The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term AS400 in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AS400 over the 3 months to 18 June 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 South East 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM AS/400
Rank 206 213 249
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +36
Contract jobs citing AS400 19 29 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.235% 0.289% 0.047%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.126% 1.451% 0.255%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 1
Average daily rate £225 £400 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-43.75% +60.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £375 £310
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +20.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 £50.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-73.26% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £40.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year
-66.25% +30.08%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1687 1999 1957
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 20.87% 19.90% 18.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 813 825
Average daily rate £375 £340 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.29% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £220 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 181 186
Average hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.33% +13.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.15 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
AS400
England

AS400
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East AS400 Hourly Rate Trend

AS400
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AS400 across the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East AS400 Hourly Rate Histogram

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 South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +28 9 £225 -40.00% 5
Home Counties - 5 - -
Surrey +12 4 - -
Hampshire -17 1 - -
Kent - - - - 3
Oxfordshire - - - -
Buckinghamshire - - - -
AS400
England

AS400
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 19 (41.30%) iSeries
2 13 (28.26%) RPG
3 10 (21.74%) Mainframe
3 10 (21.74%) Oracle
4 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
4 9 (19.57%) RPG IV
4 9 (19.57%) Finance
5 8 (17.39%) WebSphere
5 8 (17.39%) WebSphere MQ
5 8 (17.39%) SAP
6 7 (15.22%) COBOL
6 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (15.22%) IBM
7 6 (13.04%) Lotus
7 6 (13.04%) JD Edwards
7 6 (13.04%) SQL
7 6 (13.04%) XML
7 6 (13.04%) Windows
7 6 (13.04%) IBM Notes
7 6 (13.04%) Cognos
8 5 (10.87%) SharePoint
8 5 (10.87%) DB2
8 5 (10.87%) .NET
8 5 (10.87%) MS Excel
9 4 (8.696%) Baan
9 4 (8.696%) Sage
9 4 (8.696%) Active Directory
9 4 (8.696%) Middleware
9 4 (8.696%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (8.696%) WSUS

AS400
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 8 (17.39%) WebSphere MQ
1 8 (17.39%) WebSphere
2 6 (13.04%) XML
3 5 (10.87%) .NET
4 4 (8.696%) Middleware
5 1 (2.174%) Synon Analyst Programmer
5 1 (2.174%) HTML
5 1 (2.174%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.04%) IBM Notes
2 5 (10.87%) SharePoint
3 4 (8.696%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (4.348%) MQSeries
5 1 (2.174%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) MS Excel
2 4 (8.696%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.696%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (8.696%) Line 50
2 2 (4.348%) Misys Midas
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.348%) FTP
1 2 (4.348%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.348%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) DB2
2 3 (6.522%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (6.522%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.348%) MySQL
3 2 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.348%) DataStage
4 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.348%) ERwin
2 1 (2.174%) Synon
General
1 9 (19.57%) Finance
2 2 (4.348%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Developer
2 11 (23.91%) Analyst
3 8 (17.39%) AS400 Developer
4 6 (13.04%) DBA
5 5 (10.87%) Project Manager
6 4 (8.696%) Test Analyst
6 4 (8.696%) Analyst Programmer
6 4 (8.696%) Programmer
6 4 (8.696%) Support Specialist
6 4 (8.696%) COBOL Developer
6 4 (8.696%) Wintel Support
6 4 (8.696%) AS400 Analyst Programmer
6 4 (8.696%) Wintel Specialist
7 3 (6.522%) SharePoint Specialist
7 3 (6.522%) COBOL Analyst
7 3 (6.522%) COBOL Analyst Programmer
7 3 (6.522%) COBOL Programmer
8 2 (4.348%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (4.348%) Team Leader
8 2 (4.348%) IT Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 19 (41.30%) iSeries
2 10 (21.74%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.348%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (4.348%) Linux
2 2 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (4.348%) Windows 7
2 2 (4.348%) UNIX
3 1 (2.174%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (8.696%) Waterfall
3 3 (6.522%) ITIL
4 2 (4.348%) Six Sigma
4 2 (4.348%) OOP
4 2 (4.348%) OO
4 2 (4.348%) DSDM
4 2 (4.348%) Service Management
4 2 (4.348%) TOGAF
4 2 (4.348%) Systems Analysis
4 2 (4.348%) Web Application Development
4 2 (4.348%) Migration
4 2 (4.348%) Lean Six Sigma
4 2 (4.348%) Problem Management
5 1 (2.174%) SAP Implementation
5 1 (2.174%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (2.174%) Web Testing
5 1 (2.174%) Test Scripting
5 1 (2.174%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) RPG
2 9 (19.57%) RPG IV
3 7 (15.22%) COBOL
4 6 (13.04%) SQL
5 2 (4.348%) C#
5 2 (4.348%) RPG/400
6 1 (2.174%) C++
6 1 (2.174%) Java
6 1 (2.174%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.174%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (2.174%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (2.174%) PMP
1 1 (2.174%) PMI Certification
1 1 (2.174%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.696%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.696%) WSUS
2 3 (6.522%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) Oracle
2 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.39%) SAP
4 7 (15.22%) IBM
5 6 (13.04%) Cognos
5 6 (13.04%) Lotus
5 6 (13.04%) JD Edwards
6 4 (8.696%) Sage
6 4 (8.696%) Baan
7 1 (2.174%) HP
7 1 (2.174%) Empirix
Berkshire
AS400 iSeries Developer - Development Background - Slough - Berkshire - West London - Thames Valley. To work on projects covering RPG/ILE free format... Exposure to WebSphere, MQ and XML would be...
Proactive Appointments
Rate: Unspecified HIgh
Posted: 12 June 2013
Slough, Berkshire
o Comprehensive development expertise with IBM platforms iSeries, RPG 4, RPG ILE, Free Format, IBM WebSphere, DB2, MQ, o iSeries /AS400, RPG400, RPGLE, Midas, Embedded SQL, MQ Series,...
Avance Consulting
Posted: 12 June 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Core systems are based on iSeries, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, WebSphere (MQ and DataStage), RPG & .NET... iSeries/zSeries, UNIX, Linux & corresponding applications & tools... Waterfall, Agile, TOGAF, Lean/Six...
SEC Recruitment Limited
Rate: £200 - £240 per annum + daily
Posted: 12 June 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Core systems are based on iSeries, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, WebSphere (MQ and DataStage), RPG & .NET... iSeries/zSeries, UNIX, Linux & corresponding applications & tools... Waterfall, Agile, TOGAF, Lean/Six...
SEC Recruitment Limited
Rate: £220 - £230 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Middlesex
The position will have full accountability for the set up, configuration, testing, data migration and ongoing support of the system... The AS400 Systems Administrator will be capable and...
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 17 June 2013
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