Midlands WebSphere Application Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere Application Server over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
Location Ascot Ashby-de-la-Zouch Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Corby Devon East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Midlands Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Slough Solihull South East South West Staffordshire Stockport Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	75
Rank change on same period last year	+30
Matching contract IT job ads	31	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	18.67 %	2.801 %
Daily rates quoted	17	0
Average minimum daily rate	£374	-
Average daily rate	£419	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£465	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£391	£388
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£26.00
Average hourly rate	-	£26.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£42.67	£30.80
% change on same period last year	+38.52 %
Application Platforms Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	166	357
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.221 %	0.361 %
Daily rates quoted	59	71
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£381
Average daily rate	£394	£406
% change on same period last year	-2.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£430
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.75	£39.08
Average hourly rate	£25.63	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-35.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.50	£40.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
WebSphere Application Server England

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.

WebSphere Application Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere Application Server across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server across the Midlands region.

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere Application Server across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

WebSphere Application Server
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere Application Server across the Midlands region.

WebSphere Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing WebSphere Application Server 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 Application Server.

1 41 (100.00 %) WebSphere 2 23 (56.10 %) IBM 3 21 (51.22 %) Java 3 21 (51.22 %) AIX 4 18 (43.90 %) J2EE 5 16 (39.02 %) Oracle 6 15 (36.59 %) JSP 6 15 (36.59 %) Servlets 7 14 (34.15 %) Swing 8 13 (31.71 %) Linux 8 13 (31.71 %) JMS 8 13 (31.71 %) UNIX 8 13 (31.71 %) DB2 9 12 (29.27 %) Finance 9 12 (29.27 %) Microsoft

9 12 (29.27 %) Chip and PIN 9 12 (29.27 %) SQL 9 12 (29.27 %) MS Office 9 12 (29.27 %) EJB 9 12 (29.27 %) JDBC 9 12 (29.27 %) LDAP 9 12 (29.27 %) MS Visio 9 12 (29.27 %) Retail 9 12 (29.27 %) JNDI 10 9 (21.95 %) WebSphere MQ 11 7 (17.07 %) Security Management 11 7 (17.07 %) Middleware 12 6 (14.63 %) Ant 13 5 (12.20 %) Jython 14 4 (9.756 %) JUnit

WebSphere Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing WebSphere Application Server 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 Application Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 41 (100.00 %) WebSphere 2 18 (43.90 %) J2EE 3 15 (36.59 %) JSP 3 15 (36.59 %) Servlets 4 14 (34.15 %) Swing 5 13 (31.71 %) JMS 6 12 (29.27 %) EJB 6 12 (29.27 %) JDBC 6 12 (29.27 %) JNDI 7 7 (17.07 %) Middleware 8 3 (7.317 %) Spring 9 2 (4.878 %) JSF 9 2 (4.878 %) .NET 9 2 (4.878 %) Hibernate 9 2 (4.878 %) MFC 9 2 (4.878 %) AWT 9 2 (4.878 %) Adobe Flex 9 2 (4.878 %) Adobe AIR 10 1 (2.439 %) XML Schema 10 1 (2.439 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 9 (21.95 %) WebSphere MQ 2 4 (9.756 %) MQSeries 3 3 (7.317 %) WebLogic 3 3 (7.317 %) Apache 4 2 (4.878 %) Tomcat 5 1 (2.439 %) Oracle Workflow 5 1 (2.439 %) IBM HTTP Server 5 1 (2.439 %) WPS
Applications 1 12 (29.27 %) MS Office 1 12 (29.27 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 12 (29.27 %) LDAP 2 1 (2.439 %) HTTP 2 1 (2.439 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (31.71 %) DB2 2 1 (2.439 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 6 (14.63 %) Ant 2 4 (9.756 %) JUnit 3 2 (4.878 %) QuickTest Pro 3 2 (4.878 %) LoadRunner 4 1 (2.439 %) Eclipse
General 1 12 (29.27 %) Finance 1 12 (29.27 %) Retail 2 4 (9.756 %) Insurance 3 1 (2.439 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 18 (43.90 %) Developer 2 13 (31.71 %) Administrator 3 12 (29.27 %) Java Developer 4 8 (19.51 %) Systems Administrator 5 6 (14.63 %) WebSphere Administrator 6 3 (7.317 %) UNIX Administrator 6 3 (7.317 %) WebSphere Specialist 6 3 (7.317 %) Analyst 6 3 (7.317 %) J2EE Developer 7 2 (4.878 %) Architect 7 2 (4.878 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 7 2 (4.878 %) WebSphere Developer 7 2 (4.878 %) WebSphere Portal Developer 7 2 (4.878 %) Flex Developer 8 1 (2.439 %) J2EE Architect 8 1 (2.439 %) Server Specialist 8 1 (2.439 %) WebSphere Architect 8 1 (2.439 %) Infrastructure Designer 8 1 (2.439 %) Consultant 8 1 (2.439 %) Applications Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 12 (29.27 %) Chip and PIN 2 2 (4.878 %) N-Tier 3 1 (2.439 %) HACMP	Operating Systems 1 21 (51.22 %) AIX 2 13 (31.71 %) UNIX 2 13 (31.71 %) Linux 3 3 (7.317 %) Windows 4 1 (2.439 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (17.07 %) Security Management 2 2 (4.878 %) OO 2 2 (4.878 %) TDD 2 2 (4.878 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (2.439 %) CRM 3 1 (2.439 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 21 (51.22 %) Java 2 12 (29.27 %) SQL 3 5 (12.20 %) Jython 4 3 (7.317 %) Shell Script 5 2 (4.878 %) VB 6 1 (2.439 %) JavaScript
Systems Management 1 3 (7.317 %) BMC PATROL 1 3 (7.317 %) BMC Performance Manager 2 1 (2.439 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 23 (56.10 %) IBM 2 16 (39.02 %) Oracle 3 12 (29.27 %) Microsoft 4 3 (7.317 %) BMC 5 2 (4.878 %) Adobe