The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term iSeries in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited iSeries over the 3 months to 20 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 Hampshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM iSeries
Rank 99 97 94
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -3
Contract jobs citing iSeries 3 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.194% 0.127% 0.274%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.857% 0.669% 1.497%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
Average daily rate £130 £413 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-68.48% -10.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £126 £383 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £134 £443 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £323 £375
% change year-on-year
+16.27% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £17.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.25 £27.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-15.45% -19.11%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
350 299 334
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 22.64% 18.94% 18.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 117 132
Average daily rate £365 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £248 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £545 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 56 65
Average hourly rate £35.00 £24.50 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -27.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.01 £13.25 £13.64
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £38.75 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
iSeries
South East

iSeries
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire iSeries Jobs Demand Trend

iSeries
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire iSeries Daily Rate Trend

iSeries
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire iSeries Hourly Rate Trend

iSeries
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iSeries within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Eastleigh - 3 £130 -
iSeries
South East

iSeries
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing iSeries 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 iSeries.

1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
1 5 (71.43%) C
1 5 (71.43%) MS Office
1 5 (71.43%) Citrix
1 5 (71.43%) Backup Exec
1 5 (71.43%) Asset Management
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Mobile
1 5 (71.43%) Incident Management
1 5 (71.43%) Windows 7
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) UNIX
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Sun
2 2 (28.57%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) AIX
2 2 (28.57%) HPUX
2 2 (28.57%) Solaris
2 2 (28.57%) Linux

iSeries
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 5 (71.43%) MS Office
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Desktop Support
1 5 (71.43%) Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) UNIX Support
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Mobile
1 5 (71.43%) Windows 7
2 2 (28.57%) UNIX
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) AIX
2 2 (28.57%) HPUX
2 2 (28.57%) Solaris
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Asset Management
1 5 (71.43%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Sun
2 2 (28.57%) HP
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