The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere Application Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere Application Server over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Application Platforms category 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.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
Rank 64 78 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 7 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.828% 0.188% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.070% 1.242% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £350 £175 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £378 £425
% change year-on-year
+2.64% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- +27.77%
All Application Platforms
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
172 161 190
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 20.36% 15.10% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 61 79
Average daily rate £359 £327 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.54% +0.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £183 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 10
Average hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.85 £10.00 £10.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £37.00 £19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
WebSphere Application Server
Berkshire

WebSphere Application Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading WebSphere Application Server Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading WebSphere Application Server Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere Application Server across the Reading region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Reading WebSphere Application Server Daily Rate Histogram

WebSphere Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing WebSphere Application Server 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 Application Server.

1 12 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 7 (58.33%) J2EE
2 7 (58.33%) Web Services
2 7 (58.33%) IBM
3 5 (41.67%) Windows
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) Oracle
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 4 (33.33%) Java
4 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) .NET
4 4 (33.33%) WebLogic
4 4 (33.33%) IIS
4 4 (33.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 4 (33.33%) HP
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (33.33%) JBoss
4 4 (33.33%) Apache
4 4 (33.33%) Tomcat
4 4 (33.33%) LAN
4 4 (33.33%) HTTP
4 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (33.33%) Clustering
4 4 (33.33%) Content Management
4 4 (33.33%) SAN
4 4 (33.33%) Foglight
4 4 (33.33%) Workflow
4 4 (33.33%) VMware
4 4 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
4 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure

WebSphere Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing WebSphere Application Server 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 Application Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 7 (58.33%) J2EE
2 7 (58.33%) Web Services
3 4 (33.33%) .NET
4 3 (25.00%) XML
4 3 (25.00%) SOAP
4 3 (25.00%) soapUI
4 3 (25.00%) REST
5 2 (16.67%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 4 (33.33%) IIS
1 4 (33.33%) Apache
1 4 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 4 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (8.333%) FileNet
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle Workflow
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) LAN
1 4 (33.33%) HTTP
1 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 4 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) DbVisualizer
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Ant
1 3 (25.00%) StarTeam
2 1 (8.333%) Cucumber
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Retail
2 1 (8.333%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) WebSphere Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 2 (16.67%) Configuration Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Clustering
2 3 (25.00%) Handset
3 1 (8.333%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (8.333%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 3 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (8.333%) AIX
4 1 (8.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) ITIL
1 4 (33.33%) Workflow
1 4 (33.33%) Content Management
2 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (25.00%) Web Testing
2 3 (25.00%) System Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.333%) UML
4 1 (8.333%) OOD
4 1 (8.333%) SOA
4 1 (8.333%) Integration Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Multithreading
4 1 (8.333%) Test Scripting
4 1 (8.333%) Time Management
4 1 (8.333%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Jython
2 3 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) ISEB
1 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.333%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (8.333%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Foglight
1 4 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
1 4 (33.33%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) IBM
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) JBoss
2 4 (33.33%) HP
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (8.333%) ReadSoft
3 1 (8.333%) Sun