The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term DataPower in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DataPower 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Wales region.

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
IBM WebSphere DataPower
Rank - 34 55
Contract jobs citing DataPower 0 20 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales - 3.604% 0.617%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 19.05% 2.985%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 2
Average daily rate - £423 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £423 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.59% +5.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £21.00
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
86 105 134
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 21.29% 18.92% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 38 68
Average daily rate £305 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £200 £276
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £523 £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 £18.21
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -23.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.95 £7.96
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £15.51 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
DataPower
UK

DataPower
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DataPower across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Wales DataPower Jobs Demand Trend

DataPower
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DataPower across the Wales region.

Wales DataPower Daily Rate Trend

DataPower
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing DataPower 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 DataPower.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Ant
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSD
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
1 2 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) ClearQuest
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ

DataPower
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing DataPower 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 DataPower. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSD
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Ant
1 2 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 2 (100.00%) ClearQuest
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared