Mainframe Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mainframe over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mainframes
Rank 290 322 303
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -19
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 97 96 130
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.441% 0.351% 0.424%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.333% 1.098% 1.121%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 45 73
Average daily rate £415 £500 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.00% +5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £310 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £559 £600 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £381 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+8.92% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.98 £21.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+30.13% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 7277 8743 11592
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.09% 31.98% 37.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5057 5942 7822
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 167 213 195
Average hourly rate £23.00 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.22% +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 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Mainframe Daily Rate Trend

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mainframe across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Mainframe Daily Rate Histogram

Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 22 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 +16 28 £463 -5.12%
Bromley +2 2 £413 +26.92%
Hayes - 1 - -
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 71 (31.70%) IBM
2 66 (29.46%) Finance
3 61 (27.23%) DB2
4 54 (24.11%) Oracle
5 45 (20.09%) Windows
5 45 (20.09%) IBM Mainframe
6 40 (17.86%) zOS
6 40 (17.86%) Banking
7 35 (15.63%) Migration
7 35 (15.63%) UNIX
8 28 (12.50%) Retail
9 26 (11.61%) SQL
10 24 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 23 (10.27%) SAS
12 22 (9.821%) AIX
12 22 (9.821%) JCL
13 21 (9.375%) MS Excel
13 21 (9.375%) WebSphere
14 20 (8.929%) Linux
14 20 (8.929%) SQL Server
15 19 (8.482%) Microsoft
16 18 (8.036%) Project Management
17 17 (7.589%) TOGAF
17 17 (7.589%) ISPF
18 16 (7.143%) PRINCE2
19 15 (6.696%) ETL
20 14 (6.250%) REXX
20 14 (6.250%) HP
20 14 (6.250%) AS400
20 14 (6.250%) SaaS

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 21 (9.375%) WebSphere
2 17 (7.589%) ISPF
3 7 (3.125%) Middleware
3 7 (3.125%) .NET
4 5 (2.232%) Web Services
5 4 (1.786%) XML
5 4 (1.786%) J2EE
6 3 (1.339%) HTML
6 3 (1.339%) JSP
6 3 (1.339%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.893%) Java EE
7 2 (0.893%) WSDL
7 2 (0.893%) FIXML
7 2 (0.893%) OLE DB
7 2 (0.893%) XSL
7 2 (0.893%) ODBC
7 2 (0.893%) ASP
8 1 (0.446%) SAP Basis
8 1 (0.446%) Flash
8 1 (0.446%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 23 (10.27%) SAS
2 12 (5.357%) ESB
3 10 (4.464%) CICS
4 9 (4.018%) Apache
5 8 (3.571%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (3.125%) IBM HTTP Server
7 4 (1.786%) WebSphere MQ
7 4 (1.786%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.893%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.893%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.893%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.893%) IIS
8 2 (0.893%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.446%) CMS
9 1 (0.446%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.446%) MQSeries
Applications
1 21 (9.375%) MS Excel
2 10 (4.464%) MS Office
3 6 (2.679%) MS PowerPoint
3 6 (2.679%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.446%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.339%) MultiFonds
2 2 (0.893%) VisionPLUS
2 2 (0.893%) Capstone
2 2 (0.893%) Tesseract
2 2 (0.893%) Minerva
2 2 (0.893%) Sentinel
2 2 (0.893%) BASE24
3 1 (0.446%) LatentZero
3 1 (0.446%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.446%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.446%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.571%) SAN
2 5 (2.232%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.786%) NAS
3 4 (1.786%) SSL
3 4 (1.786%) WAN
4 3 (1.339%) Firewall
4 3 (1.339%) VoIP
4 3 (1.339%) Internet
4 3 (1.339%) CTI
4 3 (1.339%) Network Security
5 2 (0.893%) LAN
5 2 (0.893%) PSTN
5 2 (0.893%) LDAP
5 2 (0.893%) Wireless
6 1 (0.446%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.446%) SMS
6 1 (0.446%) Intranet
6 1 (0.446%) HTTP
6 1 (0.446%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (27.23%) DB2
2 20 (8.929%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.018%) Base SAS
4 7 (3.125%) Oracle 11g
5 5 (2.232%) MS Access
6 3 (1.339%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (0.893%) MySQL
7 2 (0.893%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.446%) GIS
8 1 (0.446%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.446%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.446%) VLDB
8 1 (0.446%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (0.446%) OLTP
8 1 (0.446%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.446%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (0.446%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.446%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.571%) ChangeMan
2 3 (1.339%) Subversion
2 3 (1.339%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.893%) WinDbg
4 1 (0.446%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.446%) JUnit
4 1 (0.446%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (0.446%) Jenkins
General
1 66 (29.46%) Finance
2 40 (17.86%) Banking
3 28 (12.50%) Retail
4 9 (4.018%) Investment Banking
5 7 (3.125%) Marketing
6 5 (2.232%) Retail Banking
7 3 (1.339%) Back Office
7 3 (1.339%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (0.893%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (0.893%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.893%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.893%) Front Office
9 1 (0.446%) Legal
Job Titles
1 65 (29.02%) Analyst
2 40 (17.86%) Architect
3 28 (12.50%) Consultant
4 20 (8.929%) Developer
5 18 (8.036%) Business Analyst
6 17 (7.589%) Support Analyst
7 15 (6.696%) Project Manager
8 13 (5.804%) Infrastructure Architect
9 11 (4.911%) Mainframe Architect
10 10 (4.464%) Technical Architect
11 9 (4.018%) Technical Leader
12 8 (3.571%) Storage Analyst
13 7 (3.125%) Systems Developer
13 7 (3.125%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (3.125%) Programmer
13 7 (3.125%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.125%) Mainframe Consultant
14 5 (2.232%) Operations Analyst
14 5 (2.232%) WebSphere Consultant
14 5 (2.232%) Applications Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.09%) IBM Mainframe
2 14 (6.250%) AS400
2 14 (6.250%) SaaS
3 10 (4.464%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.571%) EPoS
5 5 (2.232%) DataPower
5 5 (2.232%) SWIFT
6 4 (1.786%) iSeries
7 3 (1.339%) Clustering
7 3 (1.339%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.339%) VSAM
7 3 (1.339%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.339%) Open Source
8 2 (0.893%) Mobile Computing
8 2 (0.893%) Mobile Payment
8 2 (0.893%) Robotics
8 2 (0.893%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.893%) Data Extraction
8 2 (0.893%) Data Integration
8 2 (0.893%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 45 (20.09%) Windows
2 40 (17.86%) zOS
3 35 (15.63%) UNIX
4 22 (9.821%) AIX
5 20 (8.929%) Linux
6 9 (4.018%) Solaris
7 5 (2.232%) HPUX
7 5 (2.232%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (2.232%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.786%) MVS
9 2 (0.893%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.446%) Windows NT
10 1 (0.446%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.446%) OS/390
10 1 (0.446%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (15.63%) Migration
2 24 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (8.036%) Project Management
4 17 (7.589%) TOGAF
5 16 (7.143%) PRINCE2
6 15 (6.696%) ETL
7 12 (5.357%) Information Security
7 12 (5.357%) Data Migration
8 10 (4.464%) ITIL
9 9 (4.018%) Data Management
9 9 (4.018%) Time Management
9 9 (4.018%) Data Analysis
10 8 (3.571%) Business Analysis
11 7 (3.125%) CRM
11 7 (3.125%) Data Protection
11 7 (3.125%) Project Planning
11 7 (3.125%) Zachman Framework
11 7 (3.125%) Portfolio Management
12 6 (2.679%) Software Testing
12 6 (2.679%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.61%) SQL
2 22 (9.821%) JCL
3 14 (6.250%) REXX
4 13 (5.804%) COBOL
5 11 (4.911%) C
6 10 (4.464%) Java
7 7 (3.125%) SAS Macro
8 5 (2.232%) VBA
8 5 (2.232%) PL/1
9 4 (1.786%) VB
10 2 (0.893%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.893%) VBScript
11 1 (0.446%) C#
11 1 (0.446%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.446%) ALGOL
Qualifications
1 8 (3.571%) DV Cleared
1 8 (3.571%) Security Cleared
2 4 (1.786%) ISTQB
2 4 (1.786%) ISEB
3 3 (1.339%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (0.893%) CISSP
4 2 (0.893%) GIAC
4 2 (0.893%) CISA
5 1 (0.446%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.446%) PMP
5 1 (0.446%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.446%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.571%) PCI DSS
2 5 (2.232%) QA
3 1 (0.446%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (3.571%) RACF
2 5 (2.232%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.339%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.339%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.446%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 11 (4.911%) EMC NetWorker
2 8 (3.571%) Tivoli
3 4 (1.786%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 4 (1.786%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 3 (1.339%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.446%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (0.446%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 71 (31.70%) IBM
2 54 (24.11%) Oracle
3 19 (8.482%) Microsoft
4 14 (6.250%) HP
5 13 (5.804%) CA
5 13 (5.804%) Unisys
6 12 (5.357%) EMC
6 12 (5.357%) Teradata
7 11 (4.911%) webMethods
8 8 (3.571%) Siebel
8 8 (3.571%) Sun
9 5 (2.232%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.786%) Informatica
10 4 (1.786%) Alterian
10 4 (1.786%) Epiphany
11 3 (1.339%) VMware
11 3 (1.339%) Hyperion
12 2 (0.893%) Fidessa
12 2 (0.893%) Plumtree
12 2 (0.893%) Citrix
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