The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 18 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank - 20 24
Contract jobs citing IBM 0 17 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne - 5.380% 3.687%
As % of the Vendors category - 11.26% 6.504%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 15 3
Average daily rate - £325 £278
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.90%
UK excluding London average daily rate £384 £381 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.72% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £32.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
-9.37% +17.43%
All Vendors
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
72 151 123
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 44.72% 47.78% 56.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 80 51
Average daily rate £375 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £145
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £530 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 6
Average hourly rate £10.50 £21.50 £14.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.16% +50.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.00 £11.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £50.00 £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
IBM
Tyne and Wear

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne IBM Daily Rate Trend

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne IBM Hourly Rate Trend

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 13 (56.52%) UNIX
1 13 (56.52%) AIX
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
1 13 (56.52%) Red Hat
1 13 (56.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (43.48%) WebSphere
2 10 (43.48%) Informatica
3 9 (39.13%) Configuration Management
3 9 (39.13%) Change Control
4 7 (30.43%) Siebel
4 7 (30.43%) Solaris
4 7 (30.43%) Perl
5 6 (26.09%) SQL
5 6 (26.09%) Business Objects
5 6 (26.09%) WebLogic
5 6 (26.09%) PRINCE2
5 6 (26.09%) JBoss
5 6 (26.09%) Intranet
5 6 (26.09%) LDAP
5 6 (26.09%) PMP
5 6 (26.09%) PMI Certification
5 6 (26.09%) SSL
5 6 (26.09%) Sun
5 6 (26.09%) Office 365
5 6 (26.09%) Google
5 6 (26.09%) Social Network
5 6 (26.09%) FileNet
5 6 (26.09%) Workflow
5 6 (26.09%) Scrum
5 6 (26.09%) Agile Software Development

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 10 (43.48%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.348%) XML
2 1 (4.348%) WebSphere MQ
Application Platforms
1 6 (26.09%) WebLogic
1 6 (26.09%) FileNet
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (4.348%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Office 365
2 5 (21.74%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) LDAP
1 6 (26.09%) SSL
1 6 (26.09%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
1 1 (4.348%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Project Manager
2 5 (21.74%) Build Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) UNIX Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Data Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Agile Project Manager
5 2 (8.696%) Systems Architect
6 1 (4.348%) Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.348%) Administrator
6 1 (4.348%) UNIX Administrator
6 1 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) Environment Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Social Network
2 1 (4.348%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) UNIX
1 13 (56.52%) AIX
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
1 13 (56.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (30.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Configuration Management
1 9 (39.13%) Change Control
2 6 (26.09%) PRINCE2
2 6 (26.09%) Workflow
2 6 (26.09%) Scrum
2 6 (26.09%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (26.09%) Document Management
3 5 (21.74%) Project Management
3 5 (21.74%) Change Management
3 5 (21.74%) PRINCE
3 5 (21.74%) Waterfall
4 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
5 2 (8.696%) Data Analysis
5 2 (8.696%) Data Architecture
6 1 (4.348%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Perl
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 2 (8.696%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) PMP
1 6 (26.09%) PMI Certification
2 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Red Hat
2 10 (43.48%) Informatica
3 7 (30.43%) Siebel
4 6 (26.09%) Business Objects
4 6 (26.09%) JBoss
4 6 (26.09%) Sun
4 6 (26.09%) Google
5 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
6 2 (8.696%) HP
7 1 (4.348%) Oracle
7 1 (4.348%) Axway
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