The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere 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 of the Application Development category for the East Midlands 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank 35 56 58
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +2
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 53 28 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 4.250% 2.033% 1.628%
As % of the Application Development category 16.21% 7.865% 6.907%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 11
Average daily rate £425 £438 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £350 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £576 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £413 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.23% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.82% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £45.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-33.70% +39.23%
All Application Development
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
327 356 333
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 26.22% 25.85% 23.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 186 120
Average daily rate £310 £275 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -5.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £225 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £405 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 38
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

East Midlands WebSphere Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands WebSphere Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

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

East Midlands WebSphere Daily Rate Histogram

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands WebSphere Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottinghamshire +6 19 £394 -21.25%
Leicestershire +7 12 £425 +41.66%
Northamptonshire +9 4 £461 +0.98%
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 31 (45.59%) IBM
2 29 (42.65%) UNIX
3 27 (39.71%) Java
4 24 (35.29%) XML
5 23 (33.82%) DB2
6 22 (32.35%) HTML
7 18 (26.47%) WebSphere MQ
8 17 (25.00%) Retail
8 17 (25.00%) Oracle
9 16 (23.53%) J2EE
9 16 (23.53%) SQL
10 15 (22.06%) JavaScript
10 15 (22.06%) OO
11 14 (20.59%) WebSphere Application Server
11 14 (20.59%) CSS
12 13 (19.12%) E-Commerce
12 13 (19.12%) RDBMS
13 12 (17.65%) EJB
13 12 (17.65%) Perl
13 12 (17.65%) JUnit
13 12 (17.65%) MVC
13 12 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (16.18%) DataPower
14 11 (16.18%) Bash shell
14 11 (16.18%) Content Management
14 11 (16.18%) JDBC
14 11 (16.18%) JSP
14 11 (16.18%) Servlets
14 11 (16.18%) Windows
14 11 (16.18%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 24 (35.29%) XML
2 22 (32.35%) HTML
3 16 (23.53%) J2EE
4 14 (20.59%) CSS
5 12 (17.65%) EJB
6 11 (16.18%) JDBC
6 11 (16.18%) JSP
6 11 (16.18%) Servlets
6 11 (16.18%) XHTML
7 10 (14.71%) Web Services
8 9 (13.24%) WSDL
9 8 (11.76%) XML Schema
9 8 (11.76%) XSD
9 8 (11.76%) XSLT
9 8 (11.76%) SOAP
10 5 (7.353%) Middleware
11 3 (4.412%) jQuery
11 3 (4.412%) Java EE
12 2 (2.941%) .NET
12 2 (2.941%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 18 (26.47%) WebSphere MQ
2 14 (20.59%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (10.29%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 6 (8.824%) WebSphere Portal
5 3 (4.412%) GlassFish
5 3 (4.412%) ESB
5 3 (4.412%) WebLogic
6 2 (2.941%) MQSeries
6 2 (2.941%) Apache Solr
7 1 (1.471%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.471%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.471%) Commerce Server
7 1 (1.471%) Papyrus
Applications
1 1 (1.471%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.471%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.412%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.471%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.71%) HTTP
2 9 (13.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (33.82%) DB2
2 13 (19.12%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.471%) OLTP
3 1 (1.471%) TOAD
3 1 (1.471%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) JUnit
2 11 (16.18%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 11 (16.18%) Eclipse
3 4 (5.882%) Selenium
4 3 (4.412%) Hudson
4 3 (4.412%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.412%) QuickTest Pro
4 3 (4.412%) Maven
4 3 (4.412%) Subversion
5 2 (2.941%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.471%) Ant
General
1 17 (25.00%) Retail
2 9 (13.24%) Banking
2 9 (13.24%) Investment Banking
3 4 (5.882%) Finance
4 2 (2.941%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.471%) Marketing
5 1 (1.471%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (33.82%) Developer
2 19 (27.94%) WebSphere Developer
3 11 (16.18%) Administrator
4 9 (13.24%) Architect
5 5 (7.353%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (7.353%) WebSphere Administrator
6 4 (5.882%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.412%) Agile Tester
7 3 (4.412%) Tester
8 2 (2.941%) Environment Manager
8 2 (2.941%) Incident Manager
8 2 (2.941%) WebSphere Engineer
8 2 (2.941%) WebSphere Architect
8 2 (2.941%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (2.941%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (2.941%) WebSphere Specialist
8 2 (2.941%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.941%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.941%) Analyst
8 2 (2.941%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) DataPower
2 1 (1.471%) Client/Server
2 1 (1.471%) IVR
2 1 (1.471%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 29 (42.65%) UNIX
2 11 (16.18%) Windows
3 9 (13.24%) Linux
4 7 (10.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.471%) AIX
5 1 (1.471%) HPUX
5 1 (1.471%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.06%) OO
2 13 (19.12%) E-Commerce
3 12 (17.65%) MVC
3 12 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (16.18%) Content Management
4 11 (16.18%) UML
4 11 (16.18%) RAD
5 9 (13.24%) TDD
6 8 (11.76%) SOA
7 7 (10.29%) BDD
7 7 (10.29%) Scrum
7 7 (10.29%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (8.824%) Extreme Programming
9 4 (5.882%) Project Management
9 4 (5.882%) Migration
9 4 (5.882%) ERP
9 4 (5.882%) Kanban
10 3 (4.412%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (4.412%) Automation Testing
10 3 (4.412%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 27 (39.71%) Java
2 16 (23.53%) SQL
3 15 (22.06%) JavaScript
4 12 (17.65%) Perl
5 11 (16.18%) Bash shell
6 8 (11.76%) XPath
7 1 (1.471%) C++
7 1 (1.471%) VB
7 1 (1.471%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.471%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.471%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.471%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (14.71%) Sun Certification
2 1 (1.471%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.412%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.471%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.353%) Tivoli
1 5 (7.353%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 2 (2.941%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 31 (45.59%) IBM
2 17 (25.00%) Oracle
3 10 (14.71%) Sun
4 8 (11.76%) SAP
5 7 (10.29%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.412%) JBoss
7 2 (2.941%) HP
7 2 (2.941%) Citrix
8 1 (1.471%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.471%) VMware
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Posted: 21 May 2013