The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere Studio Application Developer skills 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 Studio Application Developer over the 3 months to 17 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 Development Applications category 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD)
Rank 500 551 568
Rank change year-on-year
+51 +17
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Studio Application Developer 10 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.024% 0.013% 0.007%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.217% 0.139% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £375 £306 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.44% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
4612 5040 6025
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.10% 9.447% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2954 3058 3462
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 200 317
Average hourly rate £37.80 £36.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £23.88 £23.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
WebSphere Studio Application Developer
UK

WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England WebSphere Studio Application Developer Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England WebSphere Studio Application Developer Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England WebSphere Studio Application Developer Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere Studio Application Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
East Midlands - 7 - -
North West - 2 £350 -
East of England +13 1 £400 -
WebSphere Studio Application Developer
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WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing WebSphere Studio Application Developer 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 Studio Application Developer.

1 26 (100.00%) Java
1 26 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 26 (100.00%) SQL
1 26 (100.00%) UML
2 25 (96.15%) XML
2 25 (96.15%) JDBC
2 25 (96.15%) JSP
2 25 (96.15%) Servlets
2 25 (96.15%) J2EE
2 25 (96.15%) EJB
2 25 (96.15%) RDBMS
2 25 (96.15%) HTML
2 25 (96.15%) WebSphere
3 24 (92.31%) Eclipse
3 24 (92.31%) IBM
3 24 (92.31%) XHTML
3 24 (92.31%) JUnit
3 24 (92.31%) WebSphere Application Server
3 24 (92.31%) DB2
3 24 (92.31%) UNIX
3 24 (92.31%) OO
3 24 (92.31%) RAD
4 23 (88.46%) Perl
4 23 (88.46%) Content Management
4 23 (88.46%) Bash shell
5 17 (65.38%) E-Commerce
6 16 (61.54%) XSLT
7 15 (57.69%) Struts
7 15 (57.69%) JMS
7 15 (57.69%) Log4j

WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing WebSphere Studio Application Developer 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 Studio Application Developer. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (96.15%) HTML
1 25 (96.15%) J2EE
1 25 (96.15%) EJB
1 25 (96.15%) JDBC
1 25 (96.15%) JSP
1 25 (96.15%) Servlets
1 25 (96.15%) XML
1 25 (96.15%) WebSphere
2 24 (92.31%) XHTML
3 16 (61.54%) XSLT
4 15 (57.69%) JMS
4 15 (57.69%) Struts
5 14 (53.85%) XMLBeans
5 14 (53.85%) Ajax
5 14 (53.85%) JSTL
6 10 (38.46%) CSS
7 2 (7.692%) Web Services
8 1 (3.846%) JAXB
8 1 (3.846%) Hibernate
8 1 (3.846%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 24 (92.31%) WebSphere Application Server
2 14 (53.85%) MQSeries
3 1 (3.846%) Commerce Server
3 1 (3.846%) Apache Solr
3 1 (3.846%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.846%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 14 (53.85%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (96.15%) RDBMS
2 24 (92.31%) DB2
3 1 (3.846%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (92.31%) JUnit
1 24 (92.31%) Eclipse
2 15 (57.69%) Log4j
3 14 (53.85%) Subversion
3 14 (53.85%) Ant
4 1 (3.846%) JDeveloper
4 1 (3.846%) Git (software)
4 1 (3.846%) JBehave
4 1 (3.846%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (50.00%) Finance
1 13 (50.00%) Retail
2 12 (46.15%) Games
3 6 (23.08%) Banking
3 6 (23.08%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.846%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (96.15%) Developer
2 15 (57.69%) Java Developer
3 13 (50.00%) J2EE Developer
3 13 (50.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 9 (34.62%) WebSphere Developer
5 1 (3.846%) WebSphere Administrator
5 1 (3.846%) Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 14 (53.85%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 24 (92.31%) UNIX
2 14 (53.85%) HPUX
2 14 (53.85%) Solaris
2 14 (53.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) UML
2 24 (92.31%) OO
2 24 (92.31%) RAD
3 23 (88.46%) Content Management
4 17 (65.38%) E-Commerce
5 10 (38.46%) MVC
6 9 (34.62%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.846%) Waterfall
7 1 (3.846%) Web Development
7 1 (3.846%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (3.846%) OOA/OOD
7 1 (3.846%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Java
1 26 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 26 (100.00%) SQL
2 23 (88.46%) Bash shell
2 23 (88.46%) Perl
3 14 (53.85%) XPath
4 2 (7.692%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.846%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 24 (92.31%) IBM
2 14 (53.85%) Interwoven
2 14 (53.85%) ATG
2 14 (53.85%) Blue Martini
2 14 (53.85%) Elastic Path
3 11 (42.31%) Oracle
4 10 (38.46%) Sun
5 1 (3.846%) JBoss
5 1 (3.846%) AccuRev
5 1 (3.846%) Coverity
5 1 (3.846%) Guidewire