The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere Process 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 Process Server over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere Process Server (WPS)
Rank 501 532 538
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +6
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Process Server 40 38 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.083% 0.065% 0.101%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.473% 0.402% 0.630%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 22 20
Average daily rate £550 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.22% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £375 £339
10% offered a daily rate of more than £655 £644 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8463 9460 9995
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 17.59% 16.30% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4776 5322 5437
Average daily rate £358 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 441 559
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £37.50 £42.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%

WebSphere Process Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

WebSphere Process Server Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Process Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

WebSphere Process Server Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Process Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere Process Server within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

WebSphere Process Server Daily Rate Histogram

WebSphere Process Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WebSphere Process Server Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere Process Server
Top 22 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere Process Server within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +16 36 £550 +22.22% 2
London +19 18 £600 +33.33% 1
South East +33 13 £453 -11.92% 1
Hampshire +7 11 £455 - 1
Basingstoke - 10 £458 - 1
City of London +3 7 £625 +66.66% 1
Leeds - 4 £444 -
Yorkshire - 4 £444 -
West Yorkshire - 4 £444 -
North West - 1 £450 -
Worcestershire - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - -
West Lothian - - - -
Bedford - - - -
Birmingham - - - -
Edinburgh - - - -
Manchester - - - -
Worcester - - - -
Bedfordshire - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
Scotland - - - -
East of England - - - -

WebSphere Process Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WebSphere Process 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 Process Server.

1 100 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 65 (65.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 47 (47.00%) IBM
4 42 (42.00%) Oracle
4 42 (42.00%) DB2
5 41 (41.00%) ESB
6 36 (36.00%) Web Services
6 36 (36.00%) SOA
7 35 (35.00%) Tivoli
8 32 (32.00%) Linux
8 32 (32.00%) Finance
9 31 (31.00%) Security Cleared
10 30 (30.00%) Banking
11 26 (26.00%) DataPower
12 25 (25.00%) Online Banking
12 25 (25.00%) Internet
13 24 (24.00%) SC Cleared
14 21 (21.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 21 (21.00%) BAPI
15 20 (20.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
15 20 (20.00%) HP
15 20 (20.00%) TeamSite
15 20 (20.00%) HTTP
15 20 (20.00%) C
16 19 (19.00%) Red Hat
16 19 (19.00%) IBM HTTP Server
16 19 (19.00%) LogLogic
17 18 (18.00%) Middleware
17 18 (18.00%) JMS
17 18 (18.00%) Java

WebSphere Process Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WebSphere Process 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 Process Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 100 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 36 (36.00%) Web Services
3 21 (21.00%) BAPI
4 18 (18.00%) Middleware
4 18 (18.00%) JMS
4 18 (18.00%) .NET
5 10 (10.00%) WSDL
5 10 (10.00%) J2EE
6 9 (9.000%) KML
7 8 (8.000%) WebSphere MQ
8 7 (7.000%) REST
9 6 (6.000%) JDBC
10 5 (5.000%) XML
10 5 (5.000%) XSLT
10 5 (5.000%) SOAP
10 5 (5.000%) soapUI
11 3 (3.000%) EJB
11 3 (3.000%) Hibernate
11 3 (3.000%) .NET Framework
11 3 (3.000%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 65 (65.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 41 (41.00%) ESB
3 20 (20.00%) TeamSite
4 19 (19.00%) IBM HTTP Server
5 14 (14.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 12 (12.00%) SharePoint
7 8 (8.000%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 8 (8.000%) WebSphere Portal
8 7 (7.000%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (3.000%) Documentum
10 2 (2.000%) Apache
10 2 (2.000%) Tomcat
11 1 (1.000%) Confluence
11 1 (1.000%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 4 (4.000%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 25 (25.00%) Internet
2 20 (20.00%) HTTP
3 15 (15.00%) LDAP
3 15 (15.00%) DNS
3 15 (15.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.000%) FTP
5 1 (1.000%) IPv6
5 1 (1.000%) SNMP
5 1 (1.000%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.000%) SSL
5 1 (1.000%) SMS
5 1 (1.000%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (42.00%) DB2
2 6 (6.000%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (3.000%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.000%) BusinessObjects XI
4 2 (2.000%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (2.000%) MySQL
4 2 (2.000%) MS Access
5 1 (1.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (7.000%) Visual Studio
1 7 (7.000%) Build Forge
1 7 (7.000%) Rational Application Developer
2 6 (6.000%) Ant
2 6 (6.000%) JUnit
3 4 (4.000%) Hudson
4 2 (2.000%) HttpUnit
4 2 (2.000%) FitNesse
4 2 (2.000%) TestNG
4 2 (2.000%) Rational Rose
5 1 (1.000%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.000%) ClearQuest
5 1 (1.000%) Subversion
5 1 (1.000%) JIRA
General
1 32 (32.00%) Finance
2 30 (30.00%) Banking
3 11 (11.00%) Retail
4 7 (7.000%) Retail Banking
5 6 (6.000%) Publishing
6 5 (5.000%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.000%) Advertising
7 3 (3.000%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.000%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.000%) Billing
8 1 (1.000%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 40 (40.00%) Architect
2 25 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 24 (24.00%) Developer
4 16 (16.00%) WebSphere Developer
5 14 (14.00%) WebSphere Specialist
6 10 (10.00%) Administrator
7 9 (9.000%) Consultant
7 9 (9.000%) WebSphere Administrator
8 8 (8.000%) WebSphere Consultant
9 4 (4.000%) Lead Architect
9 4 (4.000%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.000%) WebSphere Engineer
9 4 (4.000%) WebSphere Architect
9 4 (4.000%) Server Administrator
9 4 (4.000%) Process Consultant
10 3 (3.000%) Applications Specialist
10 3 (3.000%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.000%) Chief Architect
10 3 (3.000%) Server Specialist
11 2 (2.000%) WebSphere Application Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.00%) DataPower
2 25 (25.00%) Online Banking
3 2 (2.000%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.000%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.000%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.000%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 32 (32.00%) Linux
2 21 (21.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (12.00%) Windows
3 12 (12.00%) AIX
4 8 (8.000%) UNIX
5 1 (1.000%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (36.00%) SOA
2 14 (14.00%) UML
2 14 (14.00%) Unit Testing
3 12 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (9.000%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (7.000%) E-Commerce
6 5 (5.000%) BPEL
7 4 (4.000%) Process Management
7 4 (4.000%) Migration
8 3 (3.000%) Workflow
8 3 (3.000%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (3.000%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (3.000%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (2.000%) Incident Management
9 2 (2.000%) Problem Management
9 2 (2.000%) Change Control
9 2 (2.000%) Test Strategy
9 2 (2.000%) Software Architecture
9 2 (2.000%) Test Automation
9 2 (2.000%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.00%) C
2 18 (18.00%) Java
3 10 (10.00%) SQL
4 9 (9.000%) Jython
5 4 (4.000%) Perl
6 2 (2.000%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.000%) Python
7 1 (1.000%) Korn
Qualifications
1 31 (31.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.000%) IBM Certification
4 2 (2.000%) Degree
5 1 (1.000%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.000%) QA
System Software
1 15 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.000%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.000%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 35 (35.00%) Tivoli
2 20 (20.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 8 (8.000%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 47 (47.00%) IBM
2 42 (42.00%) Oracle
3 20 (20.00%) HP
4 19 (19.00%) Red Hat
4 19 (19.00%) LogLogic
5 11 (11.00%) Microsoft
6 7 (7.000%) Siebel
7 4 (4.000%) Lombardi
8 3 (3.000%) Adobe
8 3 (3.000%) Fujitsu
9 2 (2.000%) ILOG
10 1 (1.000%) Business Objects
10 1 (1.000%) VMware
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