Berkshire MVS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM MVS skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MVS over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM MVS
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Blackpool Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Crawley Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Guildford Halifax Hampshire Lancashire Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Norwich Reading Romford Scotland South East South West Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Warrington West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	133	167
Rank change on same period last year	+34
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.125 %	0.147 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£392
% change on same period last year	-7.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.50	£21.50
% change on same period last year	-18.60 %
Operating Systems Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	799	1358
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.080 %	1.339 %
Daily rates quoted	166	484
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£355
Average daily rate	£361	£377
% change on same period last year	-4.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	115	179
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.43	£25.03
Average hourly rate	£29.52	£26.55
% change on same period last year	+11.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.62	£28.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.70	£22.66
% change on same period last year	+0.18 %
MVS South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MVS across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVS within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+2	1	-	-

MVS South East

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Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing MVS 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 MVS.

1 6 (85.71 %) JCL 1 6 (85.71 %) Mainframe 2 4 (57.14 %) CICS 3 3 (42.86 %) B2B 3 3 (42.86 %) IBM 3 3 (42.86 %) COBOL 3 3 (42.86 %) EDI 3 3 (42.86 %) Gentran 4 2 (28.57 %) IBM Mainframe 4 2 (28.57 %) Easytrieve 5 1 (14.29 %) Finance 5 1 (14.29 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (14.29 %) ISO9000 5 1 (14.29 %) ITIL 5 1 (14.29 %) UNIX

5 1 (14.29 %) REXX 5 1 (14.29 %) Data Mapping 5 1 (14.29 %) VSAM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing MVS 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 MVS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (42.86 %) EDI	Application Platforms 1 4 (57.14 %) CICS 2 3 (42.86 %) Gentran
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (28.57 %) Easytrieve	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Finance 1 1 (14.29 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Developer 2 2 (28.57 %) Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) Consultant 2 2 (28.57 %) Analyst Programmer 2 2 (28.57 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (85.71 %) Mainframe 2 2 (28.57 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (14.29 %) VSAM
Operating Systems 1 1 (14.29 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) B2B 2 1 (14.29 %) Data Mapping 2 1 (14.29 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 6 (85.71 %) JCL 2 3 (42.86 %) COBOL 3 1 (14.29 %) REXX	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (14.29 %) ISO9000
Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) IBM