The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the York region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere 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 of the Application Development category for the York 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 WebSphere
Rank 14 - 8
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 5 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in York 5.952% - 6.061%
As % of the Application Development category 14.71% - 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £354 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £413 £413
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-47.82% +64.28%
All Application Development
York
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
34 25 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in York 40.48% 39.06% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 3
Average daily rate £354 £325 £108
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.76% +202.32%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WebSphere
North Yorkshire

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

York 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 York region.

York WebSphere Daily Rate Trend

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 5 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 5 (100.00%) JMS
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) Subversion
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Tapestry
1 5 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Jetty
1 5 (100.00%) Hudson
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Axis
2 3 (60.00%) TestNG
2 3 (60.00%) EasyMock
2 3 (60.00%) Ehcache
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 3 (60.00%) Subclipse
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 3 (60.00%) jMock
2 3 (60.00%) FreeMarker
2 3 (60.00%) JasperReports
2 3 (60.00%) AOP
2 3 (60.00%) Content Management
2 3 (60.00%) SiteMesh
2 3 (60.00%) Log4j

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) JMS
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Tapestry
1 5 (100.00%) Spring MVC
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Axis
2 3 (60.00%) Ehcache
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 3 (60.00%) FreeMarker
2 3 (60.00%) SiteMesh
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 3 (60.00%) JDBC
3 2 (40.00%) JSP
3 2 (40.00%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 5 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 5 (100.00%) Jetty
2 3 (60.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) JasperReports
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Subversion
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Hudson
2 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 3 (60.00%) TestNG
2 3 (60.00%) EasyMock
2 3 (60.00%) Subclipse
2 3 (60.00%) jMock
2 3 (60.00%) Log4j
2 3 (60.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) J2EE Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (60.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) AOP
2 3 (60.00%) Content Management
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) OO
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) JBoss
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle