The first table below looks at the demand for VME 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 VME 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
ICL VME
Rank 506 543 570
Rank change year-on-year
+37 +27
Contract jobs citing VME 4 15 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.010% 0.028% 0.004%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.045% 0.137% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 0
Average daily rate £435 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+74.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £435 £250 -
% change year-on-year
+74.00% -
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%
VME
UK

VME
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England VME Jobs Demand Trend

VME
Daily Rate Trend

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

England VME Daily Rate Trend

VME
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England VME Hourly Rate Trend

VME
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VME 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
East Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
South West - 1 £435 -
East of England - 1 - -
VME
UK

VME
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) COBOL
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) UML
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) BC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) ICL
4 1 (20.00%) C
4 1 (20.00%) JPA
4 1 (20.00%) EJB 3.0
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Fujitsu
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) IDMS
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) CESG
4 1 (20.00%) CESG CLAS
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) RAD

VME
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VME 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 VME. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) J2EE
1 1 (20.00%) EJB
1 1 (20.00%) JSP
1 1 (20.00%) Servlets
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) XSD
1 1 (20.00%) XSLT
1 1 (20.00%) JMS
1 1 (20.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (20.00%) JAXB
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) JPA
1 1 (20.00%) EJB 3.0
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) Tuxedo
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) ATM
1 1 (20.00%) ISDN
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
1 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) PVCS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) CESG
2 1 (20.00%) CESG CLAS
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
2 1 (20.00%) Solaris
2 1 (20.00%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) UML
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) RAD
2 1 (20.00%) SSADM
2 1 (20.00%) RUP
2 1 (20.00%) DSDM
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) COBOL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ICL
2 1 (20.00%) Fujitsu
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) BEA
Southend-On-Sea, South East
J2EE experience must include experience of Servlets, JSPs and Session Beans delivering transactional web-based applications.*BEA WebLogic at version 9, or later... *development on UNIX environments, preferably...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 30 April 2013