The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere 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 Development category for the West Yorkshire 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
Rank 68 86 73
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -13
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 27 11 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.968% 0.632% 0.833%
As % of the Application Development category 7.337% 2.386% 3.215%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 8
Average daily rate £375 £300 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -18.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £240 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £479 £360 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £422 £400
% change year-on-year
-5.10% +5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £45.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-33.70% +29.28%
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
368 461 311
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 26.82% 26.49% 25.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 267 170
Average daily rate £288 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.16% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £375 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
Average hourly rate £38.00 £18.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+111.11% -20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
WebSphere
Yorkshire

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire WebSphere Jobs Demand Trend

WebSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire WebSphere Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebSphere across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

West Yorkshire WebSphere Daily Rate Histogram

WebSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire WebSphere Hourly Rate Trend

WebSphere
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leeds +4 13 £375 - 4
Bradford 0 3 £484 +115.22%
Halifax - 2 - -
WebSphere
Yorkshire

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

1 18 (47.37%) E-Commerce
2 14 (36.84%) WebSphere Application Server
2 14 (36.84%) Retail
3 13 (34.21%) UNIX
3 13 (34.21%) Linux
3 13 (34.21%) IBM
4 11 (28.95%) Java
4 11 (28.95%) Content Management
4 11 (28.95%) Endeca
5 10 (26.32%) WebLogic
6 9 (23.68%) Windows
6 9 (23.68%) Oracle
6 9 (23.68%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (21.05%) SQL
8 7 (18.42%) Ant
8 7 (18.42%) Tomcat
8 7 (18.42%) Configuration Management
8 7 (18.42%) Subversion
8 7 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (18.42%) Maven
9 6 (15.79%) Asset Management
9 6 (15.79%) CruiseControl
9 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2003
9 6 (15.79%) Maximo
9 6 (15.79%) Solaris
9 6 (15.79%) Perl
9 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
10 5 (13.16%) AIX
10 5 (13.16%) JBoss

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

Application Development
1 5 (13.16%) WebSphere MQ
1 5 (13.16%) Middleware
2 4 (10.53%) J2EE
3 2 (5.263%) JDBC
4 1 (2.632%) Java EE
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.632%) JSP
4 1 (2.632%) XML
4 1 (2.632%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 14 (36.84%) WebSphere Application Server
2 10 (26.32%) WebLogic
3 7 (18.42%) Tomcat
4 4 (10.53%) Apache
4 4 (10.53%) ESB
4 4 (10.53%) WebSphere Process Server
5 3 (7.895%) WebSphere Portal
5 3 (7.895%) Documentum
5 3 (7.895%) Commerce Server
5 3 (7.895%) ATG Dynamo
6 2 (5.263%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (5.263%) MQSeries
6 2 (5.263%) IIS
7 1 (2.632%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 1 (2.632%) GlassFish
7 1 (2.632%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 2 (5.263%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.263%) FTP
1 2 (5.263%) HTTP
2 1 (2.632%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.632%) DNS
2 1 (2.632%) SSL
2 1 (2.632%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.263%) DB2
3 1 (2.632%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Ant
1 7 (18.42%) Subversion
1 7 (18.42%) Maven
2 6 (15.79%) CruiseControl
3 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.895%) Hudson
5 2 (5.263%) Build Forge
General
1 14 (36.84%) Retail
2 3 (7.895%) Marketing
2 3 (7.895%) Finance
3 2 (5.263%) Games
3 2 (5.263%) Banking
4 1 (2.632%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Administrator
2 10 (26.32%) Solutions Architect
2 10 (26.32%) Architect
3 7 (18.42%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (15.79%) Technical Specialist
4 6 (15.79%) Release Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Configuration Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Analyst
6 3 (7.895%) WebSphere Architect
6 3 (7.895%) Support Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Operations Support Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) WebSphere Administrator
7 2 (5.263%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Server Administrator
8 1 (2.632%) E-Commerce Manager
8 1 (2.632%) .NET Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.632%) Web Analyst
8 1 (2.632%) .NET Architect
8 1 (2.632%) Technical Administrator
8 1 (2.632%) Web Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.263%) DataPower
2 1 (2.632%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.632%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (34.21%) UNIX
1 13 (34.21%) Linux
2 9 (23.68%) Windows
3 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (15.79%) Solaris
4 5 (13.16%) AIX
5 1 (2.632%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) E-Commerce
2 11 (28.95%) Content Management
3 9 (23.68%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (18.42%) Configuration Management
4 7 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (15.79%) Asset Management
6 5 (13.16%) SOA
7 3 (7.895%) Release Management
7 3 (7.895%) ITIL
7 3 (7.895%) Change Management
8 2 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (2.632%) Time Management
9 1 (2.632%) Performance Management
9 1 (2.632%) Test Strategy
9 1 (2.632%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) Java
2 8 (21.05%) SQL
3 6 (15.79%) Perl
4 4 (10.53%) Shell Script
4 4 (10.53%) AWK
5 3 (7.895%) Bash shell
6 1 (2.632%) Jython
6 1 (2.632%) C#
6 1 (2.632%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (2.632%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) IBM
2 11 (28.95%) Endeca
3 9 (23.68%) Oracle
4 5 (13.16%) JBoss
5 3 (7.895%) Siebel
5 3 (7.895%) ATG
6 2 (5.263%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.263%) Adobe
7 1 (2.632%) F5
7 1 (2.632%) Sun
7 1 (2.632%) CA
7 1 (2.632%) Red Hat