Norfolk WebSphere Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere skills within the Norfolk region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere
Location Atherstone Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newry Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Rugby Scotland Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Stirling Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	31
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	50	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.064 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	52.63 %	18.05 %
Daily rates quoted	7	12
Average minimum daily rate	£382	£479
Average daily rate	£396	£494
% change on same period last year	-19.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£411	£508
UK excluding London average daily rate	£392	£405
% change on same period last year	-3.24 %
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	£39.59	£38.35
% change on same period last year	+3.24 %
Application Development Norfolk
Matching contract IT job ads	95	133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.122 %	0.149 %
Daily rates quoted	13	20
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£443
Average daily rate	£301	£455
% change on same period last year	-33.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£466
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.77	£26.18
Average hourly rate	£32.23	£29.48
% change on same period last year	+9.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.70	£32.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
WebSphere 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.

WebSphere
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing WebSphere across the Norfolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere across the Norfolk region over the past 3 months.

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WebSphere
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the Norfolk region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Norwich	+24	46	£365	-25.60 %

WebSphere East of England

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Norfolk region citing WebSphere also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebSphere.

1 54 (63.53 %) Finance 2 50 (58.82 %) Java 3 48 (56.47 %) J2EE 4 35 (41.18 %) XML 5 28 (32.94 %) WPS 6 25 (29.41 %) Agile Software Development 7 22 (25.88 %) CSS 7 22 (25.88 %) HTML 8 19 (22.35 %) XSLT 9 18 (21.18 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 17 (20.00 %) WebServices 11 16 (18.82 %) DHTML 11 16 (18.82 %) OOD 12 14 (16.47 %) EAI 13 13 (15.29 %) AIX

13 13 (15.29 %) Pensions 14 11 (12.94 %) JSP 15 10 (11.76 %) Unix 16 9 (10.59 %) Unit Testing 16 9 (10.59 %) Insurance 17 6 (7.059 %) WPF 17 6 (7.059 %) Struts 17 6 (7.059 %) Business Objects 17 6 (7.059 %) DSDM 17 6 (7.059 %) BusinessObjects 17 6 (7.059 %) IBM 18 5 (5.882 %) Firewall 18 5 (5.882 %) E-Commerce 18 5 (5.882 %) Web Development 19 4 (4.706 %) Load Balancing

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Norfolk region citing WebSphere also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 48 (56.47 %) J2EE 2 35 (41.18 %) XML 3 22 (25.88 %) HTML 3 22 (25.88 %) CSS 4 19 (22.35 %) XSLT 5 17 (20.00 %) WebServices 6 11 (12.94 %) JSP 7 6 (7.059 %) Struts 7 6 (7.059 %) WPF 8 2 (2.353 %) Servlets 9 1 (1.176 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 28 (32.94 %) WPS 2 18 (21.18 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 3 (3.529 %) IBM HTTP Server 4 2 (2.353 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 5 (5.882 %) Firewall 2 3 (3.529 %) HTTP 3 2 (2.353 %) SSL 3 2 (2.353 %) SAN 3 2 (2.353 %) Intranet 3 2 (2.353 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (7.059 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (2.353 %) SQL Server
General 1 54 (63.53 %) Finance 2 13 (15.29 %) Pensions 3 9 (10.59 %) Insurance 4 4 (4.706 %) Marketing 5 3 (3.529 %) Banking 6 1 (1.176 %) Retail 6 1 (1.176 %) Retail Banking	Job Titles 1 55 (64.71 %) Developer 2 20 (23.53 %) WebSphere Developer 3 16 (18.82 %) Java Developer 3 16 (18.82 %) J2EE Developer 4 12 (14.12 %) Architect 5 11 (12.94 %) WebSphere Architect 5 11 (12.94 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 4 (4.706 %) WebSphere Portal Developer 6 4 (4.706 %) Applications Developer 6 4 (4.706 %) Configuration Manager 7 2 (2.353 %) Technical Architect 7 2 (2.353 %) Project Manager 7 2 (2.353 %) Analyst 7 2 (2.353 %) Infrastructure Designer 7 2 (2.353 %) Systems Developer 8 1 (1.176 %) Configuration Analyst 8 1 (1.176 %) WebSphere Consultant 8 1 (1.176 %) Test Analyst 8 1 (1.176 %) Web Developer 8 1 (1.176 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.353 %) Thin Client 1 2 (2.353 %) PKI 1 2 (2.353 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 13 (15.29 %) AIX 2 10 (11.76 %) Unix 3 2 (2.353 %) Windows 3 2 (2.353 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (29.41 %) Agile Software Development 2 16 (18.82 %) OOD 3 14 (16.47 %) EAI 4 9 (10.59 %) Unit Testing 5 6 (7.059 %) DSDM 6 5 (5.882 %) E-Commerce 6 5 (5.882 %) Web Development 7 4 (4.706 %) Load Balancing 7 4 (4.706 %) PRINCE2 7 4 (4.706 %) RAD 7 4 (4.706 %) MVC 8 3 (3.529 %) Release Management 8 3 (3.529 %) PRINCE 9 2 (2.353 %) Project Management 9 2 (2.353 %) Change Management 9 2 (2.353 %) SOA 9 2 (2.353 %) RUP 9 2 (2.353 %) ITIL 10 1 (1.176 %) OO 10 1 (1.176 %) User Acceptance Testing	Programming Languages 1 50 (58.82 %) Java 2 16 (18.82 %) DHTML 3 1 (1.176 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (1.176 %) MCSE 1 1 (1.176 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (1.176 %) CNE 1 1 (1.176 %) Novell Certification 1 1 (1.176 %) IBM Certification	System Software 1 2 (2.353 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (1.176 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 3 (3.529 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 6 (7.059 %) Business Objects 1 6 (7.059 %) IBM 2 2 (2.353 %) Microsoft 2 2 (2.353 %) HP 2 2 (2.353 %) VMware 3 1 (1.176 %) Citrix