Essex WebSphere Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere skills within the Essex 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere
Location Atherstone Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newry Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Rugby Scotland Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Stirling Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	29
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	30	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	14.29 %	14.65 %
Daily rates quoted	8	6
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£367
Average daily rate	£343	£404
% change on same period last year	-15.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£442
UK excluding London average daily rate	£391	£404
% change on same period last year	-3.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.56	£29.68
Average hourly rate	£36.58	£30.21
% change on same period last year	+21.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.61	£30.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.45	£38.75
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Application Development Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	210	157
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.269 %	0.176 %
Daily rates quoted	69	47
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£360
Average daily rate	£313	£397
% change on same period last year	-21.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	49	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.55	£28.09
Average hourly rate	£34.95	£29.38
% change on same period last year	+18.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.36	£30.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
WebSphere East of 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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing WebSphere across the Essex 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 contract IT jobs ads citing WebSphere across the Essex region.

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere across the Essex region over the past 3 months.

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing WebSphere across the Essex region.

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere across the Essex region over the past 3 months.

WebSphere
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the Essex region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Basildon	+6	12	£315	-23.63 %
2	Brentwood	+2	5	£350	-

WebSphere East of England

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Essex region citing WebSphere also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebSphere.

1 36 (81.82 %) J2EE 2 25 (56.82 %) Java 3 23 (52.27 %) WebServices 4 19 (43.18 %) SQL 5 16 (36.36 %) Oracle 5 16 (36.36 %) XML 5 16 (36.36 %) UML 6 15 (34.09 %) Unix 6 15 (34.09 %) Struts 7 13 (29.55 %) ILOG 7 13 (29.55 %) N-Tier 7 13 (29.55 %) SOAP 8 12 (27.27 %) SOA 8 12 (27.27 %) OO 8 12 (27.27 %) JRules

9 11 (25.00 %) HTTP 10 9 (20.45 %) Construction 10 9 (20.45 %) Unit Testing 11 8 (18.18 %) Shell Script 12 7 (15.91 %) Project Management 12 7 (15.91 %) Automotive 12 7 (15.91 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 12 7 (15.91 %) Linux 12 7 (15.91 %) RAD 12 7 (15.91 %) XSLT 12 7 (15.91 %) JDBC 12 7 (15.91 %) WebSphere Application Server 12 7 (15.91 %) Zachman Framework 13 6 (13.64 %) MS Project 13 6 (13.64 %) Log4j

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Essex region citing WebSphere also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 36 (81.82 %) J2EE 2 23 (52.27 %) WebServices 3 16 (36.36 %) XML 4 15 (34.09 %) Struts 5 13 (29.55 %) SOAP 6 12 (27.27 %) JRules 7 7 (15.91 %) JDBC 7 7 (15.91 %) XSLT 8 5 (11.36 %) XML Schema 9 4 (9.091 %) Middleware 10 2 (4.545 %) JNDI 10 2 (4.545 %) Servlets 10 2 (4.545 %) HTML 11 1 (2.273 %) WSDL 11 1 (2.273 %) CGI	Application Platforms 1 7 (15.91 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (4.545 %) WebLogic 2 2 (4.545 %) JBoss
Applications 1 6 (13.64 %) MS Project 2 5 (11.36 %) MS Office 3 2 (4.545 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 11 (25.00 %) HTTP
Development Applications 1 7 (15.91 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 2 6 (13.64 %) Log4j 3 1 (2.273 %) JUnit 3 1 (2.273 %) PVCS	General 1 9 (20.45 %) Construction 2 7 (15.91 %) Automotive 3 2 (4.545 %) Marketing 3 2 (4.545 %) Government 4 1 (2.273 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 18 (40.91 %) Developer 2 11 (25.00 %) Architect 3 9 (20.45 %) Solutions Architect 4 8 (18.18 %) Project Manager 4 8 (18.18 %) J2EE Developer 5 3 (6.818 %) J2EE Architect 5 3 (6.818 %) Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) Business Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) Java Team Leader 6 2 (4.545 %) Team Leader 6 2 (4.545 %) Development Team Leader 7 1 (2.273 %) Junior Business Analyst 7 1 (2.273 %) Technical Support Specialist 7 1 (2.273 %) Technical Manager 7 1 (2.273 %) Technical Specialist 7 1 (2.273 %) Software Developer 7 1 (2.273 %) Applications Architect 7 1 (2.273 %) Senior J2EE Developer 7 1 (2.273 %) Developer Analyst 7 1 (2.273 %) Technical Solutions Architect	Miscellaneous 1 13 (29.55 %) N-Tier 2 5 (11.36 %) PMI 3 1 (2.273 %) Mainframe 3 1 (2.273 %) German Language
Operating Systems 1 15 (34.09 %) Unix 2 7 (15.91 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (36.36 %) UML 2 12 (27.27 %) OO 2 12 (27.27 %) SOA 3 9 (20.45 %) Unit Testing 4 7 (15.91 %) Project Management 4 7 (15.91 %) RAD 4 7 (15.91 %) Zachman Framework 5 5 (11.36 %) Validation 6 3 (6.818 %) Unified Process 6 3 (6.818 %) RUP 7 2 (4.545 %) CRM 7 2 (4.545 %) MVC 7 2 (4.545 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 2 (4.545 %) Internet Marketing 8 1 (2.273 %) Test Scripting 8 1 (2.273 %) Time Management 8 1 (2.273 %) Project Planning 8 1 (2.273 %) Risk Analysis 8 1 (2.273 %) BPEL 8 1 (2.273 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 25 (56.82 %) Java 2 19 (43.18 %) SQL 3 8 (18.18 %) Shell Script 4 5 (11.36 %) Korn 5 1 (2.273 %) VB 5 1 (2.273 %) C 5 1 (2.273 %) C++ 5 1 (2.273 %) COBOL	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (13.64 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (2.273 %) SLA
Vendors 1 16 (36.36 %) Oracle 2 13 (29.55 %) ILOG