The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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 - - 50
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - - 0.191%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - 1.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
134 143 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 24.41% 20.69% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 73 26
Average daily rate £288 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.16% +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £448 £400 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 24 24
Average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +88.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £22.50 £10.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Mainframe
East of England

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Mainframe Hourly Rate Trend

Mainframe
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) BCP
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) BCP
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle