The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus 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 Lotus 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 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 IBM Lotus Software.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lotus
Rank 40 52 58
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +6
Contract jobs citing Lotus 6 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 1.288% 0.673% 0.705%
As % of the Vendors category 3.000% 1.527% 1.393%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
Average daily rate £450 £258 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+74.75% -57.08%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £275 £320
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -14.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £13.25 £13.50
% change year-on-year
+9.43% -1.85%
All Vendors
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
200 262 359
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 42.92% 44.11% 50.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 112 148
Average daily rate £375 £313 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £152 £200 £236
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 16
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -34.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.69 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.40 £25.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Lotus
UK

Lotus
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales Lotus Jobs Demand Trend

Lotus
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wales Lotus Daily Rate Trend

Lotus
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lotus across the Wales region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Wales Lotus Daily Rate Histogram

Lotus
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wales Lotus Hourly Rate Trend

Lotus
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Lotus 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 Lotus.

1 9 (100.00%) IBM Notes
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Oracle
2 6 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 6 (66.67%) IBM
3 5 (55.56%) Migration
3 5 (55.56%) Data Analysis
4 4 (44.44%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (44.44%) Dimensional Modelling
4 4 (44.44%) Kanban
4 4 (44.44%) Data Migration
4 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
4 4 (44.44%) Scrum
4 4 (44.44%) UML
4 4 (44.44%) RAD
5 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
6 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
7 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
7 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
7 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared

Lotus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Lotus 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 Lotus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) IBM Notes
2 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
1 6 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support
2 1 (11.11%) Backup Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 5 (55.56%) Migration
2 5 (55.56%) Data Analysis
3 4 (44.44%) Requirements Analysis
3 4 (44.44%) Dimensional Modelling
3 4 (44.44%) Kanban
3 4 (44.44%) Data Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) UML
3 4 (44.44%) RAD
4 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle
1 6 (66.67%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
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