Middleware Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Application Development category for the North West 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.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware
Rank 61 39 63
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +24
Contract jobs citing Middleware 58 132 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 2.525% 4.168% 2.468%
As % of the Application Development category 9.250% 14.04% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 76 58
Average daily rate £381 £445 £379
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.37% +17.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £300 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £475 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £410 £400
% change year-on-year
+0.60% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £19.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -8.64%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 627 940 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.30% 29.68% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 521 431
Average daily rate £302 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.23% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 28 24
Average hourly rate £30.00 £19.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+53.84% -29.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £13.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £145.42 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Middleware
England

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Middleware across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West Middleware Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Middleware across the North West region.

North West Middleware Daily Rate Trend

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Middleware across the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West Middleware Daily Rate Histogram

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Middleware across the North West region.

North West Middleware Hourly Rate Trend

Middleware
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheshire -11 31 £410 -8.88%
Manchester -17 14 £297 -25.87%
Lancashire +16 5 £388 +1.97%
Merseyside +6 5 £325 -23.52%
Middleware
England

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Middleware 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 Middleware.

1 53 (46.90%) UNIX
2 42 (37.17%) Banking
3 38 (33.63%) Windows
4 34 (30.09%) IBM
5 32 (28.32%) Finance
5 32 (28.32%) WebSphere
6 28 (24.78%) Oracle
7 24 (21.24%) AIX
7 24 (21.24%) Linux
8 22 (19.47%) Retail
9 21 (18.58%) LDAP
9 21 (18.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (17.70%) Firewall
10 20 (17.70%) Shell Script
11 18 (15.93%) WebSphere MQ
11 18 (15.93%) Tivoli
11 18 (15.93%) Java
12 17 (15.04%) Mainframe
13 14 (12.39%) Migration
14 13 (11.50%) Internet
15 12 (10.62%) Change Management
15 12 (10.62%) SQL
16 11 (9.735%) Service Delivery
16 11 (9.735%) Project Management
16 11 (9.735%) Problem Management
17 10 (8.850%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
17 10 (8.850%) Tivoli Identity Manager
17 10 (8.850%) Identity Management
17 10 (8.850%) Management Information System
17 10 (8.850%) Perl

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Middleware 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 Middleware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (28.32%) WebSphere
2 10 (8.850%) XML
2 10 (8.850%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
3 8 (7.080%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (6.195%) SPNEGO
4 7 (6.195%) Web Services
5 4 (3.540%) Drools
5 4 (3.540%) XSD
5 4 (3.540%) XSLT
5 4 (3.540%) Esper
6 3 (2.655%) HTML
6 3 (2.655%) Hibernate
6 3 (2.655%) SAP XI
6 3 (2.655%) SAP Basis
6 3 (2.655%) Spring
7 2 (1.770%) JSR 168
7 2 (1.770%) Spring Web Flow
7 2 (1.770%) .NET
7 2 (1.770%) J2EE
7 2 (1.770%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 18 (15.93%) WebSphere MQ
2 8 (7.080%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (4.425%) TIBCO EMS
3 5 (4.425%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 4 (3.540%) WebLogic
4 4 (3.540%) CICS
5 3 (2.655%) NetWeaver
5 3 (2.655%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.770%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.885%) ESB
7 1 (0.885%) CMS
7 1 (0.885%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.885%) SonicMQ
Applications
1 4 (3.540%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.885%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 6 (5.310%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (4.425%) BusinessWorks
3 4 (3.540%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (3.540%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
4 3 (2.655%) SAP BPC
5 2 (1.770%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 21 (18.58%) LDAP
2 20 (17.70%) Firewall
3 13 (11.50%) Internet
4 9 (7.965%) SSL
5 7 (6.195%) X.509
5 7 (6.195%) SMS
5 7 (6.195%) Kerberos
5 7 (6.195%) Network Security
6 4 (3.540%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.540%) RFID
6 4 (3.540%) SAN
6 4 (3.540%) Intranet
6 4 (3.540%) Extranet
7 3 (2.655%) SNA
7 3 (2.655%) DNS
8 1 (0.885%) VoIP
8 1 (0.885%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.885%) ATM
8 1 (0.885%) ISDN
8 1 (0.885%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.965%) DB2
2 8 (7.080%) Oracle 11g
3 7 (6.195%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.195%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.655%) SAP BW
5 2 (1.770%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.885%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (0.885%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.885%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.885%) MySQL
6 1 (0.885%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 42 (37.17%) Banking
2 32 (28.32%) Finance
3 22 (19.47%) Retail
4 5 (4.425%) Retail Banking
5 1 (0.885%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.885%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.885%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (15.93%) Architect
2 14 (12.39%) Project Manager
3 10 (8.850%) Infrastructure Architect
3 10 (8.850%) Designer
4 9 (7.965%) Consultant
5 7 (6.195%) Developer
5 7 (6.195%) Technical Manager
6 6 (5.310%) Implementation Manager
6 6 (5.310%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (5.310%) Analyst
6 6 (5.310%) Technical Architect
7 5 (4.425%) Technical Implementation Manager
7 5 (4.425%) Services Delivery Manager
7 5 (4.425%) Service Manager
8 4 (3.540%) Solutions Designer
8 4 (3.540%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.540%) Support Engineer
8 4 (3.540%) Lead Architect
8 4 (3.540%) TIBCO Support
8 4 (3.540%) Infrastructure Designer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.04%) Mainframe
2 10 (8.850%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.080%) PKI
4 7 (6.195%) IBM Mainframe
5 6 (5.310%) Mobile Banking
6 5 (4.425%) Computer Science
6 5 (4.425%) Clustering
7 4 (3.540%) Equities
7 4 (3.540%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.540%) VSAM
8 3 (2.655%) Tandem
8 3 (2.655%) Online Banking
9 2 (1.770%) Oracle Exalogic
10 1 (0.885%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.885%) SaaS
10 1 (0.885%) CESG
10 1 (0.885%) CESG CLAS
Operating Systems
1 53 (46.90%) UNIX
2 38 (33.63%) Windows
3 24 (21.24%) AIX
3 24 (21.24%) Linux
4 10 (8.850%) Solaris
5 7 (6.195%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (6.195%) HPUX
6 6 (5.310%) zOS
7 4 (3.540%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (2.655%) Windows 2000
9 1 (0.885%) MVS
9 1 (0.885%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.885%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (18.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (12.39%) Migration
3 12 (10.62%) Change Management
4 11 (9.735%) Service Delivery
4 11 (9.735%) Project Management
4 11 (9.735%) Problem Management
5 10 (8.850%) Identity Management
6 8 (7.080%) ETL
6 8 (7.080%) CRM
6 8 (7.080%) Project Planning
7 7 (6.195%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (6.195%) SOA
7 7 (6.195%) ITIL
8 5 (4.425%) Service Management
8 5 (4.425%) TOGAF
8 5 (4.425%) Supplier Management
8 5 (4.425%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (4.425%) Data Migration
9 4 (3.540%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (3.540%) Finite Element Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.70%) Shell Script
2 18 (15.93%) Java
3 12 (10.62%) SQL
4 10 (8.850%) Perl
5 9 (7.965%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.195%) C
7 3 (2.655%) JCL
8 2 (1.770%) C#
9 1 (0.885%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 6 (5.310%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.540%) Degree
3 3 (2.655%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.770%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.540%) QA
System Software
1 6 (5.310%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 4 (3.540%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.540%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 4 (3.540%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.540%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.770%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (15.93%) Tivoli
2 10 (8.850%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 4 (3.540%) TIBCO Hawk
4 3 (2.655%) BladeLogic
5 2 (1.770%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.885%) Oracle Identity Manager
6 1 (0.885%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 34 (30.09%) IBM
2 28 (24.78%) Oracle
3 6 (5.310%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.310%) Cisco
4 5 (4.425%) TIBCO
5 4 (3.540%) CA
5 4 (3.540%) HP
5 4 (3.540%) Citrix
5 4 (3.540%) VMware
5 4 (3.540%) Brocade
5 4 (3.540%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.655%) Business Objects
6 3 (2.655%) SAP
6 3 (2.655%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.655%) BMC
7 2 (1.770%) Siebel
7 2 (1.770%) Juniper
8 1 (0.885%) Mercator
8 1 (0.885%) McAfee
8 1 (0.885%) FatWire
Project Manager
Knutsford, Cheshire
The Successful candidate will have a strong Project Management background. They must also have high levels of experience with Oracle systems as well as experience with the Web...
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Posted: 17 May 2013
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