East Midlands IBM Mainframe Jobs

This section looks at the demand for IBM Mainframe skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM Mainframe over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barnsley Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Folkestone Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Salford Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Sussex Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	149	158
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching permanent IT job ads	27	29
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	3.169 %	3.262 %
Salaries quoted	20	28
Average minimum salary	£37,250	£39,714
Average salary	£40,425	£41,893
% change on same period last year	-3.50 %
Average maximum salary	£43,600	£44,071
UK excluding London average salary	£40,376	£38,718
% change on same period last year	+4.28 %
Miscellaneous East Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	852	889
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.450 %	0.364 %
Salaries quoted	709	727
Average minimum salary	£33,014	£31,751
Average salary	£36,368	£34,177
% change on same period last year	+6.41 %
Average maximum salary	£39,721	£36,602
UK excluding London average salary	£38,014	£39,235
% change on same period last year	-3.11 %
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IBM Mainframe
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe across the East Midlands region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leicestershire	+3	19	£41,079	+19.06 %
Nottinghamshire	-	7	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing IBM 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 IBM Mainframe.

1 45 (100.00 %) IBM 1 45 (100.00 %) Mainframe 2 23 (51.11 %) JCL 3 17 (37.78 %) NATURAL 3 17 (37.78 %) Adabas 4 15 (33.33 %) COBOL 4 15 (33.33 %) CICS 5 12 (26.67 %) UNIX 6 11 (24.44 %) Finance 7 8 (17.78 %) Windows 7 8 (17.78 %) ITIL 8 7 (15.56 %) SQL 8 7 (15.56 %) zOS 9 6 (13.33 %) VSAM 9 6 (13.33 %) NetApp

9 6 (13.33 %) TCP/IP 9 6 (13.33 %) DB2 9 6 (13.33 %) AIX 9 6 (13.33 %) Banking 10 4 (8.889 %) FTP 10 4 (8.889 %) MQSeries 10 4 (8.889 %) SAN 10 4 (8.889 %) AllFusion Endevor 11 3 (6.667 %) NetBackup 11 3 (6.667 %) Data Migration 11 3 (6.667 %) Linux 11 3 (6.667 %) Migration 11 3 (6.667 %) Replication 11 3 (6.667 %) PL/1 12 2 (4.444 %) CISA

IBM Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing IBM 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 IBM Mainframe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (4.444 %) ISPF 2 1 (2.222 %) HTML 2 1 (2.222 %) .NET 2 1 (2.222 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (2.222 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 15 (33.33 %) CICS 2 4 (8.889 %) MQSeries
Communications & Networking 1 6 (13.33 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (8.889 %) FTP 2 4 (8.889 %) SAN 3 1 (2.222 %) SNA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (37.78 %) Adabas 2 6 (13.33 %) DB2 3 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server 3 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 1 (2.222 %) WinRunner 1 1 (2.222 %) TestDirector 1 1 (2.222 %) QuickTest Pro 1 1 (2.222 %) LoadRunner	General 1 11 (24.44 %) Finance 2 6 (13.33 %) Banking 3 2 (4.444 %) Auditing 4 1 (2.222 %) Retail 4 1 (2.222 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 25 (55.56 %) Analyst 2 22 (48.89 %) Programmer 3 21 (46.67 %) Analyst Programmer 4 14 (31.11 %) Developer 5 12 (26.67 %) Senior Developer 5 12 (26.67 %) Analyst Developer 5 12 (26.67 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 5 12 (26.67 %) Senior Analyst 5 12 (26.67 %) Senior Analyst Developer 5 12 (26.67 %) Senior Programmer 5 12 (26.67 %) Natural/Adabas Developer 5 12 (26.67 %) Natural/Adabas Programmer 6 7 (15.56 %) COBOL Analyst 7 6 (13.33 %) COBOL Analyst Programmer 7 6 (13.33 %) COBOL Programmer 7 6 (13.33 %) Infrastructure Architect 7 6 (13.33 %) Architect 8 4 (8.889 %) Team Leader 8 4 (8.889 %) Auditor 8 4 (8.889 %) IT Auditor	Miscellaneous 1 45 (100.00 %) Mainframe 2 6 (13.33 %) VSAM 3 3 (6.667 %) Replication 4 1 (2.222 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 12 (26.67 %) UNIX 2 8 (17.78 %) Windows 3 7 (15.56 %) zOS 4 6 (13.33 %) AIX 5 3 (6.667 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (17.78 %) ITIL 2 3 (6.667 %) Migration 2 3 (6.667 %) Data Migration 3 2 (4.444 %) Penetration Testing 3 2 (4.444 %) Release Management 4 1 (2.222 %) Performance Testing
Programming Languages 1 23 (51.11 %) JCL 2 17 (37.78 %) NATURAL 3 15 (33.33 %) COBOL 4 7 (15.56 %) SQL 5 3 (6.667 %) PL/1 6 1 (2.222 %) C 6 1 (2.222 %) VB 6 1 (2.222 %) VB.NET 6 1 (2.222 %) REXX	Qualifications 1 2 (4.444 %) CISA 1 2 (4.444 %) QiCA 2 1 (2.222 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.444 %) QA 2 1 (2.222 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (6.667 %) NetBackup 2 2 (4.444 %) RACF
Systems Management 1 4 (8.889 %) AllFusion Endevor	Vendors 1 45 (100.00 %) IBM 2 6 (13.33 %) NetApp 3 1 (2.222 %) Microsoft