The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 19 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 Vendors for the Northamptonshire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the International Business Machines Corporation.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 30 31 29
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -2
Contract jobs citing IBM 4 10 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 1.556% 2.770% 2.035%
As % of the Vendors category 4.348% 7.634% 5.600%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
Average daily rate £608 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.89% -5.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £384 £386 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.58% +2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
All Vendors
Northamptonshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
92 131 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 35.80% 36.29% 36.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 83 71
Average daily rate £356 £250 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.50% -33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £152
10% offered a daily rate of more than £583 £475 £442
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 12
Average hourly rate £18.00 £13.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -20.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.80 £8.65 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £16.60 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
IBM
East Midlands

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Northamptonshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Northamptonshire IBM Jobs Demand Trend

IBM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Northamptonshire IBM Daily Rate Trend

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IBM across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Northamptonshire IBM Daily Rate Histogram

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Northamptonshire IBM Hourly Rate Trend

IBM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Northampton +3 2 £350 -23.28% 1
IBM
East Midlands

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing IBM 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 IBM.

1 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (40.00%) JBoss
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) GlassFish
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) NAS
3 1 (20.00%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (20.00%) 3PAR
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) DB2
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing IBM 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 IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (20.00%) J2EE
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (20.00%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) GlassFish
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (20.00%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) NAS
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Discoverer
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) AIX
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) JBoss
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) 3PAR
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Brocade
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Posted: 14 June 2013