The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mainframe over the 3 months to 22 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the West Sussex region.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mainframes
Rank 40 54 28
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -26
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 2 2 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 0.514% 0.300% 5.000%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.985% 1.942% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 19
Average daily rate £438 £425 £383
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% +11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £381 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+8.92% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.98 £21.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+30.13% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
67 103 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 17.22% 15.47% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 52 46
Average daily rate £415 £313 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.80% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £275 £269
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £475 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 7
Average hourly rate £21.75 £26.00 £21.79
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.34% +19.32%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Mainframe
South East

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Mainframe across the West Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

West Sussex Mainframe Jobs Demand Trend

Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Mainframe across the West Sussex region.

West Sussex Mainframe Daily Rate Trend

Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Mainframe across the West Sussex region.

West Sussex Mainframe Hourly Rate Trend

Mainframe
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 22 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
Crawley +9 2 £438 +2.94%
Mainframe
South East

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 3 (42.86%) Middleware
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (42.86%) AS400
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) iSeries
2 2 (28.57%) XenApp
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Project Planning
2 2 (28.57%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) LoadRunner
2 2 (28.57%) Service Management
2 2 (28.57%) Back Office
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
2 2 (28.57%) UNIX
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Test Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Test Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) AS400
2 2 (28.57%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
2 2 (28.57%) Project Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Service Management
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) C
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (28.57%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) IBM