Home Counties WebSphere Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere skills within the Home Counties region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Ascot Ashby-de-la-Zouch Avon Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Faringdon Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isle of Man Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peel Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	5	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	35.71 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£404	£392
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
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	£41.25	£39.62
% change on same period last year	+4.12 %
Application Development Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	14	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.022 %
Daily rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum daily rate	-	£381
Average daily rate	-	£395
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£409
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
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	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
WebSphere 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.

WebSphere
Demand Trend

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

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 8 (72.73 %) XML 2 7 (63.64 %) UNIX 3 6 (54.55 %) Intranet 3 6 (54.55 %) ASP 3 6 (54.55 %) AIX 3 6 (54.55 %) HTML 3 6 (54.55 %) JavaScript 3 6 (54.55 %) Content Management 3 6 (54.55 %) FrontPage 4 5 (45.45 %) Java 4 5 (45.45 %) Windows 5 4 (36.36 %) Remedy 5 4 (36.36 %) Tridion 5 4 (36.36 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 4 (36.36 %) CMS

6 3 (27.27 %) WebSphere MQ 7 2 (18.18 %) Migration 7 2 (18.18 %) VBScript 7 2 (18.18 %) DB2 7 2 (18.18 %) WebServices 7 2 (18.18 %) XSLT 7 2 (18.18 %) Incident Management 8 1 (9.091 %) SC Cleared 8 1 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (9.091 %) French Language 8 1 (9.091 %) German Language 8 1 (9.091 %) Retail 8 1 (9.091 %) Siebel 8 1 (9.091 %) E-Commerce 8 1 (9.091 %) HTTP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 8 (72.73 %) XML 2 6 (54.55 %) HTML 2 6 (54.55 %) ASP 3 2 (18.18 %) WebServices 3 2 (18.18 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 4 (36.36 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 4 (36.36 %) CMS 2 3 (27.27 %) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking 1 6 (54.55 %) Intranet 2 1 (9.091 %) Internet 2 1 (9.091 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (18.18 %) DB2 2 1 (9.091 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 6 (54.55 %) FrontPage 2 1 (9.091 %) ClearQuest	General 1 1 (9.091 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 9 (81.82 %) Analyst 2 7 (63.64 %) Support Analyst 3 4 (36.36 %) 1st Line Support 4 2 (18.18 %) WebSphere Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) Web Analyst 4 2 (18.18 %) Junior Analyst 4 2 (18.18 %) Junior Support Analyst 4 2 (18.18 %) Business Analyst 4 2 (18.18 %) Junior 4 2 (18.18 %) Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) French Language 1 1 (9.091 %) German Language
Operating Systems 1 7 (63.64 %) UNIX 2 6 (54.55 %) AIX 3 5 (45.45 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (54.55 %) Content Management 2 2 (18.18 %) Incident Management 2 2 (18.18 %) Migration 3 1 (9.091 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (9.091 %) CMMI 3 1 (9.091 %) GAP Analysis 3 1 (9.091 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (9.091 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 6 (54.55 %) JavaScript 2 5 (45.45 %) Java 3 2 (18.18 %) VBScript 4 1 (9.091 %) SQL	Vendors 1 4 (36.36 %) Tridion 1 4 (36.36 %) Remedy 2 1 (9.091 %) SAP 2 1 (9.091 %) Siebel 2 1 (9.091 %) IBM