The first table below looks at the demand for the WebSphere Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WebSphere Administrator
Rank 117 99 85
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -14
Contract jobs requiring a WebSphere Administrator 6 7 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.236% 0.265% 0.894%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.255% 0.284% 0.964%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 12
Average daily rate £375 £250 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -42.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £438
% change year-on-year
- -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £29.00
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2351 2467 2594
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.49% 93.52% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1108 1144 1315
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 106 94
Average hourly rate £14.00 £18.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.32% +8.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £11.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £32.50 £33.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
WebSphere Administrator
UK

WebSphere Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland WebSphere Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland WebSphere Administrator Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Administrator
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited WebSphere Administrator in their job title 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 with WebSphere Administrator in their job title.

1 8 (100.00%) UNIX
1 8 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 7 (87.50%) Banking
3 6 (75.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 6 (75.00%) zOS
4 5 (62.50%) AIX
4 5 (62.50%) Solaris
5 3 (37.50%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (25.00%) Finance
6 2 (25.00%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (25.00%) Windows
6 2 (25.00%) Apache
6 2 (25.00%) HTTP
6 2 (25.00%) IBM
7 1 (12.50%) Firmware
7 1 (12.50%) Linux
7 1 (12.50%) Change Management
7 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications

WebSphere Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited WebSphere Administrator in their job title 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 with WebSphere Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 6 (75.00%) WebSphere MQ
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (25.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (25.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications
General
1 7 (87.50%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) UNIX
2 6 (75.00%) zOS
3 5 (62.50%) AIX
3 5 (62.50%) Solaris
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
5 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (12.50%) Change Management
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) IBM