Leeds IBM Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Amersham Ashby-de-la-Zouch Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clydebank Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Faversham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Ipswich Kent Kilmarnock Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Thurrock Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	64
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	13	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	2.778 %	1.212 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£180
Average daily rate	£310	£200
% change on same period last year	+55.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£220
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£359
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.13	-
Average hourly rate	£15.13	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.13	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.50
% change on same period last year	-10.24 %
Vendors Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	468	330
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.617 %	0.350 %
Daily rates quoted	117	73
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£295
Average daily rate	£315	£310
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£332	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.79	£17.76
Average hourly rate	£16.36	£18.20
% change on same period last year	-10.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.93	£18.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.91	£25.10
% change on same period last year	-8.72 %
IBM West Yorkshire

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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IBM across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 11 (39.29 %) Finance 2 9 (32.14 %) Lotus 2 9 (32.14 %) SQL 2 9 (32.14 %) Unix 2 9 (32.14 %) Lotus Notes 3 7 (25.00 %) MS Office 4 6 (21.43 %) Dell 4 6 (21.43 %) HP 4 6 (21.43 %) Windows 5 5 (17.86 %) Datawarehouse 5 5 (17.86 %) SAS 5 5 (17.86 %) TCP/IP 5 5 (17.86 %) Citrix 5 5 (17.86 %) Basel II 6 4 (14.29 %) Mainframe

6 4 (14.29 %) Project Management 6 4 (14.29 %) IBM Certification 6 4 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 6 4 (14.29 %) LAN 6 4 (14.29 %) Microsoft 6 4 (14.29 %) DB2 6 4 (14.29 %) LotusScript 6 4 (14.29 %) Banking 6 4 (14.29 %) Retail 7 3 (10.71 %) Teradata 7 3 (10.71 %) Retail Banking 7 3 (10.71 %) WebSphere 7 3 (10.71 %) IBM Mainframe 7 3 (10.71 %) Lotus Domino 7 3 (10.71 %) SAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 3 (10.71 %) WebSphere 2 2 (7.143 %) ISPF 2 2 (7.143 %) J2SE 3 1 (3.571 %) Hibernate 3 1 (3.571 %) Spring 3 1 (3.571 %) .NET 3 1 (3.571 %) J2EE 3 1 (3.571 %) XML 3 1 (3.571 %) Spring MVC	Application Platforms 1 9 (32.14 %) Lotus Notes 2 5 (17.86 %) SAS 3 3 (10.71 %) Lotus Domino 4 2 (7.143 %) WebSphere MQ 5 1 (3.571 %) CICS 5 1 (3.571 %) Tomcat 5 1 (3.571 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 7 (25.00 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 5 (17.86 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (14.29 %) LAN 3 3 (10.71 %) SAN 3 3 (10.71 %) Internet 4 2 (7.143 %) OSPF 4 2 (7.143 %) Firewall 4 2 (7.143 %) Frame Relay 4 2 (7.143 %) iSCSI 4 2 (7.143 %) WAN 4 2 (7.143 %) FTP 4 2 (7.143 %) RIP 4 2 (7.143 %) SSL 4 2 (7.143 %) ATM 5 1 (3.571 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (17.86 %) Datawarehouse 2 4 (14.29 %) DB2 3 1 (3.571 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (3.571 %) Eclipse 1 1 (3.571 %) TestDirector
General 1 11 (39.29 %) Finance 2 4 (14.29 %) Banking 2 4 (14.29 %) Retail 3 3 (10.71 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (3.571 %) Government 4 1 (3.571 %) Health 4 1 (3.571 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 11 (39.29 %) Analyst 2 7 (25.00 %) Developer 3 4 (14.29 %) Desktop Support 3 4 (14.29 %) Senior Analyst 3 4 (14.29 %) Data Analyst 4 3 (10.71 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (10.71 %) Technical Support 4 3 (10.71 %) Lotus Notes Developer 4 3 (10.71 %) Senior Data Analyst 5 2 (7.143 %) Infrastructure Architect 5 2 (7.143 %) DB2 DBA 5 2 (7.143 %) Infrastructure Designer 5 2 (7.143 %) Architect 5 2 (7.143 %) Network Engineer 5 2 (7.143 %) DBA 6 1 (3.571 %) Senior Manager 6 1 (3.571 %) Senior Developer 6 1 (3.571 %) Analyst Programmer 6 1 (3.571 %) Programmer 6 1 (3.571 %) Test Manager
Miscellaneous 1 4 (14.29 %) Mainframe 2 3 (10.71 %) IBM Mainframe 3 2 (7.143 %) Client/Server 4 1 (3.571 %) AS400 4 1 (3.571 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 9 (32.14 %) Unix 2 6 (21.43 %) Windows 3 4 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (10.71 %) zOS 5 2 (7.143 %) Linux 6 1 (3.571 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (14.29 %) Project Management 2 2 (7.143 %) Network Design 2 2 (7.143 %) Systems Analysis 2 2 (7.143 %) SOA 3 1 (3.571 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (3.571 %) MVC 3 1 (3.571 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 9 (32.14 %) SQL 2 4 (14.29 %) LotusScript 3 2 (7.143 %) JCL 3 2 (7.143 %) COBOL 3 2 (7.143 %) DHTML 3 2 (7.143 %) JavaScript 4 1 (3.571 %) C# 4 1 (3.571 %) Java 4 1 (3.571 %) Assembly Language
Qualifications 1 4 (14.29 %) IBM Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (17.86 %) Basel II 2 2 (7.143 %) PCI DSS
System Software 1 2 (7.143 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 2 (7.143 %) MAINVIEW 2 1 (3.571 %) OpenView 2 1 (3.571 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 9 (32.14 %) Lotus 2 6 (21.43 %) HP 2 6 (21.43 %) Dell 3 5 (17.86 %) Citrix 4 4 (14.29 %) Microsoft 5 3 (10.71 %) Compaq 5 3 (10.71 %) Remedy 5 3 (10.71 %) Teradata 6 2 (7.143 %) BMC 6 2 (7.143 %) Cisco 7 1 (3.571 %) Oracle 7 1 (3.571 %) Sun 7 1 (3.571 %) EMC 7 1 (3.571 %) Hitachi 7 1 (3.571 %) VERITAS