The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM Mainframe over the 3 months to 20 June 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 City of London 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Mainframe
Rank 212 210 235
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +25
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 3 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.044% 0.053% 0.030%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.136% 0.163% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
Average daily rate £550 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+71.87% -1.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £363 £370
% change year-on-year
-6.89% -2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £21.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.16%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2200 2459 3954
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.93% 32.32% 39.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1638 1913 3097
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £638 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 50 59
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.00 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.35 £12.65 £13.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £38.85 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
IBM Mainframe
London

IBM Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London IBM Mainframe Daily Rate Trend

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 City of London region.

City of London IBM Mainframe Hourly Rate Trend

IBM Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 8 (100.00%) IBM
1 8 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 4 (50.00%) zOS
2 4 (50.00%) EMC
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) DB2
4 2 (25.00%) Tivoli
4 2 (25.00%) COBOL
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Retail
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
4 2 (25.00%) UNIX
5 1 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (12.50%) VSAM
5 1 (12.50%) Critical Path Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) CLARiiON
5 1 (12.50%) Symmetrix
5 1 (12.50%) EMC Centera
5 1 (12.50%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) System Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (12.50%) SRDF
5 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (12.50%) ISPF

IBM Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 1 (12.50%) ISPF
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
1 1 (12.50%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) DB2
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Storage Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) VSAM
2 1 (12.50%) CLARiiON
2 1 (12.50%) Symmetrix
2 1 (12.50%) EMC Centera
2 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) zOS
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (12.50%) OS/390
4 1 (12.50%) AIX
4 1 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (12.50%) Critical Path Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
2 1 (12.50%) System Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) COBOL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) JCL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (25.00%) Tivoli
3 1 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
2 4 (50.00%) EMC
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) Unisys
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
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