Hampshire IBM Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Amersham Ashby-de-la-Zouch Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clydebank Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Faversham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Ipswich Kent Kilmarnock Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Thurrock Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	92
Rank change on same period last year	+39
Matching contract IT job ads	53	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.070 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	5.876 %	3.238 %
Daily rates quoted	10	6
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£382
Average daily rate	£395	£390
% change on same period last year	+1.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£360
% change on same period last year	+2.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£30.38	£30.00
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.25	£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.38
% change on same period last year	-9.85 %
Vendors Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	902	1050
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.187 %	1.113 %
Daily rates quoted	169	249
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£345
Average daily rate	£370	£364
% change on same period last year	+1.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	180	174
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.21	£22.79
Average hourly rate	£24.92	£24.73
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.63	£26.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.94	£25.21
% change on same period last year	-8.99 %
IBM South East

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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IBM across the Hampshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IBM across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Hampshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IBM across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing IBM within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Basingstoke	+25	11	£417	-1.57 %
Havant	+5	8	-	-
Southampton	+12	7	£300	-
Portsmouth	-1	3	£450	-
Eastleigh	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing IBM 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 IBM.

1 54 (41.54 %) WebSphere 2 43 (33.08 %) Unix 3 34 (26.15 %) AIX 4 33 (25.38 %) Finance 5 28 (21.54 %) WebSphere MQ 6 26 (20.00 %) J2EE 7 24 (18.46 %) Solaris 8 23 (17.69 %) HTTP 8 23 (17.69 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 23 (17.69 %) WebServices 8 23 (17.69 %) XML 9 21 (16.15 %) Tivoli 10 19 (14.62 %) Java 10 19 (14.62 %) IBM HTTP Server 11 18 (13.85 %) UML

11 18 (13.85 %) SAN 11 18 (13.85 %) WSDL 12 17 (13.08 %) Sun 13 16 (12.31 %) Shell Script 13 16 (12.31 %) Windows 14 15 (11.54 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 14 15 (11.54 %) XML Schema 14 15 (11.54 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 14 15 (11.54 %) OMEGAMON 14 15 (11.54 %) Korn 15 14 (10.77 %) HP 16 12 (9.231 %) SAP 17 11 (8.462 %) JDBC 17 11 (8.462 %) OpenVMS 17 11 (8.462 %) Tru64

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing IBM 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 IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 54 (41.54 %) WebSphere 2 26 (20.00 %) J2EE 3 23 (17.69 %) WebServices 3 23 (17.69 %) XML 4 18 (13.85 %) WSDL 5 15 (11.54 %) XML Schema 6 11 (8.462 %) JDBC 7 6 (4.615 %) .NET 8 4 (3.077 %) HTML 8 4 (3.077 %) Middleware 9 3 (2.308 %) VXML 10 2 (1.538 %) ASP.NET 10 2 (1.538 %) COM+ 11 1 (0.769 %) EJB 11 1 (0.769 %) CSS 11 1 (0.769 %) JSP 11 1 (0.769 %) Servlets 11 1 (0.769 %) JSF 11 1 (0.769 %) AJAX 11 1 (0.769 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 28 (21.54 %) WebSphere MQ 2 23 (17.69 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 19 (14.62 %) IBM HTTP Server 4 3 (2.308 %) Rendezvous 4 3 (2.308 %) IIS 4 3 (2.308 %) SAS 5 2 (1.538 %) MQSeries 5 2 (1.538 %) CICS 5 2 (1.538 %) WPS 6 1 (0.769 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (0.769 %) WebSphere Message Broker 6 1 (0.769 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (0.769 %) ColdFusion 6 1 (0.769 %) Apache 6 1 (0.769 %) ColdFusion MX 6 1 (0.769 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 7 (5.385 %) MS Office 2 3 (2.308 %) MS Excel 2 3 (2.308 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 23 (17.69 %) HTTP 2 18 (13.85 %) SAN 3 5 (3.846 %) TCP/IP 4 4 (3.077 %) LDAP 4 4 (3.077 %) ATM 5 3 (2.308 %) SSL 5 3 (2.308 %) SSH 6 2 (1.538 %) SMS 7 1 (0.769 %) VoIP 7 1 (0.769 %) Internet 7 1 (0.769 %) TETRA 7 1 (0.769 %) Ethereal
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (6.923 %) BusinessObjects 2 5 (3.846 %) DB2 3 4 (3.077 %) Crystal Reports 4 3 (2.308 %) RDBMS 5 1 (0.769 %) SQL Server 5 1 (0.769 %) Data Mining	Development Applications 1 2 (1.538 %) TestDirector 1 2 (1.538 %) QuickTest Pro 1 2 (1.538 %) JUnit 2 1 (0.769 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.769 %) ClearCase 2 1 (0.769 %) Eclipse 2 1 (0.769 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (0.769 %) ClearQuest 2 1 (0.769 %) Rational Robot 2 1 (0.769 %) InstallShield 2 1 (0.769 %) Bugzilla 2 1 (0.769 %) NUnit
General 1 33 (25.38 %) Finance 2 9 (6.923 %) Telecoms 3 7 (5.385 %) Retail 4 6 (4.615 %) Insurance 4 6 (4.615 %) Banking 5 3 (2.308 %) Military 5 3 (2.308 %) Electric 5 3 (2.308 %) Billing 6 1 (0.769 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (0.769 %) Government 6 1 (0.769 %) Games 6 1 (0.769 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (0.769 %) Education	Job Titles 1 37 (28.46 %) Administrator 2 19 (14.62 %) WebSphere Administrator 2 19 (14.62 %) Developer 3 15 (11.54 %) Server Administrator 3 15 (11.54 %) WebSphere Application Server Administra… 4 13 (10.00 %) Systems Administrator 5 11 (8.462 %) UNIX Administrator 6 10 (7.692 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 6 10 (7.692 %) WebSphere Developer 7 8 (6.154 %) Consultant 8 7 (5.385 %) AIX Administrator 9 6 (4.615 %) Solutions Designer 9 6 (4.615 %) Analyst 9 6 (4.615 %) Architect 9 6 (4.615 %) Solutions Architect 10 4 (3.077 %) SOA Architect 11 3 (2.308 %) Tester 11 3 (2.308 %) Server Support 11 3 (2.308 %) Java Developer 11 3 (2.308 %) Applications Support
Miscellaneous 1 9 (6.923 %) Mainframe 2 6 (4.615 %) IBM Mainframe 3 4 (3.077 %) HACMP 4 2 (1.538 %) Management Information System 5 1 (0.769 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 43 (33.08 %) Unix 2 34 (26.15 %) AIX 3 24 (18.46 %) Solaris 4 16 (12.31 %) Windows 5 11 (8.462 %) OpenVMS 5 11 (8.462 %) Tru64 6 6 (4.615 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (3.077 %) Linux 7 4 (3.077 %) Windows Server 2003 8 1 (0.769 %) OS/390 8 1 (0.769 %) MVS 8 1 (0.769 %) Windows NT 8 1 (0.769 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (13.85 %) UML 2 11 (8.462 %) Security Cleared 3 8 (6.154 %) SOA 4 7 (5.385 %) OO 5 4 (3.077 %) Network Design 5 4 (3.077 %) Project Management 5 4 (3.077 %) CRM 5 4 (3.077 %) E-Commerce 5 4 (3.077 %) Use Case 5 4 (3.077 %) ITIL 5 4 (3.077 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (2.308 %) Test Scripting 6 3 (2.308 %) Performance Management 6 3 (2.308 %) Fault Management 6 3 (2.308 %) EAI 6 3 (2.308 %) Migration 7 1 (0.769 %) Content Management 7 1 (0.769 %) RUP 7 1 (0.769 %) Automated Testing 7 1 (0.769 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 19 (14.62 %) Java 2 16 (12.31 %) Shell Script 3 15 (11.54 %) Korn 4 7 (5.385 %) SQL 5 6 (4.615 %) VBScript 5 6 (4.615 %) COBOL 6 4 (3.077 %) JavaScript 6 4 (3.077 %) Jython 7 3 (2.308 %) Python 8 2 (1.538 %) REXX 8 2 (1.538 %) C++ 8 2 (1.538 %) Perl 8 2 (1.538 %) VB 8 2 (1.538 %) VB.NET 9 1 (0.769 %) DHTML 9 1 (0.769 %) JCL
Qualifications 1 4 (3.077 %) ISEB 2 1 (0.769 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (0.769 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.769 %) SLA
System Software 1 15 (11.54 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 3 (2.308 %) VMware ESX 2 3 (2.308 %) NFS 3 2 (1.538 %) Active Directory 4 1 (0.769 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (0.769 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 21 (16.15 %) Tivoli 2 15 (11.54 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 15 (11.54 %) OMEGAMON 3 8 (6.154 %) Netcool 4 4 (3.077 %) Tivoli Monitoring 4 4 (3.077 %) Tivoli NetView 4 4 (3.077 %) CA SiteMinder 5 3 (2.308 %) NNM 5 3 (2.308 %) Tivoli Remote Control 5 3 (2.308 %) MOM 6 1 (0.769 %) CONTROL-M 6 1 (0.769 %) RepliStor
Vendors 1 17 (13.08 %) Sun 2 14 (10.77 %) HP 3 12 (9.231 %) SAP 4 11 (8.462 %) Microsoft 5 9 (6.923 %) Business Objects 6 7 (5.385 %) Cisco 7 5 (3.846 %) Oracle 7 5 (3.846 %) VMware 8 4 (3.077 %) Siebel 8 4 (3.077 %) Genesys 8 4 (3.077 %) Remedy 9 3 (2.308 %) Compaq 9 3 (2.308 %) TIBCO 10 2 (1.538 %) Dell 10 2 (1.538 %) EMC 10 2 (1.538 %) Citrix 10 2 (1.538 %) Red Hat 11 1 (0.769 %) Sony 11 1 (0.769 %) Wyse 11 1 (0.769 %) BEA