North East WebSphere Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere skills within the North East 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Ascot Ashby-de-la-Zouch Avon Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Faringdon Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isle of Man Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peel Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	59
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	6	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	3.429 %	6.329 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£330
Average daily rate	£375	£335
% change on same period last year	+11.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£404	£392
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
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	£41.25	£39.62
% change on same period last year	+4.12 %
Application Development North East
Matching contract IT job ads	175	237
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.233 %	0.240 %
Daily rates quoted	17	31
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£328
Average daily rate	£322	£339
% change on same period last year	-5.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.90	£30.59
Average hourly rate	£34.10	£32.58
% change on same period last year	+4.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.30	£34.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
WebSphere 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere across the North East 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 WebSphere across the North East 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 WebSphere within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear	+1	2	-	-
Durham	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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.

1 17 (70.83 %) Java 2 14 (58.33 %) Oracle 3 12 (50.00 %) XML 4 10 (41.67 %) DB2 5 8 (33.33 %) ISEB 6 7 (29.17 %) SQLPlus 6 7 (29.17 %) Security Cleared 7 6 (25.00 %) TestPartner 8 5 (20.83 %) Compuware 8 5 (20.83 %) Code Coverage 8 5 (20.83 %) Automated Testing 8 5 (20.83 %) Cactus 9 3 (12.50 %) Government 9 3 (12.50 %) WebSphere MQ 9 3 (12.50 %) WebServices

9 3 (12.50 %) UNIX 9 3 (12.50 %) AIX 10 2 (8.333 %) XSL 10 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 10 2 (8.333 %) Linux 10 2 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 10 2 (8.333 %) UML 10 2 (8.333 %) OO 10 2 (8.333 %) JBoss 10 2 (8.333 %) MQSeries 10 2 (8.333 %) HTML 10 2 (8.333 %) MySQL 10 2 (8.333 %) JSP 10 2 (8.333 %) Servlets 10 2 (8.333 %) Middleware

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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.

Application Development 1 12 (50.00 %) XML 2 3 (12.50 %) WebServices 3 2 (8.333 %) XSL 3 2 (8.333 %) Middleware 3 2 (8.333 %) HTML 3 2 (8.333 %) JSP 3 2 (8.333 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 3 (12.50 %) WebSphere MQ 2 2 (8.333 %) JBoss 2 2 (8.333 %) MQSeries 3 1 (4.167 %) IBM HTTP Server
Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.167 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (41.67 %) DB2 2 7 (29.17 %) SQLPlus 3 2 (8.333 %) MySQL 4 1 (4.167 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (4.167 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 6 (25.00 %) TestPartner 2 5 (20.83 %) Cactus 3 2 (8.333 %) QuickTest Pro 3 2 (8.333 %) LoadRunner
General 1 3 (12.50 %) Government 2 2 (8.333 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 6 (25.00 %) Tester 2 3 (12.50 %) Analyst 2 3 (12.50 %) Test Analyst 2 3 (12.50 %) Administrator 2 3 (12.50 %) WebSphere Administrator 3 2 (8.333 %) Quality Manager 3 2 (8.333 %) QA Manager 3 2 (8.333 %) Test Team Leader 3 2 (8.333 %) Team Leader 3 2 (8.333 %) Test Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Consultant 4 1 (4.167 %) Tivoli Consultant 4 1 (4.167 %) Architect
Operating Systems 1 3 (12.50 %) UNIX 1 3 (12.50 %) AIX 2 2 (8.333 %) Linux 2 2 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (4.167 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (29.17 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (20.83 %) Code Coverage 2 5 (20.83 %) Automated Testing 3 2 (8.333 %) Use Case 3 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (8.333 %) UML 3 2 (8.333 %) OO 3 2 (8.333 %) OOD 4 1 (4.167 %) SOA 4 1 (4.167 %) Supplier Management
Programming Languages 1 17 (70.83 %) Java 2 1 (4.167 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 8 (33.33 %) ISEB 2 2 (8.333 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (8.333 %) QA	Systems Management 1 2 (8.333 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 14 (58.33 %) Oracle 2 5 (20.83 %) Compuware 3 2 (8.333 %) Atlassian 4 1 (4.167 %) IBM