The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere 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 WebSphere over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank 72 19 77
Rank change year-on-year
-53 +58
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 50 206 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 2.075% 6.765% 1.807%
As % of the Application Development category 7.764% 23.02% 7.208%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 113 34
Average daily rate £414 £435 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.88% +16.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £318 £311
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 £413
% change year-on-year
-5.82% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £45.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-33.70% +39.23%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
644 895 763
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 26.72% 29.39% 25.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 491 435
Average daily rate £300 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £247 £238 £217
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 26 32 32
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -41.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £33.30 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West WebSphere Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West WebSphere Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere across the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

North West WebSphere Daily Rate Histogram

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West WebSphere Hourly Rate Trend

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 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cheshire -45 14 £375 -16.66% 6
Manchester -18 12 £419 +24.07%
Lancashire -15 9 £369 -15.71% 3
Merseyside +11 6 £358 +19.16% 1
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 51 (51.00%) IBM
2 45 (45.00%) Oracle
3 36 (36.00%) Java
4 31 (31.00%) SQL
5 29 (29.00%) Middleware
6 28 (28.00%) Banking
7 27 (27.00%) Finance
8 26 (26.00%) J2EE
9 24 (24.00%) WebSphere Application Server
10 23 (23.00%) Retail
11 22 (22.00%) DB2
11 22 (22.00%) UNIX
12 21 (21.00%) SQL Server
13 18 (18.00%) JavaScript
13 18 (18.00%) Agile Software Development
14 17 (17.00%) JSP
14 17 (17.00%) Servlets
15 16 (16.00%) Windows
16 15 (15.00%) Firewall
16 15 (15.00%) Ajax
17 13 (13.00%) Hibernate
17 13 (13.00%) Subversion
17 13 (13.00%) XHTML
17 13 (13.00%) Web Services
17 13 (13.00%) EJB
18 12 (12.00%) WebLogic
18 12 (12.00%) XML
18 12 (12.00%) Struts
18 12 (12.00%) .NET
18 12 (12.00%) E-Commerce

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 29 (29.00%) Middleware
2 26 (26.00%) J2EE
3 17 (17.00%) JSP
3 17 (17.00%) Servlets
4 15 (15.00%) Ajax
5 13 (13.00%) Hibernate
5 13 (13.00%) XHTML
5 13 (13.00%) Web Services
5 13 (13.00%) EJB
6 12 (12.00%) .NET
6 12 (12.00%) XML
6 12 (12.00%) Struts
7 11 (11.00%) SOAP
7 11 (11.00%) JDBC
8 10 (10.00%) JMS
8 10 (10.00%) WSDL
8 10 (10.00%) jQuery
9 9 (9.000%) XSLT
10 8 (8.000%) CSS
10 8 (8.000%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 24 (24.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 12 (12.00%) WebLogic
2 12 (12.00%) Apache
3 7 (7.000%) Tomcat
3 7 (7.000%) IIS
4 6 (6.000%) WebSphere Process Server
4 6 (6.000%) CICS
5 4 (4.000%) MQSeries
5 4 (4.000%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.000%) WebSphere Portal
6 2 (2.000%) iPlanet
7 1 (1.000%) Apache Solr
7 1 (1.000%) IBM Connections
7 1 (1.000%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (1.000%) TIBCO EMS
7 1 (1.000%) ESB
7 1 (1.000%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 1 (1.000%) Mule
7 1 (1.000%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
7 1 (1.000%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 6 (6.000%) Windchill
2 4 (4.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (6.000%) Teamcenter
1 6 (6.000%) ENOVIA
2 4 (4.000%) Tridion
2 4 (4.000%) Maximo
3 1 (1.000%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.00%) Firewall
2 10 (10.00%) Internet
3 8 (8.000%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.000%) SNA
4 4 (4.000%) FTP
4 4 (4.000%) HTTP
4 4 (4.000%) SAN
5 3 (3.000%) LDAP
5 3 (3.000%) Unified Communications
6 2 (2.000%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.00%) DB2
2 21 (21.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (9.000%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (7.000%) RDBMS
5 5 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
5 5 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (3.000%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (1.000%) TOAD
8 1 (1.000%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (13.00%) Subversion
2 11 (11.00%) JUnit
2 11 (11.00%) Eclipse
3 7 (7.000%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 5 (5.000%) Ant
4 5 (5.000%) ClearCase
5 4 (4.000%) Visual Studio
5 4 (4.000%) Log4j
5 4 (4.000%) JIRA
6 3 (3.000%) Git (software)
6 3 (3.000%) Gradle
7 1 (1.000%) LoadRunner
General
1 28 (28.00%) Banking
2 27 (27.00%) Finance
3 23 (23.00%) Retail
4 4 (4.000%) Retail Banking
4 4 (4.000%) Games
5 1 (1.000%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.000%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.000%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.000%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (30.00%) Developer
2 18 (18.00%) Architect
3 16 (16.00%) Java Developer
4 11 (11.00%) Consultant
5 10 (10.00%) Analyst
6 8 (8.000%) J2EE Developer
6 8 (8.000%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 7 (7.000%) Implementation Manager
7 7 (7.000%) Technical Manager
7 7 (7.000%) Project Manager
7 7 (7.000%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.000%) Infrastructure Architect
8 6 (6.000%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (6.000%) Technical Implementation Manager
9 5 (5.000%) Designer
9 5 (5.000%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.000%) Business Analyst
10 4 (4.000%) Test Analyst
10 4 (4.000%) WebSphere Developer
11 3 (3.000%) Infrastructure Designer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Mainframe
2 10 (10.00%) Web 2.0
3 9 (9.000%) PKI
4 6 (6.000%) PMI
4 6 (6.000%) VSAM
5 4 (4.000%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.000%) Online Banking
5 4 (4.000%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (4.000%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.000%) DataPower
6 1 (1.000%) iSeries
6 1 (1.000%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.000%) RIA
6 1 (1.000%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.00%) UNIX
2 16 (16.00%) Windows
3 12 (12.00%) Linux
4 7 (7.000%) HPUX
5 6 (6.000%) Solaris
6 5 (5.000%) AIX
7 4 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (3.000%) zOS
9 2 (2.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.00%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (12.00%) E-Commerce
2 12 (12.00%) Waterfall
3 11 (11.00%) ETL
3 11 (11.00%) Project Management
4 10 (10.00%) RAD
4 10 (10.00%) ITIL
4 10 (10.00%) UML
5 8 (8.000%) PRINCE2
6 7 (7.000%) OO
7 6 (6.000%) Content Management
7 6 (6.000%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (5.000%) BDD
8 5 (5.000%) PLM
8 5 (5.000%) TDD
8 5 (5.000%) RUP
8 5 (5.000%) PRINCE
8 5 (5.000%) CMMI
9 4 (4.000%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.00%) Java
2 31 (31.00%) SQL
3 18 (18.00%) JavaScript
4 11 (11.00%) Perl
5 9 (9.000%) XPath
5 9 (9.000%) Bash shell
6 6 (6.000%) VB.NET
6 6 (6.000%) C++
7 5 (5.000%) C#
7 5 (5.000%) PL/SQL
7 5 (5.000%) JCL
8 3 (3.000%) Groovy
8 3 (3.000%) C
9 2 (2.000%) Korn
10 1 (1.000%) Jython
10 1 (1.000%) COBOL
10 1 (1.000%) RPG
Qualifications
1 10 (10.00%) Degree
2 7 (7.000%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.000%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.000%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (6.000%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.000%) Sun Certification
5 1 (1.000%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.000%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.000%) ISO/IEC 17799
1 1 (1.000%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (4.000%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.000%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 4 (4.000%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (4.000%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (6.000%) Tivoli
2 4 (4.000%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (3.000%) Oracle Identity Manager
4 1 (1.000%) CA Wily
4 1 (1.000%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 51 (51.00%) IBM
2 45 (45.00%) Oracle
3 8 (8.000%) HP
3 8 (8.000%) VMware
4 7 (7.000%) JBoss
5 6 (6.000%) Microsoft
5 6 (6.000%) Citrix
5 6 (6.000%) Siemens
6 5 (5.000%) CA
6 5 (5.000%) Chordiant
6 5 (5.000%) Blue Martini
6 5 (5.000%) ATG
7 4 (4.000%) Perforce
7 4 (4.000%) Elastic Path
7 4 (4.000%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.000%) Brocade
7 4 (4.000%) Cisco
7 4 (4.000%) SAP
7 4 (4.000%) Interwoven
7 4 (4.000%) CheckPoint
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Chester, North West
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Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £450 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Chester, North West
Required: * Extensive (minimum 5yrs + commercial) experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets * Minimum 2yrs + JSF experience * Minimum 5yrs...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
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