The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mainframe over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mainframes
Rank 101 60 103
Rank change year-on-year
-41 +43
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 2 36 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.131% 2.263% 0.108%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.551% 12.00% 0.590%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 1
Average daily rate £400 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £393 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+12.21% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.00 £21.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+30.23% -6.52%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
363 300 339
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 23.79% 18.86% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 117 135
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £248 £236
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £545 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 56 62
Average hourly rate £35.00 £24.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.55 £14.50 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £38.75 £40.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Mainframe
South East

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Mainframe Daily Rate Trend

Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Mainframe Hourly Rate Trend

Mainframe
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Havant - 2 £400 -
Mainframe
South East

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 5 (50.00%) AIX
1 5 (50.00%) SAN
1 5 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
1 5 (50.00%) Korn
1 5 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) Symantec
3 2 (20.00%) ERP
3 2 (20.00%) DB2
3 2 (20.00%) UNIX
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (20.00%) Qualys
3 2 (20.00%) Software Deployment
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (10.00%) Talend
4 1 (10.00%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Talend Open Studio
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) QA
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Basis
4 1 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) Java

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 1 (10.00%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (50.00%) Administrator
1 5 (50.00%) Storage Administrator
1 5 (50.00%) Storage Systems Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) DB2 Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) AIX
2 2 (20.00%) UNIX
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) ERP
2 2 (20.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Symantec
3 2 (20.00%) Qualys
4 1 (10.00%) Talend
4 1 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) IBM
Havant, Hampshire
A good level of technical experience in the following: Qualys; INFOMAN; IT Vendor Lifecycle knowledge; IT Security & Vulnerability Management; Software deployment technologies; Windows, UNIX, Mainframe and Storage technology...
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: £375 - £425 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013