North West WebSphere Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere skills within the North West 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere
Location Ascot Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chorley City of London Corby County Antrim Crawley Croydon Daventry Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Jersey Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Scotland Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Surbiton Surrey Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	83	46
Rank change on same period last year	-37
Matching contract IT job ads	49	122
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.124 %
As % of the category below	5.518 %	12.04 %
Daily rates quoted	3	25
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£342
Average daily rate	£408	£372
% change on same period last year	+9.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£387	£384
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	£43.00
Average hourly rate	£21.00	£46.30
% change on same period last year	-54.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.00	£49.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.46	£33.93
% change on same period last year	+16.29 %
Application Development North West
Matching contract IT job ads	888	1013
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.256 %	1.025 %
Daily rates quoted	155	146
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£309
Average daily rate	£305	£330
% change on same period last year	-7.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	87	89
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.05	£25.52
Average hourly rate	£27.78	£27.96
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.50	£30.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.93	£31.98
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %
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.

WebSphere
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere across the North West 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 IT contract jobs citing WebSphere across the North West region.

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WebSphere
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
Lancashire	+7	18	£325	-13.33 %
Cheshire	0	10	-	-
Manchester	-29	9	-	-
Merseyside	-7	7	£450	+19.90 %

WebSphere England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 87 (44.85 %) UNIX 2 83 (42.78 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 82 (42.27 %) AIX 3 82 (42.27 %) Middleware 4 67 (34.54 %) Shell Script 4 67 (34.54 %) Mainframe 5 65 (33.51 %) Windows 5 65 (33.51 %) Solaris 6 61 (31.44 %) WebSphere MQ 7 56 (28.87 %) Tivoli 7 56 (28.87 %) Tandem 8 54 (27.84 %) HPUX 9 53 (27.32 %) OMEGAMON 10 45 (23.20 %) Java 11 44 (22.68 %) Change Management

12 40 (20.62 %) Finance 12 40 (20.62 %) WBIMB 13 35 (18.04 %) Cisco 14 33 (17.01 %) J2EE 15 26 (13.40 %) Oracle 15 26 (13.40 %) SSL 16 21 (10.82 %) IBM 17 20 (10.31 %) XML 18 18 (9.278 %) WebSphere Message Broker 19 15 (7.732 %) HTTP 20 14 (7.216 %) Spring 21 12 (6.186 %) Hibernate 22 11 (5.670 %) MQSeries 22 11 (5.670 %) SQL 22 11 (5.670 %) SAP

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 82 (42.27 %) Middleware 2 40 (20.62 %) WBIMB 3 33 (17.01 %) J2EE 4 20 (10.31 %) XML 5 14 (7.216 %) Spring 6 12 (6.186 %) Hibernate 7 10 (5.155 %) Struts 8 6 (3.093 %) JSP 8 6 (3.093 %) JRules 9 4 (2.062 %) EJB 10 3 (1.546 %) JDBC 10 3 (1.546 %) JMS 10 3 (1.546 %) Java EE 11 2 (1.031 %) Spring MVC 11 2 (1.031 %) JSF 11 2 (1.031 %) Oracle Fusion 11 2 (1.031 %) ODBC 11 2 (1.031 %) MVC 11 2 (1.031 %) WebServices 12 1 (0.515 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 83 (42.78 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 61 (31.44 %) WebSphere MQ 3 18 (9.278 %) WebSphere Message Broker 4 11 (5.670 %) MQSeries 5 10 (5.155 %) Gentran 6 5 (2.577 %) WebLogic 6 5 (2.577 %) JBoss 7 4 (2.062 %) Oracle Application Server 7 4 (2.062 %) Tomcat 7 4 (2.062 %) WPS 8 3 (1.546 %) Oracle HTTP Server 9 2 (1.031 %) CICS 10 1 (0.515 %) NetWeaver 10 1 (0.515 %) SharePoint 10 1 (0.515 %) Apache 10 1 (0.515 %) SAP Web AS
Applications 1 6 (3.093 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.031 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 9 (4.639 %) SAP R/3 2 1 (0.515 %) MAXIMO 2 1 (0.515 %) SAP ERP 2 1 (0.515 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 26 (13.40 %) SSL 2 15 (7.732 %) HTTP 3 9 (4.639 %) Firewall 4 3 (1.546 %) SSH 4 3 (1.546 %) LDAP 5 2 (1.031 %) Internet 6 1 (0.515 %) VLAN 6 1 (0.515 %) VPN 6 1 (0.515 %) DMZ	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (3.093 %) RDBMS 1 6 (3.093 %) Oracle 10g 2 5 (2.577 %) DB2 3 4 (2.062 %) TOAD 3 4 (2.062 %) Oracle Discoverer 4 1 (0.515 %) SAP BI
Development Applications 1 4 (2.062 %) PVCS 2 3 (1.546 %) JUnit 2 3 (1.546 %) Log4j 3 2 (1.031 %) Eclipse 4 1 (0.515 %) RequisitePro 4 1 (0.515 %) ClearQuest 4 1 (0.515 %) Rational Rose	General 1 40 (20.62 %) Finance 2 9 (4.639 %) Banking 3 5 (2.577 %) Retail 4 4 (2.062 %) Insurance 4 4 (2.062 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (1.031 %) Military 6 1 (0.515 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (0.515 %) Pensions 6 1 (0.515 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (0.515 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 41 (21.13 %) Developer 2 36 (18.56 %) WebSphere Specialist 3 27 (13.92 %) Java Developer 4 24 (12.37 %) Consultant 5 18 (9.278 %) WebSphere Consultant 6 17 (8.763 %) Infrastructure Specialist 7 16 (8.247 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 13 (6.701 %) J2EE Developer 9 12 (6.186 %) Administrator 10 10 (5.155 %) Analyst 11 9 (4.639 %) WebSphere Administrator 12 8 (4.124 %) Architect 13 5 (2.577 %) Technical Architect 13 5 (2.577 %) WebSphere Developer 14 3 (1.546 %) Server Administrator 14 3 (1.546 %) AS400 Operator 14 3 (1.546 %) Solutions Architect 14 3 (1.546 %) Project Manager 14 3 (1.546 %) Test Manager 14 3 (1.546 %) Oracle Developer	Miscellaneous 1 67 (34.54 %) Mainframe 2 56 (28.87 %) Tandem 3 6 (3.093 %) Clustering 4 3 (1.546 %) AS400 5 2 (1.031 %) IVR 6 1 (0.515 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 87 (44.85 %) UNIX 2 82 (42.27 %) AIX 3 65 (33.51 %) Windows 3 65 (33.51 %) Solaris 4 54 (27.84 %) HPUX 5 4 (2.062 %) Linux 6 2 (1.031 %) VMS 7 1 (0.515 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 44 (22.68 %) Change Management 2 9 (4.639 %) UML 2 9 (4.639 %) Load Balancing 3 8 (4.124 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (3.093 %) Migration 5 5 (2.577 %) SOA 5 5 (2.577 %) RUP 6 4 (2.062 %) ITIL 6 4 (2.062 %) EAI 7 3 (1.546 %) CRM 7 3 (1.546 %) Zachman Framework 7 3 (1.546 %) TOGAF 8 2 (1.031 %) Problem Management 8 2 (1.031 %) Project Management 8 2 (1.031 %) SC Cleared 8 2 (1.031 %) BC Cleared 8 2 (1.031 %) Unit Testing 8 2 (1.031 %) Test Scripting 8 2 (1.031 %) E-Commerce 8 2 (1.031 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 67 (34.54 %) Shell Script 2 45 (23.20 %) Java 3 11 (5.670 %) SQL 4 9 (4.639 %) PL/SQL 5 4 (2.062 %) Jython 5 4 (2.062 %) COBOL 6 2 (1.031 %) C# 6 2 (1.031 %) Korn 7 1 (0.515 %) ABAP 7 1 (0.515 %) JavaScript 7 1 (0.515 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 1 (0.515 %) IBM Certification 1 1 (0.515 %) Degree 1 1 (0.515 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.515 %) SLA 1 1 (0.515 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	Systems Management 1 56 (28.87 %) Tivoli 2 53 (27.32 %) OMEGAMON 3 2 (1.031 %) CA SiteMinder 4 1 (0.515 %) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors 1 35 (18.04 %) Cisco 2 26 (13.40 %) Oracle 3 21 (10.82 %) IBM 4 11 (5.670 %) SAP 5 10 (5.155 %) ILOG 6 7 (3.608 %) HP 6 7 (3.608 %) Microsoft 7 4 (2.062 %) CA 7 4 (2.062 %) Sun 8 3 (1.546 %) Citrix 9 2 (1.031 %) Nortel 10 1 (0.515 %) Siebel 10 1 (0.515 %) Adobe 10 1 (0.515 %) i2 10 1 (0.515 %) Retek 10 1 (0.515 %) VERITAS 10 1 (0.515 %) JD Edwards 10 1 (0.515 %) webMethods 10 1 (0.515 %) Teradata 10 1 (0.515 %) Pega