The first table below looks at the demand for WebSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebSphere over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM WebSphere
Rank 71 80 45
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -35
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 41 30 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 2.204% 1.335% 3.177%
As % of the Application Development category 7.593% 5.736% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 34
Average daily rate £375 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £250 £391
10% offered a daily rate of more than £483 £530 £518
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £413 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.23% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £45.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-33.70% +39.23%
All Application Development
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
540 523 482
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 29.03% 23.28% 25.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 319 257
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £212 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £380 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
West Yorkshire +21 29 £394 -11.51%
North Yorkshire +4 5 £354 -
South Yorkshire -5 3 £495 -1.00%
WebSphere
England

WebSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 28 (45.16%) Linux
2 26 (41.94%) UNIX
3 25 (40.32%) Java
4 23 (37.10%) Oracle
5 22 (35.48%) E-Commerce
6 21 (33.87%) WebSphere Application Server
7 20 (32.26%) IBM
8 18 (29.03%) WebLogic
8 18 (29.03%) J2EE
8 18 (29.03%) Retail
9 16 (25.81%) Tomcat
10 15 (24.19%) Subversion
10 15 (24.19%) Maven
11 14 (22.58%) Content Management
11 14 (22.58%) Apache
11 14 (22.58%) SQL
11 14 (22.58%) Perl
11 14 (22.58%) Windows
12 13 (20.97%) Solaris
12 13 (20.97%) Endeca
13 11 (17.74%) Middleware
13 11 (17.74%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (17.74%) Bash shell
14 10 (16.13%) Configuration Management
14 10 (16.13%) Ant
15 9 (14.52%) Finance
15 9 (14.52%) Enterprise Architecture
16 8 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (12.90%) AWK
16 8 (12.90%) JBoss

WebSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 18 (29.03%) J2EE
2 11 (17.74%) Middleware
3 8 (12.90%) JDBC
4 6 (9.677%) JMS
5 5 (8.065%) XML
5 5 (8.065%) Spring MVC
5 5 (8.065%) Tapestry
5 5 (8.065%) Spring
5 5 (8.065%) Hibernate
6 4 (6.452%) JSP
7 3 (4.839%) Struts
7 3 (4.839%) Web Services
7 3 (4.839%) Apache Axis
7 3 (4.839%) FreeMarker
7 3 (4.839%) SiteMesh
7 3 (4.839%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (4.839%) Ehcache
7 3 (4.839%) RESTful
8 2 (3.226%) LAMP
9 1 (1.613%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 21 (33.87%) WebSphere Application Server
2 18 (29.03%) WebLogic
3 16 (25.81%) Tomcat
4 14 (22.58%) Apache
5 8 (12.90%) WebSphere MQ
6 6 (9.677%) IBM HTTP Server
7 5 (8.065%) MQSeries
7 5 (8.065%) Jetty
8 4 (6.452%) WebSphere Message Broker
8 4 (6.452%) WebSphere Process Server
8 4 (6.452%) ESB
8 4 (6.452%) IIS
9 3 (4.839%) Commerce Server
9 3 (4.839%) Documentum
9 3 (4.839%) ATG Dynamo
9 3 (4.839%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (3.226%) GlassFish
10 2 (3.226%) CICS
11 1 (1.613%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 4 (6.452%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.839%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.29%) FTP
2 4 (6.452%) HTTP
2 4 (6.452%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.839%) DNS
4 2 (3.226%) SSL
5 1 (1.613%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
1 7 (11.29%) DB2
2 4 (6.452%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.839%) JasperReports
4 2 (3.226%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (24.19%) Subversion
1 15 (24.19%) Maven
2 10 (16.13%) Ant
3 7 (11.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.29%) Hudson
4 5 (8.065%) CruiseControl
5 4 (6.452%) JUnit
5 4 (6.452%) Eclipse
6 3 (4.839%) jMock
6 3 (4.839%) Log4j
6 3 (4.839%) TestNG
6 3 (4.839%) EasyMock
6 3 (4.839%) Subclipse
7 2 (3.226%) Build Forge
General
1 18 (29.03%) Retail
2 9 (14.52%) Finance
3 6 (9.677%) Marketing
4 4 (6.452%) Games
4 4 (6.452%) Banking
5 2 (3.226%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.613%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.613%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) Analyst
2 12 (19.35%) Architect
3 11 (17.74%) Support Analyst
3 11 (17.74%) Administrator
4 10 (16.13%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (14.52%) Release Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Configuration Engineer
6 7 (11.29%) Developer
6 7 (11.29%) Java Developer
7 6 (9.677%) Operations Support Analyst
7 6 (9.677%) Operations Analyst
8 5 (8.065%) Applications Support
9 4 (6.452%) Systems Administrator
10 3 (4.839%) Consultant
10 3 (4.839%) Java/J2EE Developer
10 3 (4.839%) WebSphere Architect
10 3 (4.839%) Technical Specialist
10 3 (4.839%) Applications Support Analyst
10 3 (4.839%) Web Analyst
10 3 (4.839%) Web Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (8.065%) Open Source
3 2 (3.226%) DataPower
3 2 (3.226%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.613%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (45.16%) Linux
2 26 (41.94%) UNIX
3 14 (22.58%) Windows
4 13 (20.97%) Solaris
5 7 (11.29%) AIX
6 3 (4.839%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (4.839%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.613%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (35.48%) E-Commerce
2 14 (22.58%) Content Management
3 11 (17.74%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (16.13%) Configuration Management
5 9 (14.52%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (8.065%) SOA
6 5 (8.065%) MVC
7 3 (4.839%) Project Management
7 3 (4.839%) ITIL
7 3 (4.839%) AOP
7 3 (4.839%) Asset Management
8 2 (3.226%) Unit Testing
8 2 (3.226%) Performance Management
8 2 (3.226%) Change Management
8 2 (3.226%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (3.226%) Release Management
8 2 (3.226%) OO
9 1 (1.613%) ERP
9 1 (1.613%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (1.613%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.32%) Java
2 14 (22.58%) SQL
2 14 (22.58%) Perl
3 11 (17.74%) Bash shell
4 8 (12.90%) AWK
4 8 (12.90%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.065%) Python
5 5 (8.065%) Jython
6 2 (3.226%) PHP
7 1 (1.613%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.613%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (1.613%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.613%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.613%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.226%) vSphere
1 2 (3.226%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.613%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 23 (37.10%) Oracle
2 20 (32.26%) IBM
3 13 (20.97%) Endeca
4 8 (12.90%) JBoss
5 4 (6.452%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.839%) Siebel
6 3 (4.839%) ATG
7 2 (3.226%) F5
7 2 (3.226%) VMware
7 2 (3.226%) Cognos
7 2 (3.226%) Adobe
7 2 (3.226%) Sun
8 1 (1.613%) CA
8 1 (1.613%) Red Hat
South Yorkshire
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