OS/390 Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for OS/390 skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OS/390 over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM OS/390 (OS390)
Rank 508 551 568
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +17
Contract jobs citing OS/390 2 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.005% 0.013% 0.007%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.022% 0.064% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £473 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +5.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £300 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Operating Systems
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 8967 10980 11886
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 21.57% 20.58% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4854 5639 5947
Average daily rate £370 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £200 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 933 1096 1187
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
OS/390
UK

OS/390
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region.

England OS/390 Hourly Rate Trend

OS/390
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OS/390 within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
London +18 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
OS/390
UK

OS/390
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 4 (66.67%) DB2
2 3 (50.00%) UNIX
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (50.00%) JCL
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Essbase
3 2 (33.33%) Teradata
3 2 (33.33%) Mainframe
3 2 (33.33%) Hyperion
3 2 (33.33%) Control-M
3 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (33.33%) SLA
3 2 (33.33%) MVS
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) OLAP
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) System Testing
4 1 (16.67%) COBOL
4 1 (16.67%) Windows NT
4 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
4 1 (16.67%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (16.67%) MAINVIEW
4 1 (16.67%) HP
4 1 (16.67%) CICS
4 1 (16.67%) RACF

OS/390
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DB2
2 2 (33.33%) OLAP
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Essbase
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 1 (16.67%) MVS Operator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) AS400
2 1 (16.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) UNIX
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) MVS
3 1 (16.67%) Windows NT
3 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 2 (33.33%) System Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JCL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Control-M
2 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
2 1 (16.67%) CA Endevor
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
2 1 (16.67%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (16.67%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Hyperion
2 2 (33.33%) Teradata
3 1 (16.67%) HP
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