IBM Contracts in Watford
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM 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 Vendors for the Watford 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 11 13 5
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -8
Contract jobs citing IBM 4 9 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 5.970% 8.257% 19.74%
As % of the Vendors category 16.67% 16.67% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
Average daily rate - - £350
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 £18.25 £29.75
% change year-on-year
+50.68% -38.65%
All Vendors
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 24 54 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 35.82% 49.54% 60.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 20
Average daily rate £414 £378 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.60% +7.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £245 £279
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
Average hourly rate - £12.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -26.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
IBM
Hertfordshire

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford IBM Daily Rate Trend

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Watford IBM Hourly Rate Trend

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 25 (92.59%) J2EE
1 25 (92.59%) Java
1 25 (92.59%) E-Commerce
1 25 (92.59%) Retail
1 25 (92.59%) WebSphere
2 22 (81.48%) Finance
3 16 (59.26%) Games
3 16 (59.26%) Project Management
3 16 (59.26%) Waterfall
4 13 (48.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (48.15%) Change Control
4 13 (48.15%) Time Management
5 11 (40.74%) SQL
6 9 (33.33%) HTML
6 9 (33.33%) JavaScript
6 9 (33.33%) XML
6 9 (33.33%) MQSeries
6 9 (33.33%) DB2
6 9 (33.33%) UNIX
7 6 (22.22%) HPUX
7 6 (22.22%) Solaris
7 6 (22.22%) Linux
7 6 (22.22%) UML
7 6 (22.22%) OO
7 6 (22.22%) RAD
7 6 (22.22%) Ant
7 6 (22.22%) JUnit
7 6 (22.22%) WebSphere Application Server
7 6 (22.22%) EJB
7 6 (22.22%) JDBC

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 25 (92.59%) J2EE
1 25 (92.59%) WebSphere
2 9 (33.33%) XML
2 9 (33.33%) HTML
3 6 (22.22%) XSLT
3 6 (22.22%) JSTL
3 6 (22.22%) EJB
3 6 (22.22%) JDBC
3 6 (22.22%) JSP
3 6 (22.22%) Servlets
3 6 (22.22%) Struts
3 6 (22.22%) XHTML
3 6 (22.22%) JMS
3 6 (22.22%) XMLBeans
3 6 (22.22%) Ajax
4 3 (11.11%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 9 (33.33%) MQSeries
2 6 (22.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (7.407%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) DB2
2 6 (22.22%) RDBMS
3 3 (11.11%) DbVisualizer
4 2 (7.407%) Clementine
4 2 (7.407%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Ant
1 6 (22.22%) JUnit
1 6 (22.22%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (22.22%) Eclipse
1 6 (22.22%) Log4j
1 6 (22.22%) Subversion
2 3 (11.11%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (11.11%) LoadRunner
General
1 25 (92.59%) Retail
2 22 (81.48%) Finance
3 16 (59.26%) Games
4 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Project Manager
2 13 (48.15%) E-Commerce Project Manager
2 13 (48.15%) E-Commerce Manager
3 6 (22.22%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 6 (22.22%) J2EE Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Agile Project Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Tester
5 2 (7.407%) Data Modeller
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) UNIX
2 6 (22.22%) HPUX
2 6 (22.22%) Solaris
2 6 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (92.59%) E-Commerce
2 16 (59.26%) Project Management
2 16 (59.26%) Waterfall
3 13 (48.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (48.15%) Change Control
3 13 (48.15%) Time Management
4 6 (22.22%) Content Management
4 6 (22.22%) UML
4 6 (22.22%) OO
4 6 (22.22%) RAD
5 3 (11.11%) Automated Testing
5 3 (11.11%) System Testing
5 3 (11.11%) Regression Testing
6 2 (7.407%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 25 (92.59%) Java
2 11 (40.74%) SQL
3 9 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (22.22%) Perl
4 6 (22.22%) XPath
4 6 (22.22%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Interwoven
1 6 (22.22%) ATG
1 6 (22.22%) Blue Martini
1 6 (22.22%) Elastic Path
2 3 (11.11%) HP
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