The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Hertfordshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank 48 49 56
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +7
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 10 30 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.565% 3.012% 1.848%
As % of the Application Development category 4.651% 9.772% 7.234%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 6
Average daily rate £250 £425 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-41.17% +21.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £422 £400
% change year-on-year
-5.10% +5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £45.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-33.70% +29.28%
All Application Development
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
215 307 235
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 33.65% 30.82% 25.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 148 110
Average daily rate £344 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £463 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 24
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £19.60 £33.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £36.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
WebSphere
East of England

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire WebSphere Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire WebSphere Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Watford -3 7 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 1 - - 1
Hertford - - - - 1
Hitchin - - - - 1
Rickmansworth - - - - 1
St Albans - - - -
Stevenage - - - - 1
WebSphere
East of England

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 27 (90.00%) J2EE
1 27 (90.00%) IBM
2 26 (86.67%) Java
3 24 (80.00%) E-Commerce
3 24 (80.00%) Retail
4 23 (76.67%) Finance
5 16 (53.33%) Project Management
6 15 (50.00%) Waterfall
7 13 (43.33%) UNIX
8 12 (40.00%) Games
8 12 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (40.00%) Change Control
8 12 (40.00%) Time Management
9 11 (36.67%) XML
9 11 (36.67%) SQL
9 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
9 11 (36.67%) HTML
10 10 (33.33%) MQSeries
11 9 (30.00%) DB2
11 9 (30.00%) Linux
12 8 (26.67%) UML
12 8 (26.67%) OO
12 8 (26.67%) XSLT
12 8 (26.67%) Solaris
12 8 (26.67%) XHTML
12 8 (26.67%) JUnit
12 8 (26.67%) Struts
12 8 (26.67%) Eclipse
12 8 (26.67%) RDBMS
12 8 (26.67%) Ajax

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 27 (90.00%) J2EE
2 11 (36.67%) XML
2 11 (36.67%) HTML
3 8 (26.67%) XSLT
3 8 (26.67%) XHTML
3 8 (26.67%) Struts
3 8 (26.67%) Ajax
4 6 (20.00%) JMS
4 6 (20.00%) JDBC
4 6 (20.00%) JSP
4 6 (20.00%) Servlets
4 6 (20.00%) EJB
4 6 (20.00%) XMLBeans
4 6 (20.00%) JSTL
5 4 (13.33%) Middleware
6 3 (10.00%) Flash
6 3 (10.00%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (6.667%) Spring
7 2 (6.667%) JNI
7 2 (6.667%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 10 (33.33%) MQSeries
2 6 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (13.33%) Tomcat
4 3 (10.00%) Apache
5 2 (6.667%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) Internet
2 3 (10.00%) SAN
3 2 (6.667%) iSCSI
3 2 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) DB2
2 8 (26.67%) RDBMS
3 3 (10.00%) DbVisualizer
4 2 (6.667%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) JUnit
1 8 (26.67%) Eclipse
1 8 (26.67%) Subversion
2 6 (20.00%) Log4j
2 6 (20.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Ant
3 3 (10.00%) QuickTest Pro
3 3 (10.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 24 (80.00%) Retail
2 23 (76.67%) Finance
3 12 (40.00%) Games
4 7 (23.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.667%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 12 (40.00%) E-Commerce Manager
2 12 (40.00%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 8 (26.67%) Developer
3 8 (26.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 8 (26.67%) Java Developer
3 8 (26.67%) J2EE Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Tester
4 3 (10.00%) Agile Project Manager
5 2 (6.667%) Network Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Technical Architect
5 2 (6.667%) Architect
6 1 (3.333%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 1 (3.333%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Web 2.0
2 2 (6.667%) Clustering
3 1 (3.333%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (43.33%) UNIX
2 9 (30.00%) Linux
3 8 (26.67%) Solaris
4 6 (20.00%) HPUX
5 2 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.667%) Windows
6 1 (3.333%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (80.00%) E-Commerce
2 16 (53.33%) Project Management
3 15 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 12 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (40.00%) Change Control
4 12 (40.00%) Time Management
5 8 (26.67%) UML
5 8 (26.67%) OO
6 6 (20.00%) RAD
6 6 (20.00%) Content Management
7 3 (10.00%) ITIL
7 3 (10.00%) Regression Testing
7 3 (10.00%) System Testing
7 3 (10.00%) Automated Testing
8 2 (6.667%) Network Load Balancing
8 2 (6.667%) Multithreading
8 2 (6.667%) MVC
9 1 (3.333%) Migration
9 1 (3.333%) Load Balancing
9 1 (3.333%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 26 (86.67%) Java
2 11 (36.67%) SQL
2 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (20.00%) Perl
3 6 (20.00%) XPath
3 6 (20.00%) Bash shell
4 2 (6.667%) C++
Vendors
1 27 (90.00%) IBM
2 6 (20.00%) Interwoven
2 6 (20.00%) Blue Martini
2 6 (20.00%) ATG
2 6 (20.00%) Elastic Path
3 5 (16.67%) HP
4 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (10.00%) VMware
5 2 (6.667%) EMC
5 2 (6.667%) JBoss
5 2 (6.667%) Oracle
6 1 (3.333%) Cisco
6 1 (3.333%) Sun
6 1 (3.333%) BEA