The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere Studio Application Developer skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere Studio Application Developer over the 3 months to 24 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 Development Applications category 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD)
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Studio Application Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.107% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.990% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
101 113 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 10.83% 8.746% 8.157%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 58 42
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £250 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £357 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 0
Average hourly rate £112.50 £33.30 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+237.83% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
WebSphere Studio Application Developer
North West

WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester WebSphere Studio Application Developer Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WebSphere Studio Application Developer across the Manchester region.

Manchester WebSphere Studio Application Developer Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing WebSphere Studio Application Developer 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 Studio Application Developer.

1 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) Perl
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) JUnit
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 9 (100.00%) EJB
1 9 (100.00%) JDBC
1 9 (100.00%) JSP
1 9 (100.00%) Servlets
1 9 (100.00%) DB2
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) UNIX
1 9 (100.00%) UML
1 9 (100.00%) OO
1 9 (100.00%) RAD
1 9 (100.00%) XHTML
1 9 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 9 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
1 9 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 9 (100.00%) Content Management
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 9 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 8 (88.89%) Elastic Path
2 8 (88.89%) Subversion
2 8 (88.89%) XPath
2 8 (88.89%) JSTL

WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing WebSphere Studio Application Developer 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 Studio Application Developer. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) EJB
1 9 (100.00%) JDBC
1 9 (100.00%) JSP
1 9 (100.00%) Servlets
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) XHTML
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 8 (88.89%) JSTL
2 8 (88.89%) XMLBeans
2 8 (88.89%) Ajax
2 8 (88.89%) JMS
2 8 (88.89%) XSLT
2 8 (88.89%) Struts
3 1 (11.11%) jQuery
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) DHTML
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (88.89%) MQSeries
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) DB2
1 9 (100.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) JUnit
1 9 (100.00%) Eclipse
2 8 (88.89%) Subversion
2 8 (88.89%) Log4j
2 8 (88.89%) Ant
General
1 7 (77.78%) Retail
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
1 7 (77.78%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (88.89%) Java Developer
3 7 (77.78%) J2EE Developer
3 7 (77.78%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) UNIX
2 8 (88.89%) HPUX
2 8 (88.89%) Solaris
2 8 (88.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) UML
1 9 (100.00%) OO
1 9 (100.00%) RAD
1 9 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 9 (100.00%) Content Management
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (11.11%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) Perl
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 8 (88.89%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
2 8 (88.89%) Elastic Path
2 8 (88.89%) ATG
2 8 (88.89%) Blue Martini
2 8 (88.89%) Interwoven
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Sun