The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the West Lothian region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 22 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 Lothian region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within the International Business Machines Corporation.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 31 25 27
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +2
Permanent jobs citing IBM 1 2 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Lothian 0.901% 1.587% 7.358%
As % of the Vendors category 1.299% 2.817% 12.22%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 18
Average salary - £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All Vendors
West Lothian
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
77 71 180
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Lothian 69.37% 56.35% 60.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25 53 125
Average salary £36,000 £40,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% -2.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,400 £27,500 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
IBM
Scotland

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Lothian IBM Jobs Demand Trend

IBM
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IBM across the West Lothian region.

West Lothian IBM Salary Trend

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Lothian region citing IBM 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 IT job ads sampled that cited IBM.

1 9 (81.82%) Oracle
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) QA
3 7 (63.64%) UNIX
3 7 (63.64%) Linux
4 6 (54.55%) SQL
4 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
4 6 (54.55%) Sun
4 6 (54.55%) StorageTek
4 6 (54.55%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (54.55%) Analytics
4 6 (54.55%) Replication
4 6 (54.55%) NetBackup
5 5 (45.45%) Symmetrix
5 5 (45.45%) Service Delivery
5 5 (45.45%) Change Management
5 5 (45.45%) Brocade
5 5 (45.45%) Incident Management
5 5 (45.45%) WebSphere
5 5 (45.45%) Degree
5 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (45.45%) Data Protection
5 5 (45.45%) NAS
5 5 (45.45%) Customer Engagement
5 5 (45.45%) Symmetrix DMX
5 5 (45.45%) Firmware
5 5 (45.45%) Cisco
5 5 (45.45%) EMC
5 5 (45.45%) SAN
5 5 (45.45%) NetApp

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Lothian region citing IBM also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (45.45%) WebSphere
2 3 (27.27%) WSDL
2 3 (27.27%) J2EE
2 3 (27.27%) JDBC
2 3 (27.27%) SOAP
2 3 (27.27%) Web Services
2 3 (27.27%) XML
2 3 (27.27%) JMS
3 1 (9.091%) Dojo
3 1 (9.091%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) WebSphere Process Server
2 3 (27.27%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 3 (27.27%) WebSphere Portal
2 3 (27.27%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) NAS
1 5 (45.45%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) Broadband
3 1 (9.091%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (9.091%) Billing
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Technical Leader
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
3 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Developer
3 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Replication
2 5 (45.45%) Symmetrix
2 5 (45.45%) Symmetrix DMX
2 5 (45.45%) Firmware
3 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
4 1 (9.091%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) UNIX
2 7 (63.64%) Linux
3 3 (27.27%) AIX
3 3 (27.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (54.55%) Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) Service Delivery
2 5 (45.45%) Change Management
2 5 (45.45%) Incident Management
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (45.45%) Data Protection
2 5 (45.45%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
3 3 (27.27%) SOA
4 2 (18.18%) BPEL
5 1 (9.091%) Service Management
5 1 (9.091%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) XPath
2 3 (27.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (9.091%) SRDF
2 1 (9.091%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) NetBackup
2 1 (9.091%) EMC TimeFinder
2 1 (9.091%) Ionix
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Oracle
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) Sun
2 6 (54.55%) StorageTek
3 5 (45.45%) Brocade
3 5 (45.45%) Cisco
3 5 (45.45%) EMC
3 5 (45.45%) NetApp
4 4 (36.36%) Symantec
5 2 (18.18%) Lombardi