The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mainframe over the 3 months to 17 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 Buckinghamshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mainframes
Rank 64 30 41
Rank change year-on-year
-34 +11
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 1 50 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.127% 4.921% 3.302%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.758% 20.75% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 13 12
Average daily rate - £363 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +13.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £399 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+14.00% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.96 £25.00 £27.37
% change year-on-year
+11.84% -8.65%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
132 241 208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 16.75% 23.72% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 85 68
Average daily rate £350 £338 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +5.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £251 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £475 £444
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 21
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.00 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -10.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £10.48 £13.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Mainframe
South East

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Mainframe Jobs Demand Trend

Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Mainframe Daily Rate Trend

Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Mainframe Hourly Rate Trend

Mainframe
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Milton Keynes -29 1 - -
Mainframe
South East

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing 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 Mainframe.

1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
2 4 (80.00%) SLA
3 3 (60.00%) Control-M
3 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) Windows NT
3 3 (60.00%) MVS
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Intel
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (40.00%) SAN
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 2000
4 2 (40.00%) MCSE
4 2 (40.00%) JCL
4 2 (40.00%) Banking
4 2 (40.00%) Degree
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) NAS
5 1 (20.00%) IBM
5 1 (20.00%) Change Management
5 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (20.00%) AS400
5 1 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (20.00%) VMware
5 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
5 1 (20.00%) Broadband
5 1 (20.00%) DB2
5 1 (20.00%) CICS
5 1 (20.00%) OS/390

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing 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 Mainframe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) MVS Operator
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows NT
2 3 (60.00%) MVS
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 2000
4 1 (20.00%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) MCSE
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Control-M
2 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (20.00%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (20.00%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Intel
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) IBM