The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the International Business Machines Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 29 33 38
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +5
Contract jobs citing IBM 15 21 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 3.521% 3.684% 3.636%
As % of the Vendors category 8.671% 8.367% 6.997%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 13
Average daily rate £425 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £240 £135
10% offered a daily rate of more than £504 £549 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -26.66%
All Vendors
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
173 251 343
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 40.61% 44.04% 51.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 104 152
Average daily rate £375 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £274
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 13
Average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.10 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.25 £22.60 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
IBM
UK

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales IBM Jobs Demand Trend

IBM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wales IBM Daily Rate Trend

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IBM across the Wales region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Wales IBM Daily Rate Histogram

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Wales region.

Wales IBM Hourly Rate Trend

IBM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Wales region 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
South Wales -1 13 £400 +10.34%
IBM
UK

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing IBM 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 IBM.

1 16 (38.10%) Java
2 15 (35.71%) Oracle
2 15 (35.71%) WebSphere
3 13 (30.95%) SQL
4 12 (28.57%) Finance
5 11 (26.19%) SQL Server
6 10 (23.81%) IIS
6 10 (23.81%) UNIX
6 10 (23.81%) iSeries
7 9 (21.43%) Rational Functional Tester
7 9 (21.43%) Hibernate
7 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
7 9 (21.43%) Shell Script
7 9 (21.43%) COBOL
7 9 (21.43%) UML
8 8 (19.05%) MS Office
8 8 (19.05%) WebLogic
8 8 (19.05%) OS/400
8 8 (19.05%) RPG
8 8 (19.05%) DB2
8 8 (19.05%) Project Management
8 8 (19.05%) Scrum
8 8 (19.05%) Maven
8 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
9 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 7 (16.67%) Liferay
9 7 (16.67%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
9 7 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
9 7 (16.67%) Release Management
9 7 (16.67%) AS400

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing IBM 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 IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (35.71%) WebSphere
2 9 (21.43%) Hibernate
3 5 (11.90%) Spring
3 5 (11.90%) JSF
3 5 (11.90%) J2SE
3 5 (11.90%) J2EE
4 1 (2.381%) XML
4 1 (2.381%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 10 (23.81%) IIS
2 8 (19.05%) WebLogic
3 7 (16.67%) Liferay
4 6 (14.29%) Lotus Notes
5 5 (11.90%) FileNet
5 5 (11.90%) SAS
5 5 (11.90%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (2.381%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (2.381%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
6 1 (2.381%) ESB
Applications
1 8 (19.05%) MS Office
2 5 (11.90%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.381%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.762%) SAN
2 1 (2.381%) HTTP
2 1 (2.381%) DNS
2 1 (2.381%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) SQL Server
2 8 (19.05%) DB2
3 7 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
4 5 (11.90%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (2.381%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Rational Functional Tester
2 8 (19.05%) Maven
3 7 (16.67%) ClearQuest
3 7 (16.67%) Ant
3 7 (16.67%) ClearCase
4 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.90%) Subversion
4 5 (11.90%) TestDirector
5 2 (4.762%) Selenium
6 1 (2.381%) Eclipse
General
1 12 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (4.762%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Analyst
2 10 (23.81%) Support Analyst
2 10 (23.81%) Applications Support
2 10 (23.81%) Applications Support Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) Release Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Functional Tester
3 7 (16.67%) Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Tester
4 6 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 6 (14.29%) Data Architect
5 4 (9.524%) Development Manager
5 4 (9.524%) Software Team Leader
5 4 (9.524%) Team Leader
6 3 (7.143%) Development Team Leader
7 2 (4.762%) Automation Test Analyst
7 2 (4.762%) Automation Tester
7 2 (4.762%) Automation Analyst
8 1 (2.381%) Systems Analyst
8 1 (2.381%) Analyst Programmer
8 1 (2.381%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) iSeries
2 7 (16.67%) AS400
3 1 (2.381%) HACMP
3 1 (2.381%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.381%) LPAR
3 1 (2.381%) DLPAR
3 1 (2.381%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) UNIX
2 8 (19.05%) OS/400
3 7 (16.67%) Windows
3 7 (16.67%) AIX
4 2 (4.762%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.381%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (21.43%) UML
2 8 (19.05%) Project Management
2 8 (19.05%) Scrum
3 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 7 (16.67%) Release Management
3 7 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 6 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 5 (11.90%) Data Analysis
5 5 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (11.90%) OO
6 4 (9.524%) RAD
6 4 (9.524%) Migration
6 4 (9.524%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (9.524%) Software Engineering
6 4 (9.524%) Time Management
6 4 (9.524%) Dimensional Modelling
6 4 (9.524%) Kanban
6 4 (9.524%) Data Migration
7 3 (7.143%) Test Scripting
7 3 (7.143%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) Java
2 13 (30.95%) SQL
3 9 (21.43%) Shell Script
3 9 (21.43%) COBOL
4 8 (19.05%) RPG
5 7 (16.67%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
6 1 (2.381%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.524%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.762%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.381%) Tivoli
1 1 (2.381%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (2.381%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (35.71%) Oracle
2 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (14.29%) Lotus
4 5 (11.90%) Adobe
4 5 (11.90%) ILOG
5 4 (9.524%) Rackspace
6 1 (2.381%) EMC
6 1 (2.381%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.381%) Mercator