The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term DataPower in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DataPower over the 3 months to 23 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Scotland 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere DataPower
Rank 118 94 -
Rank change year-on-year
-24 -
Contract jobs citing DataPower 2 14 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.082% 0.531% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.329% 3.153% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £420 £440 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
-1.17% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £21.00
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
608 444 404
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 24.91% 16.82% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 188 177
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £197 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £522
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 35 19
Average hourly rate £15.77 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.34% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £11.40 £13.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £34.50 £161.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
DataPower
UK

DataPower
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DataPower across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Scotland DataPower Jobs Demand Trend

DataPower
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland DataPower Daily Rate Trend

DataPower
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataPower within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Glasgow -28 2 £420 -4.54%
DataPower
UK

DataPower
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing DataPower 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 DataPower.

1 4 (100.00%) IBM
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) LDAP
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (75.00%) Tivoli
2 3 (75.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (75.00%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (25.00%) JCL
4 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) REXX
4 1 (25.00%) zOS
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) SSL
4 1 (25.00%) ISPF
4 1 (25.00%) Problem Management

DataPower
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing DataPower 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 DataPower. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (75.00%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
2 1 (25.00%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Specialist
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Management Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) JCL
2 1 (25.00%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (75.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM