Norfolk IBM Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts within the Norfolk region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Amersham Ashby-de-la-Zouch Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bootle Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Clydebank Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Great Yarmouth Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Kent Kilmarnock Kingswinford Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Ives Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Thurrock Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	26
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	37	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	27.41 %	16.10 %
Daily rates quoted	10	4
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£495
Average daily rate	£408	£498
% change on same period last year	-18.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£440	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£356
% change on same period last year	+0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.60	£26.04
% change on same period last year	+5.98 %
Vendors Norfolk
Matching contract IT job ads	135	118
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.180 %	0.119 %
Daily rates quoted	33	25
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£381
Average daily rate	£328	£405
% change on same period last year	-18.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£428
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.85	£21.83
Average hourly rate	£18.26	£24.15
% change on same period last year	-24.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.68	£26.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
IBM East of 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Norfolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Norwich	+13	34	£413	-22.16 %
Great Yarmouth	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 (44.23 %) AIX 2 22 (42.31 %) Finance 3 21 (40.38 %) WebSphere 4 18 (34.62 %) VERITAS 5 16 (30.77 %) E-Commerce 6 14 (26.92 %) UNIX 7 13 (25.00 %) J2EE 7 13 (25.00 %) Java 7 13 (25.00 %) WPF 8 12 (23.08 %) Insurance 8 12 (23.08 %) Windows 9 11 (21.15 %) DSDM 10 10 (19.23 %) Microsoft 10 10 (19.23 %) HP 10 10 (19.23 %) Tivoli

10 10 (19.23 %) NetBackup 11 9 (17.31 %) Scrum 11 9 (17.31 %) Dell 11 9 (17.31 %) LDAP 12 8 (15.38 %) Clustering 12 8 (15.38 %) Oracle 12 8 (15.38 %) Windows Server 2003 12 8 (15.38 %) Change Management 13 7 (13.46 %) Firewall 13 7 (13.46 %) SAN 13 7 (13.46 %) Windows 2000 13 7 (13.46 %) Windows NT 14 6 (11.54 %) MS Excel 14 6 (11.54 %) SQL Server 15 5 (9.615 %) Shell Script

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 21 (40.38 %) WebSphere 2 13 (25.00 %) WPF 2 13 (25.00 %) J2EE 3 1 (1.923 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 5 (9.615 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 5 (9.615 %) IBM HTTP Server 1 5 (9.615 %) WPS 2 4 (7.692 %) Lotus Domino 3 2 (3.846 %) IIS
Applications 1 6 (11.54 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (3.846 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 9 (17.31 %) LDAP 2 7 (13.46 %) SAN 2 7 (13.46 %) Firewall 3 5 (9.615 %) HTTP 4 4 (7.692 %) SSL 4 4 (7.692 %) Internet 5 2 (3.846 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (11.54 %) SQL Server 2 4 (7.692 %) DB2
General 1 22 (42.31 %) Finance 2 12 (23.08 %) Insurance 3 1 (1.923 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 9 (17.31 %) Developer 1 9 (17.31 %) WebSphere Developer 2 8 (15.38 %) Consultant 2 8 (15.38 %) Administrator 3 6 (11.54 %) Analyst 4 5 (9.615 %) Server Support 4 5 (9.615 %) Infrastructure Designer 5 4 (7.692 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 4 (7.692 %) UNIX Administrator 5 4 (7.692 %) AIX Administrator 5 4 (7.692 %) Server Analyst 5 4 (7.692 %) Java Developer 5 4 (7.692 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 5 4 (7.692 %) J2EE Developer 6 3 (5.769 %) Server Support Analyst 6 3 (5.769 %) Support Analyst 7 2 (3.846 %) Systems Administrator 7 2 (3.846 %) Senior UNIX Administrator 8 1 (1.923 %) Hardware Engineer 8 1 (1.923 %) Infrastructure Team Leader
Miscellaneous 1 8 (15.38 %) Clustering 2 4 (7.692 %) PKI 2 4 (7.692 %) Data Integration 3 2 (3.846 %) Fat Client 3 2 (3.846 %) Firmware 3 2 (3.846 %) Thin Client 3 2 (3.846 %) HACMP	Operating Systems 1 23 (44.23 %) AIX 2 14 (26.92 %) UNIX 3 12 (23.08 %) Windows 4 8 (15.38 %) Windows Server 2003 5 7 (13.46 %) Windows 2000 5 7 (13.46 %) Windows NT 6 1 (1.923 %) MVS
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (30.77 %) E-Commerce 2 11 (21.15 %) DSDM 3 9 (17.31 %) Scrum 4 8 (15.38 %) Change Management 5 4 (7.692 %) Workflow 5 4 (7.692 %) Migration 5 4 (7.692 %) Content Management 5 4 (7.692 %) SOA 5 4 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 5 4 (7.692 %) Load Balancing 6 2 (3.846 %) ITIL 7 1 (1.923 %) Network Design	Programming Languages 1 13 (25.00 %) Java 2 5 (9.615 %) Shell Script 2 5 (9.615 %) Korn 3 4 (7.692 %) SQL 4 1 (1.923 %) C
Qualifications 1 4 (7.692 %) IBM Certification 2 1 (1.923 %) MCSE 2 1 (1.923 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.923 %) CNE 2 1 (1.923 %) Novell Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.846 %) SLA
System Software 1 10 (19.23 %) NetBackup 2 5 (9.615 %) Oracle RAC 3 4 (7.692 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 4 (7.692 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (1.923 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 10 (19.23 %) Tivoli 2 1 (1.923 %) SCCM
Vendors 1 18 (34.62 %) VERITAS 2 10 (19.23 %) Microsoft 2 10 (19.23 %) HP 3 9 (17.31 %) Dell 4 8 (15.38 %) Oracle 5 5 (9.615 %) Intel 5 5 (9.615 %) Symantec 5 5 (9.615 %) VMware 6 4 (7.692 %) Lotus 7 2 (3.846 %) PlateSpin 8 1 (1.923 %) Altiris 8 1 (1.923 %) Citrix