Reading WebSphere Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Atherstone Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newry Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Rugby Scotland Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Stirling Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	64
Rank change on same period last year	+30
Matching contract IT job ads	35	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	13.21 %	1.681 %
Daily rates quoted	16	0
Average minimum daily rate	£347	-
Average daily rate	£375	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£403	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£392	£405
% change on same period last year	-3.24 %
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	£39.59	£38.35
% change on same period last year	+3.24 %
Application Development Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	265	238
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.340 %	0.267 %
Daily rates quoted	81	48
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£282
Average daily rate	£358	£313
% change on same period last year	+14.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.35	£32.60
Average hourly rate	£39.07	£33.60
% change on same period last year	+16.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.79	£34.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
WebSphere Berkshire

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.

WebSphere
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing WebSphere across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere across the Reading region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing WebSphere across the Reading region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading region citing WebSphere also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebSphere.

1 40 (76.92 %) Java 2 29 (55.77 %) J2EE 3 26 (50.00 %) Finance 4 22 (42.31 %) SQL 5 19 (36.54 %) RUP 6 17 (32.69 %) DB2 7 16 (30.77 %) Unix 7 16 (30.77 %) UML 8 15 (28.85 %) OO 8 15 (28.85 %) RDBMS 9 14 (26.92 %) IBM 9 14 (26.92 %) Oracle 10 12 (23.08 %) AIX 11 11 (21.15 %) MS Excel 11 11 (21.15 %) WebSphere Application Server

11 11 (21.15 %) TestDirector 12 8 (15.38 %) Service Management 12 8 (15.38 %) SAP 12 8 (15.38 %) ITIL 12 8 (15.38 %) QA 13 7 (13.46 %) JRules 14 6 (11.54 %) Degree 14 6 (11.54 %) WinRunner 14 6 (11.54 %) XML 14 6 (11.54 %) MS Office 14 6 (11.54 %) ILOG 15 5 (9.615 %) Struts 15 5 (9.615 %) SOA 15 5 (9.615 %) MS Visio 15 5 (9.615 %) Telecoms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading region citing WebSphere also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 29 (55.77 %) J2EE 2 7 (13.46 %) JRules 3 6 (11.54 %) XML 4 5 (9.615 %) Struts 5 4 (7.692 %) SAP XI 6 1 (1.923 %) .NET 6 1 (1.923 %) EJB 6 1 (1.923 %) JSP 6 1 (1.923 %) JMS 6 1 (1.923 %) Middleware 6 1 (1.923 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 11 (21.15 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 4 (7.692 %) NetWeaver 3 3 (5.769 %) WPS 3 3 (5.769 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 11 (21.15 %) MS Excel 2 6 (11.54 %) MS Office 3 5 (9.615 %) MS Visio 4 4 (7.692 %) MS PowerPoint 4 4 (7.692 %) Photoshop 4 4 (7.692 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 4 (7.692 %) SAP CRM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (32.69 %) DB2 2 15 (28.85 %) RDBMS 3 4 (7.692 %) SAP BI 4 2 (3.846 %) Data Mining 5 1 (1.923 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 11 (21.15 %) TestDirector 2 6 (11.54 %) WinRunner 3 1 (1.923 %) JUnit 3 1 (1.923 %) QuickTest Pro
General 1 26 (50.00 %) Finance 2 5 (9.615 %) Telecoms 3 3 (5.769 %) Banking 4 1 (1.923 %) Retail 4 1 (1.923 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (1.923 %) Government	Job Titles 1 20 (38.46 %) Developer 2 16 (30.77 %) Java Developer 2 16 (30.77 %) J2EE Developer 3 15 (28.85 %) Analyst 3 15 (28.85 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 9 (17.31 %) Tester 4 9 (17.31 %) Consultant 5 8 (15.38 %) Test Analyst 6 6 (11.54 %) Functional Analyst 6 6 (11.54 %) Functional Test Analyst 7 4 (7.692 %) Integration Consultant 7 4 (7.692 %) Business Analyst 7 4 (7.692 %) Functional Tester 8 2 (3.846 %) Architect 8 2 (3.846 %) Web Developer 8 2 (3.846 %) Senior Developer 8 2 (3.846 %) Analyst Programmer 8 2 (3.846 %) Programmer 8 2 (3.846 %) Graphic Designer 9 1 (1.923 %) J2EE Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.692 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.923 %) CMDB 2 1 (1.923 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 16 (30.77 %) Unix 2 12 (23.08 %) AIX 3 1 (1.923 %) MVS
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (36.54 %) RUP 2 16 (30.77 %) UML 3 15 (28.85 %) OO 4 8 (15.38 %) ITIL 4 8 (15.38 %) Service Management 5 5 (9.615 %) SOA 5 5 (9.615 %) Test Scripting 6 4 (7.692 %) Business Intelligence 6 4 (7.692 %) CRM 6 4 (7.692 %) Service Delivery 6 4 (7.692 %) Business Analysis 6 4 (7.692 %) Technical Architecture 6 4 (7.692 %) Use Case 7 1 (1.923 %) Release Management 7 1 (1.923 %) GAP Analysis 7 1 (1.923 %) Agile Software Development 7 1 (1.923 %) Content Management 7 1 (1.923 %) OOD 7 1 (1.923 %) Project Management 7 1 (1.923 %) OOA/OOD	Programming Languages 1 40 (76.92 %) Java 2 22 (42.31 %) SQL 3 1 (1.923 %) C 3 1 (1.923 %) C#
Qualifications 1 6 (11.54 %) Degree 2 3 (5.769 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (15.38 %) QA
Vendors 1 14 (26.92 %) Oracle 1 14 (26.92 %) IBM 2 8 (15.38 %) SAP 3 6 (11.54 %) ILOG 4 3 (5.769 %) BEA 5 1 (1.923 %) ESRI