The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Norfolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM 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 Vendors for the Norfolk 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank - 14 23
Contract jobs citing IBM 0 21 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk - 7.985% 5.283%
As % of the Vendors category - 22.11% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -26.66%
All Vendors
Norfolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
61 95 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 33.33% 36.12% 38.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 45 23
Average daily rate £300 £305 £273
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.63% +11.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £255 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 12
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -28.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
IBM
East of England

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk IBM Hourly Rate Trend

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
1 1 (50.00%) EJB
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) JSP
1 1 (50.00%) Servlets
1 1 (50.00%) Struts
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) JMS
1 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) DataStage
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) JNDI
1 1 (50.00%) Korn
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) EJB
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) JSP
1 1 (50.00%) Servlets
1 1 (50.00%) Struts
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) JMS
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) JNDI
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (50.00%) SPML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) Korn
1 1 (50.00%) Bourne shell
1 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle