Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Milton Keynes region.

 IBM WebSphere
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank354051
Rank change year-on-year
Up+5Up+11
Matching contract IT job ads9122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes2.118 %0.284 %2.306 %
As % of the Application Development category13.85 %1.923 %13.84 %
Daily rates quoted205
Average daily rate£281-£250
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£216-£235
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£346-£310
UK excluding London average daily rate£375£400£400
% change year-on-year
-6.250 %-
Hourly rates quoted100
Average hourly rate£11.00--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£32.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-21.87 %-8.570 %
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6552159
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes15.29 %14.77 %16.67 %
Daily rates quoted241227
Average daily rate£200£375£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-46.59 %+24.83 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£124£295£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£365£450£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted355
Average hourly rate£9.00£17.50£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.57 %-22.22 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %
WebSphere BuckinghamshireWebSphere
Buckinghamshire

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.

WebSphere
Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes WebSphere Demand Trend

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes WebSphere Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Milton Keynes WebSphere Daily Rate Histogram

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes WebSphere Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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.

110 (40.00 %)WebSphere Application Server
27 (28.00 %)Finance
27 (28.00 %)XML
27 (28.00 %)Oracle
27 (28.00 %)IBM
36 (24.00 %)DB2
36 (24.00 %)UNIX
36 (24.00 %)Banking
45 (20.00 %)Change Management
45 (20.00 %)SQL
54 (16.00 %)J2EE
54 (16.00 %)EJB
54 (16.00 %)JSP
54 (16.00 %)Windows
54 (16.00 %)AIX
54 (16.00 %)Financial Institution
54 (16.00 %)Data Mapping
63 (12.00 %)WebSphere Portal
63 (12.00 %)E-business
63 (12.00 %)WebSphere MQ
63 (12.00 %)ATM
72 (8.000 %)zOS
72 (8.000 %)Tivoli
72 (8.000 %)Tivoli Monitoring
72 (8.000 %)Oracle 8/8i
72 (8.000 %)E-Commerce
72 (8.000 %)Servlets
72 (8.000 %)COBOL
72 (8.000 %)Java
72 (8.000 %)WebSphere Process Server

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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.

Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
17 (28.00 %)XML
24 (16.00 %)J2EE
24 (16.00 %)EJB
24 (16.00 %)JSP
32 (8.000 %)Servlets
32 (8.000 %)WBIMB
41 (4.000 %)Spring
41 (4.000 %)Middleware
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
110 (40.00 %)WebSphere Application Server
23 (12.00 %)WebSphere Portal
23 (12.00 %)WebSphere MQ
32 (8.000 %)WebSphere Process Server
32 (8.000 %)ESB
32 (8.000 %)WebSphere Message Broker
41 (4.000 %)Commerce Server
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13 (12.00 %)ATM
21 (4.000 %)Network Security
21 (4.000 %)NAS
21 (4.000 %)SSH
21 (4.000 %)3G
21 (4.000 %)SSL
21 (4.000 %)SAN
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (24.00 %)DB2
22 (8.000 %)Oracle 8/8i
22 (8.000 %)DB2 UDB
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
17 (28.00 %)Finance
26 (24.00 %)Banking
34 (16.00 %)Financial Institution
41 (4.000 %)Back Office
41 (4.000 %)Retail Banking
41 (4.000 %)Investment Banking
41 (4.000 %)Retail
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
18 (32.00 %)Analyst
25 (20.00 %)Architect
33 (12.00 %)WebSphere Consultant
33 (12.00 %)Consultant
33 (12.00 %)Technical Analyst
42 (8.000 %)Support Analyst
42 (8.000 %)WebSphere Architect
42 (8.000 %)Senior WebSphere Consultant
42 (8.000 %)Test Analyst
42 (8.000 %)Systems Analyst
42 (8.000 %)Senior Consultant
42 (8.000 %)Integration Analyst
51 (4.000 %)Integration Tester
51 (4.000 %)Senior Technical Manager
51 (4.000 %)AIX Engineer
51 (4.000 %)Senior Project Manager
51 (4.000 %)Technical Project Manager
51 (4.000 %)Systems Engineer
51 (4.000 %)Senior Manager
51 (4.000 %)Integration Test Analyst
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (4.000 %)IBM Mainframe
11 (4.000 %)Data Integration
11 (4.000 %)Clustering
11 (4.000 %)IVR
11 (4.000 %)Mainframe
11 (4.000 %)Firmware
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (24.00 %)UNIX
24 (16.00 %)Windows
24 (16.00 %)AIX
32 (8.000 %)zOS
41 (4.000 %)HPUX
41 (4.000 %)Solaris
41 (4.000 %)Linux
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (20.00 %)Change Management
24 (16.00 %)Data Mapping
33 (12.00 %)E-business
42 (8.000 %)E-Commerce
42 (8.000 %)Migration
42 (8.000 %)Integration Testing
42 (8.000 %)Test Scripting
51 (4.000 %)Data Migration
51 (4.000 %)Systems Analysis
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15 (20.00 %)SQL
22 (8.000 %)COBOL
22 (8.000 %)Java
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (4.000 %)Veritas Cluster Server
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (8.000 %)Tivoli
12 (8.000 %)Tivoli Monitoring
21 (4.000 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
17 (28.00 %)Oracle
17 (28.00 %)IBM
21 (4.000 %)Hitachi
21 (4.000 %)NCR
21 (4.000 %)Veritas