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Mainframe Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mainframe over the 3 months to 18 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 Edinburgh 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mainframes
Rank 38 54 50
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -4
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 26 7 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 2.811% 0.659% 1.349%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.69% 5.072% 9.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
Average daily rate £375 £498 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.62% +42.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £366 £356 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £640 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.71% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.75 £21.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-8.13% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 147 138 199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 15.89% 12.99% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 55 71
Average daily rate £368 £350 £407
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -13.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £202 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £505 £528
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
Average hourly rate £12.42 £40.00 £23.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-68.95% +72.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.96 £17.60 £7.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.88 £40.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
Mainframe
Scotland

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Mainframe Daily Rate Trend

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mainframe across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Edinburgh Mainframe Daily Rate Histogram

Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Mainframe Hourly Rate Trend

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 20 (38.46%) IBM
2 18 (34.62%) Migration
3 17 (32.69%) Banking
4 16 (30.77%) Finance
5 14 (26.92%) UNIX
6 13 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
7 12 (23.08%) zOS
8 10 (19.23%) Replication
9 9 (17.31%) SAN
10 8 (15.38%) EMC
10 8 (15.38%) SRDF
11 7 (13.46%) CICS
12 6 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (11.54%) Oracle
13 5 (9.615%) Project Management
13 5 (9.615%) JCL
13 5 (9.615%) Disaster Recovery
14 4 (7.692%) RACF
14 4 (7.692%) SAS
14 4 (7.692%) AIX
14 4 (7.692%) WebSphere
15 3 (5.769%) Retail Banking
15 3 (5.769%) Retail
15 3 (5.769%) VSAM
15 3 (5.769%) DB2
15 3 (5.769%) Data Modelling
15 3 (5.769%) Microsoft
15 3 (5.769%) REXX
16 2 (3.846%) Firewall
16 2 (3.846%) Ab Initio

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 4 (7.692%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.846%) J2EE
3 1 (1.923%) Web Services
3 1 (1.923%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 7 (13.46%) CICS
2 4 (7.692%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.846%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.31%) SAN
2 2 (3.846%) Firewall
3 1 (1.923%) NAS
3 1 (1.923%) Intranet
3 1 (1.923%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.769%) DB2
2 1 (1.923%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.923%) PROIV
1 1 (1.923%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (32.69%) Banking
2 16 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (5.769%) Retail
3 3 (5.769%) Retail Banking
4 2 (3.846%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.923%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.923%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Administrator
2 8 (15.38%) Architect
2 8 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 7 (13.46%) Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Manager
4 6 (11.54%) Storage Administrator
4 6 (11.54%) Mainframe Architect
5 5 (9.615%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 4 (7.692%) Consultant
6 4 (7.692%) Storage Specialist
6 4 (7.692%) Senior Storage Specialist
7 3 (5.769%) Solutions Designer
7 3 (5.769%) Data Modeller
7 3 (5.769%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.769%) Designer
8 2 (3.846%) Technical Design Authority
8 2 (3.846%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.846%) Developer
8 2 (3.846%) Technical Designer
8 2 (3.846%) Ab Initio Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 10 (19.23%) Replication
3 3 (5.769%) VSAM
4 2 (3.846%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.92%) UNIX
2 12 (23.08%) zOS
3 4 (7.692%) AIX
4 2 (3.846%) HPUX
4 2 (3.846%) Solaris
4 2 (3.846%) Linux
4 2 (3.846%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) Migration
2 6 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (9.615%) Project Management
3 5 (9.615%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (5.769%) Data Modelling
5 2 (3.846%) PRINCE2
5 2 (3.846%) Service Management
5 2 (3.846%) Change Management
5 2 (3.846%) Automated Testing
5 2 (3.846%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (1.923%) Requirements Management
6 1 (1.923%) Release Management
6 1 (1.923%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (1.923%) Unit Testing
6 1 (1.923%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (1.923%) Data Migration
6 1 (1.923%) Document Management
6 1 (1.923%) Network Design
6 1 (1.923%) ITSM
6 1 (1.923%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.615%) JCL
2 3 (5.769%) REXX
3 2 (3.846%) COBOL
3 2 (3.846%) PL/SQL
3 2 (3.846%) SQL
4 1 (1.923%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.923%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) SRDF
2 4 (7.692%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (1.923%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 20 (38.46%) IBM
2 8 (15.38%) EMC
3 6 (11.54%) Oracle
4 3 (5.769%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.846%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.923%) Brocade
6 1 (1.923%) CA
Mainframe Hardware Technical Specialist
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Our banking client are looking for a highly skilled Mainframe Hardware Technical Specialist to join their Edinburgh based team for a 3 month initial contract. Purpose of the...
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 14 June 2013
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