Warwickshire WebSphere Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere skills within the Warwickshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSphere over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Atherstone Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newry Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Rugby Scotland Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Stirling Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	29
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	24	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	25.53 %	17.31 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£300
Average daily rate	£373	£320
% change on same period last year	+16.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£392	£405
% change on same period last year	-3.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.59	£38.35
% change on same period last year	+3.24 %
Application Development Warwickshire
Matching contract IT job ads	94	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.121 %	0.058 %
Daily rates quoted	22	6
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£244
Average daily rate	£307	£281
% change on same period last year	+9.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£31.44
Average hourly rate	£17.88	£34.18
% change on same period last year	-47.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.75	£36.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
WebSphere West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

WebSphere
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing WebSphere across the Warwickshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing WebSphere across the Warwickshire region.

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere across the Warwickshire region over the past 3 months.

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing WebSphere across the Warwickshire region.

WebSphere
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the Warwickshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Rugby	-	10	£375	-
2	Atherstone	+3	2	£380	-
3	Warwick	+14	1	£360	-

WebSphere West Midlands

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Warwickshire region citing WebSphere also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebSphere.

1 26 (65.00 %) Linux 2 24 (60.00 %) Oracle 3 22 (55.00 %) Unix 4 19 (47.50 %) AIX 4 19 (47.50 %) Solaris 4 19 (47.50 %) Tomcat 4 19 (47.50 %) Apache 5 13 (32.50 %) Red Hat 6 12 (30.00 %) RDBMS 6 12 (30.00 %) TCP/IP 6 12 (30.00 %) DNS 6 12 (30.00 %) Firewall 7 11 (27.50 %) Windows 7 11 (27.50 %) J2EE 8 10 (25.00 %) Java

9 5 (12.50 %) JSP 10 4 (10.00 %) XML 10 4 (10.00 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 3 (7.500 %) WebSphere Message Broker 11 3 (7.500 %) Performance Testing 12 2 (5.000 %) Unit Testing 12 2 (5.000 %) WBIMB 12 2 (5.000 %) Logistics 12 2 (5.000 %) MQSeries 12 2 (5.000 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 12 2 (5.000 %) B2B 12 2 (5.000 %) Struts 12 2 (5.000 %) WebLogic 12 2 (5.000 %) UML 12 2 (5.000 %) OO

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Warwickshire region citing WebSphere also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11 (27.50 %) J2EE 2 5 (12.50 %) JSP 3 4 (10.00 %) XML 4 2 (5.000 %) Struts 4 2 (5.000 %) WBIMB 5 1 (2.500 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 19 (47.50 %) Apache 1 19 (47.50 %) Tomcat 2 3 (7.500 %) WebSphere Message Broker 3 2 (5.000 %) WebLogic 3 2 (5.000 %) MQSeries
Communications & Networking 1 12 (30.00 %) TCP/IP 1 12 (30.00 %) DNS 1 12 (30.00 %) Firewall 2 1 (2.500 %) FTP 2 1 (2.500 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (30.00 %) RDBMS 2 4 (10.00 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 2 (5.000 %) Informix
Development Applications 1 2 (5.000 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 2 1 (2.500 %) LoadRunner	General 1 1 (2.500 %) Automotive 1 1 (2.500 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 15 (37.50 %) Developer 2 10 (25.00 %) Administrator 2 10 (25.00 %) UNIX Administrator 3 8 (20.00 %) Web Administrator 3 8 (20.00 %) WebSphere Developer 4 7 (17.50 %) UNIX Support 5 5 (12.50 %) WebSphere Portal Developer 6 4 (10.00 %) Technical Administrator 6 4 (10.00 %) J2EE Developer 6 4 (10.00 %) 3rd Line Support 7 2 (5.000 %) Technical Architect 7 2 (5.000 %) Architect 7 2 (5.000 %) Java Developer 7 2 (5.000 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 1 (2.500 %) UNIX Consultant 8 1 (2.500 %) Systems Integrator 8 1 (2.500 %) Senior Systems Integrator 8 1 (2.500 %) Performance Tester 8 1 (2.500 %) Technical Lead 8 1 (2.500 %) UNIX Support Analyst	Operating Systems 1 26 (65.00 %) Linux 2 22 (55.00 %) Unix 3 19 (47.50 %) AIX 3 19 (47.50 %) Solaris 4 11 (27.50 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (7.500 %) Performance Testing 2 2 (5.000 %) Unit Testing 2 2 (5.000 %) UML 2 2 (5.000 %) OO 2 2 (5.000 %) RAD 2 2 (5.000 %) B2B 2 2 (5.000 %) Logistics 3 1 (2.500 %) AOP 3 1 (2.500 %) Technical Architecture 3 1 (2.500 %) Web Development 3 1 (2.500 %) Use Case 3 1 (2.500 %) RUP 3 1 (2.500 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 10 (25.00 %) Java 2 1 (2.500 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (2.500 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.500 %) QA
Vendors 1 24 (60.00 %) Oracle 2 13 (32.50 %) Red Hat 3 1 (2.500 %) IBM