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OS/390 Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for OS/390 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OS/390 over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM OS/390 (OS390)
Rank 536 562 598
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +36
Contract jobs citing OS/390 5 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.010% 0.014% 0.005%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.047% 0.067% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £168 £300 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-44.16% -33.33%
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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 10638 11876 13096
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 22.11% 20.46% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5779 5837 6499
Average daily rate £351 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £188 £210
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 967 1204 1259
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%

OS/390
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK.

OS/390 Hourly Rate Trend

OS/390
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OS/390 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
England +11 5 £168 -44.16%
Leominster - - - -
Herefordshire - - - -
West Midlands - - - -

OS/390
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 7 (77.78%) DB2
1 7 (77.78%) JCL
2 4 (44.44%) Mainframe
2 4 (44.44%) IBM
2 4 (44.44%) VSAM
2 4 (44.44%) COBOL
2 4 (44.44%) zOS
2 4 (44.44%) MVS
3 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 3 (33.33%) SLA
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) OLAP
3 3 (33.33%) Essbase
3 3 (33.33%) Teradata
3 3 (33.33%) CA Endevor
3 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 3 (33.33%) HP
3 3 (33.33%) Hyperion
3 3 (33.33%) Control-M
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) System Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 2 (22.22%) RACF
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) UNIX
4 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) Linux
4 2 (22.22%) Tivoli

OS/390
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
1 1 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) DB2
2 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 3 (33.33%) OLAP
2 3 (33.33%) Essbase
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Mainframe
1 4 (44.44%) VSAM
2 1 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) zOS
1 4 (44.44%) MVS
2 2 (22.22%) UNIX
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 3 (33.33%) System Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Critical Path Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) JCL
2 4 (44.44%) COBOL
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) RACF
2 1 (11.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) CA Endevor
1 3 (33.33%) Control-M
2 2 (22.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) IBM
2 3 (33.33%) Teradata
2 3 (33.33%) HP
2 3 (33.33%) Hyperion
3 1 (11.11%) Unisys
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