The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM 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 Vendors for the Reading 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 52 65 66
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +1
Contract jobs citing IBM 18 16 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.169% 1.504% 1.325%
As % of the Vendors category 4.196% 2.658% 2.284%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 2
Average daily rate £404 £249 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+62.31% -26.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £150 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £348 £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £18.25 £29.75
% change year-on-year
+50.68% -38.65%
All Vendors
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
429 602 613
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 51.69% 56.58% 57.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 184 255
Average daily rate £350 £345 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 37 22
Average hourly rate £20.75 £14.54 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.73% -9.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.45 £10.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £20.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
IBM
Berkshire

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading IBM Hourly Rate Trend

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 15 (51.72%) SAN
2 14 (48.28%) Windows
3 12 (41.38%) UNIX
3 12 (41.38%) SQL
3 12 (41.38%) Finance
4 11 (37.93%) Oracle
5 10 (34.48%) EMC
6 9 (31.03%) Linux
6 9 (31.03%) Apache
6 9 (31.03%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (27.59%) Clustering
7 8 (27.59%) Tomcat
7 8 (27.59%) ITIL
7 8 (27.59%) J2EE
7 8 (27.59%) TCP/IP
7 8 (27.59%) WebSphere
8 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (24.14%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (24.14%) HTTP
8 7 (24.14%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (24.14%) Tivoli
8 7 (24.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 7 (24.14%) .NET
8 7 (24.14%) WebSphere Application Server
8 7 (24.14%) IIS
8 7 (24.14%) Web Services
8 7 (24.14%) LAN
8 7 (24.14%) IBM HTTP Server
8 7 (24.14%) Banking
8 7 (24.14%) VMware

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 8 (27.59%) J2EE
1 8 (27.59%) WebSphere
2 7 (24.14%) .NET
2 7 (24.14%) Web Services
3 3 (10.34%) Flash
4 2 (6.897%) Middleware
4 2 (6.897%) Java EE
5 1 (3.448%) LAMP
5 1 (3.448%) JRules
Application Platforms
1 9 (31.03%) Apache
2 8 (27.59%) Tomcat
3 7 (24.14%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (24.14%) IBM HTTP Server
3 7 (24.14%) IIS
4 5 (17.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 4 (13.79%) WebLogic
6 3 (10.34%) CICS
7 1 (3.448%) FileNet
7 1 (3.448%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (3.448%) WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
1 15 (51.72%) SAN
2 8 (27.59%) TCP/IP
3 7 (24.14%) LAN
3 7 (24.14%) HTTP
4 4 (13.79%) DNS
5 3 (10.34%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.448%) ATM
6 1 (3.448%) Internet
6 1 (3.448%) Firewall
6 1 (3.448%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.34%) DB2
3 2 (6.897%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (6.897%) MySQL
4 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.448%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (3.448%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (3.448%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Ant
1 3 (10.34%) StarTeam
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Banking
3 2 (6.897%) Retail
3 2 (6.897%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.448%) Electronics
4 1 (3.448%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Applications Support
3 3 (10.34%) Storage Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) WebSphere Consultant
4 2 (6.897%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (6.897%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.897%) Analyst Programmer
4 2 (6.897%) Programmer
4 2 (6.897%) Configuration Engineer
4 2 (6.897%) Architect
4 2 (6.897%) UNIX Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Integration Architect
5 1 (3.448%) Developer
5 1 (3.448%) Test Manager
5 1 (3.448%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.448%) DBA
5 1 (3.448%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.448%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Clustering
2 6 (20.69%) Mainframe
2 6 (20.69%) CLARiiON
3 3 (10.34%) Symmetrix
3 3 (10.34%) EMC Centera
3 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.34%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (10.34%) LPAR
3 3 (10.34%) DLPAR
3 3 (10.34%) HACMP
4 1 (3.448%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Windows
2 12 (41.38%) UNIX
3 9 (31.03%) Linux
4 7 (24.14%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (24.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (20.69%) Windows 7
6 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (17.24%) AIX
7 3 (10.34%) MVS
8 2 (6.897%) Solaris
9 1 (3.448%) HPUX
9 1 (3.448%) SUSE
9 1 (3.448%) OpenBSD
9 1 (3.448%) FreeBSD
9 1 (3.448%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (27.59%) ITIL
3 6 (20.69%) Workflow
3 6 (20.69%) Content Management
4 4 (13.79%) Service Delivery
5 3 (10.34%) Business Continuity
6 2 (6.897%) Information Security
6 2 (6.897%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (6.897%) Problem Management
6 2 (6.897%) Configuration Management
6 2 (6.897%) Project Management
6 2 (6.897%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (6.897%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.448%) Test Automation
7 1 (3.448%) Operations Management
7 1 (3.448%) Change Control
7 1 (3.448%) Test Strategy
7 1 (3.448%) CMMI
7 1 (3.448%) E-business
7 1 (3.448%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
2 3 (10.34%) JCL
2 3 (10.34%) Jython
2 3 (10.34%) ALGOL
2 3 (10.34%) COBOL
2 3 (10.34%) Java
3 1 (3.448%) Perl
3 1 (3.448%) PHP
3 1 (3.448%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.448%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (3.448%) HNC
1 1 (3.448%) OCP
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (3.448%) RHCE
1 1 (3.448%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (3.448%) SCSA
1 1 (3.448%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (3.448%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.897%) SLA
2 1 (3.448%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (13.79%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 3 (10.34%) SRDF
5 1 (3.448%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (3.448%) VMware ESX
5 1 (3.448%) Xen
5 1 (3.448%) Postfix
5 1 (3.448%) Sendmail
5 1 (3.448%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (3.448%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Tivoli
1 7 (24.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 5 (17.24%) HP SIM
3 4 (13.79%) Foglight
4 1 (3.448%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.448%) MOM
4 1 (3.448%) OpenView
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Oracle
2 10 (34.48%) EMC
3 7 (24.14%) VMware
4 6 (20.69%) HP
5 5 (17.24%) Red Hat
5 5 (17.24%) JBoss
6 3 (10.34%) Unisys
6 3 (10.34%) Cisco
6 3 (10.34%) Micro Focus
7 1 (3.448%) ReadSoft
7 1 (3.448%) Ab Initio
7 1 (3.448%) Egenera
7 1 (3.448%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.448%) Sun
7 1 (3.448%) Remedy
7 1 (3.448%) Intel
7 1 (3.448%) Veritas
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