WebSphere Contracts in Lancashire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Application Development category for the Lancashire 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank 25 8 31
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +23
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 7 63 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 3.483% 14.62% 0.450%
As % of the Application Development category 10.94% 40.13% 2.703%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 39 0
Average daily rate £369 £423 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.72% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £413
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -2.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
-47.82% +53.33%
All Application Development
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 64 157 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 31.84% 36.43% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 90 17
Average daily rate £314 £373 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.77% +29.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £275 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £500 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -42.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WebSphere
North West

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
Skelmersdale +8 5 £388 -
WebSphere
North West

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 7 (41.18%) WebSphere Process Server
1 7 (41.18%) UNIX
2 6 (35.29%) WebSphere Application Server
2 6 (35.29%) IBM
2 6 (35.29%) Mainframe
3 4 (23.53%) Retail
3 4 (23.53%) Middleware
3 4 (23.53%) Firewall
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (23.53%) ETL
4 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (17.65%) J2EE
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle
4 3 (17.65%) SOAP
4 3 (17.65%) PKI
4 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) Banking
5 2 (11.76%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (11.76%) Finance
5 2 (11.76%) Validation
5 2 (11.76%) VMware
5 2 (11.76%) Web Services
5 2 (11.76%) Java
5 2 (11.76%) Windows
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
5 2 (11.76%) DB2
5 2 (11.76%) EJB
5 2 (11.76%) FTP
5 2 (11.76%) HTTP
5 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 4 (23.53%) Middleware
2 3 (17.65%) J2EE
2 3 (17.65%) SOAP
3 2 (11.76%) Web Services
3 2 (11.76%) EJB
4 1 (5.882%) CSS
4 1 (5.882%) JDBC
4 1 (5.882%) JSP
4 1 (5.882%) Servlets
4 1 (5.882%) XML
4 1 (5.882%) XHTML
4 1 (5.882%) JMS
4 1 (5.882%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.882%) JPA
4 1 (5.882%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (41.18%) WebSphere Process Server
2 6 (35.29%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (11.76%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (5.882%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) FTP
2 2 (11.76%) HTTP
2 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) DB2
3 1 (5.882%) TOAD
3 1 (5.882%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 1 (5.882%) Eclipse
1 1 (5.882%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (23.53%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Architect
2 6 (35.29%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.76%) WebSphere Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Senior WebSphere Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Designer
5 1 (5.882%) Performance Test Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Java Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Java Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Performance Test Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Designer
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Build Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Performance Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Java/J2EE Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Mainframe
2 3 (17.65%) PKI
3 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.882%) DataPower
3 1 (5.882%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) UNIX
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (5.882%) HPUX
3 1 (5.882%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (23.53%) ETL
2 2 (11.76%) Validation
3 1 (5.882%) MVC
3 1 (5.882%) Release Management
3 1 (5.882%) Performance Testing
3 1 (5.882%) Build Automation
3 1 (5.882%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (5.882%) UML
3 1 (5.882%) OO
3 1 (5.882%) RAD
3 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.882%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Java
2 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.882%) SQL
2 1 (5.882%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.882%) Degree
2 1 (5.882%) BC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) IBM
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) HP
4 1 (5.882%) Citrix
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