The first table below looks at the demand for the WebSphere Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Coventry 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
WebSphere Developer
Rank 26 23 24
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +1
Contract jobs requiring a WebSphere Developer 2 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 0.943% 1.946% 0.543%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.026% 2.092% 0.606%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £338 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year
- -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £24.00
All Job Titles
Coventry
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
195 239 165
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 91.98% 93.00% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 91 76
Average daily rate £300 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 36 4
Average hourly rate £31.50 £19.00 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+65.78% +4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.15 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £32.00 £28.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
WebSphere Developer
West Midlands

WebSphere Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere Developer across the Coventry region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Coventry WebSphere Developer Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WebSphere Developer across the Coventry region.

Coventry WebSphere Developer Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Developer
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry region that cited WebSphere Developer in their job title 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 with WebSphere Developer in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (75.00%) SAP Implementation
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) HTTP
2 3 (75.00%) XML Schema
3 1 (25.00%) XSD
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) EAI
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) DataPower
3 1 (25.00%) ESB

WebSphere Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry region that cited WebSphere Developer in their job title 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 with WebSphere Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) XML Schema
3 1 (25.00%) XSD
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (25.00%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) HTTP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) DataPower
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) SAP Implementation
1 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) EAI
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) SAP