Hertfordshire WebSphere Studio Application Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited WebSphere Studio Application Developer over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD)
Location Basildon Brentwood East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Hertfordshire London Northampton Northamptonshire South East UK West Midlands	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	97	91
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.373 %	1.124 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£300
Average daily rate	£375	£325
% change on same period last year	+15.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£405	£428
% change on same period last year	-5.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£55.00	£27.08
% change on same period last year	+103.07 %
Development Applications Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	268	178
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.353 %	0.186 %
Daily rates quoted	77	86
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£300
Average daily rate	£358	£323
% change on same period last year	+10.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£330
% change on same period last year	+1.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.76	£22.79
Average hourly rate	£31.83	£25.54
% change on same period last year	+24.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.89	£28.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.68	£33.86
% change on same period last year	-0.54 %
WebSphere Studio Application Developer 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 Studio Application Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere Studio Application Developer across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (100.00 %) Java 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL 1 3 (100.00 %) J2EE 1 3 (100.00 %) Unix 1 3 (100.00 %) RAD 1 3 (100.00 %) Eclipse 1 3 (100.00 %) IBM 1 3 (100.00 %) WebSphere 2 2 (66.67 %) Content Management 2 2 (66.67 %) NetBeans 2 2 (66.67 %) MVC 2 2 (66.67 %) JDeveloper 2 2 (66.67 %) JBuilder 2 2 (66.67 %) BEA 2 2 (66.67 %) Tomcat

2 2 (66.67 %) XHTML 2 2 (66.67 %) XML 2 2 (66.67 %) HTML 2 2 (66.67 %) JBoss 2 2 (66.67 %) HPUX 2 2 (66.67 %) Solaris 2 2 (66.67 %) Linux 2 2 (66.67 %) WebLogic 2 2 (66.67 %) EJB 2 2 (66.67 %) CSS 2 2 (66.67 %) JDBC 2 2 (66.67 %) Servlets 2 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 2 2 (66.67 %) DB2 2 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript

WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (100.00 %) J2EE 1 3 (100.00 %) WebSphere 2 2 (66.67 %) NetBeans 2 2 (66.67 %) MVC 2 2 (66.67 %) XHTML 2 2 (66.67 %) XML 2 2 (66.67 %) HTML 2 2 (66.67 %) EJB 2 2 (66.67 %) CSS 2 2 (66.67 %) JDBC 2 2 (66.67 %) Servlets 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET 3 1 (33.33 %) Struts 3 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 3 1 (33.33 %) JMS 3 1 (33.33 %) PicoContainer 3 1 (33.33 %) Spring 3 1 (33.33 %) JSF 3 1 (33.33 %) XMLBeans 3 1 (33.33 %) JSTL	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) Tomcat 1 2 (66.67 %) JBoss 1 2 (66.67 %) WebLogic 2 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (33.33 %) MQSeries
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 3 (100.00 %) Eclipse 2 2 (66.67 %) JDeveloper 2 2 (66.67 %) JBuilder 3 1 (33.33 %) JUnit	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Education
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 1 2 (66.67 %) Java Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) J2EE Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Applications Support Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Applications Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Support Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Applications Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Java/J2EE Developer	Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Unix 2 2 (66.67 %) HPUX 2 2 (66.67 %) Solaris 2 2 (66.67 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) RAD 2 2 (66.67 %) Content Management 3 1 (33.33 %) OO 3 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (33.33 %) Web Development 3 1 (33.33 %) Continuous Integration	Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) Java 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 2 2 (66.67 %) Perl 3 1 (33.33 %) XPath
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) Sun Certification 1 1 (33.33 %) Degree	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) IBM 2 2 (66.67 %) BEA 2 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 3 1 (33.33 %) Tridion 3 1 (33.33 %) Sun 3 1 (33.33 %) Interwoven