The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in IT jobs advertised for the Chatham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Mainframe over the 3 months to 23 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 Chatham region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mainframes
Rank 4 11 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 1 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chatham 9.091% 4.762% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 33.33% 7.692% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £72,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-10.52% +18.75%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Chatham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
3 13 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chatham 27.27% 61.90% 45.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 5
Average salary £40,000 £29,000 £18,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.93% +61.11%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Mainframe
Kent

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chatham Mainframe Jobs Demand Trend

Mainframe
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Mainframe across the Chatham region.

Chatham Mainframe Salary Trend

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chatham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Mainframe.

1 12 (100.00%) XML
1 12 (100.00%) SOA
1 12 (100.00%) XML Schema
2 11 (91.67%) B2B
2 11 (91.67%) MQSeries
2 11 (91.67%) CICS
2 11 (91.67%) ETL
2 11 (91.67%) XSLT
2 11 (91.67%) Web Services
2 11 (91.67%) J2EE
2 11 (91.67%) DB2
3 10 (83.33%) FTP
4 9 (75.00%) COBOL
4 9 (75.00%) Load Balancing
4 9 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
5 8 (66.67%) BODI
5 8 (66.67%) Marketing
5 8 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
5 8 (66.67%) CA Endevor
5 8 (66.67%) Business Objects
5 8 (66.67%) Oracle
5 8 (66.67%) Informatica
5 8 (66.67%) Cognos
6 7 (58.33%) Data Modelling
6 7 (58.33%) Oracle 11g
7 6 (50.00%) JCL
7 6 (50.00%) UML
8 5 (41.67%) Finance
8 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (33.33%) Performance Management

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chatham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Mainframe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (100.00%) XML
1 12 (100.00%) XML Schema
2 11 (91.67%) XSLT
2 11 (91.67%) Web Services
2 11 (91.67%) J2EE
3 1 (8.333%) JAX-WS
3 1 (8.333%) JSF
3 1 (8.333%) JMX
3 1 (8.333%) JAXB
3 1 (8.333%) EJB
3 1 (8.333%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 11 (91.67%) MQSeries
1 11 (91.67%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) FTP
2 1 (8.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) DB2
2 8 (66.67%) BODI
3 7 (58.33%) Oracle 11g
General
1 8 (66.67%) Marketing
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Architect
2 11 (91.67%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (58.33%) Mainframe Architect
4 5 (41.67%) Team Leader
5 1 (8.333%) J2EE Architect
5 1 (8.333%) J2EE Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) SOA
2 11 (91.67%) B2B
2 11 (91.67%) ETL
3 9 (75.00%) Load Balancing
3 9 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
5 7 (58.33%) Data Modelling
6 6 (50.00%) UML
7 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (33.33%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) COBOL
2 6 (50.00%) JCL
3 1 (8.333%) Java
3 1 (8.333%) SQL
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Business Objects
1 8 (66.67%) Oracle
1 8 (66.67%) Informatica
1 8 (66.67%) Cognos