The first table below looks at the demand for the WebSphere Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WebSphere Specialist
Rank 514 538 548
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +10
Contract jobs requiring a WebSphere Specialist 15 46 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.032% 0.079% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.085% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 26 19
Average daily rate £225 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £450 £431
% change year-on-year
-50.00% +4.34%
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
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
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 2112 2572 2930
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 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

WebSphere Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

WebSphere Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

WebSphere Specialist Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

WebSphere Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

WebSphere Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WebSphere Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere Specialist
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +14 8 £423 -6.04%
London +33 2 £423 -10.03%
Scotland -8 2 - -
North West -12 2 - -
Norfolk - 2 £475 -
East of England - 2 £475 -
South East +13 1 £310 -
City of London +11 1 £471 -0.91%
Merseyside - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Liverpool - 1 - -
Edinburgh - 1 - -
Lancashire - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 £310 -
Portsmouth - 1 £310 -
Norwich - 1 - -

WebSphere Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited WebSphere Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 43 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 21 (48.84%) HTTP
3 19 (44.19%) IBM
3 19 (44.19%) WebSphere Application Server
4 18 (41.86%) WebSphere MQ
5 17 (39.53%) IBM HTTP Server
6 15 (34.88%) Middleware
7 14 (32.56%) Linux
8 13 (30.23%) WebSphere Process Server
9 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
9 11 (25.58%) UNIX
10 10 (23.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
11 9 (20.93%) Red Hat
11 9 (20.93%) Web Services
11 9 (20.93%) Java
12 8 (18.60%) .NET
12 8 (18.60%) Oracle
12 8 (18.60%) DB2
12 8 (18.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 8 (18.60%) Active Directory
12 8 (18.60%) TCP/IP
12 8 (18.60%) LDAP
12 8 (18.60%) JMS
12 8 (18.60%) SOA
12 8 (18.60%) DNS
12 8 (18.60%) Finance
13 6 (13.95%) zOS
13 6 (13.95%) Oracle 8/8i
13 6 (13.95%) MQSeries

WebSphere Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited WebSphere Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 43 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 15 (34.88%) Middleware
3 9 (20.93%) Web Services
4 8 (18.60%) .NET
4 8 (18.60%) JMS
5 2 (4.651%) XML Schema
5 2 (4.651%) HTML
5 2 (4.651%) SOAP
5 2 (4.651%) XML
5 2 (4.651%) XSD
5 2 (4.651%) XSLT
5 2 (4.651%) WSDL
6 1 (2.326%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 19 (44.19%) WebSphere Application Server
2 18 (41.86%) WebSphere MQ
3 17 (39.53%) IBM HTTP Server
4 13 (30.23%) WebSphere Process Server
5 8 (18.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 6 (13.95%) MQSeries
7 5 (11.63%) WebSphere Portal
8 4 (9.302%) Apache
9 3 (6.977%) WebSphere Message Broker
10 1 (2.326%) Tomcat
10 1 (2.326%) WebLogic
10 1 (2.326%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
Communications & Networking
1 21 (48.84%) HTTP
2 8 (18.60%) TCP/IP
2 8 (18.60%) LDAP
2 8 (18.60%) DNS
3 3 (6.977%) SSL
4 1 (2.326%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) DB2
2 6 (13.95%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (2.326%) Ant
General
1 8 (18.60%) Finance
2 5 (11.63%) Banking
3 2 (4.651%) Financial Institution
3 2 (4.651%) Dutch Language
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) PMI
2 3 (6.977%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 14 (32.56%) Linux
2 11 (25.58%) UNIX
3 10 (23.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (13.95%) zOS
5 5 (11.63%) AIX
6 4 (9.302%) Windows
7 1 (2.326%) HPUX
7 1 (2.326%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (18.60%) SOA
2 2 (4.651%) Migration
2 2 (4.651%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.93%) Java
2 4 (9.302%) Jython
3 2 (4.651%) XPath
3 2 (4.651%) Perl
4 1 (2.326%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.326%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 2 (4.651%) CA SiteMinder
2 1 (2.326%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (44.19%) IBM
2 9 (20.93%) Red Hat
3 8 (18.60%) Oracle
4 1 (2.326%) JBoss