The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 19 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 Vendors for the Manchester 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 47 29 51
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +22
Contract jobs citing IBM 28 59 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 2.920% 4.781% 1.918%
As % of the Vendors category 6.651% 9.883% 4.773%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 8
Average daily rate £328 £375 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.66% +36.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £207 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £470 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £384 £386 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.58% +2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
All Vendors
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
421 597 419
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 43.90% 48.38% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 253 185
Average daily rate £320 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 38 38
Average hourly rate £16.50 £20.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.51% +46.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.50 £9.98
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £33.30 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
IBM
North West

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Manchester IBM Daily Rate Histogram

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester IBM Hourly Rate Trend

IBM
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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Altrincham - - - -
Bolton - - - -
Stockport - - - -
IBM
North West

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 23 (41.82%) UNIX
2 20 (36.36%) Perl
3 18 (32.73%) Banking
4 17 (30.91%) WebSphere
5 16 (29.09%) Linux
6 15 (27.27%) JavaScript
6 15 (27.27%) LDAP
6 15 (27.27%) Retail
7 14 (25.45%) Active Directory
7 14 (25.45%) SQL
8 13 (23.64%) DB2
9 12 (21.82%) Windows
9 12 (21.82%) AIX
9 12 (21.82%) Middleware
10 11 (20.00%) Mainframe
10 11 (20.00%) CA
10 11 (20.00%) Tivoli
10 11 (20.00%) Finance
10 11 (20.00%) Oracle
11 10 (18.18%) C
12 9 (16.36%) Red Hat
12 9 (16.36%) zOS
12 9 (16.36%) Internet
12 9 (16.36%) Netcool
12 9 (16.36%) Nagios
12 9 (16.36%) Java
12 9 (16.36%) HPUX
12 9 (16.36%) Solaris
12 9 (16.36%) Apache
12 9 (16.36%) Ruby

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 17 (30.91%) WebSphere
2 12 (21.82%) Middleware
3 8 (14.55%) XML
4 6 (10.91%) XHTML
4 6 (10.91%) HTML
4 6 (10.91%) J2EE
4 6 (10.91%) JDBC
5 5 (9.091%) JSP
5 5 (9.091%) Servlets
5 5 (9.091%) EJB
6 4 (7.273%) Ajax
7 3 (5.455%) Struts
7 3 (5.455%) XSLT
7 3 (5.455%) JMS
7 3 (5.455%) SPNEGO
7 3 (5.455%) JSTL
7 3 (5.455%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
7 3 (5.455%) XMLBeans
8 2 (3.636%) ISPF
8 2 (3.636%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 9 (16.36%) Apache
2 8 (14.55%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (12.73%) CICS
4 5 (9.091%) WebLogic
5 3 (5.455%) CMS
5 3 (5.455%) MQSeries
6 2 (3.636%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (1.818%) IIS
7 1 (1.818%) IBM Connections
7 1 (1.818%) Apache Solr
7 1 (1.818%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
Applications
1 7 (12.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.455%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.27%) LDAP
2 9 (16.36%) Internet
3 8 (14.55%) SAN
4 6 (10.91%) Firewall
5 4 (7.273%) TCP/IP
5 4 (7.273%) SNA
6 3 (5.455%) X.509
6 3 (5.455%) Kerberos
6 3 (5.455%) SSL
6 3 (5.455%) SMS
6 3 (5.455%) Network Security
6 3 (5.455%) SSH
7 1 (1.818%) Intranet
7 1 (1.818%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.64%) DB2
2 6 (10.91%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.091%) RDBMS
4 4 (7.273%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.818%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.818%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.818%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.818%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 5 (9.091%) JUnit
1 5 (9.091%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 5 (9.091%) Eclipse
2 3 (5.455%) Log4j
2 3 (5.455%) Ant
2 3 (5.455%) Subversion
3 1 (1.818%) RequisitePro
3 1 (1.818%) ERwin
General
1 18 (32.73%) Banking
2 15 (27.27%) Retail
3 11 (20.00%) Finance
4 7 (12.73%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.455%) Games
6 2 (3.636%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.818%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.818%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) Support Engineer
2 9 (16.36%) Systems Engineer
2 9 (16.36%) Systems Support
2 9 (16.36%) Systems Support Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Analyst
4 6 (10.91%) Developer
5 5 (9.091%) Designer
6 4 (7.273%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.273%) J2EE Developer
6 4 (7.273%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 3 (5.455%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (5.455%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.455%) Programmer
7 3 (5.455%) Architect
7 3 (5.455%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.455%) AIX Engineer
8 2 (3.636%) DB2 DBA
8 2 (3.636%) WebSphere Developer
8 2 (3.636%) Systems Programmer
8 2 (3.636%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 9 (16.36%) Wiki
3 7 (12.73%) IBM Mainframe
3 7 (12.73%) VSAM
4 4 (7.273%) PKI
4 4 (7.273%) Online Banking
4 4 (7.273%) Web 2.0
4 4 (7.273%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (5.455%) HACMP
6 1 (1.818%) AS400
6 1 (1.818%) IIBA
6 1 (1.818%) iSeries
6 1 (1.818%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 23 (41.82%) UNIX
2 16 (29.09%) Linux
3 12 (21.82%) Windows
3 12 (21.82%) AIX
4 9 (16.36%) zOS
4 9 (16.36%) HPUX
4 9 (16.36%) Solaris
5 5 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (7.273%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (5.455%) MVS
8 1 (1.818%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (10.91%) User Acceptance Testing
1 6 (10.91%) E-Commerce
1 6 (10.91%) UML
2 5 (9.091%) Change Management
2 5 (9.091%) Migration
2 5 (9.091%) Project Management
2 5 (9.091%) OO
2 5 (9.091%) RAD
2 5 (9.091%) ITIL
2 5 (9.091%) ETL
2 5 (9.091%) Content Management
3 4 (7.273%) Stress Testing
4 3 (5.455%) Identity Management
4 3 (5.455%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (3.636%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (3.636%) Service Management
5 2 (3.636%) Configuration Management
5 2 (3.636%) MVC
6 1 (1.818%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (1.818%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) Perl
2 15 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 14 (25.45%) SQL
4 10 (18.18%) C
5 9 (16.36%) Java
5 9 (16.36%) Ruby
6 6 (10.91%) Bash shell
6 6 (10.91%) Shell Script
6 6 (10.91%) JCL
7 5 (9.091%) REXX
8 3 (5.455%) XPath
9 1 (1.818%) RPG
9 1 (1.818%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.636%) Sun Certification
2 1 (1.818%) ISEB
2 1 (1.818%) CBAP
2 1 (1.818%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.818%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.818%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.818%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (1.818%) ISO/IEC 17799
1 1 (1.818%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.818%) Solvency II
1 1 (1.818%) QA
System Software
1 14 (25.45%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (9.091%) Hyper-V
3 4 (7.273%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 3 (5.455%) PowerHA
5 2 (3.636%) RACF
Systems Management
1 11 (20.00%) Tivoli
2 9 (16.36%) Netcool
2 9 (16.36%) Nagios
2 9 (16.36%) Puppet
3 3 (5.455%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 2 (3.636%) OMEGAMON
4 2 (3.636%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (1.818%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) CA
1 11 (20.00%) Oracle
2 9 (16.36%) Red Hat
3 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
4 7 (12.73%) Brocade
5 6 (10.91%) HP
6 5 (9.091%) VMware
6 5 (9.091%) Cisco
7 4 (7.273%) Blue Martini
7 4 (7.273%) Citrix
7 4 (7.273%) CheckPoint
7 4 (7.273%) ATG
8 3 (5.455%) Hitachi
8 3 (5.455%) Interwoven
8 3 (5.455%) Sun
8 3 (5.455%) Cognos
8 3 (5.455%) Elastic Path
9 1 (1.818%) Veritas
9 1 (1.818%) ILOG
9 1 (1.818%) BMC