WebSphere Application Server Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere Application Server skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere Application Server 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 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.

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
Rank 361 316 324
Rank change year-on-year
-45 +8
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 188 275 294
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.406% 0.471% 0.474%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.245% 2.889% 2.833%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 115 128
Average daily rate £450 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £311 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £380 £425
% change year-on-year
+1.97% -10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 11
Average hourly rate - £57.50 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +27.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- +27.77%
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 8376 9520 10378
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.08% 16.31% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4746 5226 5538
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 429 569
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.73 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.65 £38.15 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%

WebSphere Application Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere Application Server within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

WebSphere Application Server Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server within the UK.

WebSphere Application Server Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere Application Server within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

WebSphere Application Server Daily Rate Histogram

WebSphere Application Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WebSphere Application Server Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere Application Server
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 WebSphere Application Server within the UK 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
England -38 150 £475 +18.75%
London +46 91 £475 +5.55%
South East -3 21 £394 +5.00%
Scotland -10 20 £413 +44.73%
City of London +19 15 £563 +32.35%
Edinburgh +16 13 £406 -
East Midlands +10 13 £454 +17.85%
West Yorkshire +8 10 £413 +10.00%
Yorkshire -10 10 £413 -8.33%
North West -56 9 £325 -20.97%
Berkshire +18 8 £369 -0.33%
Reading +19 7 £350 +100.00%
Buckinghamshire +3 6 £469 -
Hampshire -3 6 £473 -0.44%
Wales - 5 £500 -
Milton Keynes +3 4 £263 -
Leeds -4 4 £444 -
Liverpool +10 3 £300 -9.09%
Merseyside +5 3 £300 -9.09%
Lancashire -6 3 £350 -17.64%
Manchester -13 3 - -
Glasgow -33 3 £438 +53.50%
Cardiff - 3 - -
South Wales - 3 - -
South West +30 2 £350 -
Nottinghamshire -1 2 £300 -
Basingstoke -16 2 £500 +17.64%
Bradford - 2 £300 -
Bournemouth - 2 £350 -
Dalkeith - 2 - -

WebSphere Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WebSphere Application Server 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 WebSphere Application Server.

1 379 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 178 (46.97%) Java
3 174 (45.91%) IBM
4 137 (36.15%) UNIX
5 131 (34.56%) Linux
6 118 (31.13%) Finance
7 116 (30.61%) Oracle
8 110 (29.02%) XML
9 94 (24.80%) Banking
10 92 (24.27%) J2EE
11 88 (23.22%) Windows
12 84 (22.16%) E-Commerce
13 81 (21.37%) SQL
14 78 (20.58%) Apache
15 77 (20.32%) DB2
16 76 (20.05%) Perl
17 69 (18.21%) IIS
18 65 (17.15%) Web Services
19 63 (16.62%) JBoss
19 63 (16.62%) Microsoft
20 61 (16.09%) TCP/IP
20 61 (16.09%) SOAP
20 61 (16.09%) WebSphere Process Server
21 60 (15.83%) XSLT
22 57 (15.04%) LDAP
23 56 (14.78%) WebSphere MQ
24 55 (14.51%) Internet
25 53 (13.98%) Red Hat
26 52 (13.72%) JSP
26 52 (13.72%) Java EE

WebSphere Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WebSphere Application Server 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 WebSphere Application Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 379 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 110 (29.02%) XML
3 92 (24.27%) J2EE
4 65 (17.15%) Web Services
5 61 (16.09%) SOAP
6 60 (15.83%) XSLT
7 52 (13.72%) JSP
7 52 (13.72%) Java EE
8 43 (11.35%) Servlets
9 41 (10.82%) JMS
10 39 (10.29%) EJB
11 38 (10.03%) JDBC
12 35 (9.235%) Middleware
13 34 (8.971%) HTML
14 32 (8.443%) COM+
15 29 (7.652%) XHTML
15 29 (7.652%) JSF
16 28 (7.388%) Spring
17 24 (6.332%) BAPI
17 24 (6.332%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 78 (20.58%) Apache
2 69 (18.21%) IIS
3 61 (16.09%) WebSphere Process Server
4 56 (14.78%) WebSphere MQ
5 43 (11.35%) IBM HTTP Server
6 41 (10.82%) ESB
7 39 (10.29%) WebSphere Portal
8 35 (9.235%) Tomcat
9 34 (8.971%) WebLogic
10 28 (7.388%) MQSeries
11 23 (6.069%) TeamSite
11 23 (6.069%) FileNet
12 18 (4.749%) SharePoint
13 15 (3.958%) WebSphere Message Broker
14 9 (2.375%) Commerce Server
15 6 (1.583%) Oracle HTTP Server
16 5 (1.319%) GlassFish
16 5 (1.319%) CICS
16 5 (1.319%) Documentum
17 4 (1.055%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
Applications
1 35 (9.235%) MS Excel
2 16 (4.222%) MS Office
3 4 (1.055%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.792%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.528%) MS Project
5 2 (0.528%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (3.694%) Tridion
2 4 (1.055%) Maximo
3 3 (0.792%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.528%) WebTrends
5 1 (0.264%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 61 (16.09%) TCP/IP
2 57 (15.04%) LDAP
3 55 (14.51%) Internet
4 50 (13.19%) Firewall
5 48 (12.66%) HTTP
6 45 (11.87%) BIG-IP
7 38 (10.03%) NetScaler
8 22 (5.805%) SSL
9 11 (2.902%) FTP
10 8 (2.111%) SAN
11 7 (1.847%) DNS
12 5 (1.319%) LAN
13 4 (1.055%) HTTPS
13 4 (1.055%) SMTP
14 1 (0.264%) MPLS
14 1 (0.264%) DMZ
14 1 (0.264%) DHCP
14 1 (0.264%) IPv6
14 1 (0.264%) IIOP
14 1 (0.264%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (20.32%) DB2
2 42 (11.08%) SQL Server
3 30 (7.916%) RDBMS
4 13 (3.430%) Oracle 8/8i
5 12 (3.166%) SQL Server 2008
6 7 (1.847%) InterSystems Cache
7 6 (1.583%) TOAD
7 6 (1.583%) IBM InfoSphere
8 5 (1.319%) MySQL
9 4 (1.055%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (1.055%) MS Access
9 4 (1.055%) Oracle 11g
10 3 (0.792%) DbVisualizer
10 3 (0.792%) Oracle 10g
11 2 (0.528%) DTS
11 2 (0.528%) QlikView
11 2 (0.528%) SQL Server 2005
12 1 (0.264%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.264%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.264%) Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1 35 (9.235%) Eclipse
2 32 (8.443%) JUnit
3 27 (7.124%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 25 (6.596%) Ant
5 21 (5.541%) Subversion
6 14 (3.694%) Log4j
7 13 (3.430%) Rational Application Developer
8 9 (2.375%) Maven
8 9 (2.375%) Introscope
9 8 (2.111%) Build Forge
10 7 (1.847%) Jenkins
11 6 (1.583%) ClearCase
12 4 (1.055%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.055%) jMock
12 4 (1.055%) EasyMock
13 3 (0.792%) StarTeam
14 2 (0.528%) LoadRunner
14 2 (0.528%) JIRA
14 2 (0.528%) Git (software)
14 2 (0.528%) WinDbg
General
1 118 (31.13%) Finance
2 94 (24.80%) Banking
3 46 (12.14%) Retail
4 37 (9.763%) Investment Banking
5 16 (4.222%) Games
6 9 (2.375%) Retail Banking
6 9 (2.375%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.583%) Publishing
8 3 (0.792%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (0.792%) Dutch Language
9 2 (0.528%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.528%) Advertising
9 2 (0.528%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.264%) Marketing
10 1 (0.264%) Billing
10 1 (0.264%) French Language
10 1 (0.264%) German Language
10 1 (0.264%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.264%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 98 (25.86%) Developer
2 91 (24.01%) Architect
3 49 (12.93%) Consultant
4 39 (10.29%) WebSphere Developer
5 37 (9.763%) Administrator
6 35 (9.235%) Solutions Architect
6 35 (9.235%) Analyst
7 32 (8.443%) Java Developer
8 29 (7.652%) WebSphere Administrator
9 24 (6.332%) Support Engineer
9 24 (6.332%) WebSphere Consultant
10 22 (5.805%) Senior Support Engineer
11 19 (5.013%) WebSphere Specialist
12 18 (4.749%) WebSphere Architect
12 18 (4.749%) Java/J2EE Developer
13 15 (3.958%) J2EE Developer
14 13 (3.430%) Server Administrator
14 13 (3.430%) Applications Consultant
15 12 (3.166%) Support Analyst
16 11 (2.902%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 42 (11.08%) PKI
2 41 (10.82%) DataPower
3 28 (7.388%) Online Banking
4 20 (5.277%) Web 2.0
5 13 (3.430%) Mainframe
6 7 (1.847%) Open Source
6 7 (1.847%) Clustering
7 5 (1.319%) PMI
8 4 (1.055%) Firmware
8 4 (1.055%) Data Integration
8 4 (1.055%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.055%) Graphic Design
9 3 (0.792%) Computer Science
9 3 (0.792%) Handset
9 3 (0.792%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.528%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.528%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.528%) SaaS
10 2 (0.528%) SWIFT
10 2 (0.528%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 137 (36.15%) UNIX
2 131 (34.56%) Linux
3 88 (23.22%) Windows
4 51 (13.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (11.87%) AIX
6 41 (10.82%) Solaris
7 36 (9.499%) Windows XP
8 19 (5.013%) HPUX
9 17 (4.485%) Windows Server 2008
10 15 (3.958%) zOS
11 13 (3.430%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (1.583%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.528%) SUSE
14 1 (0.264%) Windows 2000 Server
14 1 (0.264%) Tru64
14 1 (0.264%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (22.16%) E-Commerce
2 49 (12.93%) Content Management
3 45 (11.87%) OO
4 43 (11.35%) UML
5 40 (10.55%) RAD
6 34 (8.971%) SOA
7 32 (8.443%) Change Control
8 30 (7.916%) Time Management
9 23 (6.069%) Unit Testing
10 22 (5.805%) ITIL
11 19 (5.013%) Problem Management
11 19 (5.013%) Load Balancing
12 17 (4.485%) Requirements Analysis
13 16 (4.222%) Workflow
13 16 (4.222%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (3.694%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (3.694%) MVC
14 14 (3.694%) Software Architecture
14 14 (3.694%) Enterprise Architecture
14 14 (3.694%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 178 (46.97%) Java
2 81 (21.37%) SQL
3 76 (20.05%) Perl
4 41 (10.82%) JavaScript
5 36 (9.499%) Bash shell
6 30 (7.916%) C
7 21 (5.541%) Jython
8 20 (5.277%) Shell Script
9 19 (5.013%) PL/SQL
10 14 (3.694%) XPath
11 11 (2.902%) JCL
12 7 (1.847%) REXX
13 3 (0.792%) Groovy
13 3 (0.792%) VBScript
14 2 (0.528%) VB
14 2 (0.528%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.528%) C#
14 2 (0.528%) COBOL
14 2 (0.528%) Python
14 2 (0.528%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (4.749%) Security Cleared
2 13 (3.430%) IBM Certification
3 12 (3.166%) Sun Certification
4 10 (2.639%) GIAC
4 10 (2.639%) GWAPT
4 10 (2.639%) GPEN
5 9 (2.375%) Degree
5 9 (2.375%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.319%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.792%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.792%) ISEB
7 3 (0.792%) IBM WebSphere Certification
8 2 (0.528%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.528%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.264%) SCJP
9 1 (0.264%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.264%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.319%) SLA
2 4 (1.055%) QA
3 1 (0.264%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 9 (2.375%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.583%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 6 (1.583%) ProxySG
3 5 (1.319%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.055%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.792%) XenDesktop
5 3 (0.792%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.264%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.264%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.264%) RACF
Systems Management
1 48 (12.66%) Tivoli
2 24 (6.332%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 8 (2.111%) HP Quality Center
4 7 (1.847%) CA SiteMinder
5 6 (1.583%) HP SIM
5 6 (1.583%) HP SiteScope
6 5 (1.319%) Foglight
6 5 (1.319%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 4 (1.055%) Netcool
7 4 (1.055%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.264%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.264%) Netcool/Webtop
8 1 (0.264%) WMI
8 1 (0.264%) SCOM
8 1 (0.264%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 1 (0.264%) Control-M
Vendors
1 174 (45.91%) IBM
2 116 (30.61%) Oracle
3 63 (16.62%) JBoss
3 63 (16.62%) Microsoft
4 53 (13.98%) Red Hat
5 48 (12.66%) F5
6 44 (11.61%) Citrix
7 32 (8.443%) HP
8 22 (5.805%) LogLogic
9 20 (5.277%) ATG
10 18 (4.749%) Sun
11 16 (4.222%) Pega
11 16 (4.222%) Blue Martini
12 14 (3.694%) Interwoven
12 14 (3.694%) Elastic Path
13 13 (3.430%) VMware
14 10 (2.639%) Imperva
15 7 (1.847%) Lotus
15 7 (1.847%) CA
15 7 (1.847%) Adobe
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