South Yorkshire Mainframe Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Mainframes skills within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Mainframe over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cardiff Chatham Cheshire Chester City of London Clydebank County Antrim Coventry Croydon Devon Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Folkestone Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Romford Scotland Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staines Stevenage Street Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	37
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.563 %	8.889 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£170
Average daily rate	-	£175
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£180
UK excluding London average daily rate	£372	£383
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
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	£20.90	£30.11
% change on same period last year	-30.59 %
Miscellaneous South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	64	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.085 %	0.046 %
Daily rates quoted	15	8
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£259
Average daily rate	£361	£288
% change on same period last year	+25.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.51	£11.83
Average hourly rate	£16.12	£14.67
% change on same period last year	+9.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.74	£17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£29.20
% change on same period last year	-16.30 %
Mainframe Yorkshire

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 Mainframe across the South Yorkshire 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 Mainframe across the South Yorkshire 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 Mainframe across the South Yorkshire region.

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Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (66.67 %) OS/390 2 1 (33.33 %) IBM Mainframe 2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (33.33 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT 2 1 (33.33 %) IBM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Mainframe Operator 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst Programmer 2 1 (33.33 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) OS/390 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) Java
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM