The first table below looks at the demand for the WebSphere Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere Consultant in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East 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
WebSphere Consultant
Rank 218 241 249
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +8
Contract jobs requiring a WebSphere Consultant 5 1 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.064% 0.010% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.011% 0.102%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
Average daily rate £300 £450 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £450 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £420 £400
% change year-on-year
-28.61% +5.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7204 9391 9776
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.56% 92.35% 92.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3605 4218 4213
Average daily rate £350 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 721 839
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
WebSphere Consultant
England

WebSphere Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East WebSphere Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East WebSphere Consultant Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere Consultant across the South East region.

South East WebSphere Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere Consultant within the South East 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
Berkshire - 4 £300 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
WebSphere Consultant
England

WebSphere Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited WebSphere Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 6 (66.67%) J2EE
3 5 (55.56%) IBM
4 4 (44.44%) E-Commerce
4 4 (44.44%) JBoss
4 4 (44.44%) WebLogic
4 4 (44.44%) Web Services
4 4 (44.44%) ITIL
4 4 (44.44%) Workflow
4 4 (44.44%) VMware
4 4 (44.44%) Content Management
5 3 (33.33%) Retail
5 3 (33.33%) Foglight
5 3 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
5 3 (33.33%) Clustering
5 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (33.33%) Windows 7
5 3 (33.33%) HP SIM
5 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (33.33%) IIS
5 3 (33.33%) Windows
5 3 (33.33%) Oracle
5 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (33.33%) SQL
5 3 (33.33%) .NET
5 3 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (33.33%) Apache
5 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
5 3 (33.33%) LAN

WebSphere Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited WebSphere Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 6 (66.67%) J2EE
3 4 (44.44%) Web Services
4 3 (33.33%) .NET
5 2 (22.22%) Ajax
6 1 (11.11%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) WebLogic
2 3 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
2 3 (33.33%) IIS
2 3 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (33.33%) Apache
2 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (22.22%) Commerce Server
4 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Process Server
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) LAN
1 3 (33.33%) HTTP
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 3 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (22.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Hudson
1 1 (11.11%) Ant
General
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (33.33%) Windows 7
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (11.11%) AIX
2 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) E-Commerce
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
1 4 (44.44%) Workflow
1 4 (44.44%) Content Management
2 2 (22.22%) UML
2 2 (22.22%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (22.22%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
2 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Web Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) SEO
2 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (11.11%) BPEL
3 1 (11.11%) SOA
3 1 (11.11%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Jython
2 1 (11.11%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Foglight
1 3 (33.33%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) IBM
2 4 (44.44%) JBoss
2 4 (44.44%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Oracle
3 3 (33.33%) HP
4 2 (22.22%) hybris
5 1 (11.11%) Siebel