The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere Application Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere Application Server 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 of the Application Platforms category 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.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
Rank - 9 18
Contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server 0 17 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford - 17.89% 3.191%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 60.71% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £378 £416
% change year-on-year
+2.64% -9.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- +27.77%
All Application Platforms
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
13 28 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 16.67% 29.47% 23.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 12
Average daily rate £250 £318 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.25% -0.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £173 £161
10% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £450 £497
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
WebSphere Application Server
Hertfordshire

WebSphere Application Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford WebSphere Application Server Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Application Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WebSphere Application Server across the Watford region.

Watford WebSphere Application Server Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing WebSphere Application Server 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 WebSphere Application Server.

1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) Ant
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) EJB
1 6 (100.00%) JDBC
1 6 (100.00%) JSP
1 6 (100.00%) Servlets
1 6 (100.00%) Struts
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) XSLT
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) HPUX
1 6 (100.00%) Solaris
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) UML
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) RAD
1 6 (100.00%) XHTML
1 6 (100.00%) MQSeries
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (100.00%) RDBMS

WebSphere Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing WebSphere Application Server 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 WebSphere Application Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) EJB
1 6 (100.00%) JDBC
1 6 (100.00%) JSP
1 6 (100.00%) Servlets
1 6 (100.00%) Struts
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) XSLT
1 6 (100.00%) XHTML
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
1 6 (100.00%) XMLBeans
1 6 (100.00%) Ajax
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 6 (100.00%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Ant
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (100.00%) Log4j
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
2 5 (83.33%) Games
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) HPUX
1 6 (100.00%) Solaris
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) UML
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) RAD
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) XPath
1 6 (100.00%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
1 6 (100.00%) Interwoven
1 6 (100.00%) Blue Martini
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Path
1 6 (100.00%) ATG