The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the Exeter region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 23 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 Application Development category for the Exeter 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £413 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.23% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £45.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-33.70% +39.23%
All Application Development
Exeter
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
45 25 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 43.27% 43.86% 56.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 15 21
Average daily rate £325 £419 £423
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.43% -0.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £118
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -66.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WebSphere
Devon

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter WebSphere Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

Exeter WebSphere Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 13 (92.86%) IBM
2 11 (78.57%) Java
3 7 (50.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 5 (35.71%) J2EE
4 5 (35.71%) Oracle
4 5 (35.71%) E-Commerce
5 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Spring
6 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
6 2 (14.29%) Java EE
6 2 (14.29%) JAX-WS
6 2 (14.29%) JPA
6 2 (14.29%) JAXB
6 2 (14.29%) XSD
7 1 (7.143%) ITIL
7 1 (7.143%) HPUX
7 1 (7.143%) Linux
7 1 (7.143%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (7.143%) Apache
7 1 (7.143%) Tomcat
7 1 (7.143%) NHS
7 1 (7.143%) SOA
7 1 (7.143%) Eclipse
7 1 (7.143%) TickIT
7 1 (7.143%) Quality Management
7 1 (7.143%) Service Delivery
7 1 (7.143%) Jenkins
7 1 (7.143%) Spring Security
7 1 (7.143%) QMS
7 1 (7.143%) Degree

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 5 (35.71%) J2EE
2 3 (21.43%) Spring
3 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 2 (14.29%) Java EE
3 2 (14.29%) JAX-WS
3 2 (14.29%) JPA
3 2 (14.29%) JAXB
3 2 (14.29%) XSD
4 1 (7.143%) Spring Security
Application Platforms
1 7 (50.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (7.143%) Apache
2 1 (7.143%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Eclipse
1 1 (7.143%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.143%) Maven
1 1 (7.143%) NetBeans
1 1 (7.143%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (78.57%) WebSphere Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) J2EE Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.143%) HPUX
1 1 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) E-Commerce
2 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
3 1 (7.143%) ITIL
3 1 (7.143%) SOA
3 1 (7.143%) Quality Management
3 1 (7.143%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.143%) QMS
3 1 (7.143%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) TickIT
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) IBM
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle