The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services 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 Lotus over the 3 months to 24 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 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within IBM Lotus Software.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lotus
Rank 88 91 90
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -1
Contract jobs citing Lotus 7 12 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.429% 0.535% 0.634%
As % of the Vendors category 0.828% 1.085% 1.437%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 9
Average daily rate £193 £201 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.34% -52.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £110 £140 £162
10% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £263 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £285 £260
% change year-on-year
+8.77% +9.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £15.00 - £11.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.50 £12.42
% change year-on-year
-9.67% +24.79%
All Vendors
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
845 1106 835
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 51.75% 49.33% 44.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 457 326
Average daily rate £330 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £220 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £526 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 98 100
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.85 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.67% +2.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.76 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £34.70 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Lotus
England

Lotus
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Lotus Jobs Demand Trend

Lotus
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Lotus Daily Rate Trend

Lotus
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lotus across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands Lotus Daily Rate Histogram

Lotus
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Lotus Hourly Rate Trend

Lotus
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lotus within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Warwickshire -6 3 £192 -26.76%
Birmingham +13 2 £110 -21.42%
Coventry - 1 - -
Walsall - 1 £350 -
Lotus
England

Lotus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Lotus 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 Lotus.

1 19 (90.48%) Lotus Notes
2 7 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (33.33%) Citrix
2 7 (33.33%) Windows
3 6 (28.57%) MS Office
3 6 (28.57%) MS Excel
4 5 (23.81%) Windows XP
4 5 (23.81%) MS PowerPoint
5 4 (19.05%) Windows 7
5 4 (19.05%) ITIL
5 4 (19.05%) Lotus Domino
5 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
6 3 (14.29%) Remedy
6 3 (14.29%) Project Management
6 3 (14.29%) BMC
6 3 (14.29%) Change Management
6 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
6 3 (14.29%) Ruby
7 2 (9.524%) VMware
7 2 (9.524%) Data Analysis
7 2 (9.524%) MCSE
7 2 (9.524%) LAN
7 2 (9.524%) WAN
7 2 (9.524%) MS Visio
8 1 (4.762%) MS Exchange

Lotus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Lotus 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 Lotus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 19 (90.48%) Lotus Notes
2 4 (19.05%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (4.762%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) MS Office
1 6 (28.57%) MS Excel
2 5 (23.81%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (9.524%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) LAN
1 2 (9.524%) WAN
2 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.762%) Internet
General
1 1 (4.762%) Finance
1 1 (4.762%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (14.29%) Incident Manager
1 3 (14.29%) Business Analyst
1 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (9.524%) Consultant
2 2 (9.524%) 1st Line Support
2 2 (9.524%) Domino Consultant
2 2 (9.524%) Project Manager
3 1 (4.762%) Coordinator
3 1 (4.762%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (4.762%) Support Engineer
3 1 (4.762%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (4.762%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (4.762%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (4.762%) Server Engineer
3 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (4.762%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.762%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Windows XP
3 4 (19.05%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.762%) UNIX
4 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (19.05%) ITIL
2 3 (14.29%) Project Management
2 3 (14.29%) Change Management
2 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 2 (9.524%) Data Analysis
4 1 (4.762%) Migration
4 1 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.762%) PRINCE
4 1 (4.762%) Problem Management
4 1 (4.762%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (9.524%) MCSE
3 1 (4.762%) MCP
3 1 (4.762%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.762%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Citrix
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) Remedy
3 3 (14.29%) BMC
4 2 (9.524%) VMware
5 1 (4.762%) Google
5 1 (4.762%) Altiris