Mainframe Contracts in Scotland
 
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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 82 77 74
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -3
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 38 29 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.558% 1.095% 1.426%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.365% 6.713% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 13
Average daily rate £463 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.14% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £362 £291 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £455 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £399 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+14.00% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £34.00
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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 597 432 392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 24.48% 16.31% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 183 175
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £271 £195 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 35 17
Average hourly rate £15.77 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.34% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £11.48 £12.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £32.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Mainframe
UK

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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
Edinburgh +26 32 £475 +35.71%
Glasgow -34 1 £500 +42.85%
Fife - 1 £330 -
Perth and Kinross - 1 £450 -
Mainframe
UK

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 20 (32.79%) IBM
1 20 (32.79%) Migration
2 19 (31.15%) Finance
2 19 (31.15%) Banking
3 13 (21.31%) UNIX
4 12 (19.67%) IBM Mainframe
5 10 (16.39%) zOS
6 9 (14.75%) Replication
7 8 (13.11%) Retail
7 8 (13.11%) SAN
8 7 (11.48%) EMC
8 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (11.48%) SRDF
9 6 (9.836%) Retail Banking
10 5 (8.197%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (8.197%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (8.197%) Project Management
10 5 (8.197%) CICS
10 5 (8.197%) Oracle
10 5 (8.197%) Web Services
11 4 (6.557%) JCL
11 4 (6.557%) WebSphere
12 3 (4.918%) Automated Testing
12 3 (4.918%) Firewall
12 3 (4.918%) J2EE
12 3 (4.918%) AIX
12 3 (4.918%) DB2
12 3 (4.918%) COBOL
12 3 (4.918%) REXX
12 3 (4.918%) Microsoft

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 5 (8.197%) Web Services
2 4 (6.557%) WebSphere
3 3 (4.918%) J2EE
4 1 (1.639%) Middleware
4 1 (1.639%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 5 (8.197%) CICS
2 3 (4.918%) SAS
3 2 (3.279%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (1.639%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (4.918%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.639%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) SAN
2 3 (4.918%) Firewall
3 2 (3.279%) Internet
4 1 (1.639%) Intranet
4 1 (1.639%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.639%) VPN
4 1 (1.639%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.918%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (1.639%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (31.15%) Finance
1 19 (31.15%) Banking
2 8 (13.11%) Retail
3 6 (9.836%) Retail Banking
4 2 (3.279%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.639%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.639%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (19.67%) Analyst
2 11 (18.03%) Administrator
3 10 (16.39%) Architect
4 8 (13.11%) Project Manager
5 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Manager
6 6 (9.836%) Storage Administrator
7 5 (8.197%) Test Manager
7 5 (8.197%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 5 (8.197%) Mainframe Architect
8 4 (6.557%) Senior Storage Specialist
8 4 (6.557%) Consultant
8 4 (6.557%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (6.557%) Storage Specialist
9 3 (4.918%) Data Modeller
9 3 (4.918%) Data Analyst
10 2 (3.279%) Solutions Designer
10 2 (3.279%) Ab Initio Developer
10 2 (3.279%) Storage Consultant
10 2 (3.279%) Technical Designer
10 2 (3.279%) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) IBM Mainframe
2 9 (14.75%) Replication
3 2 (3.279%) VSAM
3 2 (3.279%) Data Integration
4 1 (1.639%) DataPower
4 1 (1.639%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.31%) UNIX
2 10 (16.39%) zOS
3 3 (4.918%) AIX
4 2 (3.279%) HPUX
4 2 (3.279%) Solaris
4 2 (3.279%) MVS
4 2 (3.279%) Windows
5 1 (1.639%) Linux
5 1 (1.639%) Windows 2000
5 1 (1.639%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.79%) Migration
2 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (8.197%) Project Management
3 5 (8.197%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (8.197%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (4.918%) Data Modelling
4 3 (4.918%) Automated Testing
5 2 (3.279%) Incident Management
5 2 (3.279%) PRINCE2
5 2 (3.279%) Service Management
5 2 (3.279%) Change Management
5 2 (3.279%) Time Management
5 2 (3.279%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (1.639%) Software Deployment
6 1 (1.639%) Data Migration
6 1 (1.639%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (1.639%) Test Management
6 1 (1.639%) Test Scripting
6 1 (1.639%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (1.639%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.557%) JCL
2 3 (4.918%) REXX
2 3 (4.918%) COBOL
3 2 (3.279%) PL/SQL
3 2 (3.279%) SQL
4 1 (1.639%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (1.639%) ISEB
1 1 (1.639%) ISEB Practitioner
System Software
1 7 (11.48%) SRDF
2 2 (3.279%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (1.639%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 20 (32.79%) IBM
2 7 (11.48%) EMC
3 5 (8.197%) Oracle
4 3 (4.918%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.279%) Lotus
5 2 (3.279%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.639%) Brocade
6 1 (1.639%) Citrix
6 1 (1.639%) HP
6 1 (1.639%) Cisco
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