Poole IBM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts within the Poole region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Andover Ashby-de-la-Zouch Avon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley Cirencester City of London Cornwall Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Kingswinford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rotherham Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Strathclyde Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	17
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	5	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	26.32 %	7.576 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£271	-
Average daily rate	£271	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£271	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£368
% change on same period last year	+0.52 %
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	£29.12	£23.74
% change on same period last year	+22.67 %
Vendors Poole
Matching contract IT job ads	19	66
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.067 %
Daily rates quoted	7	23
Average minimum daily rate	£267	£311
Average daily rate	£270	£330
% change on same period last year	-18.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£273	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	£15.81
Average hourly rate	£11.50	£18.01
% change on same period last year	-36.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	£20.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£24.37
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
IBM Dorset

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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Poole region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors 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 IBM across the Poole region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IBM across the Poole region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Poole 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 4 (66.67 %) Mainframe 1 4 (66.67 %) Finance 1 4 (66.67 %) Teradata 1 4 (66.67 %) IBM Mainframe 2 3 (50.00 %) ServiceCenter 2 3 (50.00 %) Peregrine 2 3 (50.00 %) Tivoli 2 3 (50.00 %) JCL 2 3 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 3 (50.00 %) SQL 3 2 (33.33 %) .NET 3 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 2 (33.33 %) IIS 3 2 (33.33 %) COM+ 3 2 (33.33 %) SOAP

3 2 (33.33 %) WebServices 3 2 (33.33 %) ITIL 3 2 (33.33 %) SharePoint 3 2 (33.33 %) LAN 3 2 (33.33 %) WAN 3 2 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (33.33 %) Windows 3 2 (33.33 %) SSL 3 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 2 (33.33 %) SAN 3 2 (33.33 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 2 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (33.33 %) Clustering 3 2 (33.33 %) Firewall

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Poole 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 2 (33.33 %) .NET 1 2 (33.33 %) COM+ 1 2 (33.33 %) SOAP 1 2 (33.33 %) WebServices 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows SharePoint Services 1 2 (33.33 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 2 (33.33 %) IIS 1 2 (33.33 %) SharePoint 1 2 (33.33 %) SharePoint Portal Server 1 2 (33.33 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) LAN 1 2 (33.33 %) WAN 1 2 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (33.33 %) SSL 1 2 (33.33 %) SAN 1 2 (33.33 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 1 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (16.67 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 2 (33.33 %) FrontPage	General 1 4 (66.67 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 2 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 2 (33.33 %) Programmer 2 1 (16.67 %) Technical Designer 2 1 (16.67 %) Infrastructure Designer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (66.67 %) Mainframe 1 4 (66.67 %) IBM Mainframe 2 2 (33.33 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 1 (16.67 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 2 (33.33 %) ITIL 3 1 (16.67 %) CRM 3 1 (16.67 %) Incident Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (50.00 %) SQL 1 3 (50.00 %) JCL 2 1 (16.67 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) MCTS
System Software 1 1 (16.67 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler	Systems Management 1 3 (50.00 %) Tivoli 1 3 (50.00 %) ServiceCenter 2 2 (33.33 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 4 (66.67 %) Teradata 2 3 (50.00 %) Peregrine 3 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft