The first table below looks at the demand for IBM Certification in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM Certification over the 3 months to 21 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 Qualifications for the West Midlands 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Certification
Rank - - 92
Contract jobs citing IBM Certification 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands - - 0.107%
As % of the Qualifications category - - 0.685%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £110
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £391 £230
% change year-on-year
+15.08% +70.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £43.50 -
All Qualifications
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
263 322 292
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 15.65% 14.33% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 149 131
Average daily rate £325 £300 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £175 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £438 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 32 24
Average hourly rate £28.00 £17.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.20 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £65.00 £31.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
IBM Certification
England

IBM Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands IBM Certification Jobs Demand Trend

IBM Certification
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IBM Certification across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands IBM Certification Daily Rate Trend

IBM Certification
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing IBM Certification 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 Certification.

1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) DB2
1 5 (100.00%) EAI
1 5 (100.00%) SOA
1 5 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 5 (100.00%) ESB
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 4 (80.00%) TortoiseSVN
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Subversion
2 4 (80.00%) Middleware
2 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) zOS
2 4 (80.00%) UNIX
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) HPUX
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Windows NT
2 4 (80.00%) ClearCase
3 1 (20.00%) HP

IBM Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing IBM Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 4 (80.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 5 (100.00%) ESB
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) DB2
1 5 (100.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) TortoiseSVN
1 4 (80.00%) Subversion
1 4 (80.00%) ClearCase
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere Developer
2 4 (80.00%) WebSphere Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows 2000 Server
1 4 (80.00%) zOS
1 4 (80.00%) UNIX
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) HPUX
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) EAI
1 5 (100.00%) SOA
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) HP