The first table below looks at the demand for the WebSphere Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WebSphere Engineer
Rank 527 562 582
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +20
Contract jobs requiring a WebSphere Engineer 3 16 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.027% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.030% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 5
Average daily rate £290 £500 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-42.00% +5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £222 £371 £385
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £550 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £500 £375
% change year-on-year
-42.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
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 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

WebSphere Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

WebSphere Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

WebSphere Engineer Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

WebSphere Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

WebSphere Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WebSphere Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +35 3 £290 -42.00%
Nottingham - 2 £370 -
East Midlands - 2 £370 -
Nottinghamshire - 2 £370 -
West Midlands - 1 £205 -
Herefordshire - 1 £205 -
Hereford - 1 £205 -

WebSphere Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited WebSphere Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 11 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) IBM
2 7 (63.64%) Middleware
3 6 (54.55%) WebSphere MQ
3 6 (54.55%) UNIX
3 6 (54.55%) Java
3 6 (54.55%) Oracle
4 5 (45.45%) DB2
5 4 (36.36%) HPUX
5 4 (36.36%) IBM Certification
5 4 (36.36%) zOS
5 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
5 4 (36.36%) HTTP
5 4 (36.36%) RDBMS
5 4 (36.36%) Windows NT
5 4 (36.36%) ClearCase
5 4 (36.36%) EAI
5 4 (36.36%) SOA
5 4 (36.36%) ESB
5 4 (36.36%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 4 (36.36%) Windows 2000 Server
5 4 (36.36%) TortoiseSVN
5 4 (36.36%) Subversion
5 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (27.27%) Clustering
6 3 (27.27%) JMS
6 3 (27.27%) Red Hat

WebSphere Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited WebSphere Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 7 (63.64%) Middleware
3 3 (27.27%) Web Services
3 3 (27.27%) XML
3 3 (27.27%) JMS
4 2 (18.18%) Spring
4 2 (18.18%) HTML
4 2 (18.18%) .NET
4 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
4 2 (18.18%) Java EE
5 1 (9.091%) jQuery
5 1 (9.091%) J2EE
5 1 (9.091%) EJB
5 1 (9.091%) CSS
5 1 (9.091%) SOAP
5 1 (9.091%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (36.36%) ESB
2 4 (36.36%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 3 (27.27%) Apache
3 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
4 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
4 2 (18.18%) Documentum
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (18.18%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (18.18%) WebLogic
4 2 (18.18%) IIS
4 2 (18.18%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (18.18%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
5 1 (9.091%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Project
1 2 (18.18%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) HTTP
2 2 (18.18%) SSL
3 1 (9.091%) LDAP
3 1 (9.091%) SMTP
3 1 (9.091%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) DB2
2 4 (36.36%) RDBMS
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) ClearCase
1 4 (36.36%) Subversion
1 4 (36.36%) TortoiseSVN
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 1 (9.091%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (9.091%) JUnit
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Retail
2 1 (9.091%) Dutch Language
2 1 (9.091%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Clustering
2 1 (9.091%) Web 2.0
2 1 (9.091%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 6 (54.55%) UNIX
3 4 (36.36%) Windows 2000 Server
3 4 (36.36%) Windows NT
3 4 (36.36%) zOS
3 4 (36.36%) HPUX
4 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (18.18%) Solaris
5 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (9.091%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) EAI
1 4 (36.36%) SOA
1 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
1 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Quality Management
3 2 (18.18%) Change Management
3 2 (18.18%) Change Control
3 2 (18.18%) Service Desk Management
3 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
3 2 (18.18%) Release Management
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL V2
4 1 (9.091%) Migration
4 1 (9.091%) Load Balancing
4 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
2 2 (18.18%) Jython
2 2 (18.18%) Korn
2 2 (18.18%) C-shell
2 2 (18.18%) Bash shell
3 1 (9.091%) Perl
3 1 (9.091%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) IBM Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) IBM
2 6 (54.55%) Oracle
3 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
4 2 (18.18%) Remedy
4 2 (18.18%) HP
4 2 (18.18%) Business Objects
4 2 (18.18%) JBoss
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 1 (9.091%) Macromedia
5 1 (9.091%) Open Text
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Posted: 14 May 2013