The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mainframe over the 3 months to 17 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 Nottingham 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mainframes
Rank 34 29 21
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -8
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 4 2 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.404% 0.901% 3.390%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.091% 5.263% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £399 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+14.00% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.96 £25.00 £27.37
% change year-on-year
+11.84% -8.65%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
44 38 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 15.44% 17.12% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 10
Average daily rate £350 £443 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.90% +47.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £281 £290 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £506 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 6
Average hourly rate £12.42 £30.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-58.60% +76.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £30.00 £12.41
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.06 £30.00 £28.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Mainframe
Nottinghamshire

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham Mainframe Hourly Rate Trend

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) MVS
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) JCL
3 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
3 1 (16.67%) SLA
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) REXX
3 1 (16.67%) zOS
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) FTP
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) ActionScript
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) DB2
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) Banking

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) NetScaler
2 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
1 2 (33.33%) MVS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) ActionScript
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) REXX
1 1 (16.67%) JCL
1 1 (16.67%) ActionScript 2.0
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint