The first table below looks at the demand for the AS400 Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AS400 Support in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles advertised for the Cardiff 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
AS/400 Support
Rank 26 30 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs requiring an AS400 Support 2 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.163% 1.310% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.250% 1.389% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £375 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £225 £310
% change year-on-year
+66.66% -27.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
160 216 219
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 93.02% 94.32% 96.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 128 132
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 10
Average hourly rate £17.00 £14.25 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.29% +18.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.88 £14.00 £9.17
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £15.50 £100.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
AS400 Support
South Wales

AS400 Support
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AS400 Support across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Cardiff AS400 Support Jobs Demand Trend

AS400 Support
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing AS400 Support across the Cardiff region.

Cardiff AS400 Support Daily Rate Trend

AS400 Support
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region that cited AS400 Support in their job title 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 with AS400 Support in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AS400
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) SLA
3 2 (50.00%) iSeries
4 1 (25.00%) Rackspace
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) IBM
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) TestDirector
4 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) COBOL
4 1 (25.00%) RPG
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) DB2
4 1 (25.00%) IIS
4 1 (25.00%) MS Project
4 1 (25.00%) MS Office
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) AIX
4 1 (25.00%) UML
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) OS/400

AS400 Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region that cited AS400 Support in their job title 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 with AS400 Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Project
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) TestDirector
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) AS400
2 2 (50.00%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) AIX
1 1 (25.00%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) UML
1 1 (25.00%) OO
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) COBOL
1 1 (25.00%) RPG
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Rackspace