The first table below looks at the demand for OS/390 skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OS/390 over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Operating Systems category for the South West 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM OS/390 (OS390)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing OS/390 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £168 £300 -
% change year-on-year
-44.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Operating Systems
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
502 720 574
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 24.98% 22.19% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 352 244
Average daily rate £325 £420 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.61% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £288 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 74 87
Average hourly rate £14.02 £21.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.23% +5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £41.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
OS/390
England

OS/390
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OS/390 across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

South West OS/390 Jobs Demand Trend

OS/390
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OS/390 across the South West region.

South West OS/390 Daily Rate Trend

OS/390
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OS/390 across the South West region.

South West OS/390 Hourly Rate Trend

OS/390
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing OS/390 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 OS/390.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) OLAP
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Hyperion
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) Essbase
1 2 (100.00%) Teradata
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing

OS/390
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing OS/390 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 OS/390. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) OLAP
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Essbase
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Hyperion
1 2 (100.00%) Teradata