England Mainframe Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Mainframes skills within the England region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Mainframe over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Kent Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rugby Salford Scotland Sheffield Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Stevenage Stirling Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	273	282
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching permanent IT job ads	1331	1404
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.651 %	0.603 %
As % of the category below	3.027 %	2.460 %
Salaries quoted	1060	1169
Average minimum salary	£40,499	£40,780
Average salary	£44,226	£44,454
% change on same period last year	-0.51 %
Average maximum salary	£47,953	£48,128
UK excluding London average salary	£41,450	£39,853
% change on same period last year	+4.00 %
Miscellaneous England
Matching permanent IT job ads	43972	57083
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	21.51 %	24.51 %
Salaries quoted	35253	43119
Average minimum salary	£46,385	£49,175
Average salary	£51,172	£54,078
% change on same period last year	-5.37 %
Average maximum salary	£55,958	£58,982
UK excluding London average salary	£38,562	£39,072
% change on same period last year	-1.30 %
Mainframe UK

Mainframe
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Mainframe across the England 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 ads citing Mainframe across the England region.

Mainframe
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Mainframe across the England region over the past 3 months.

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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 Mainframe within the England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	South East	+29	302	£45,767	+7.18 %
2	Yorkshire	+67	284	£33,264	+6.54 %
3	North West	+4	243	£45,562	+16.73 %
4	London	-96	238	£54,922	+2.92 %
5	East of England	+38	102	£40,817	-1.64 %
6	South West	-83	68	£38,080	-7.42 %
7	East Midlands	-14	62	£39,049	+1.86 %
8	West Midlands	-2	35	£45,740	+38.97 %
9	Midlands	+2	12	£46,300	+8.46 %

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Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Mainframe also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Mainframe.

1 1173 (41.68 %) Finance 2 846 (30.06 %) Unix 3 650 (23.10 %) IBM 4 616 (21.89 %) Windows 5 563 (20.01 %) COBOL 6 532 (18.91 %) DB2 7 464 (16.49 %) Banking 8 418 (14.85 %) IBM Mainframe 9 408 (14.50 %) CICS 10 364 (12.94 %) Project Management 11 351 (12.47 %) SQL 12 343 (12.19 %) Microsoft 13 302 (10.73 %) PRINCE2 14 294 (10.45 %) Oracle 15 279 (9.915 %) Java

16 273 (9.701 %) SAN 17 269 (9.559 %) JCL 18 250 (8.884 %) MVS 19 240 (8.529 %) ITIL 20 239 (8.493 %) Stakeholder Management 21 214 (7.605 %) Degree 22 213 (7.569 %) WebSphere 23 196 (6.965 %) SOA 24 194 (6.894 %) .NET 25 188 (6.681 %) Retail 26 180 (6.397 %) Pensions 27 171 (6.077 %) J2EE 28 164 (5.828 %) AIX 29 159 (5.650 %) AS400 30 152 (5.402 %) Time Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Mainframe also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Mainframe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 213 (7.569 %) WebSphere 2 194 (6.894 %) .NET 3 171 (6.077 %) J2EE 4 129 (4.584 %) XML 5 104 (3.696 %) ISPF 6 92 (3.269 %) Middleware 7 79 (2.807 %) WebServices 8 74 (2.630 %) HTML 9 22 (0.782 %) XSLT 9 22 (0.782 %) CSS 9 22 (0.782 %) Struts 10 21 (0.746 %) JDBC 10 21 (0.746 %) ODBC 11 20 (0.711 %) ASP.NET 11 20 (0.711 %) JMS 12 19 (0.675 %) NetBeans 13 18 (0.640 %) XMLBeans 13 18 (0.640 %) XHTML 13 18 (0.640 %) J2SE 13 18 (0.640 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 408 (14.50 %) CICS 2 81 (2.878 %) SAS 3 73 (2.594 %) WebLogic 4 62 (2.203 %) MQSeries 5 32 (1.137 %) IIS 5 32 (1.137 %) Lotus Notes 6 27 (0.959 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 27 (0.959 %) Tomcat 6 27 (0.959 %) WebSphere MQ 6 27 (0.959 %) ESB 7 24 (0.853 %) JBoss 8 19 (0.675 %) MS Exchange 9 18 (0.640 %) Papyrus 10 17 (0.604 %) CMS 11 16 (0.569 %) DOC1 11 16 (0.569 %) BizTalk Server 12 15 (0.533 %) Documentum 13 12 (0.426 %) StreamWeaver 14 11 (0.391 %) Apache 15 10 (0.355 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 147 (5.224 %) MS Excel 2 132 (4.691 %) MS Office 3 91 (3.234 %) MS Project 4 69 (2.452 %) MS Visio 5 24 (0.853 %) MS PowerPoint 6 14 (0.498 %) CA Clarity 7 12 (0.426 %) PrintSoft PReS 8 8 (0.284 %) SPSS 9 2 (0.071 %) Open Workbench 10 1 (0.036 %) XMetaL	Business Applications 1 16 (0.569 %) SoftGrid 2 9 (0.320 %) Oracle Financials 3 8 (0.284 %) VisionPLUS 4 7 (0.249 %) BPCS 5 6 (0.213 %) Oracle CRM 6 5 (0.178 %) HiPortfolio 6 5 (0.178 %) Unica Affinium 7 3 (0.107 %) PeopleSoft Financials 8 1 (0.036 %) Great Plains 8 1 (0.036 %) Oracle Applications 8 1 (0.036 %) BASE24 8 1 (0.036 %) Global One 8 1 (0.036 %) Minerva 8 1 (0.036 %) RMDS 8 1 (0.036 %) SAP Retail 8 1 (0.036 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 273 (9.701 %) SAN 2 71 (2.523 %) TCP/IP 3 40 (1.421 %) Firewall 4 33 (1.173 %) Internet 5 32 (1.137 %) LAN 6 30 (1.066 %) WAN 7 29 (1.031 %) Wireless 8 27 (0.959 %) SMS 9 25 (0.888 %) DNS 10 20 (0.711 %) IPX 11 19 (0.675 %) IP Telephony 12 18 (0.640 %) VPN 13 16 (0.569 %) Wi-Fi 14 15 (0.533 %) FTP 15 12 (0.426 %) HTTP 15 12 (0.426 %) VoIP 16 11 (0.391 %) Network Security 17 10 (0.355 %) Intrusion Detection 17 10 (0.355 %) SNA 18 9 (0.320 %) WINS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 532 (18.91 %) DB2 2 109 (3.873 %) Datawarehouse 3 102 (3.625 %) SQL Server 4 85 (3.021 %) Adabas 5 44 (1.564 %) BusinessObjects 6 37 (1.315 %) ETL 7 25 (0.888 %) MySQL 8 20 (0.711 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 16 (0.569 %) RDBMS 10 11 (0.391 %) DataStage 11 10 (0.355 %) MS Access 12 9 (0.320 %) OLAP 12 9 (0.320 %) Base SAS 13 8 (0.284 %) IDMS 14 7 (0.249 %) Database Marketing 15 5 (0.178 %) Data Mart 15 5 (0.178 %) Oracle Reports 16 4 (0.142 %) Crystal Reports 16 4 (0.142 %) Informix 16 4 (0.142 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 50 (1.777 %) TestDirector 2 42 (1.493 %) LoadRunner 3 41 (1.457 %) WinRunner 4 36 (1.279 %) QuickTest Pro 5 31 (1.102 %) Eclipse 6 20 (0.711 %) JUnit 7 18 (0.640 %) JBuilder 7 18 (0.640 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 7 18 (0.640 %) JDeveloper 7 18 (0.640 %) Log4j 8 15 (0.533 %) Rational Rose 9 12 (0.426 %) PowerBuilder 10 11 (0.391 %) Visual Studio 11 5 (0.178 %) Synon 11 5 (0.178 %) Ant 11 5 (0.178 %) ERwin 11 5 (0.178 %) WebLOAD 12 4 (0.142 %) Dreamweaver 13 3 (0.107 %) VSS/SourceSafe 13 3 (0.107 %) PeopleTools	General 1 1173 (41.68 %) Finance 2 464 (16.49 %) Banking 3 188 (6.681 %) Retail 4 180 (6.397 %) Pensions 5 149 (5.295 %) Insurance 6 128 (4.549 %) Telecoms 7 106 (3.767 %) Health 8 58 (2.061 %) Financial Institution 9 48 (1.706 %) Investment Banking 10 33 (1.173 %) Auditing 11 32 (1.137 %) Marketing 11 32 (1.137 %) Billing 12 30 (1.066 %) Back Office 13 22 (0.782 %) Government 14 19 (0.675 %) Education 15 18 (0.640 %) Manufacturing 16 13 (0.462 %) Law 17 10 (0.355 %) Legal 17 10 (0.355 %) General Ledger 18 9 (0.320 %) Private Banking
Job Titles 1 828 (29.42 %) Analyst 2 394 (14.00 %) Project Manager 3 244 (8.671 %) Developer 4 234 (8.316 %) Programmer 5 230 (8.173 %) Architect 6 212 (7.534 %) Consultant 7 167 (5.935 %) Analyst Programmer 8 144 (5.117 %) Business Analyst 9 98 (3.483 %) COBOL Programmer 10 96 (3.412 %) COBOL Analyst 11 82 (2.914 %) Senior Analyst 12 79 (2.807 %) Systems Analyst 13 78 (2.772 %) COBOL Analyst Programmer 14 73 (2.594 %) Programme Manager 15 70 (2.488 %) Tester 16 69 (2.452 %) Infrastructure Manager 17 68 (2.416 %) Support Analyst 18 67 (2.381 %) Enterprise Architect 19 66 (2.345 %) Test Analyst 20 65 (2.310 %) Senior Manager	Miscellaneous 1 418 (14.85 %) IBM Mainframe 2 159 (5.650 %) AS400 3 85 (3.021 %) Tandem 4 80 (2.843 %) Client/Server 5 45 (1.599 %) Management Information System 6 24 (0.853 %) VSAM 7 22 (0.782 %) Equities 7 22 (0.782 %) Asset Management 8 20 (0.711 %) Replication 8 20 (0.711 %) Computer Science 9 19 (0.675 %) Clustering 9 19 (0.675 %) Derivative 10 16 (0.569 %) Mathematics 11 14 (0.498 %) Blackberry 12 12 (0.426 %) PMI 12 12 (0.426 %) Cryptography 13 11 (0.391 %) Equity Derivative 14 9 (0.320 %) Data Integration 14 9 (0.320 %) EFT 15 8 (0.284 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 846 (30.06 %) Unix 2 616 (21.89 %) Windows 3 250 (8.884 %) MVS 4 164 (5.828 %) AIX 5 142 (5.046 %) zOS 6 100 (3.554 %) Linux 7 93 (3.305 %) Solaris 8 90 (3.198 %) Windows NT 9 43 (1.528 %) Windows 2000 10 41 (1.457 %) OS/390 11 40 (1.421 %) HPUX 12 31 (1.102 %) Windows XP 13 26 (0.924 %) VMS 14 18 (0.640 %) OS/400 15 8 (0.284 %) Windows Server 2003 15 8 (0.284 %) OpenVMS 16 7 (0.249 %) VME 17 2 (0.071 %) Tru64 17 2 (0.071 %) SUSE 17 2 (0.071 %) FreeBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 364 (12.94 %) Project Management 2 302 (10.73 %) PRINCE2 3 240 (8.529 %) ITIL 4 239 (8.493 %) Stakeholder Management 5 196 (6.965 %) SOA 6 152 (5.402 %) Time Management 7 134 (4.762 %) Supplier Management 8 120 (4.264 %) Service Delivery 9 105 (3.731 %) Resource Management 10 104 (3.696 %) Migration 11 103 (3.660 %) UML 12 95 (3.376 %) Matrix Management 13 93 (3.305 %) Business Analysis 14 92 (3.269 %) Change Management 15 86 (3.056 %) Data Migration 16 84 (2.985 %) Business Intelligence 17 80 (2.843 %) Regression Testing 18 78 (2.772 %) EAI 19 73 (2.594 %) OO 20 63 (2.239 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 563 (20.01 %) COBOL 2 351 (12.47 %) SQL 3 279 (9.915 %) Java 4 269 (9.559 %) JCL 5 145 (5.153 %) VB 6 95 (3.376 %) C++ 7 84 (2.985 %) VB6 8 73 (2.594 %) C 9 40 (1.421 %) C# 10 34 (1.208 %) NATURAL 11 33 (1.173 %) Assembly Language 12 29 (1.031 %) REXX 12 29 (1.031 %) JavaScript 13 28 (0.995 %) PL/1 14 19 (0.675 %) Perl 15 18 (0.640 %) VB.NET 15 18 (0.640 %) XPath 16 17 (0.604 %) VBScript 17 16 (0.569 %) Delphi 18 15 (0.533 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 214 (7.605 %) Degree 2 103 (3.660 %) PMP 2 103 (3.660 %) PMI Certification 3 98 (3.483 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 91 (3.234 %) ISEB 5 46 (1.635 %) HND 6 31 (1.102 %) ITIL Certification 7 30 (1.066 %) Microsoft Certification 8 28 (0.995 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 26 (0.924 %) CISA 10 24 (0.853 %) Cisco Certification 11 22 (0.782 %) CISSP 12 21 (0.746 %) MCSE 13 18 (0.640 %) Sun Certification 14 17 (0.604 %) QiCA 15 16 (0.569 %) CCNP 15 16 (0.569 %) MCP 16 14 (0.498 %) ISEB Practitioner 17 9 (0.320 %) CCNA 18 8 (0.284 %) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 84 (2.985 %) SLA 2 74 (2.630 %) QA 3 22 (0.782 %) COBIT 4 13 (0.462 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 4 (0.142 %) ISO17799 6 3 (0.107 %) ISO27001 7 1 (0.036 %) PCI DSS 7 1 (0.036 %) PCI QSA 7 1 (0.036 %) ISO8583 7 1 (0.036 %) BS7799	System Software 1 75 (2.665 %) Active Directory 2 41 (1.457 %) RACF 3 20 (0.711 %) Backup Exec 4 10 (0.355 %) NetBackup 4 10 (0.355 %) Oracle RAC 5 3 (0.107 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 6 2 (0.071 %) AquaLogic 6 2 (0.071 %) Terminal Services 6 2 (0.071 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 1 (0.036 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 72 (2.559 %) Tivoli 2 42 (1.493 %) OMEGAMON 3 38 (1.350 %) CONTROL-M 4 22 (0.782 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 20 (0.711 %) CiscoWorks 6 19 (0.675 %) Foglight 7 17 (0.604 %) OpenView 8 10 (0.355 %) AllFusion Endevor 9 8 (0.284 %) AutoSys 10 7 (0.249 %) Tivoli NetView 11 5 (0.178 %) MOM 11 5 (0.178 %) Legato 11 5 (0.178 %) MIMEsweeper 11 5 (0.178 %) ServiceCenter 12 4 (0.142 %) Unicenter 13 2 (0.071 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 13 2 (0.071 %) WSUS 13 2 (0.071 %) EMC NetWorker 14 1 (0.036 %) MAILsweeper	Vendors 1 650 (23.10 %) IBM 2 343 (12.19 %) Microsoft 3 294 (10.45 %) Oracle 4 91 (3.234 %) SAP 5 79 (2.807 %) Citrix 6 55 (1.955 %) HP 7 51 (1.812 %) Sybase 8 50 (1.777 %) Sun 9 46 (1.635 %) Intel 9 46 (1.635 %) Remedy 10 44 (1.564 %) Business Objects 11 42 (1.493 %) CA 12 38 (1.350 %) EMC 13 37 (1.315 %) Siebel 14 36 (1.279 %) ICL 15 34 (1.208 %) Lotus 16 32 (1.137 %) BEA 17 31 (1.102 %) Teradata 18 30 (1.066 %) Cognos 19 28 (0.995 %) Unisys