The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 20 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 East of England 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 the International Business Machines Corporation.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 83 76 50
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -26
Contract jobs citing IBM 32 62 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.482% 2.110% 3.331%
As % of the Vendors category 3.320% 4.773% 7.173%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 35
Average daily rate £263 £400 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.37% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £208 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £500 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 12
Average hourly rate £27.48 £30.00 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.40% -3.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.21 £30.00 £27.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.20 £30.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £18.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+50.68% -39.16%
All Vendors
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
964 1299 1199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 44.65% 44.21% 46.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 572 468
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £175 £164
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 125 184
Average hourly rate £22.50 £27.00 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £42.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
IBM
England

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England IBM Jobs Demand Trend

IBM
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England IBM Daily Rate Trend

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IBM across the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

East of England IBM Daily Rate Histogram

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England IBM Hourly Rate Trend

IBM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 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
Hertfordshire +8 15 £263 -34.37%
Essex +14 13 £213 -
Bedfordshire +5 2 £300 -
Suffolk +12 1 £250 -39.39%
Cambridgeshire +8 1 £350 -6.66%
IBM
England

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing IBM 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 IBM.

1 33 (40.74%) WebSphere
2 31 (38.27%) Java
2 31 (38.27%) J2EE
2 31 (38.27%) Finance
3 28 (34.57%) E-Commerce
4 27 (33.33%) Retail
5 25 (30.86%) Linux
6 24 (29.63%) SQL
7 20 (24.69%) UNIX
8 17 (20.99%) VMware
8 17 (20.99%) Change Control
9 16 (19.75%) Waterfall
9 16 (19.75%) Games
9 16 (19.75%) Windows
9 16 (19.75%) XML
9 16 (19.75%) HTML
9 16 (19.75%) JavaScript
9 16 (19.75%) Project Management
10 13 (16.05%) Ant
10 13 (16.05%) JSP
11 12 (14.81%) Perl
11 12 (14.81%) OO
11 12 (14.81%) RAD
11 12 (14.81%) XHTML
11 12 (14.81%) Time Management
11 12 (14.81%) Ajax
11 12 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (12.35%) Content Management
12 10 (12.35%) SAN
12 10 (12.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing IBM 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 IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 33 (40.74%) WebSphere
2 31 (38.27%) J2EE
3 16 (19.75%) HTML
3 16 (19.75%) XML
4 13 (16.05%) JSP
5 12 (14.81%) XHTML
5 12 (14.81%) Ajax
6 7 (8.642%) JDBC
6 7 (8.642%) JMS
6 7 (8.642%) EJB
6 7 (8.642%) Servlets
6 7 (8.642%) Struts
7 6 (7.407%) CSS
7 6 (7.407%) XSLT
7 6 (7.407%) XMLBeans
7 6 (7.407%) JSTL
8 5 (6.173%) WebCenter
9 4 (4.938%) Middleware
10 3 (3.704%) Flash
11 2 (2.469%) JRules
Application Platforms
1 9 (11.11%) MQSeries
2 7 (8.642%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (3.704%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.704%) MS Exchange
3 3 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (2.469%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (2.469%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.235%) Apache
5 1 (1.235%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.469%) SPSS
2 1 (1.235%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (7.407%) Tridion
2 2 (2.469%) Agresso
3 1 (1.235%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.235%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.35%) SAN
2 9 (11.11%) NAS
3 6 (7.407%) Internet
4 2 (2.469%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.235%) VPN
5 1 (1.235%) DNS
5 1 (1.235%) Firewall
5 1 (1.235%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.235%) LDAP
5 1 (1.235%) LAN
5 1 (1.235%) WAN
5 1 (1.235%) HTTP
5 1 (1.235%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.11%) DB2
2 6 (7.407%) RDBMS
3 5 (6.173%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.938%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.704%) OLAP
5 3 (3.704%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (3.704%) DbVisualizer
6 2 (2.469%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (2.469%) Clementine
6 2 (2.469%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.235%) DataStage
7 1 (1.235%) Cognos Powerplay
7 1 (1.235%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.235%) Data Mart
7 1 (1.235%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.235%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Ant
2 8 (9.877%) Subversion
3 7 (8.642%) Eclipse
4 6 (7.407%) JUnit
4 6 (7.407%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 6 (7.407%) Log4j
5 3 (3.704%) QuickTest Pro
5 3 (3.704%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.469%) ClearQuest
6 2 (2.469%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.235%) ERwin
7 1 (1.235%) Redmine
General
1 31 (38.27%) Finance
2 27 (33.33%) Retail
3 16 (19.75%) Games
4 5 (6.173%) Automotive
5 4 (4.938%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.938%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.704%) Legal
6 3 (3.704%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.235%) Banking
7 1 (1.235%) Billing
Job Titles
1 15 (18.52%) Project Manager
2 14 (17.28%) Developer
3 12 (14.81%) E-Commerce Manager
3 12 (14.81%) E-Commerce Project Manager
4 8 (9.877%) Administrator
5 7 (8.642%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (8.642%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.407%) J2EE Developer
6 6 (7.407%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 6 (7.407%) Support Engineer
6 6 (7.407%) Consultant
7 5 (6.173%) Backup Engineer
8 4 (4.938%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (4.938%) Architect
8 4 (4.938%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 3 (3.704%) Data Modeller
9 3 (3.704%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.704%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.704%) Tester
9 3 (3.704%) Agile Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.407%) Web 2.0
2 4 (4.938%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.469%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.469%) Replication
3 2 (2.469%) Social Media
4 1 (1.235%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.235%) Clustering
4 1 (1.235%) Statistics
4 1 (1.235%) Data Integration
4 1 (1.235%) LPAR
4 1 (1.235%) SaaS
4 1 (1.235%) PaaS
4 1 (1.235%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.235%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 25 (30.86%) Linux
2 20 (24.69%) UNIX
3 16 (19.75%) Windows
4 7 (8.642%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (7.407%) HPUX
5 6 (7.407%) Solaris
5 6 (7.407%) SUSE
6 4 (4.938%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (3.704%) Apple iOS
7 3 (3.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.704%) Android
8 2 (2.469%) AIX
9 1 (1.235%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.235%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.57%) E-Commerce
2 17 (20.99%) Change Control
3 16 (19.75%) Project Management
3 16 (19.75%) Waterfall
4 12 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (14.81%) OO
4 12 (14.81%) RAD
4 12 (14.81%) Time Management
5 10 (12.35%) Content Management
6 6 (7.407%) UML
6 6 (7.407%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (6.173%) Change Management
8 4 (4.938%) Data Modelling
8 4 (4.938%) ETL
9 3 (3.704%) SOA
9 3 (3.704%) ITIL
9 3 (3.704%) RUP
9 3 (3.704%) Regression Testing
9 3 (3.704%) Scrum
9 3 (3.704%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 31 (38.27%) Java
2 24 (29.63%) SQL
3 16 (19.75%) JavaScript
4 12 (14.81%) Perl
5 7 (8.642%) Bash shell
6 6 (7.407%) XPath
7 3 (3.704%) FQL
8 1 (1.235%) Bourne shell
8 1 (1.235%) C
8 1 (1.235%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.235%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.235%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.235%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (7.407%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.407%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.469%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (2.469%) Degree
3 1 (1.235%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.235%) SLA
1 1 (1.235%) QA
1 1 (1.235%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (4.938%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.938%) VMware ESX
1 4 (4.938%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.235%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 1 (1.235%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 10 (12.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 5 (6.173%) NetBackup
2 5 (6.173%) Backup Exec
3 4 (4.938%) Tivoli
4 2 (2.469%) Control-M
4 2 (2.469%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (1.235%) Netcool/Proviso
5 1 (1.235%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (1.235%) Netcool
5 1 (1.235%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) VMware
2 9 (11.11%) Oracle
3 6 (7.407%) Interwoven
3 6 (7.407%) ATG
3 6 (7.407%) Blue Martini
3 6 (7.407%) Elastic Path
4 5 (6.173%) EMC
4 5 (6.173%) Citrix
4 5 (6.173%) Cognos
4 5 (6.173%) Symantec
5 4 (4.938%) HP
5 4 (4.938%) NetApp
5 4 (4.938%) JBoss
6 3 (3.704%) Cisco
6 3 (3.704%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.704%) Facebook
6 3 (3.704%) Twitter
6 3 (3.704%) FatWire
7 2 (2.469%) Brocade
7 2 (2.469%) BMC
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