The first table below looks at the demand for OpenVMS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenVMS over the 3 months to 24 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.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OpenVMS
Rank 513 577 568
Rank change year-on-year
+64 -9
Contract jobs citing OpenVMS 16 7 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.012% 0.026%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.160% 0.059% 0.126%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 9
Average daily rate £400 £381 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.91% -11.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £346 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £416 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £425 £322
% change year-on-year
-28.23% +31.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £32.00
All Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
10015 11813 12724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 21.59% 20.26% 20.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5378 5865 6230
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £199 £195 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 1187 1248
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.21 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%

OpenVMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

OpenVMS Jobs Demand Trend

OpenVMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

OpenVMS Daily Rate Trend

OpenVMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenVMS within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

OpenVMS Daily Rate Histogram

OpenVMS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OpenVMS within the UK.

OpenVMS Hourly Rate Trend

OpenVMS
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenVMS within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +55 13 £400 +4.91%
London +46 9 £400 +18.51%
City of London - 2 £363 -
Yorkshire - 2 £275 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £275 -
South East +15 1 - -
North West - 1 £400 -
Cleckheaton - 1 £275 -
Surrey - 1 - -

OpenVMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OpenVMS 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 OpenVMS.

1 16 (55.17%) VMS
1 16 (55.17%) HP
2 13 (44.83%) Linux
3 12 (41.38%) Red Hat
4 11 (37.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (34.48%) DCL
5 10 (34.48%) Oracle
6 9 (31.03%) C++
6 9 (31.03%) Solaris
6 9 (31.03%) Finance
7 7 (24.14%) UNIX
8 6 (20.69%) C
8 6 (20.69%) Oracle Certification
8 6 (20.69%) OCP
8 6 (20.69%) PowerHouse
8 6 (20.69%) Pascal
8 6 (20.69%) JIRA
8 6 (20.69%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (17.24%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (17.24%) DECnet
9 5 (17.24%) RHCE
9 5 (17.24%) IBM
10 4 (13.79%) Automotive
11 3 (10.34%) Automated Testing
11 3 (10.34%) High Availability
11 3 (10.34%) WatiN
11 3 (10.34%) Test Management
11 3 (10.34%) Test Scripting
11 3 (10.34%) QA

OpenVMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OpenVMS 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 OpenVMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (10.34%) XML
2 1 (3.448%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.448%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.448%) CMS
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (3.448%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.448%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.448%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) DECnet
2 1 (3.448%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.448%) QlikView
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (3.448%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) JIRA
2 3 (10.34%) WatiN
2 3 (10.34%) Selenium
3 1 (3.448%) LoadRunner
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Automotive
3 2 (6.897%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.897%) Banking
3 2 (6.897%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.448%) Publishing
4 1 (3.448%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Developer
2 4 (13.79%) Programmer
2 4 (13.79%) Administrator
2 4 (13.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Technical Manager
3 3 (10.34%) QA Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (10.34%) Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Technical Project Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.897%) Analyst Programmer
4 2 (6.897%) QA Leader
4 2 (6.897%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (6.897%) UNIX Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Performance Tester
5 1 (3.448%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (3.448%) OpenVMS Administrator
5 1 (3.448%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.897%) Freedom of Information
1 2 (6.897%) SaaS
1 2 (6.897%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (6.897%) Freedom of Information Act
1 2 (6.897%) Computer Science
1 2 (6.897%) VAX
2 1 (3.448%) Clustering
2 1 (3.448%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.448%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) VMS
2 13 (44.83%) Linux
3 11 (37.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (31.03%) Solaris
5 7 (24.14%) UNIX
6 3 (10.34%) Windows
6 3 (10.34%) AIX
7 2 (6.897%) HPUX
8 1 (3.448%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (3.448%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (17.24%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (10.34%) Automated Testing
3 3 (10.34%) High Availability
3 3 (10.34%) Test Management
3 3 (10.34%) Test Scripting
4 2 (6.897%) ERP
4 2 (6.897%) Project Management
4 2 (6.897%) Service Delivery
4 2 (6.897%) Change Management
4 2 (6.897%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (6.897%) Data Protection
4 2 (6.897%) Migration
5 1 (3.448%) Software Testing
5 1 (3.448%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.448%) Test Strategy
5 1 (3.448%) Waterfall
5 1 (3.448%) Problem Management
5 1 (3.448%) Performance Testing
5 1 (3.448%) Cash Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) DCL
2 9 (31.03%) C++
3 6 (20.69%) C
3 6 (20.69%) PowerHouse
3 6 (20.69%) Pascal
4 3 (10.34%) Fortran
4 3 (10.34%) SQL
5 1 (3.448%) Korn
5 1 (3.448%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.448%) VB
5 1 (3.448%) C#
5 1 (3.448%) COBOL
5 1 (3.448%) Java
5 1 (3.448%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle Certification
1 6 (20.69%) OCP
2 5 (17.24%) RHCE
3 2 (6.897%) Degree
4 1 (3.448%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.448%) OCA
4 1 (3.448%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (3.448%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (3.448%) Data Guard
2 1 (3.448%) Tivoli
2 1 (3.448%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) HP
2 12 (41.38%) Red Hat
3 10 (34.48%) Oracle
4 5 (17.24%) IBM
5 1 (3.448%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.448%) Sun
5 1 (3.448%) Citrix
5 1 (3.448%) BEA