The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 18 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 Leeds 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank 62 71 50
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -21
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 13 4 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.625% 0.402% 1.351%
As % of the Application Development category 4.779% 1.274% 4.737%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 8
Average daily rate £375 - £369
90% offered a daily rate of more than £307 - £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 - £533
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 £413
% change year-on-year
-5.82% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £45.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-33.70% +39.23%
All Application Development
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
272 314 190
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 34.00% 31.56% 28.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 200 106
Average daily rate £275 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £380 £376
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 5
Average hourly rate £38.00 £17.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+117.14% -22.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
WebSphere
West Yorkshire

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds WebSphere Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Leeds WebSphere Daily Rate Histogram

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds WebSphere Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 14 (77.78%) Linux
2 12 (66.67%) Java
2 12 (66.67%) UNIX
3 10 (55.56%) WebLogic
4 9 (50.00%) Oracle
5 8 (44.44%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (44.44%) E-Commerce
6 7 (38.89%) Ant
6 7 (38.89%) Perl
6 7 (38.89%) Configuration Management
6 7 (38.89%) Subversion
6 7 (38.89%) Maven
6 7 (38.89%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (33.33%) CruiseControl
7 6 (33.33%) Solaris
7 6 (33.33%) Tomcat
8 5 (27.78%) IBM
8 5 (27.78%) AIX
9 4 (22.22%) Windows
9 4 (22.22%) J2EE
9 4 (22.22%) JBoss
9 4 (22.22%) SOA
9 4 (22.22%) WebSphere MQ
9 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
9 4 (22.22%) Middleware
9 4 (22.22%) WebSphere Process Server
9 4 (22.22%) AWK
9 4 (22.22%) Bash shell
9 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
9 4 (22.22%) ESB

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (22.22%) J2EE
1 4 (22.22%) WebSphere MQ
1 4 (22.22%) Middleware
2 2 (11.11%) JDBC
3 1 (5.556%) JSP
3 1 (5.556%) XML
3 1 (5.556%) Java EE
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 10 (55.56%) WebLogic
2 8 (44.44%) WebSphere Application Server
3 6 (33.33%) Tomcat
4 4 (22.22%) WebSphere Process Server
4 4 (22.22%) ESB
5 3 (16.67%) WebSphere Portal
5 3 (16.67%) Documentum
5 3 (16.67%) ATG Dynamo
5 3 (16.67%) Apache
6 2 (11.11%) IIS
6 2 (11.11%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (11.11%) MQSeries
7 1 (5.556%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (5.556%) GlassFish
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) FTP
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (5.556%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.556%) DNS
2 1 (5.556%) SSL
2 1 (5.556%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) DB2
2 1 (5.556%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Ant
1 7 (38.89%) Subversion
1 7 (38.89%) Maven
2 6 (33.33%) CruiseControl
3 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
4 3 (16.67%) Hudson
5 2 (11.11%) Build Forge
General
1 3 (16.67%) Retail
1 3 (16.67%) Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Games
3 1 (5.556%) Banking
3 1 (5.556%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Administrator
1 6 (33.33%) Release Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Configuration Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Operations Support Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) WebSphere Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Server Administrator
4 1 (5.556%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Administrator
4 1 (5.556%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Linux
2 12 (66.67%) UNIX
3 6 (33.33%) Solaris
4 5 (27.78%) AIX
5 4 (22.22%) Windows
6 1 (5.556%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) E-Commerce
2 7 (38.89%) Configuration Management
2 7 (38.89%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (22.22%) SOA
4 3 (16.67%) Change Management
4 3 (16.67%) Release Management
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 1 (5.556%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) Perl
3 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 4 (22.22%) AWK
3 4 (22.22%) Bash shell
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (5.556%) Python
5 1 (5.556%) Jython
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) IBM
3 4 (22.22%) JBoss
4 3 (16.67%) Siebel
4 3 (16.67%) ATG
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.11%) Adobe
6 1 (5.556%) Sun
6 1 (5.556%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.556%) F5