City of London WebSphere Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere
Location Ashby-de-la-Zouch Atherstone Avon Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isle of Man Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peel Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	145	98
Rank change on same period last year	-47
Matching contract IT job ads	76	112
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.100 %	0.119 %
As % of the category below	3.535 %	6.926 %
Daily rates quoted	35	36
Average minimum daily rate	£437	£411
Average daily rate	£462	£437
% change on same period last year	+5.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£488	£464
UK excluding London average daily rate	£408	£394
% change on same period last year	+3.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.00
Average hourly rate	-	£17.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.24	£40.07
% change on same period last year	+7.89 %
Application Development City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	2150	1617
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.835 %	1.715 %
Daily rates quoted	1189	704
Average minimum daily rate	£401	£457
Average daily rate	£436	£493
% change on same period last year	-11.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£471	£529
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.48	£26.98
Average hourly rate	£30.45	£30.26
% change on same period last year	+0.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.42	£33.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
WebSphere 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.

WebSphere
Demand Trend

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

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere across the City of London region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing WebSphere 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 WebSphere.

1 116 (58.88 %) Java 2 80 (40.61 %) Banking 2 80 (40.61 %) J2EE 3 64 (32.49 %) Unix 3 64 (32.49 %) Finance 4 59 (29.95 %) WebSphere MQ 5 54 (27.41 %) XML 5 54 (27.41 %) Oracle 6 53 (26.90 %) SQL 7 41 (20.81 %) Windows 7 41 (20.81 %) Investment Banking 8 39 (19.80 %) C++ 9 38 (19.29 %) Middleware 10 37 (18.78 %) Solaris 10 37 (18.78 %) IBM

11 36 (18.27 %) MQSeries 12 35 (17.77 %) Linux 13 34 (17.26 %) WebLogic 14 33 (16.75 %) OO 15 31 (15.74 %) WebSphere Application Server 16 30 (15.23 %) JSP 17 28 (14.21 %) Sybase 18 26 (13.20 %) Fixed Income 18 26 (13.20 %) EJB 19 25 (12.69 %) Spring 20 24 (12.18 %) Multithreading 20 24 (12.18 %) Hibernate 21 20 (10.15 %) UML 21 20 (10.15 %) Servlets 21 20 (10.15 %) HTML

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing WebSphere 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 WebSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 80 (40.61 %) J2EE 2 54 (27.41 %) XML 3 38 (19.29 %) Middleware 4 30 (15.23 %) JSP 5 26 (13.20 %) EJB 6 25 (12.69 %) Spring 7 24 (12.18 %) Hibernate 8 20 (10.15 %) HTML 8 20 (10.15 %) .NET 8 20 (10.15 %) Servlets 9 16 (8.122 %) MFC 9 16 (8.122 %) XSLT 10 15 (7.614 %) Struts 11 8 (4.061 %) CSS 12 7 (3.553 %) Swing 12 7 (3.553 %) Java RMI 13 6 (3.046 %) COM+ 13 6 (3.046 %) AJAX 14 5 (2.538 %) JDBC 14 5 (2.538 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 59 (29.95 %) WebSphere MQ 2 36 (18.27 %) MQSeries 3 34 (17.26 %) WebLogic 4 31 (15.74 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 17 (8.629 %) Tomcat 5 17 (8.629 %) WebSphere Message Broker 6 16 (8.122 %) IIS 7 15 (7.614 %) Apache 8 14 (7.107 %) MQSI 9 8 (4.061 %) SmartSockets 10 6 (3.046 %) Rendezvous 11 5 (2.538 %) JBoss 11 5 (2.538 %) WPS 12 3 (1.523 %) CICS 13 2 (1.015 %) IBM HTTP Server 13 2 (1.015 %) ESB 13 2 (1.015 %) TIBCO EMS 14 1 (0.508 %) WMQI 14 1 (0.508 %) Oracle Application Server 14 1 (0.508 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 3 (1.523 %) CA Clarity 2 2 (1.015 %) MS Project 2 2 (1.015 %) Open Workbench	Business Applications 1 2 (1.015 %) Misys Midas 2 1 (0.508 %) BusinessWorks 2 1 (0.508 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 11 (5.584 %) Firewall 2 8 (4.061 %) Internet 3 7 (3.553 %) TCP/IP 4 5 (2.538 %) SSL 5 4 (2.030 %) BIG-IP 6 3 (1.523 %) Intranet 6 3 (1.523 %) LDAP 6 3 (1.523 %) FTP 7 2 (1.015 %) HTTP 7 2 (1.015 %) SAN 8 1 (0.508 %) DNS 8 1 (0.508 %) SNMP 8 1 (0.508 %) LAN 8 1 (0.508 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (6.599 %) RDBMS 2 9 (4.569 %) DB2 3 8 (4.061 %) SQL Server 4 7 (3.553 %) Oracle 10g 5 3 (1.523 %) Oracle Reports 5 3 (1.523 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 3 (1.523 %) Reference Data 5 3 (1.523 %) Datawarehouse 5 3 (1.523 %) ETL 5 3 (1.523 %) TOAD 6 1 (0.508 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (0.508 %) DataStage 6 1 (0.508 %) SQLPlus 6 1 (0.508 %) Oracle OWB 6 1 (0.508 %) Data Cleansing
Development Applications 1 18 (9.137 %) ClearCase 2 14 (7.107 %) Eclipse 3 13 (6.599 %) JUnit 4 9 (4.569 %) Ant 5 4 (2.030 %) LoadRunner 6 3 (1.523 %) Subversion 6 3 (1.523 %) Cactus 7 2 (1.015 %) WebLogic Workshop 7 2 (1.015 %) ClearQuest 7 2 (1.015 %) NUnit 8 1 (0.508 %) IntelliJ 8 1 (0.508 %) TestDirector 8 1 (0.508 %) FrontPage 8 1 (0.508 %) jMock 8 1 (0.508 %) AppScan	General 1 80 (40.61 %) Banking 2 64 (32.49 %) Finance 3 41 (20.81 %) Investment Banking 4 12 (6.091 %) Front Office 5 10 (5.076 %) Retail 6 8 (4.061 %) Retail Banking 7 6 (3.046 %) Financial Institution 8 3 (1.523 %) Insurance 8 3 (1.523 %) Back Office 9 2 (1.015 %) Construction 9 2 (1.015 %) Corporate Banking 10 1 (0.508 %) Online Banking 10 1 (0.508 %) Marketing 10 1 (0.508 %) Government 10 1 (0.508 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 112 (56.85 %) Developer 2 58 (29.44 %) Java Developer 3 27 (13.71 %) J2EE Developer 4 24 (12.18 %) Administrator 5 22 (11.17 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 18 (9.137 %) C++ Developer 6 18 (9.137 %) Senior Developer 6 18 (9.137 %) Analyst 7 10 (5.076 %) Consultant 7 10 (5.076 %) WebSphere Developer 8 8 (4.061 %) WebSphere Administrator 9 7 (3.553 %) Senior Java Developer 10 5 (2.538 %) WebSphere Consultant 10 5 (2.538 %) Calypso Developer 10 5 (2.538 %) Architect 10 5 (2.538 %) Programmer 10 5 (2.538 %) Support Analyst 10 5 (2.538 %) Wintel Engineer 11 4 (2.030 %) Web Analyst 11 4 (2.030 %) Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 26 (13.20 %) Fixed Income 2 24 (12.18 %) Multithreading 3 9 (4.569 %) Asset Management 3 9 (4.569 %) Derivative 4 7 (3.553 %) Grid Computing 5 6 (3.046 %) Equities 6 5 (2.538 %) Fat Client 6 5 (2.538 %) Thin Client 7 4 (2.030 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 7 4 (2.030 %) Clustering 7 4 (2.030 %) Credit Derivative 8 3 (1.523 %) N-Tier 8 3 (1.523 %) Mainframe 9 2 (1.015 %) Contract for Difference 10 1 (0.508 %) Credit Risk 10 1 (0.508 %) Market Risk 10 1 (0.508 %) PKI 10 1 (0.508 %) AS400 10 1 (0.508 %) HACMP 10 1 (0.508 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 64 (32.49 %) Unix 2 41 (20.81 %) Windows 3 37 (18.78 %) Solaris 4 35 (17.77 %) Linux 5 9 (4.569 %) Windows 2000 6 7 (3.553 %) Windows NT 7 3 (1.523 %) AIX 7 3 (1.523 %) Windows Server 2003 8 1 (0.508 %) HPUX 8 1 (0.508 %) VMS 8 1 (0.508 %) OpenVMS 8 1 (0.508 %) OS/390	Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (16.75 %) OO 2 20 (10.15 %) UML 3 12 (6.091 %) RAD 4 7 (3.553 %) E-Commerce 5 6 (3.046 %) Data Modelling 6 5 (2.538 %) SOA 6 5 (2.538 %) Load Testing 7 4 (2.030 %) Load Balancing 8 3 (1.523 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 3 (1.523 %) MVC 8 3 (1.523 %) BPEL 8 3 (1.523 %) TDD 8 3 (1.523 %) OOD 8 3 (1.523 %) RUP 8 3 (1.523 %) CRM 8 3 (1.523 %) PRINCE2 9 2 (1.015 %) ITIL 9 2 (1.015 %) Project Management 9 2 (1.015 %) E-business 9 2 (1.015 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 116 (58.88 %) Java 2 53 (26.90 %) SQL 3 39 (19.80 %) C++ 4 18 (9.137 %) C# 5 17 (8.629 %) VC++ 6 8 (4.061 %) JavaScript 7 7 (3.553 %) VBScript 8 6 (3.046 %) PL/SQL 9 5 (2.538 %) Perl 9 5 (2.538 %) Korn 10 4 (2.030 %) Shell Script 11 3 (1.523 %) Groovy 11 3 (1.523 %) Python 11 3 (1.523 %) VB 11 3 (1.523 %) RPG 11 3 (1.523 %) C 11 3 (1.523 %) COBOL 12 2 (1.015 %) DHTML 12 2 (1.015 %) VBA 12 2 (1.015 %) XQuery	Qualifications 1 4 (2.030 %) MCSE 1 4 (2.030 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (0.508 %) CNE 2 1 (0.508 %) Novell Certification 2 1 (0.508 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (0.508 %) IBM Certification 2 1 (0.508 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.508 %) SLA	System Software 1 9 (4.569 %) VMware ESX 2 3 (1.523 %) Active Directory 2 3 (1.523 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (0.508 %) NetBackup 3 1 (0.508 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 18 (9.137 %) AutoSys 2 5 (2.538 %) CA SiteMinder 3 3 (1.523 %) MOM 4 2 (1.015 %) CONTROL-M 5 1 (0.508 %) BMC PATROL 5 1 (0.508 %) Netcool 5 1 (0.508 %) Tivoli 5 1 (0.508 %) Tivoli Monitoring	Vendors 1 54 (27.41 %) Oracle 2 37 (18.78 %) IBM 3 28 (14.21 %) Sybase 4 19 (9.645 %) Sun 5 13 (6.599 %) Microsoft 5 13 (6.599 %) Red Hat 5 13 (6.599 %) TIBCO 6 12 (6.091 %) VMware 6 12 (6.091 %) HP 7 11 (5.584 %) Citrix 8 9 (4.569 %) DataSynapse 9 7 (3.553 %) Infragistics 10 5 (2.538 %) SeeBeyond 10 5 (2.538 %) ILOG 10 5 (2.538 %) Calypso 10 5 (2.538 %) EMC 10 5 (2.538 %) Actuate 11 4 (2.030 %) CA 11 4 (2.030 %) Murex 11 4 (2.030 %) VERITAS