Farnborough Mainframe Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Mainframes skills within the Farnborough region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Mainframe over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Mainframes
Location Aylesbury Basildon Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Lytham St Annes Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Street Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tunbridge Wells UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£363
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.82	£33.55
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Miscellaneous Farnborough
Matching contract IT job ads	3	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.012 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£390	£317
Average daily rate	£390	£337
% change on same period last year	+15.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£352
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£10.71
% change on same period last year	+156.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£11.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.25	£28.69
% change on same period last year	-11.97 %
Mainframe Hampshire

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.

Mainframe
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Mainframe across the Farnborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Mainframe across the Farnborough region.

Mainframe
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough 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 3 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 3 (100.00 %) Finance 2 2 (66.67 %) Insurance 3 1 (33.33 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) AIX 3 1 (33.33 %) zOS 3 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 3 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough 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.

General 1 3 (100.00 %) Finance 2 2 (66.67 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Deployment Manager 2 2 (66.67 %) Technical Manager
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) AIX 2 1 (33.33 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Stakeholder Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2