500 £375
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2906 3363 4071
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.20% 42.15% 42.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2056 2300 2802
Average daily rate £433 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.76% -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 105 101 129
Average hourly rate £23.75 £21.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.09% -2.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £13.59
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £39.50 £44.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
webMethods
London

webMethods
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London webMethods Jobs Demand Trend

webMethods
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London webMethods Daily Rate Trend

webMethods
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing webMethods 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 webMethods.

1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) C
3 3 (30.00%) C#
3 3 (30.00%) Degree
3 3 (30.00%) Sybase
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) UNIX
3 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (30.00%) Investment Management
3 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (20.00%) ESB
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) Retail
5 1 (10.00%) Publishing
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (10.00%) TIBCO EMS
5 1 (10.00%) TIBCO
5 1 (10.00%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (10.00%) Middleware
5 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
5 1 (10.00%) Windows
5 1 (10.00%) UML
5 1 (10.00%) JBoss
5 1 (10.00%) ETL
5 1 (10.00%) WSDL
5 1 (10.00%) Software AG
5 1 (10.00%) J2EE
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle

webMethods
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing webMethods 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 webMethods. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) WSDL
1 1 (10.00%) J2EE
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) ESB
2 1 (10.00%) TIBCO EMS
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) BusinessWorks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (10.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) webMethods Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Developer
4 1 (10.00%) webMethods Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) UNIX
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Investment Management
1 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) UML
3 1 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) C
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Sybase
2 1 (10.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (10.00%) JBoss
2 1 (10.00%) Software AG
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Pega