The first table below looks at the demand for the WebSphere Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere Specialist 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 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WebSphere Specialist
Rank 503 515 526
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +11
Contract jobs requiring a WebSphere Specialist 9 42 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.021% 0.078% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.085% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 25 15
Average daily rate £423 £450 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.04% -5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £429 £418
10% offered a daily rate of more than £474 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £450 £431
% change year-on-year
-50.00% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
39141 49545 51375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.52% 92.60% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22991 28027 28527
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2036 2429 2720
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.17 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
WebSphere Specialist
UK

WebSphere Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England WebSphere Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

England WebSphere Specialist Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere Specialist across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England WebSphere Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

WebSphere Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England WebSphere Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere Specialist within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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
London +9 2 £423 -10.03%
North West -10 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
East of England - 2 £475 -
South East +23 1 £310 -
WebSphere Specialist
UK

WebSphere Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 31 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 14 (45.16%) HTTP
3 13 (41.94%) IBM
3 13 (41.94%) Middleware
4 12 (38.71%) WebSphere MQ
4 12 (38.71%) WebSphere Process Server
5 11 (35.48%) IBM HTTP Server
5 11 (35.48%) Security Cleared
5 11 (35.48%) Linux
6 10 (32.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (29.03%) SC Cleared
7 9 (29.03%) Red Hat
7 9 (29.03%) WebSphere Application Server
7 9 (29.03%) Web Services
8 8 (25.81%) .NET
8 8 (25.81%) Oracle
8 8 (25.81%) DB2
8 8 (25.81%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 8 (25.81%) Active Directory
8 8 (25.81%) TCP/IP
8 8 (25.81%) DNS
8 8 (25.81%) LDAP
8 8 (25.81%) JMS
8 8 (25.81%) SOA
9 6 (19.35%) Oracle 8/8i
9 6 (19.35%) Finance
10 5 (16.13%) Banking
10 5 (16.13%) MQSeries
10 5 (16.13%) zOS
11 4 (12.90%) AIX

WebSphere Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 31 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 13 (41.94%) Middleware
3 9 (29.03%) Web Services
4 8 (25.81%) .NET
4 8 (25.81%) JMS
5 2 (6.452%) SOAP
5 2 (6.452%) XML
5 2 (6.452%) XSD
5 2 (6.452%) XSLT
5 2 (6.452%) HTML
5 2 (6.452%) XML Schema
5 2 (6.452%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 12 (38.71%) WebSphere MQ
1 12 (38.71%) WebSphere Process Server
2 11 (35.48%) IBM HTTP Server
3 9 (29.03%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (25.81%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 5 (16.13%) MQSeries
6 3 (9.677%) WebSphere Portal
6 3 (9.677%) Apache
7 2 (6.452%) WebSphere Message Broker
8 1 (3.226%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 14 (45.16%) HTTP
2 8 (25.81%) TCP/IP
2 8 (25.81%) DNS
2 8 (25.81%) LDAP
3 2 (6.452%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) DB2
2 6 (19.35%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (3.226%) Ant
General
1 6 (19.35%) Finance
2 5 (16.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.226%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.226%) Dutch Language
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.677%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Linux
2 10 (32.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (16.13%) zOS
4 4 (12.90%) AIX
5 3 (9.677%) UNIX
5 3 (9.677%) Windows
6 1 (3.226%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) SOA
2 2 (6.452%) Migration
3 1 (3.226%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) Jython
2 2 (6.452%) Perl
2 2 (6.452%) XPath
3 1 (3.226%) Korn
3 1 (3.226%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.226%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 2 (6.452%) CA SiteMinder
2 1 (3.226%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) IBM
2 9 (29.03%) Red Hat
3 8 (25.81%) Oracle