The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM Mainframe 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Berkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Mainframe
Rank 118 135 125
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -10
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 4 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.163% 0.031% 0.171%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.855% 0.162% 0.899%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
Average daily rate £450 - £395
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 - £331
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 - £459
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £340 £365
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £21.25 -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
468 616 556
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 19.08% 19.20% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 257 224
Average daily rate £375 £325 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -4.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 31 33
Average hourly rate £18.00 £22.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% +33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £14.48 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £50.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
IBM Mainframe
South East

IBM Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IBM Mainframe across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Berkshire IBM Mainframe Jobs Demand Trend

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire IBM Mainframe Daily Rate Trend

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Berkshire IBM Mainframe Daily Rate Histogram

IBM Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing IBM Mainframe across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire IBM Mainframe Hourly Rate Trend

IBM Mainframe
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Reading - 1 £500 -
IBM Mainframe
South East

IBM Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing IBM Mainframe 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 IBM Mainframe.

1 6 (100.00%) IBM
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
3 4 (66.67%) Oracle
4 3 (50.00%) Flash
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) UNIX
4 3 (50.00%) Windows
4 3 (50.00%) Linux
4 3 (50.00%) CLARiiON
4 3 (50.00%) Symmetrix
4 3 (50.00%) EMC Centera
4 3 (50.00%) Tivoli
4 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (50.00%) EMC
4 3 (50.00%) SAN
4 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (50.00%) System Testing
4 3 (50.00%) SRDF
4 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (33.33%) QA
5 2 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (33.33%) TDD
5 2 (33.33%) Information Security
5 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
5 2 (33.33%) OO
5 2 (33.33%) .NET

IBM Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing IBM Mainframe 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 IBM Mainframe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) Flash
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (16.67%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 1 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Storage Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) IBM Storage Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (50.00%) CLARiiON
2 3 (50.00%) Symmetrix
2 3 (50.00%) EMC Centera
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) UNIX
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (50.00%) System Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) SOA
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) VB
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 3 (50.00%) EMC
4 2 (33.33%) SAP
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) Empirix
5 1 (16.67%) Lotus