South Yorkshire MVS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM MVS skills within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MVS over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM MVS
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Blackpool Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Crawley Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Guildford Halifax Hampshire Lancashire Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Norwich Reading Romford Scotland South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Warrington West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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	£365	£392
% change on same period last year	-7.01 %
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	£17.50	£21.50
% change on same period last year	-18.60 %
Operating Systems South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	151	221
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.205 %	0.219 %
Daily rates quoted	16	47
Average minimum daily rate	£266	£304
Average daily rate	£278	£330
% change on same period last year	-15.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£291	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£337
% change on same period last year	-2.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	90	57
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.92	£22.57
Average hourly rate	£25.86	£23.55
% change on same period last year	+9.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.80	£24.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.58	£22.59
% change on same period last year	-0.04 %
MVS 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.

MVS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MVS across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

MVS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MVS across the South Yorkshire region.