The first table below looks at the demand for the WebSphere Administrator role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 22 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 currently tracked.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WebSphere Administrator
Rank 515 527 504
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -23
Contract jobs requiring a WebSphere Administrator 19 59 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.040% 0.100% 0.136%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.108% 0.147%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 40
Average daily rate £375 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £187 £399
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £425
% change year-on-year
- -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.00
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2155 2623 2895
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

WebSphere Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

WebSphere Administrator Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

WebSphere Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

WebSphere Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere Administrator within the UK.

WebSphere Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere Administrator
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England +23 11 £356 -5.00%
Edinburgh +3 5 £375 -
Scotland -19 5 £375 -
London +21 4 £375 -8.53%
East Midlands - 3 £331 -
City of London +7 2 £375 +6.38%
Yorkshire -2 2 - -
Leeds - 2 - -
West Yorkshire - 2 - -
Nottinghamshire - 2 £331 -
Lancashire +10 1 £350 -7.89%
North West +1 1 £350 -6.66%
Northern Ireland - 1 £250 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Nottingham - 1 £363 -
Coventry - 1 - -
Belfast - 1 £250 -
County Antrim - 1 £250 -

WebSphere Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 48 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 29 (60.42%) WebSphere Application Server
3 24 (50.00%) IBM
4 20 (41.67%) Linux
4 20 (41.67%) AIX
5 19 (39.58%) HTTP
6 16 (33.33%) UNIX
6 16 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
7 15 (31.25%) Banking
7 15 (31.25%) WebSphere MQ
8 14 (29.17%) Finance
9 12 (25.00%) WebSphere Process Server
10 9 (18.75%) DB2
11 8 (16.67%) Java
11 8 (16.67%) Web Services
11 8 (16.67%) Oracle
12 7 (14.58%) Solaris
12 7 (14.58%) Shell Script
12 7 (14.58%) zOS
12 7 (14.58%) Jython
13 6 (12.50%) Investment Banking
13 6 (12.50%) TCP/IP
13 6 (12.50%) SSL
14 5 (10.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
14 5 (10.42%) LDAP
14 5 (10.42%) Apache
14 5 (10.42%) XML
14 5 (10.42%) XSD
14 5 (10.42%) XSLT

WebSphere Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 48 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 8 (16.67%) Web Services
3 5 (10.42%) XML
3 5 (10.42%) XSD
3 5 (10.42%) XSLT
3 5 (10.42%) HTML
3 5 (10.42%) J2EE
4 4 (8.333%) Middleware
4 4 (8.333%) .NET
4 4 (8.333%) SOAP
4 4 (8.333%) JMS
4 4 (8.333%) WSDL
4 4 (8.333%) XML Schema
5 2 (4.167%) ISPF
5 2 (4.167%) EJB
6 1 (2.083%) CSS
6 1 (2.083%) JDBC
6 1 (2.083%) JSP
6 1 (2.083%) Servlets
6 1 (2.083%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 29 (60.42%) WebSphere Application Server
2 16 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
3 15 (31.25%) WebSphere MQ
4 12 (25.00%) WebSphere Process Server
5 5 (10.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 5 (10.42%) Apache
6 4 (8.333%) WebSphere Portal
6 4 (8.333%) ESB
7 2 (4.167%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 2 (4.167%) IIS
8 1 (2.083%) Tomcat
8 1 (2.083%) Documentum
8 1 (2.083%) Commerce Server
8 1 (2.083%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 19 (39.58%) HTTP
2 6 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 6 (12.50%) SSL
3 5 (10.42%) LDAP
4 4 (8.333%) DNS
5 1 (2.083%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) DB2
2 1 (2.083%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (2.083%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (8.333%) ClearCase
2 1 (2.083%) Ant
2 1 (2.083%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 1 (2.083%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.083%) Introscope
2 1 (2.083%) ClearQuest
General
1 15 (31.25%) Banking
2 14 (29.17%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.250%) Portuguese Language
5 1 (2.083%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.083%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) DataPower
2 1 (2.083%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 20 (41.67%) Linux
1 20 (41.67%) AIX
2 16 (33.33%) UNIX
3 7 (14.58%) Solaris
3 7 (14.58%) zOS
4 4 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (8.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (8.333%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (8.333%) SOA
2 3 (6.250%) E-Commerce
2 3 (6.250%) Performance Testing
2 3 (6.250%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (4.167%) Migration
3 2 (4.167%) ITIL
4 1 (2.083%) UML
4 1 (2.083%) OO
4 1 (2.083%) RAD
4 1 (2.083%) EAI
4 1 (2.083%) Service Delivery
4 1 (2.083%) Change Management
4 1 (2.083%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (2.083%) MVC
4 1 (2.083%) Workflow
4 1 (2.083%) High Availability
4 1 (2.083%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (2.083%) Load Testing
4 1 (2.083%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) Java
2 7 (14.58%) Shell Script
2 7 (14.58%) Jython
3 4 (8.333%) XPath
3 4 (8.333%) SQL
4 2 (4.167%) JCL
5 1 (2.083%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.083%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (6.250%) IBM WebSphere Certification
2 2 (4.167%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.167%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.083%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 1 (2.083%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.167%) Tivoli
2 1 (2.083%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 24 (50.00%) IBM
2 8 (16.67%) Oracle
3 4 (8.333%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.083%) Siebel
4 1 (2.083%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.083%) Chordiant
4 1 (2.083%) Lotus
4 1 (2.083%) VMware