The first table below looks at the demand for MAINVIEW skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MAINVIEW over the 3 months to 17 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 Systems Management category.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BMC MAINVIEW
Rank 529 574 584
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +10
Contract jobs citing MAINVIEW 1 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.007% 0.007%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.032% 0.112% 0.110%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £338 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £338 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3118 3560 3639
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.720% 6.109% 5.937%
Number of daily rates quoted 1762 1821 1721
Average daily rate £375 £350 £368
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £227 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 165 224
Average hourly rate £21.00 £19.63 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.00% -16.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%

MAINVIEW
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MAINVIEW within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

MAINVIEW Jobs Demand Trend

MAINVIEW
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MAINVIEW within the UK.

MAINVIEW Daily Rate Trend

MAINVIEW
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MAINVIEW within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
Edinburgh +6 1 - -
Scotland -18 1 - -

MAINVIEW
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MAINVIEW 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 MAINVIEW.

1 2 (66.67%) zOS
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) CICS
2 1 (33.33%) BMC
2 1 (33.33%) CA
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus
2 1 (33.33%) OS/390
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (33.33%) Windows NT
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (33.33%) MVS
2 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
2 1 (33.33%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (33.33%) Control-M
2 1 (33.33%) RACF
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) AS400
2 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications

MAINVIEW
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MAINVIEW 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 MAINVIEW. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) CICS
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Programmer
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) DB2 DBA
1 1 (33.33%) MVS Operator
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) zOS
2 1 (33.33%) MVS
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows NT
2 1 (33.33%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
1 1 (33.33%) BMC PATROL
1 1 (33.33%) Control-M
1 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) BMC
2 1 (33.33%) CA
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy