The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Knutsford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors for the Knutsford 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the International Business Machines Corporation.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 16 16 6
Rank change year-on-year
0 -10
Contract jobs citing IBM 7 2 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 6.931% 2.778% 16.98%
As % of the Vendors category 17.50% 4.651% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 23
Average daily rate £346 £388 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.70% +14.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £388 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £364 £388 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £19.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+44.73% -36.66%
All Vendors
Knutsford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
40 43 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 39.60% 59.72% 47.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 66
Average daily rate £319 £348 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.27% +11.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £318 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £386 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
IBM
Cheshire

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Knutsford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Knutsford IBM Jobs Demand Trend

IBM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Knutsford IBM Daily Rate Trend

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IBM across the Knutsford region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Knutsford IBM Daily Rate Histogram

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 10 (71.43%) Finance
1 10 (71.43%) Banking
2 7 (50.00%) UNIX
2 7 (50.00%) Retail
3 5 (35.71%) Middleware
4 4 (28.57%) Content Management
4 4 (28.57%) Retail Banking
4 4 (28.57%) Siebel
4 4 (28.57%) Workflow
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (21.43%) WebSphere
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) CMS
6 2 (14.29%) SAN
6 2 (14.29%) Brocade
6 2 (14.29%) AIX
6 2 (14.29%) Informatica
6 2 (14.29%) Oracle
6 2 (14.29%) DB2
6 2 (14.29%) Perl
6 2 (14.29%) ETL
7 1 (7.143%) TOAD
7 1 (7.143%) DNS
7 1 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (7.143%) RDBMS
7 1 (7.143%) SSL
7 1 (7.143%) PMP
7 1 (7.143%) PMI Certification
7 1 (7.143%) PL/SQL
7 1 (7.143%) SQL

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 5 (35.71%) Middleware
2 3 (21.43%) WebSphere
3 1 (7.143%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (7.143%) DNS
2 1 (7.143%) SSL
2 1 (7.143%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) DB2
2 1 (7.143%) TOAD
2 1 (7.143%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
1 10 (71.43%) Banking
2 7 (50.00%) Retail
3 4 (28.57%) Retail Banking
4 1 (7.143%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.143%) Back Office
4 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Implementation Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (7.143%) Administrator
3 1 (7.143%) Data Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) AIX Administrator
3 1 (7.143%) Designer
3 1 (7.143%) AIX Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Test Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Implementation Project Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Storage Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Identity Management Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (7.143%) Tandem
1 1 (7.143%) Mainframe
1 1 (7.143%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (14.29%) AIX
3 1 (7.143%) Windows
3 1 (7.143%) Solaris
3 1 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Content Management
1 4 (28.57%) Workflow
2 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2
4 1 (7.143%) Identity Management
4 1 (7.143%) PRINCE
4 1 (7.143%) Data Modelling
4 1 (7.143%) Document Management
4 1 (7.143%) Data Management
4 1 (7.143%) Matrix Management
4 1 (7.143%) Test Management
4 1 (7.143%) Data Migration
4 1 (7.143%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (7.143%) Project Management
4 1 (7.143%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (7.143%) PL/SQL
2 1 (7.143%) SQL
2 1 (7.143%) C
2 1 (7.143%) Java
2 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) PMP
1 1 (7.143%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) Tivoli Directory Server
1 1 (7.143%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) Tivoli
1 1 (7.143%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 1 (7.143%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (7.143%) BladeLogic
1 1 (7.143%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Siebel
2 2 (14.29%) Brocade
2 2 (14.29%) Informatica
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.143%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (7.143%) Hitachi