Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for WebSphere 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 over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Watford region.

 IBM WebSphere
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank9-6
Rank change year-on-year
New entry-No change0
Matching contract IT job ads11030
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford11.22 %-13.22 %
As % of the Application Development category33.33 %-36.14 %
Daily rates quoted2013
Average daily rate£525-£375
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£505-£330
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£545-£465
UK excluding London average daily rate£375£400£400
% change year-on-year
-6.250 %-
Hourly rates quoted009
Average hourly rate--£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£32.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-23.43 %-8.570 %
Watford IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
331483
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford33.67 %24.56 %36.56 %
Daily rates quoted16838
Average daily rate£275£260£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.760 %-20.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£165£200£228
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£473£400£425
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted2010
Average hourly rate£18.00-£19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
-8.330 %-7.690 %
WebSphere HertfordshireWebSphere
Hertfordshire

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.

WebSphere
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WebSphere across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Watford WebSphere Demand Trend

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

Watford WebSphere Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Watford WebSphere Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing WebSphere 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.

111 (64.71 %)J2EE
111 (64.71 %)E-Commerce
210 (58.82 %)IBM
210 (58.82 %)Java
39 (52.94 %)JavaScript
39 (52.94 %)SQL
39 (52.94 %)HTML
39 (52.94 %)EJB
39 (52.94 %)CSS
39 (52.94 %)JDBC
39 (52.94 %)Servlets
39 (52.94 %)RAD
39 (52.94 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
39 (52.94 %)Eclipse
39 (52.94 %)XHTML
39 (52.94 %)Internet
39 (52.94 %)MVC
47 (41.18 %)UNIX
47 (41.18 %)WebSphere Application Server
56 (35.29 %)DB2
56 (35.29 %)RDBMS
64 (23.53 %)Oracle 10g
64 (23.53 %)WebLogic
64 (23.53 %)Oracle
64 (23.53 %)Linux
64 (23.53 %)JBoss
73 (17.65 %)NetBeans
73 (17.65 %)Maven
73 (17.65 %)Tomcat
73 (17.65 %)AIX

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing WebSphere 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Watford IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
111 (64.71 %)J2EE
29 (52.94 %)HTML
29 (52.94 %)EJB
29 (52.94 %)CSS
29 (52.94 %)JDBC
29 (52.94 %)Servlets
29 (52.94 %)XHTML
33 (17.65 %)NetBeans
Watford IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
17 (41.18 %)WebSphere Application Server
24 (23.53 %)WebLogic
33 (17.65 %)Tomcat
Watford IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
19 (52.94 %)Internet
Watford IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (35.29 %)DB2
16 (35.29 %)RDBMS
24 (23.53 %)Oracle 10g
Watford IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
19 (52.94 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
19 (52.94 %)Eclipse
23 (17.65 %)Maven
23 (17.65 %)JDeveloper
23 (17.65 %)JBuilder
Watford IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (5.882 %)Finance
Watford IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
19 (52.94 %)Developer
19 (52.94 %)J2EE Developer
24 (23.53 %)DBA
24 (23.53 %)Oracle DBA
32 (11.76 %)Architect
32 (11.76 %)Technical Architect
41 (5.882 %)Applications Support Analyst
41 (5.882 %)Support Analyst
41 (5.882 %)Applications Support
41 (5.882 %)E-Commerce Project Manager
41 (5.882 %)E-Commerce Manager
41 (5.882 %)Project Manager
41 (5.882 %)Analyst
Watford IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
17 (41.18 %)UNIX
24 (23.53 %)Linux
33 (17.65 %)AIX
Watford IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
111 (64.71 %)E-Commerce
29 (52.94 %)RAD
29 (52.94 %)MVC
31 (5.882 %)Technical Architecture
31 (5.882 %)Project Management
Watford IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
110 (58.82 %)Java
29 (52.94 %)JavaScript
29 (52.94 %)SQL
31 (5.882 %)Shell Script
Watford IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
110 (58.82 %)IBM
24 (23.53 %)Oracle
24 (23.53 %)JBoss
33 (17.65 %)BEA
42 (11.76 %)Red Hat
51 (5.882 %)Computacenter