The first table below looks at the demand for the WebSphere Engineer role 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 WebSphere Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WebSphere Engineer
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a WebSphere Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.061% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £205 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £500 £375
% change year-on-year
-42.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1526 2071 1756
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 92.43% 92.83% 92.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 944 803
Average daily rate £325 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 171 147
Average hourly rate £18.48 £16.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £10.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.50 £36.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
WebSphere Engineer
England

WebSphere Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands WebSphere Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands WebSphere Engineer Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Herefordshire - 1 £205 -
WebSphere Engineer
England

WebSphere Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited WebSphere Engineer in their job title 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 with WebSphere Engineer in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 4 (80.00%) ESB
2 4 (80.00%) Subversion
2 4 (80.00%) Middleware
2 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (80.00%) 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%) zOS
2 4 (80.00%) HPUX
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) DB2
2 4 (80.00%) Windows NT
2 4 (80.00%) ClearCase
2 4 (80.00%) EAI
2 4 (80.00%) SOA
2 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (80.00%) IBM
2 4 (80.00%) IBM Certification
3 2 (40.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (20.00%) HTTP
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server

WebSphere Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited WebSphere Engineer in their job title 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 with WebSphere Engineer in their job title. 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
2 4 (80.00%) ESB
2 4 (80.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (20.00%) Apache
3 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) DB2
1 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) ClearCase
1 4 (80.00%) Subversion
1 4 (80.00%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) HPUX
2 4 (80.00%) Windows NT
2 4 (80.00%) zOS
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) EAI
1 4 (80.00%) SOA
1 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) IBM Certification
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
Hereford, West Midlands
The client needs someone with strong Linux Server or Websphere MQ administration experience. Skills in SQL Server, Windows, HP hardware, load balancing and network routing and switching are...
E-Resourcing
Rate: £195 - £215 per day + Year long contract!
Posted: 14 May 2013