The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term AS400 in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AS400 over the 3 months to 21 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 London 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM AS/400
Rank 355 340 322
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -18
Contract jobs citing AS400 34 65 108
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.154% 0.241% 0.352%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.467% 0.750% 0.931%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 64
Average daily rate £475 £375 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% -31.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £264 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £630 £520 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £375 £315
% change year-on-year
-17.33% +19.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £29.00 - £25.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £40.00 £40.75
% change year-on-year
-63.75% -1.84%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7287 8670 11603
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.08% 32.13% 37.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5064 5888 7838
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 211 195
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
AS400
England

AS400
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AS400 across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

London AS400 Jobs Demand Trend

AS400
Daily Rate Trend

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

London AS400 Daily Rate Trend

AS400
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AS400 across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London AS400 Daily Rate Histogram

AS400
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London AS400 Hourly Rate Trend

AS400
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 London region over the 3 months to 21 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
City of London +4 12 £475 -8.65%
AS400
England

AS400
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 32 (46.38%) Banking
2 30 (43.48%) RPG
3 28 (40.58%) iSeries
4 19 (27.54%) IBM
5 18 (26.09%) RPG IV
6 17 (24.64%) Misys Equation
6 17 (24.64%) Misys
7 14 (20.29%) Finance
7 14 (20.29%) Mainframe
8 12 (17.39%) WebSphere MQ
8 12 (17.39%) WebSphere
9 11 (15.94%) PDM
9 11 (15.94%) OS/400
9 11 (15.94%) Java
10 10 (14.49%) Project Management
10 10 (14.49%) Private Banking
10 10 (14.49%) Online Banking
11 9 (13.04%) Investment Banking
11 9 (13.04%) SQL
11 9 (13.04%) UNIX
12 8 (11.59%) IIS
12 8 (11.59%) MSMQ
12 8 (11.59%) Misys Midas
12 8 (11.59%) DV Cleared
12 8 (11.59%) Security Cleared
12 8 (11.59%) Adobe CQ
13 7 (10.14%) Migration
13 7 (10.14%) Linux
14 5 (7.246%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (7.246%) DB2

AS400
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

Application Development
1 12 (17.39%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.899%) Middleware
2 2 (2.899%) ODBC
3 1 (1.449%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 12 (17.39%) WebSphere MQ
2 8 (11.59%) IIS
2 8 (11.59%) MSMQ
2 8 (11.59%) Adobe CQ
3 1 (1.449%) TIBCO EMS
3 1 (1.449%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (4.348%) MS Office
2 2 (2.899%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.449%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 17 (24.64%) Misys Equation
2 8 (11.59%) Misys Midas
3 4 (5.797%) SunGard GMI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.797%) SAN
2 1 (1.449%) HTTP
2 1 (1.449%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.246%) DB2
2 2 (2.899%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.449%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.449%) Synon
General
1 32 (46.38%) Banking
2 14 (20.29%) Finance
3 10 (14.49%) Private Banking
4 9 (13.04%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.348%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.899%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.449%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 21 (30.43%) Developer
2 17 (24.64%) Programmer
3 14 (20.29%) Analyst
4 7 (10.14%) Project Manager
5 6 (8.696%) Analyst Programmer
5 6 (8.696%) AS400 Developer
6 5 (7.246%) Technical Manager
6 5 (7.246%) Technical Project Manager
7 4 (5.797%) Consultant
7 4 (5.797%) RPG Developer
8 3 (4.348%) Linux Specialist
8 3 (4.348%) AIX Specialist
9 2 (2.899%) Trainer
9 2 (2.899%) Tester
9 2 (2.899%) Functional Analyst
9 2 (2.899%) RPG Programmer
9 2 (2.899%) COBOL Developer
10 1 (1.449%) Linux Consultant
10 1 (1.449%) Senior Programmer
10 1 (1.449%) Incident Manager
Miscellaneous
1 28 (40.58%) iSeries
2 14 (20.29%) Mainframe
3 10 (14.49%) Online Banking
4 2 (2.899%) PaaS
5 1 (1.449%) Replication
5 1 (1.449%) SaaS
5 1 (1.449%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.449%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.94%) OS/400
2 9 (13.04%) UNIX
3 7 (10.14%) Linux
4 5 (7.246%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.797%) Windows
6 3 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (4.348%) AIX
7 2 (2.899%) Solaris
8 1 (1.449%) i5/OS
8 1 (1.449%) NetWare
8 1 (1.449%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (15.94%) PDM
2 10 (14.49%) Project Management
3 7 (10.14%) Migration
4 4 (5.797%) Matrix Management
5 3 (4.348%) Business Continuity
5 3 (4.348%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (2.899%) Change Management
6 2 (2.899%) RAD
6 2 (2.899%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (1.449%) Incident Management
7 1 (1.449%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (1.449%) Unit Testing
7 1 (1.449%) Wealth Management
7 1 (1.449%) Problem Management
7 1 (1.449%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (1.449%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (1.449%) Performance Management
7 1 (1.449%) ITIL
7 1 (1.449%) ERP
7 1 (1.449%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (43.48%) RPG
2 18 (26.09%) RPG IV
3 11 (15.94%) Java
4 9 (13.04%) SQL
5 3 (4.348%) C
5 3 (4.348%) COBOL
6 2 (2.899%) RPG III
7 1 (1.449%) RPG/400
7 1 (1.449%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (11.59%) DV Cleared
1 8 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.449%) ISEB
2 1 (1.449%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.449%) QA
1 1 (1.449%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (4.348%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.449%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (1.449%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (27.54%) IBM
2 17 (24.64%) Misys
3 5 (7.246%) Red Hat
4 4 (5.797%) SunGard
4 4 (5.797%) Oracle
5 3 (4.348%) VMware
5 3 (4.348%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.449%) Yantra
6 1 (1.449%) Sybase
6 1 (1.449%) Sun
6 1 (1.449%) Compaq
6 1 (1.449%) EMC
6 1 (1.449%) Novell
6 1 (1.449%) TIBCO