South Wales AS400 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM AS/400 skills within the South Wales region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited AS400 over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM AS/400
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridgeshire Cannock Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leatherhead Leeds London Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Surrey Thames Valley UK Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	51
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.877 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£369
% change on same period last year	-13.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.84	£30.24
% change on same period last year	+8.58 %
Miscellaneous South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	101	114
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.163 %	0.124 %
Daily rates quoted	40	30
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£315
Average daily rate	£349	£350
% change on same period last year	-0.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£345
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.85	£20.23
Average hourly rate	£23.78	£23.84
% change on same period last year	-0.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.70	£27.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.44	£25.60
% change on same period last year	-0.62 %
AS400 Wales

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 AS400 across the South Wales 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 AS400 across the South Wales 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 AS400 across the South Wales region.

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 3 (100.00 %) iSeries 2 2 (66.67 %) VB6 2 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 2 (66.67 %) ISEB 2 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 2 (66.67 %) Java 2 2 (66.67 %) VB 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) CRM 3 1 (33.33 %) Back Office 3 1 (33.33 %) IBM 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET 3 1 (33.33 %) IP Telephony 3 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (33.33 %) System Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 1 (33.33 %) .NET	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) IP Telephony
General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Analyst 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Technical Architect 2 1 (33.33 %) Architect
Miscellaneous 1 3 (100.00 %) iSeries	Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) CRM 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (33.33 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) Java 1 2 (66.67 %) VB 1 2 (66.67 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) IBM