OS/390 Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for OS/390 skills 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 OS/390 over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Operating Systems 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM OS/390 (OS390)
Rank 197 216 244
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +28
Contract jobs citing OS/390 2 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% 0.038% 0.010%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.161% 0.193% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £475 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +5.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £168 £300 -
% change year-on-year
-44.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Operating Systems
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 1245 1555 1932
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 19.60% 19.75% 19.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 968 1294
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 95 111
Average hourly rate £25.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.65 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
OS/390
London

OS/390
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OS/390 across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

City of London OS/390 Jobs Demand Trend

OS/390
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OS/390 across the City of London region.

City of London OS/390 Daily Rate Trend

OS/390
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OS/390 across the City of London region.

City of London OS/390 Hourly Rate Trend

OS/390
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing OS/390 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 OS/390.

1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (33.33%) Unisys
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) zOS
3 1 (33.33%) MVS
3 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
3 1 (33.33%) JCL
3 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) VSAM
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Path Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (33.33%) COBOL
3 1 (33.33%) DB2
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office

OS/390
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing OS/390 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 OS/390. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) VSAM
1 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) zOS
2 1 (33.33%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Critical Path Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JCL
1 1 (33.33%) COBOL
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Unisys
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
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