The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term DataPower in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DataPower over the 3 months to 24 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Halifax 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere DataPower
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing DataPower 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 0.833% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.692% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
-1.17% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £21.00
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
13 25 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 10.83% 11.01% 7.377%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 6
Average daily rate £365 £450 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.88% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £303 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £575 £424
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
DataPower
West Yorkshire

DataPower
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DataPower across the Halifax region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Halifax DataPower Jobs Demand Trend

DataPower
Daily Rate Trend

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

Halifax DataPower Daily Rate Trend

DataPower
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax region citing DataPower 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 DataPower.

1 4 (100.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) Middleware
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) SSL
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) Firmware
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (25.00%) Time Management
4 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking

DataPower
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax region citing DataPower 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 DataPower. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM