East of England WebSphere Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere
Location Ascot Ashby-de-la-Zouch Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Jersey Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester 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 Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	52
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	99	140
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.134 %	0.138 %
As % of the category below	11.26 %	10.00 %
Daily rates quoted	31	48
Average minimum daily rate	£386	£362
Average daily rate	£406	£381
% change on same period last year	+6.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£426	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£395	£383
% change on same period last year	+2.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	30
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£31.98
Average hourly rate	-	£32.33
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£32.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£41.78	£34.99
% change on same period last year	+19.41 %
Application Development East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	879	1400
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.188 %	1.381 %
Daily rates quoted	305	396
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£335
Average daily rate	£366	£355
% change on same period last year	+2.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	68	180
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.81	£30.17
Average hourly rate	£30.85	£31.24
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.90	£32.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.38	£32.95
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
WebSphere England

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 East of England 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 East of England region.

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere across the East of England region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 East of England region.

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 of England region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Norfolk	+24	52	£447	-12.86 %
Cambridgeshire	+12	15	£386	+27.86 %
Hertfordshire	-13	13	£351	-1.86 %
East Anglia	+5	11	£338	-7.30 %
Essex	-29	8	£440	-0.71 %

WebSphere England

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 192 (65.08 %) J2EE 2 166 (56.27 %) Java 3 99 (33.56 %) IBM 4 94 (31.86 %) Finance 5 92 (31.19 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 86 (29.15 %) SQL 7 80 (27.12 %) UNIX 8 56 (18.98 %) DB2 9 48 (16.27 %) WPS 10 47 (15.93 %) UML 11 45 (15.25 %) Struts 11 45 (15.25 %) Oracle 12 42 (14.24 %) XML 13 39 (13.22 %) Linux 14 37 (12.54 %) JSP

15 36 (12.20 %) EJB 16 35 (11.86 %) OO 17 34 (11.53 %) E-Commerce 17 34 (11.53 %) Servlets 18 31 (10.51 %) AIX 19 30 (10.17 %) Insurance 20 28 (9.492 %) WPF 20 28 (9.492 %) SOA 21 26 (8.814 %) Tivoli 21 26 (8.814 %) DSDM 21 26 (8.814 %) JDBC 21 26 (8.814 %) HTML 22 25 (8.475 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 23 24 (8.136 %) Spring 24 23 (7.797 %) WebLogic

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 1 192 (65.08 %) J2EE 2 45 (15.25 %) Struts 3 42 (14.24 %) XML 4 37 (12.54 %) JSP 5 36 (12.20 %) EJB 6 34 (11.53 %) Servlets 7 28 (9.492 %) WPF 8 26 (8.814 %) JDBC 8 26 (8.814 %) HTML 9 24 (8.136 %) Spring 10 23 (7.797 %) WebServices 11 21 (7.119 %) CSS 11 21 (7.119 %) Middleware 12 20 (6.780 %) Hibernate 13 19 (6.441 %) JMS 13 19 (6.441 %) JRules 14 13 (4.407 %) JSF 14 13 (4.407 %) SOAP 14 13 (4.407 %) XSLT 14 13 (4.407 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 92 (31.19 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 48 (16.27 %) WPS 3 23 (7.797 %) WebLogic 4 22 (7.458 %) JBoss 5 17 (5.763 %) WebSphere MQ 6 15 (5.085 %) Apache 6 15 (5.085 %) MQSeries 7 11 (3.729 %) Tomcat 8 9 (3.051 %) CICS 9 8 (2.712 %) ESB 10 6 (2.034 %) CMS 10 6 (2.034 %) IBM HTTP Server 11 5 (1.695 %) Lotus Domino 12 2 (0.678 %) IIS 12 2 (0.678 %) WebSphere Message Broker 12 2 (0.678 %) Smallworld 13 1 (0.339 %) TIBCO EMS 13 1 (0.339 %) Rendezvous 13 1 (0.339 %) Tuxedo
Applications 1 7 (2.373 %) MS Excel 2 5 (1.695 %) MS Project 2 5 (1.695 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.339 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (0.339 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 14 (4.746 %) HTTP 2 10 (3.390 %) Internet 3 9 (3.051 %) Firewall 4 4 (1.356 %) SSL 5 3 (1.017 %) LDAP 6 1 (0.339 %) DMZ 6 1 (0.339 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 56 (18.98 %) DB2 2 13 (4.407 %) SQL Server 3 6 (2.034 %) Oracle 9i 3 6 (2.034 %) BusinessObjects 4 5 (1.695 %) Oracle 10g 5 4 (1.356 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (0.678 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (0.678 %) RDBMS 6 2 (0.678 %) DataStage 6 2 (0.678 %) GIS 7 1 (0.339 %) MySQL 7 1 (0.339 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (0.339 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 25 (8.475 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 2 23 (7.797 %) Ant 3 21 (7.119 %) Eclipse 4 19 (6.441 %) JUnit 5 9 (3.051 %) JDeveloper 5 9 (3.051 %) JBuilder 6 8 (2.712 %) IntelliJ 7 7 (2.373 %) Atlassian Bamboo 7 7 (2.373 %) CruiseControl 8 4 (1.356 %) ClearQuest 9 2 (0.678 %) JMeter 9 2 (0.678 %) ClearCase 9 2 (0.678 %) QuickTest Pro 9 2 (0.678 %) LoadRunner 10 1 (0.339 %) WinRunner 10 1 (0.339 %) FrontPage	General 1 94 (31.86 %) Finance 2 30 (10.17 %) Insurance 3 11 (3.729 %) Pensions 4 10 (3.390 %) Retail 5 7 (2.373 %) Marketing 5 7 (2.373 %) Banking 6 6 (2.034 %) Construction 6 6 (2.034 %) Government 7 4 (1.356 %) Automotive 8 3 (1.017 %) Back Office 8 3 (1.017 %) Games 9 2 (0.678 %) Pharmaceutical 9 2 (0.678 %) Online Games 9 2 (0.678 %) Retail Banking 9 2 (0.678 %) Chemicals 9 2 (0.678 %) Health 10 1 (0.339 %) Education 10 1 (0.339 %) Telecoms 10 1 (0.339 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 126 (42.71 %) Developer 2 57 (19.32 %) Java Developer 3 43 (14.58 %) WebSphere Developer 4 35 (11.86 %) Architect 5 33 (11.19 %) J2EE Developer 6 29 (9.831 %) Java/J2EE Developer 7 22 (7.458 %) Analyst 8 20 (6.780 %) Project Manager 9 16 (5.424 %) Consultant 10 15 (5.085 %) WebSphere Specialist 11 12 (4.068 %) WebSphere Architect 11 12 (4.068 %) WebSphere Portal Developer 11 12 (4.068 %) WebSphere Consultant 12 11 (3.729 %) Solutions Architect 12 11 (3.729 %) Administrator 13 10 (3.390 %) Technical Architect 14 9 (3.051 %) Solutions Designer 14 9 (3.051 %) Senior Developer 15 8 (2.712 %) WebSphere Administrator 15 8 (2.712 %) J2EE Architect	Miscellaneous 1 17 (5.763 %) N-Tier 2 8 (2.712 %) PMI 3 6 (2.034 %) EPoS 4 5 (1.695 %) Data Integration 5 4 (1.356 %) AS400 6 3 (1.017 %) PKI 7 2 (0.678 %) Replication 7 2 (0.678 %) Client/Server 8 1 (0.339 %) Web 2.0 8 1 (0.339 %) Mainframe 8 1 (0.339 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 80 (27.12 %) UNIX 2 39 (13.22 %) Linux 3 31 (10.51 %) AIX 4 21 (7.119 %) Solaris 5 18 (6.102 %) Windows 6 12 (4.068 %) HPUX 7 4 (1.356 %) Red Hat Linux 8 2 (0.678 %) zOS 9 1 (0.339 %) Windows Server 2003 9 1 (0.339 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 47 (15.93 %) UML 2 35 (11.86 %) OO 3 34 (11.53 %) E-Commerce 4 28 (9.492 %) SOA 5 26 (8.814 %) DSDM 6 21 (7.119 %) Project Management 7 19 (6.441 %) Unit Testing 8 17 (5.763 %) Agile Software Development 9 15 (5.085 %) Continuous Integration 10 13 (4.407 %) Content Management 11 11 (3.729 %) Scrum 11 11 (3.729 %) EAI 12 10 (3.390 %) RAD 13 9 (3.051 %) Change Management 14 8 (2.712 %) RUP 14 8 (2.712 %) QMS 15 7 (2.373 %) Security Cleared 15 7 (2.373 %) CRM 15 7 (2.373 %) Zachman Framework 16 6 (2.034 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 166 (56.27 %) Java 2 86 (29.15 %) SQL 3 20 (6.780 %) JavaScript 4 17 (5.763 %) Perl 5 16 (5.424 %) Shell Script 6 9 (3.051 %) COBOL 7 5 (1.695 %) Python 8 4 (1.356 %) Jython 8 4 (1.356 %) XPath 9 3 (1.017 %) PL/SQL 10 2 (0.678 %) Magik 10 2 (0.678 %) VB 10 2 (0.678 %) VB.NET 10 2 (0.678 %) C 10 2 (0.678 %) C# 10 2 (0.678 %) VB6 11 1 (0.339 %) DHTML 11 1 (0.339 %) PHP 11 1 (0.339 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 5 (1.695 %) Sun Certification 2 4 (1.356 %) Degree 3 1 (0.339 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (0.339 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (4.407 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 3 (1.017 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (0.339 %) Terminal Services 1 1 (0.339 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 1 1 (0.339 %) AquaLogic
Systems Management 1 26 (8.814 %) Tivoli 2 4 (1.356 %) Tivoli Monitoring	Vendors 1 99 (33.56 %) IBM 2 45 (15.25 %) Oracle 3 19 (6.441 %) ILOG 4 8 (2.712 %) FatWire 5 7 (2.373 %) BEA 6 6 (2.034 %) Business Objects 7 5 (1.695 %) Sun 7 5 (1.695 %) Novell 7 5 (1.695 %) Lotus 8 4 (1.356 %) Red Hat 9 2 (0.678 %) Tridion 9 2 (0.678 %) Citrix 9 2 (0.678 %) Microsoft 10 1 (0.339 %) Interwoven 10 1 (0.339 %) JDA 10 1 (0.339 %) TIBCO