City of London Mainframe Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Mainframes skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Mainframe over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire Chester City of London Clydebank County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	187	186
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	32	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	1.035 %	0.261 %
Daily rates quoted	16	1
Average minimum daily rate	£444	£400
Average daily rate	£478	£400
% change on same period last year	+19.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£513	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£385	£410
% change on same period last year	-6.10 %
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	£24.58	£34.52
% change on same period last year	-28.79 %
Miscellaneous City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	3092	3068
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.967 %	3.447 %
Daily rates quoted	1650	1470
Average minimum daily rate	£484	£523
Average daily rate	£525	£562
% change on same period last year	-6.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£566	£601
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£361
% change on same period last year	+0.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	99	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.58	£25.38
Average hourly rate	£27.07	£29.18
% change on same period last year	-7.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.56	£32.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.70	£25.16
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Mainframe London

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Mainframe across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Mainframe across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mainframe across the City of London region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Mainframe across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London region citing Mainframe also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Mainframe.

1 33 (61.11 %) IBM 2 32 (59.26 %) Finance 3 25 (46.30 %) IBM Mainframe 4 19 (35.19 %) Brocade 5 15 (27.78 %) SAN 5 15 (27.78 %) CICS 6 12 (22.22 %) DB2 7 11 (20.37 %) Unix 8 10 (18.52 %) COBOL 9 7 (12.96 %) zOS 9 7 (12.96 %) Banking 10 5 (9.259 %) AIX 10 5 (9.259 %) Insurance 11 4 (7.407 %) ISPF 11 4 (7.407 %) Windows

11 4 (7.407 %) JCL 11 4 (7.407 %) J2EE 11 4 (7.407 %) Project Management 11 4 (7.407 %) Migration 12 3 (5.556 %) Data Security 12 3 (5.556 %) Management Information System 12 3 (5.556 %) PRINCE2 12 3 (5.556 %) SQL 12 3 (5.556 %) MQSeries 12 3 (5.556 %) MVS 12 3 (5.556 %) RACF 12 3 (5.556 %) Tivoli 12 3 (5.556 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 12 3 (5.556 %) Corporate Banking 12 3 (5.556 %) Risk Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London region citing Mainframe also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Mainframe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (7.407 %) J2EE 1 4 (7.407 %) ISPF 2 3 (5.556 %) WebSphere 3 1 (1.852 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 15 (27.78 %) CICS 2 3 (5.556 %) MQSeries 3 1 (1.852 %) IBM HTTP Server
Communications & Networking 1 15 (27.78 %) SAN 2 1 (1.852 %) LAN 2 1 (1.852 %) WAN 2 1 (1.852 %) HTTP 2 1 (1.852 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (22.22 %) DB2 2 1 (1.852 %) Easytrieve
General 1 32 (59.26 %) Finance 2 7 (12.96 %) Banking 3 5 (9.259 %) Insurance 4 3 (5.556 %) Corporate Banking 5 2 (3.704 %) Investment Banking 5 2 (3.704 %) Pensions 6 1 (1.852 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (1.852 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 13 (24.07 %) Administrator 2 12 (22.22 %) Architect 3 9 (16.67 %) Storage Administrator 4 6 (11.11 %) Project Manager 5 5 (9.259 %) Analyst 5 5 (9.259 %) Consultant 5 5 (9.259 %) Support Technician 5 5 (9.259 %) Mainframe Architect 6 4 (7.407 %) SAN Administrator 7 3 (5.556 %) Developer 8 2 (3.704 %) Programme Manager 8 2 (3.704 %) Systems Analyst 8 2 (3.704 %) Technical Analyst 8 2 (3.704 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 8 2 (3.704 %) Enterprise Architect 8 2 (3.704 %) Mainframe Developer 8 2 (3.704 %) Applications Architect 9 1 (1.852 %) UNIX Support 9 1 (1.852 %) Storage Consultant 9 1 (1.852 %) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 25 (46.30 %) IBM Mainframe 2 3 (5.556 %) Management Information System 3 2 (3.704 %) Derivative 4 1 (1.852 %) Replication 4 1 (1.852 %) Tandem 4 1 (1.852 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 1 (1.852 %) HACMP	Operating Systems 1 11 (20.37 %) Unix 2 7 (12.96 %) zOS 3 5 (9.259 %) AIX 4 4 (7.407 %) Windows 5 3 (5.556 %) MVS 6 2 (3.704 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (3.704 %) HPUX 7 1 (1.852 %) Solaris 7 1 (1.852 %) Linux 7 1 (1.852 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (7.407 %) Project Management 1 4 (7.407 %) Migration 2 3 (5.556 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (5.556 %) Data Security 2 3 (5.556 %) Risk Analysis 3 2 (3.704 %) Data Management 3 2 (3.704 %) Systems Analysis 4 1 (1.852 %) Programme Management 4 1 (1.852 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (1.852 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 10 (18.52 %) COBOL 2 4 (7.407 %) JCL 3 3 (5.556 %) SQL 4 2 (3.704 %) VB 4 2 (3.704 %) Java 4 2 (3.704 %) VB6 5 1 (1.852 %) Shell Script
System Software 1 3 (5.556 %) RACF	Systems Management 1 3 (5.556 %) Tivoli 1 3 (5.556 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (1.852 %) OMEGAMON
Vendors 1 33 (61.11 %) IBM 2 19 (35.19 %) Brocade 3 2 (3.704 %) EMC 4 1 (1.852 %) Citrix 4 1 (1.852 %) CA 4 1 (1.852 %) Hitachi 4 1 (1.852 %) Unisys 4 1 (1.852 %) HP