Leicestershire IBM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts within the Leicestershire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Amersham Ashby-de-la-Zouch Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Cornwall Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Kent Kilmarnock Kingswinford Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Thurrock Tunbridge Wells UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	28
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	20	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	15.75 %	6.832 %
Daily rates quoted	11	3
Average minimum daily rate	£215	£500
Average daily rate	£227	£500
% change on same period last year	-54.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£240	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£367
% change on same period last year	-2.65 %
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	£29.67	£24.65
% change on same period last year	+20.35 %
Vendors Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	127	161
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.172 %	0.159 %
Daily rates quoted	41	26
Average minimum daily rate	£234	£336
Average daily rate	£246	£363
% change on same period last year	-32.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£258	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.85	£13.01
Average hourly rate	£18.64	£14.22
% change on same period last year	+31.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.42	£15.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.29	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
IBM East Midlands

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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IBM across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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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 Leicestershire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leicester	+6	6	£100	-80.00 %
Hinckley	-	5	£190	-
Ashby-de-la-Zouch	-	2	£275	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 30 (66.67 %) AIX 2 23 (51.11 %) WebSphere 3 20 (44.44 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 19 (42.22 %) Finance 5 16 (35.56 %) UNIX 6 12 (26.67 %) Windows 7 11 (24.44 %) WebSphere MQ 7 11 (24.44 %) Service Delivery 8 9 (20.00 %) SAN 9 8 (17.78 %) Sun 9 8 (17.78 %) Solaris 10 6 (13.33 %) Java 10 6 (13.33 %) Oracle 10 6 (13.33 %) HP 10 6 (13.33 %) Red Hat

10 6 (13.33 %) Mainframe 11 5 (11.11 %) Shell Script 11 5 (11.11 %) ClearQuest 11 5 (11.11 %) Linux 11 5 (11.11 %) Windows 2000 11 5 (11.11 %) Asset Management 11 5 (11.11 %) Red Hat Linux 12 4 (8.889 %) Banking 12 4 (8.889 %) RAD 12 4 (8.889 %) Oracle 9i 12 4 (8.889 %) SQL 12 4 (8.889 %) HPUX 12 4 (8.889 %) Middleware 12 4 (8.889 %) Oracle 10g 13 3 (6.667 %) Unisys

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 23 (51.11 %) WebSphere 2 4 (8.889 %) Middleware 3 3 (6.667 %) WebServices 4 2 (4.444 %) Struts 4 2 (4.444 %) .NET 4 2 (4.444 %) Spring 4 2 (4.444 %) JSR 168 5 1 (2.222 %) J2EE 5 1 (2.222 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 20 (44.44 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 11 (24.44 %) WebSphere MQ 3 2 (4.444 %) IIS 3 2 (4.444 %) Tomcat 4 1 (2.222 %) MQSeries
Business Applications 1 3 (6.667 %) BASE24 2 1 (2.222 %) Oracle 11i 2 1 (2.222 %) Oracle EBS	Communications & Networking 1 9 (20.00 %) SAN 2 2 (4.444 %) MPLS 2 2 (4.444 %) Firewall 2 2 (4.444 %) LAN 2 2 (4.444 %) WAN 3 1 (2.222 %) HTTP 3 1 (2.222 %) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (8.889 %) Oracle 9i 1 4 (8.889 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (2.222 %) DB2 2 1 (2.222 %) Oracle Reports 2 1 (2.222 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 5 (11.11 %) ClearQuest 2 2 (4.444 %) Rational Performance Tester 2 2 (4.444 %) ClearCase 3 1 (2.222 %) Rational Rose 3 1 (2.222 %) Eclipse 3 1 (2.222 %) Ant
General 1 19 (42.22 %) Finance 2 4 (8.889 %) Banking 3 2 (4.444 %) Retail 3 2 (4.444 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (2.222 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 18 (40.00 %) Administrator 2 13 (28.89 %) WebSphere Administrator 3 12 (26.67 %) Analyst 4 5 (11.11 %) UNIX Administrator 5 4 (8.889 %) Services Delivery Analyst 5 4 (8.889 %) Systems Administrator 5 4 (8.889 %) Service Analyst 6 3 (6.667 %) Data Analyst 6 3 (6.667 %) Architect 6 3 (6.667 %) AIX Administrator 7 2 (4.444 %) UNIX Engineer 7 2 (4.444 %) WebSphere Consultant 7 2 (4.444 %) Consultant 7 2 (4.444 %) DBA 7 2 (4.444 %) Solutions Architect 7 2 (4.444 %) Oracle DBA 8 1 (2.222 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 8 1 (2.222 %) Test Engineer 8 1 (2.222 %) Team Leader 8 1 (2.222 %) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 6 (13.33 %) Mainframe 2 3 (6.667 %) AS400 2 3 (6.667 %) IBM Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 30 (66.67 %) AIX 2 16 (35.56 %) UNIX 3 12 (26.67 %) Windows 4 8 (17.78 %) Solaris 5 5 (11.11 %) Linux 5 5 (11.11 %) Windows 2000 5 5 (11.11 %) Red Hat Linux 6 4 (8.889 %) HPUX 7 2 (4.444 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 2 (4.444 %) Windows Server 2003 8 1 (2.222 %) SUSE 8 1 (2.222 %) zOS 8 1 (2.222 %) MVS
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (24.44 %) Service Delivery 2 5 (11.11 %) Asset Management 3 4 (8.889 %) RAD 4 3 (6.667 %) UML 4 3 (6.667 %) Data Modelling 4 3 (6.667 %) Security Management 4 3 (6.667 %) Test Scripting 5 2 (4.444 %) Performance Testing 5 2 (4.444 %) Validation 5 2 (4.444 %) Yourdon 5 2 (4.444 %) ITIL 5 2 (4.444 %) SSADM 6 1 (2.222 %) ERP 6 1 (2.222 %) Data Security 6 1 (2.222 %) SOA 6 1 (2.222 %) Migration 6 1 (2.222 %) Data Management 6 1 (2.222 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (2.222 %) Manual Testing	Programming Languages 1 6 (13.33 %) Java 2 5 (11.11 %) Shell Script 3 4 (8.889 %) SQL 4 3 (6.667 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (2.222 %) COBOL 5 1 (2.222 %) JavaScript 5 1 (2.222 %) Jython
Qualifications 1 1 (2.222 %) OCP 1 1 (2.222 %) OCA 1 1 (2.222 %) Oracle Certification	System Software 1 2 (4.444 %) Oracle RAC 2 1 (2.222 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 2 (4.444 %) Tivoli 2 1 (2.222 %) MOM 2 1 (2.222 %) AllFusion Endevor	Vendors 1 8 (17.78 %) Sun 2 6 (13.33 %) HP 2 6 (13.33 %) Oracle 2 6 (13.33 %) Red Hat 3 3 (6.667 %) Unisys 4 1 (2.222 %) NetApp 4 1 (2.222 %) Brocade