The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mainframe 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Yorkshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mainframes
Rank 99 103 91
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -12
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 18 19 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.924% 0.784% 0.786%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.186% 5.053% 4.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 10
Average daily rate £375 £380 £373
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.31% +2.01%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £368 £291
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £432 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.75 £21.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-8.13% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
430 376 366
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 22.07% 15.51% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 194 157
Average daily rate £313 £338 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £210 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £465 £489
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 14 30
Average hourly rate £15.75 £16.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.56% -28.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.83 £11.00 £10.62
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £30.00 £44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Mainframe Daily Rate Trend

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mainframe across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Yorkshire Mainframe Daily Rate Histogram

Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region 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
West Yorkshire -2 14 £271 -28.61%
North Yorkshire - - - - 2
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 13 (56.52%) zOS
2 12 (52.17%) Control-M
2 12 (52.17%) COBOL
3 11 (47.83%) Finance
4 10 (43.48%) SLA
5 9 (39.13%) CICS
5 9 (39.13%) ChangeMan
6 8 (34.78%) Problem Management
6 8 (34.78%) Release Management
7 5 (21.74%) HP
7 5 (21.74%) DB2
7 5 (21.74%) JCL
8 3 (13.04%) MVS
8 3 (13.04%) Internet
8 3 (13.04%) OS/390
8 3 (13.04%) Oracle
8 3 (13.04%) ITIL
8 3 (13.04%) Banking
8 3 (13.04%) CA Endevor
8 3 (13.04%) VSAM
9 2 (8.696%) Data Analysis
9 2 (8.696%) Migration
9 2 (8.696%) Information Security
9 2 (8.696%) Performance Management
9 2 (8.696%) Incident Management
9 2 (8.696%) Windows
9 2 (8.696%) VBA
9 2 (8.696%) MS Office
9 2 (8.696%) MS Excel
9 2 (8.696%) Middleware

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 2 (8.696%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 9 (39.13%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (8.696%) MS Office
1 2 (8.696%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Internet
2 1 (4.348%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) DB2
2 1 (4.348%) DataStage
2 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) ChangeMan
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Banking
3 1 (4.348%) Retail Banking
3 1 (4.348%) Retail
3 1 (4.348%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Technical Support
2 4 (17.39%) Analyst
3 2 (8.696%) Administrator
3 2 (8.696%) Developer
4 1 (4.348%) Security Consultant
4 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (4.348%) IT Consultant
4 1 (4.348%) Consultant
4 1 (4.348%) DBA
4 1 (4.348%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.348%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (4.348%) Programmer
4 1 (4.348%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.348%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (4.348%) Mainframe Analyst Programmer
4 1 (4.348%) Mainframe Operator
4 1 (4.348%) Mainframe Programmer
4 1 (4.348%) Risk Consultant
4 1 (4.348%) IT Risk Consultant
4 1 (4.348%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) zOS
2 3 (13.04%) MVS
2 3 (13.04%) OS/390
3 2 (8.696%) Windows
4 1 (4.348%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Problem Management
1 8 (34.78%) Release Management
2 3 (13.04%) ITIL
3 2 (8.696%) Data Analysis
3 2 (8.696%) Migration
3 2 (8.696%) Information Security
3 2 (8.696%) Performance Management
3 2 (8.696%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) COBOL
2 5 (21.74%) JCL
3 2 (8.696%) VBA
4 1 (4.348%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (43.48%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.696%) RACF
2 1 (4.348%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Control-M
2 3 (13.04%) CA Endevor
3 1 (4.348%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) HP
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
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