The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe 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 IBM Mainframe over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Mainframe
Rank 221 221 228
Rank change year-on-year
0 +7
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 3 18 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.038% 0.177% 0.241%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.192% 0.940% 1.281%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 9
Average daily rate £400 £375 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +20.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £332 £247
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £455 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £330 £365
% change year-on-year
+40.15% -9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £21.25 -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1563 1915 1952
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 20.05% 18.87% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 717 810 808
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 177 180
Average hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £30.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% -10.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.60 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
IBM Mainframe
England

IBM Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East IBM Mainframe Jobs Demand Trend

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe across the South East region.

South East IBM Mainframe Daily Rate Trend

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East IBM Mainframe Daily Rate Histogram

IBM Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East IBM Mainframe Hourly Rate Trend

IBM Mainframe
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe within the South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Berkshire +17 3 £400 -
IBM Mainframe
England

IBM Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing IBM 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 IBM Mainframe.

1 10 (100.00%) IBM
1 10 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 8 (80.00%) Finance
3 5 (50.00%) Oracle
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
5 3 (30.00%) COBOL
5 3 (30.00%) UNIX
5 3 (30.00%) Windows
5 3 (30.00%) Linux
5 3 (30.00%) Flash
5 3 (30.00%) EMC
5 3 (30.00%) SAN
5 3 (30.00%) Tivoli
5 3 (30.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (30.00%) JCL
5 3 (30.00%) Cisco
5 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (30.00%) CLARiiON
5 3 (30.00%) Symmetrix
5 3 (30.00%) EMC Centera
5 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity
5 3 (30.00%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (30.00%) QA
5 3 (30.00%) System Testing
5 3 (30.00%) SRDF
6 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
6 2 (20.00%) Systems Analysis

IBM Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing IBM 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 IBM Mainframe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) Flash
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (10.00%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (10.00%) SAS
2 1 (10.00%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Storage Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IBM Storage Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (30.00%) CLARiiON
2 3 (30.00%) Symmetrix
2 3 (30.00%) EMC Centera
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) UNIX
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (30.00%) System Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (20.00%) TDD
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Information Security
2 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (10.00%) SOA
3 1 (10.00%) ETL
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (10.00%) Test Management
3 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) COBOL
2 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (30.00%) JCL
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (30.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) IBM
2 5 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (30.00%) EMC
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco
4 2 (20.00%) SAP
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (10.00%) Empirix
5 1 (10.00%) Lotus
5 1 (10.00%) Talend