East Midlands OS/400 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM OS/400 (OS400) skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OS/400 over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM OS/400 (OS400)
Location Birmingham Bristol Cheshire City of London East Midlands England Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex North West South East South West UK Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
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As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.17	£38.25
% change on same period last year	-44.66 %
Operating Systems East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	374	423
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.498 %	0.422 %
Daily rates quoted	94	57
Average minimum daily rate	£253	£267
Average daily rate	£269	£276
% change on same period last year	-2.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£285	£285
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	67	125
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.47	£19.75
Average hourly rate	£19.99	£21.24
% change on same period last year	-5.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.51	£22.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.51	£22.79
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
OS/400 England

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.

OS/400
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OS/400 across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

OS/400
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OS/400 across the East Midlands region.