Kent AS400 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM AS/400 skills within the Kent region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited AS400 over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM AS/400
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridgeshire Cannock Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leatherhead Leeds London Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Surrey Thames Valley UK Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	51
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	5	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	4.167 %	0.971 %
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	£320	£369
% change on same period last year	-13.11 %
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	£32.84	£30.39
% change on same period last year	+8.08 %
Miscellaneous Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	120	103
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.193 %	0.111 %
Daily rates quoted	30	11
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£383
Average daily rate	£330	£395
% change on same period last year	-16.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£345
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	15	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.92	£16.96
Average hourly rate	£20.04	£18.29
% change on same period last year	+9.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.17	£19.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.41	£25.59
% change on same period last year	-0.69 %
AS400 South East

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.

AS400
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing AS400 across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing AS400 across the Kent region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing AS400 across the Kent region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AS400 within the Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Maidstone	-	1	-	-

AS400 South East

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Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing AS400 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 AS400.

1 4 (50.00 %) Finance 1 4 (50.00 %) RPG 2 3 (37.50 %) SQL 2 3 (37.50 %) DB2 2 3 (37.50 %) UNIX 2 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2 3 (37.50 %) Banking 2 3 (37.50 %) Asset Management 2 3 (37.50 %) Investment Banking 2 3 (37.50 %) Fund Management 2 3 (37.50 %) Problem Management 2 3 (37.50 %) Investment Management 3 2 (25.00 %) Change Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (12.50 %) IBM

4 1 (12.50 %) zOS 4 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Mainframe 4 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (12.50 %) iSeries 4 1 (12.50 %) IBM Mainframe 4 1 (12.50 %) Insurance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing AS400 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 AS400. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) DB2	General 1 4 (50.00 %) Finance 2 3 (37.50 %) Banking 2 3 (37.50 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 3 1 (12.50 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Applications Support 2 3 (37.50 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) AS400 Support 2 3 (37.50 %) AS400 Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) Analyst 3 2 (25.00 %) Analyst Programmer 3 2 (25.00 %) Programmer 3 2 (25.00 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (25.00 %) Applications Support Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 1 (12.50 %) AS400 Operator 4 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 4 1 (12.50 %) Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Mainframe 1 1 (12.50 %) IBM Mainframe 1 1 (12.50 %) iSeries
Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) UNIX 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2 1 (12.50 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Asset Management 1 3 (37.50 %) Fund Management 1 3 (37.50 %) Problem Management 1 3 (37.50 %) Investment Management 2 2 (25.00 %) Change Management 3 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 3 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) RPG 2 3 (37.50 %) SQL	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) IBM