The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mainframe over the 3 months to 21 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the East of England 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mainframes
Rank 109 117 114
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -3
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 11 14 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.505% 0.477% 0.464%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.259% 2.288% 2.559%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 6
Average daily rate £441 £445 £376
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.84% +18.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £373 £281
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £575 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £398 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+13.71% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
Average hourly rate £27.98 - £29.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.64 - £27.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.00 - £32.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.96 £25.00 £27.37
% change year-on-year
+11.84% -8.65%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
487 612 469
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 22.34% 20.84% 18.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 273 183
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £197
10% offered a daily rate of more than £457 £450 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 65 68
Average hourly rate £33.00 £29.00 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.79% +7.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £13.08 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £48.85 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Mainframe Jobs Demand Trend

Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Mainframe across the East of England region.

East of England Mainframe Daily Rate Trend

Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Mainframe across the East of England region.

East of England Mainframe Hourly Rate Trend

Mainframe
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Essex - 10 £455 -
Bedfordshire 0 1 £400 -25.58%
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing 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 Mainframe.

1 7 (46.67%) Systems Analysis
2 5 (33.33%) ICL
2 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (33.33%) OpenROAD
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) DB2
2 5 (33.33%) Ingres
3 4 (26.67%) UNIX
3 4 (26.67%) Oracle
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) BCP
4 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (20.00%) Windows
4 3 (20.00%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (20.00%) MS Office
5 2 (13.33%) XML
5 2 (13.33%) COBOL
5 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
5 2 (13.33%) MS Access
5 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
5 2 (13.33%) Release Management
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing 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 Mainframe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (13.33%) XML
2 1 (6.667%) JPA
2 1 (6.667%) EJB 3.0
2 1 (6.667%) JMS
2 1 (6.667%) XML Schema
2 1 (6.667%) JAXB
2 1 (6.667%) J2EE
2 1 (6.667%) XSD
2 1 (6.667%) XSLT
2 1 (6.667%) EJB
2 1 (6.667%) JSP
2 1 (6.667%) Servlets
2 1 (6.667%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) OpenROAD
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (6.667%) Tuxedo
2 1 (6.667%) WebLogic
2 1 (6.667%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Office
2 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (6.667%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) DB2
1 5 (33.33%) Ingres
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (20.00%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (13.33%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) PVCS
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) OpenROAD Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) DBA
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Mainframe Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Architect
5 1 (6.667%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Applications Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) UNIX
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (6.667%) VME
3 1 (6.667%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Systems Analysis
2 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) BCP
4 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) Release Management
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
6 1 (6.667%) Requirements Management
6 1 (6.667%) Programme Management
6 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
6 1 (6.667%) SOA
6 1 (6.667%) Document Management
6 1 (6.667%) Time Management
6 1 (6.667%) Waterfall
6 1 (6.667%) UML
6 1 (6.667%) OO
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) COBOL
3 1 (6.667%) JCL
3 1 (6.667%) C
3 1 (6.667%) Java
3 1 (6.667%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) BC Cleared
1 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
1 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) ICL
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.667%) Fujitsu
3 1 (6.667%) BEA
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Posted: 30 April 2013