Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the East Midlands region.

 IBM WebSphere
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank355062
Rank change year-on-year
Up+15Up+12
Matching contract IT job ads27834
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands2.727 %0.907 %1.610 %
As % of the Application Development category14.06 %4.790 %7.265 %
Daily rates quoted8011
Average daily rate£350-£460
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£195-£400
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£405-£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£375£400£400
% change year-on-year
-6.250 %-
Hourly rates quoted100
Average hourly rate£13.00--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£32.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-21.87 %-8.570 %
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
192167468
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands19.39 %18.93 %22.16 %
Daily rates quoted644590
Average daily rate£288£215£335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.72 %-35.82 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£195£170£218
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£475£313£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted16629
Average hourly rate£13.00£23.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.68 %-21.66 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.50£8.50£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£31.45£195.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %
WebSphere EnglandWebSphere
England

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.

WebSphere
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 Demand Trend

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

East Midlands WebSphere Daily Rate Histogram

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
NottinghamshireNew entry-16£195-
NorthamptonshireDown-101--
DerbyshireNew entry-1£475-
WebSphere EnglandWebSphere
England

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

118 (52.94 %)Java
118 (52.94 %)J2EE
213 (38.24 %)WebSphere MQ
39 (26.47 %)SOA
39 (26.47 %)WebSphere Message Broker
48 (23.53 %)Integration Testing
48 (23.53 %)WebSphere Process Server
48 (23.53 %)EAI
48 (23.53 %)Oracle
48 (23.53 %)UML
57 (20.59 %)XML
57 (20.59 %)UNIX
57 (20.59 %)IBM
66 (17.65 %)Web Services
66 (17.65 %)SQL Server
66 (17.65 %)WebLogic
66 (17.65 %)SQL Server 2005
75 (14.71 %)Unit Testing
75 (14.71 %)Oracle 8/8i
84 (11.76 %)Tuxedo
84 (11.76 %)Oracle 10g
84 (11.76 %)BEA
84 (11.76 %)PeopleSoft
84 (11.76 %)Oracle Reports
84 (11.76 %)User Acceptance Testing
84 (11.76 %)QA
84 (11.76 %)WBIMB
84 (11.76 %)Pensions
84 (11.76 %)Construction
84 (11.76 %)System Testing

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
118 (52.94 %)J2EE
27 (20.59 %)XML
36 (17.65 %)Web Services
44 (11.76 %)WBIMB
53 (8.824 %)Spring
62 (5.882 %)JMS
62 (5.882 %)Swing
62 (5.882 %)ASP
62 (5.882 %)ASP.NET
62 (5.882 %).NET
62 (5.882 %)Hibernate
71 (2.941 %)JPA
71 (2.941 %)HTML
71 (2.941 %)JDBC
71 (2.941 %)JSP
71 (2.941 %)SOAP
71 (2.941 %)XSD
71 (2.941 %)Middleware
71 (2.941 %)WSDL
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
113 (38.24 %)WebSphere MQ
29 (26.47 %)WebSphere Message Broker
38 (23.53 %)WebSphere Process Server
46 (17.65 %)WebLogic
54 (11.76 %)Tuxedo
62 (5.882 %)MQSeries
71 (2.941 %)ESB
71 (2.941 %)Tomcat
71 (2.941 %)Apache
71 (2.941 %)Lotus Notes
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (2.941 %)MS Office
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13 (8.824 %)FTP
21 (2.941 %)SSH
21 (2.941 %)Internet
21 (2.941 %)HTTP
21 (2.941 %)SSL
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (17.65 %)SQL Server
16 (17.65 %)SQL Server 2005
25 (14.71 %)Oracle 8/8i
34 (11.76 %)Oracle 10g
34 (11.76 %)Oracle Reports
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (8.824 %)Maven
13 (8.824 %)JUnit
22 (5.882 %)Ant
31 (2.941 %)DbUnit
31 (2.941 %)LoadRunner
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14 (11.76 %)Pensions
14 (11.76 %)Construction
21 (2.941 %)Finance
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
122 (64.71 %)Developer
217 (50.00 %)WebSphere Developer
34 (11.76 %)Analyst
34 (11.76 %)Test Analyst
34 (11.76 %)Oracle Analyst
43 (8.824 %)PeopleSoft Analyst
43 (8.824 %)Java Developer
52 (5.882 %)Applications Developer
52 (5.882 %).NET Developer
52 (5.882 %)C# Developer
52 (5.882 %)ASP.NET Developer
52 (5.882 %)Architect
52 (5.882 %)C# Application Developer
52 (5.882 %).NET Applications Developer
52 (5.882 %)Systems Integrator
52 (5.882 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
61 (2.941 %)Senior Java Developer
61 (2.941 %)WebSphere Specialist
61 (2.941 %)WebSphere Consultant
61 (2.941 %)Graduate
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (2.941 %)CMDB
11 (2.941 %)Client/Server
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
17 (20.59 %)UNIX
21 (2.941 %)Windows
21 (2.941 %)AIX
21 (2.941 %)Linux
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
19 (26.47 %)SOA
28 (23.53 %)Integration Testing
28 (23.53 %)EAI
28 (23.53 %)UML
35 (14.71 %)Unit Testing
44 (11.76 %)User Acceptance Testing
44 (11.76 %)System Testing
44 (11.76 %)Time Management
51 (2.941 %)Test Scripting
51 (2.941 %)Agile Software Development
51 (2.941 %)OO
51 (2.941 %)OOD
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
118 (52.94 %)Java
22 (5.882 %)VB
22 (5.882 %)C
22 (5.882 %)C#
22 (5.882 %)VB6
31 (2.941 %)SQL
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
14 (11.76 %)QA
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (2.941 %)OVSD
11 (2.941 %)OpenView
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
18 (23.53 %)Oracle
27 (20.59 %)IBM
34 (11.76 %)BEA
34 (11.76 %)PeopleSoft
43 (8.824 %)HP
51 (2.941 %)Ab Initio
51 (2.941 %)JBoss
51 (2.941 %)Lotus
51 (2.941 %)Chordiant
51 (2.941 %)Microsoft