Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend
Period
to 25 September 2017

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for XPages skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XPages over the 6 months to 25 September 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

IBM XPages
UK
6 months to
25 Sep 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank - 884 888
Contract jobs citing XPages 0 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK - 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category - 0.006% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
UK median daily rate - £238 £300
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - -20.83% -6.98%
UK excluding London median daily rate - £238 £300
% change year-on-year - -20.83% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
UK median hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

XPages is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 31509 31370 31787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.09% 29.60% 27.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 21910 21897 21566
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +3.23%
10th Percentile £310 £295 £275
90th Percentile £625 £588 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £388 £375
% change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 376 520
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £36.00 £37.25
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.34% +7.18%
10th Percentile £16.64 £13.50 £14.25
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £52.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.00% +15.38%

XPages
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XPages as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XPages in the UK

XPages
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing XPages.

Contractor daily rate trend for XPages in the UK