The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Lotus Notes skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lotus Notes over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category.

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.

IBM Lotus Notes
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank326267262
Rank change year-on-year
Down-59Down-5
Matching contract IT job ads270387313
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.456 %0.631 %0.568 %
As % of the Application Platforms category2.805 %3.776 %3.770 %
Number of daily rates quoted9713686
Average daily rate£250£275£250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09 %+10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£135£128£120
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£475£450£405
UK excluding London average daily rate£280£250£205
% change year-on-year
+12.00 %+21.95 %
Number of hourly rates quoted4099102
Average hourly rate£16.61£14.00£15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.64 %-9.67 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.00£10.50£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£26.60£22.30£29.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£12.34£15.00
% change year-on-year
+21.60 %-17.76 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
9626102508302
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK16.26 %16.70 %15.08 %
Number of daily rates quoted532254453765
Average daily rate£350£375£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66 %+3.44 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£220
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£550£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£325
% change year-on-year
-7.14 %+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted426561523
Average hourly rate£20.00£19.50£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.50£12.00£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.00£37.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.57£19.50£19.00
% change year-on-year
+0.37 %+2.63 %

Lotus Notes
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Lotus Notes within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Lotus Notes Demand Trend

Lotus Notes
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lotus Notes within the UK.

Lotus Notes Daily Rate Trend

Lotus Notes
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lotus Notes within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Lotus Notes Daily Rate Histogram

Lotus Notes
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Lotus Notes within the UK.

Lotus Notes Hourly Rate Trend

Lotus Notes
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lotus Notes within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Lotus Notes Hourly Rate Histogram

Lotus Notes
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lotus Notes within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-58248£261-9.13 %
LondonDown-19135£235-21.66 %
South EastDown-2858£298+19.00 %
City of LondonUp+424£259-29.10 %
BuckinghamshireUp+1121£130-38.09 %
Milton KeynesUp+918£130-38.09 %
BerkshireDown-2618£300+29.72 %
ScotlandDown-217£114-56.15 %
East of EnglandDown-714£393+96.25 %
YorkshireDown-2312£300-6.25 %
West YorkshireDown-2612£300-6.25 %
CambridgeshireNo change011--
ReadingUp+19£298+40.00 %
North WestDown-49£180+23.07 %
West MidlandsDown-199£263-38.23 %
South WestDown-238£250-
EdinburghUp+86--
GlasgowNo change06£120-
WarwickshireUp+45£263-
SloughUp+104£325+195.45 %
CheshireUp+94£110-
BradfordNo change04--
FelthamDown-24--
West SussexDown-64£300-33.33 %
ManchesterDown-204--
DundeeNew entry-4£113-
ChichesterNew entry-4£300-
WiltshireNew entry-4--
South WalesUp+93£325-45.83 %
StaffordshireUp+83--

Lotus Notes
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Lotus Notes 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 Lotus Notes.

1525 (100.00 %)Lotus
2283 (53.90 %)Windows
3181 (34.48 %)Active Directory
4162 (30.86 %)MS Office
5161 (30.67 %)Microsoft
6130 (24.76 %)Windows XP
7128 (24.38 %)Windows 7
8114 (21.71 %)Citrix
9111 (21.14 %)Blackberry
10104 (19.81 %)Migration
1192 (17.52 %)Finance
1192 (17.52 %)MS Excel
1274 (14.10 %)SharePoint
1371 (13.52 %)Lotus Domino
1468 (12.95 %)MS Exchange
1567 (12.76 %)ITIL
1666 (12.57 %)Windows Server 2008
1761 (11.62 %)VMware
1854 (10.29 %)Banking
1949 (9.333 %)WAN
2046 (8.762 %)IBM
2046 (8.762 %)Exchange Server 2010
2145 (8.571 %)SharePoint 2010
2145 (8.571 %)TCP/IP
2243 (8.190 %)VMware Infrastructure
2342 (8.000 %)Microsoft Certification
2441 (7.810 %)LAN
2441 (7.810 %)Cisco
2539 (7.429 %)VPN
2637 (7.048 %)Replication

Lotus Notes
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Lotus Notes 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 Lotus Notes. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
124 (4.571 %).NET
216 (3.048 %)XML
313 (2.476 %)HTML
412 (2.286 %)Web Services
57 (1.333 %)Middleware
66 (1.143 %)jQuery
66 (1.143 %)J2EE
75 (0.952 %)MAPI
84 (0.762 %)WebSphere
84 (0.762 %)CSS
93 (0.571 %)XSLT
93 (0.571 %)ASP.NET
93 (0.571 %)CAML
102 (0.381 %)ASP
102 (0.381 %)ODBC
102 (0.381 %)SOAP
111 (0.190 %)DHTML
111 (0.190 %)EDI
111 (0.190 %)Dojo
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
174 (14.10 %)SharePoint
271 (13.52 %)Lotus Domino
368 (12.95 %)MS Exchange
446 (8.762 %)Exchange Server 2010
545 (8.571 %)SharePoint 2010
617 (3.238 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
716 (3.048 %)Lync
813 (2.476 %)IIS
910 (1.905 %)Exchange Server 2007
108 (1.524 %)Exchange Server 2003
116 (1.143 %)GroupWise
116 (1.143 %)FileNet
124 (0.762 %)Lotus Connections
133 (0.571 %)Apache
133 (0.571 %)MQSeries
133 (0.571 %)Documentum
142 (0.381 %)Oracle Application Server
142 (0.381 %)WebSphere Transformation Extender
142 (0.381 %)BizTalk Server
142 (0.381 %)CICS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1162 (30.86 %)MS Office
292 (17.52 %)MS Excel
328 (5.333 %)MS PowerPoint
414 (2.667 %)MS Visio
513 (2.476 %)MS Project
68 (1.524 %)Spreadsheet
74 (0.762 %)Office 365
81 (0.190 %)AutoCAD
81 (0.190 %)InfoPath
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
15 (0.952 %)Maximo
23 (0.571 %)CA Clarity
23 (0.571 %)HFM
32 (0.381 %)Oracle ERP
41 (0.190 %)SoftGrid
41 (0.190 %)BPCS
41 (0.190 %)Dynamics CRM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
149 (9.333 %)WAN
245 (8.571 %)TCP/IP
341 (7.810 %)LAN
439 (7.429 %)VPN
528 (5.333 %)Firewall
625 (4.762 %)Unified Communications
723 (4.381 %)DNS
723 (4.381 %)DHCP
820 (3.810 %)VoIP
914 (2.667 %)Internet
1013 (2.476 %)SMTP
1013 (2.476 %)Cisco IPT
1112 (2.286 %)SAN
1210 (1.905 %)LDAP
139 (1.714 %)Wireless
139 (1.714 %)Intranet
148 (1.524 %)3G
156 (1.143 %)NAS
156 (1.143 %)Broadband
165 (0.952 %)IMAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
133 (6.286 %)SQL Server
26 (1.143 %)Oracle 8/8i
26 (1.143 %)MS Access
34 (0.762 %)SQL Server 2008
34 (0.762 %)ETL
43 (0.571 %)GIS
43 (0.571 %)DocBase
43 (0.571 %)QlikView
52 (0.381 %)SQL Server 2005
52 (0.381 %)SQL Server 2000
52 (0.381 %)Essbase
61 (0.190 %)Data Warehouse
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
14 (0.762 %)Oracle APEX
21 (0.190 %)MSI
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
192 (17.52 %)Finance
254 (10.29 %)Banking
331 (5.905 %)Investment Banking
429 (5.524 %)Back Office
521 (4.000 %)Telecoms
615 (2.857 %)French Language
615 (2.857 %)Front Office
79 (1.714 %)German Language
86 (1.143 %)Manufacturing
95 (0.952 %)Legal
95 (0.952 %)Aerospace
104 (0.762 %)Retail
113 (0.571 %)Publishing
122 (0.381 %)Marketing
122 (0.381 %)Dutch Language
122 (0.381 %)Pharmaceutical
122 (0.381 %)Law
131 (0.190 %)Automotive
131 (0.190 %)Electronics
131 (0.190 %)Japanese Language
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1175 (33.33 %)Analyst
288 (16.76 %)Support Analyst
365 (12.38 %)Desktop Support
452 (9.905 %)Service Desk Analyst
550 (9.524 %)Service Analyst
646 (8.762 %)Architect
742 (8.000 %)2nd Line Support
841 (7.810 %)Support Engineer
939 (7.429 %)Developer
1037 (7.048 %)Desktop Support Analyst
1037 (7.048 %)Desktop Analyst
1135 (6.667 %)Desktop Engineer
1229 (5.524 %)Administrator
1325 (4.762 %)Technical Architect
1424 (4.571 %)Helpdesk Support
1521 (4.000 %)Lotus Notes Developer
1618 (3.429 %)Consultant
1717 (3.238 %)Helpdesk Engineer
1717 (3.238 %)Helpdesk Analyst
1816 (3.048 %)1st Line Support
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1111 (21.14 %)Blackberry
237 (7.048 %)Replication
324 (4.571 %)Clustering
423 (4.381 %)AS400
510 (1.905 %)Management Information System
69 (1.714 %)PDA
77 (1.333 %)iPhone
86 (1.143 %)Video Conferencing
86 (1.143 %)Client/Server
95 (0.952 %)Equities
104 (0.762 %)iPad
113 (0.571 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
113 (0.571 %)iSeries
113 (0.571 %)Mathematics
113 (0.571 %)Hedge funds
113 (0.571 %)Tandem
122 (0.381 %)HP StorageWorks
122 (0.381 %)Fat Client
122 (0.381 %)Computer Science
122 (0.381 %)CMDB
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1283 (53.90 %)Windows
2130 (24.76 %)Windows XP
3128 (24.38 %)Windows 7
466 (12.57 %)Windows Server 2008
537 (7.048 %)Windows Server 2003
618 (3.429 %)Windows Vista
714 (2.667 %)Windows 2000
89 (1.714 %)Linux
98 (1.524 %)UNIX
104 (0.762 %)Mac OS X
104 (0.762 %)Windows NT
113 (0.571 %)NetWare
122 (0.381 %)Windows 2000 Server
122 (0.381 %)zOS
122 (0.381 %)AIX
122 (0.381 %)Solaris
131 (0.190 %)OS/390
131 (0.190 %)OpenVMS
131 (0.190 %)Mac OS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1104 (19.81 %)Migration
267 (12.76 %)ITIL
335 (6.667 %)Project Management
427 (5.143 %)Service Management
526 (4.952 %)Disaster Recovery
623 (4.381 %)Business Continuity
623 (4.381 %)PRINCE2
722 (4.190 %)Change Management
821 (4.000 %)Stakeholder Management
821 (4.000 %)Load Balancing
920 (3.810 %)User Acceptance Testing
920 (3.810 %)Information Security
1015 (2.857 %)Incident Management
1015 (2.857 %)Document Management
1015 (2.857 %)Service Delivery
1113 (2.476 %)Business Analysis
129 (1.714 %)Configuration Management
138 (1.524 %)Asset Management
138 (1.524 %)Problem Management
138 (1.524 %)Time Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
132 (6.095 %)SQL
224 (4.571 %)LotusScript
311 (2.095 %)JavaScript
410 (1.905 %)Java
59 (1.714 %)Formula Language
59 (1.714 %)C#
66 (1.143 %)PowerShell
74 (0.762 %)VBScript
74 (0.762 %)VB
74 (0.762 %)C
83 (0.571 %)RPG
92 (0.381 %)RPG/400
92 (0.381 %)RPG IV
101 (0.190 %)Shell Script
101 (0.190 %)PHP
101 (0.190 %)C++
101 (0.190 %)VBA
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
142 (8.000 %)Microsoft Certification
224 (4.571 %)MCP
321 (4.000 %)MCSE
417 (3.238 %)Degree
511 (2.095 %)MCDST
68 (1.524 %)MCITP
77 (1.333 %)CCNA
77 (1.333 %)Cisco Certification
77 (1.333 %)Security Cleared
77 (1.333 %)MCTS
86 (1.143 %)SC Cleared
94 (0.762 %)A+ Certification
94 (0.762 %)ITIL Certification
94 (0.762 %)MCSA
102 (0.381 %)Microsoft Certified Master
102 (0.381 %)Microsoft Certified Architect
111 (0.190 %)PRINCE2 Certification
111 (0.190 %)IBM Certification
111 (0.190 %)ACSA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
125 (4.762 %)SLA
213 (2.476 %)QA
33 (0.571 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
42 (0.381 %)ISO/IEC 27001
42 (0.381 %)BS25999
42 (0.381 %)ISO 9000
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1181 (34.48 %)Active Directory
243 (8.190 %)VMware Infrastructure
317 (3.238 %)XenApp
413 (2.476 %)vSphere
59 (1.714 %)Hyper-V
67 (1.333 %)VMware ESX
76 (1.143 %)XenDesktop
84 (0.762 %)Terminal Server
92 (0.381 %)DFS Replication
92 (0.381 %)Veritas Cluster Server
92 (0.381 %)VMware ESXi
92 (0.381 %)Citrix Presentation Server
92 (0.381 %)NFS
92 (0.381 %)Terminal Services
92 (0.381 %)MetaFrame
92 (0.381 %)RACF
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
127 (5.143 %)SCCM
224 (4.571 %)SCOM
312 (2.286 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
411 (2.095 %)WSUS
59 (1.714 %)NetBackup
59 (1.714 %)CA SiteMinder
65 (0.952 %)OpenView
73 (0.571 %)DameWare
73 (0.571 %)EMC NetWorker
73 (0.571 %)McAfee ePO
73 (0.571 %)OVSD
82 (0.381 %)WhatsUp Gold
82 (0.381 %)Sysprep
82 (0.381 %)ServiceCenter
82 (0.381 %)CiscoWorks
82 (0.381 %)OpenView Configuration Management
82 (0.381 %)MAINVIEW
82 (0.381 %)Tivoli
91 (0.190 %)Tivoli Remote Control
91 (0.190 %)MIMEsweeper
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1525 (100.00 %)Lotus
2161 (30.67 %)Microsoft
3114 (21.71 %)Citrix
461 (11.62 %)VMware
546 (8.762 %)IBM
641 (7.810 %)Cisco
736 (6.857 %)Reuters
834 (6.476 %)HP
932 (6.095 %)Bloomberg
1026 (4.952 %)Remedy
1123 (4.381 %)Dell
1222 (4.190 %)NetApp
1319 (3.619 %)Oracle
149 (1.714 %)SAP
158 (1.524 %)Adobe
158 (1.524 %)McAfee
158 (1.524 %)Symantec
166 (1.143 %)Postini
166 (1.143 %)CA
166 (1.143 %)Apple