Norfolk Mainframe Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Mainframes skills within the Norfolk region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Mainframe over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aylesbury Basildon Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Greenford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Lytham St Annes Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stockton-on-Tees Street Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tunbridge Wells UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	20
Rank change on same period last year	-22
Matching contract IT job ads	2	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	3.226 %	50.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	11
Average minimum daily rate	-	£382
Average daily rate	-	£392
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£361
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.63	£34.11
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Miscellaneous Norfolk
Matching contract IT job ads	62	50
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	16	17
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£322
Average daily rate	£400	£337
% change on same period last year	+18.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£434	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£350
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	£24.17
Average hourly rate	£24.30	£26.75
% change on same period last year	-9.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.60	£29.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.26	£28.13
% change on same period last year	-10.19 %
Mainframe East of England

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Mainframe across the Norfolk 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 Mainframe across the Norfolk 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 Mainframe across the Norfolk 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 Mainframe within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Norwich	-17	2	-	-

Mainframe East of England

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 4 (66.67 %) Hitachi 1 4 (66.67 %) EMC 2 2 (33.33 %) CICS 2 2 (33.33 %) Assembly Language 2 2 (33.33 %) CA 2 2 (33.33 %) C 2 2 (33.33 %) COBOL 2 2 (33.33 %) Java 2 2 (33.33 %) zOS 2 2 (33.33 %) MVS 2 2 (33.33 %) JCL 2 2 (33.33 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 Platforms 1 2 (33.33 %) CICS	General 1 2 (33.33 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 2 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 2 (33.33 %) Administrator 1 2 (33.33 %) Storage Administrator 1 2 (33.33 %) Storage Analyst 2 1 (16.67 %) Technical Specialist	Operating Systems 1 2 (33.33 %) zOS 1 2 (33.33 %) MVS
Programming Languages 1 2 (33.33 %) C 1 2 (33.33 %) COBOL 1 2 (33.33 %) Java 1 2 (33.33 %) Assembly Language 1 2 (33.33 %) JCL	Vendors 1 4 (66.67 %) EMC 1 4 (66.67 %) Hitachi 2 2 (33.33 %) CA