The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Mainframe over the 3 months to 24 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mainframes
Rank 92 69 67
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -2
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 3 5 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.256% 0.590% 1.745%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.761% 2.475% 7.589%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 17
Average salary £41,000 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.52% +3.65%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £40,250
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +18.01%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
394 202 224
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 33.65% 23.82% 23.00%
Number of salaries quoted 232 131 169
Average salary £45,000 £34,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.43% -5.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,750 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Mainframe
Scotland

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Mainframe Salary Trend

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) IBM Mainframe
2 5 (71.43%) IBM
3 3 (42.86%) EMC
3 3 (42.86%) SAN
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 3 (42.86%) CLARiiON
3 3 (42.86%) Symmetrix DMX
3 3 (42.86%) SRDF
3 3 (42.86%) Brocade
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (28.57%) NAS
4 2 (28.57%) Symmetrix
4 2 (28.57%) Service Management
4 2 (28.57%) NetBackup
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) UNIX
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle 9i
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) Veritas
5 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (14.29%) Symantec
5 1 (14.29%) Windows
5 1 (14.29%) AIX
5 1 (14.29%) Solaris
5 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (14.29%) ATL
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Streams
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) ChangeMan
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) DBA
1 2 (28.57%) Administrator
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) SQL DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Team Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Server Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
2 1 (14.29%) Teradata DBA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) IBM Mainframe
2 3 (42.86%) CLARiiON
2 3 (42.86%) Symmetrix DMX
3 2 (28.57%) Symmetrix
4 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
4 1 (14.29%) Clustering
4 1 (14.29%) Celerra
4 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) AIX
2 1 (14.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Service Management
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
2 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
2 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) SRDF
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) NetBackup
2 1 (14.29%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) IBM
2 3 (42.86%) EMC
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Brocade
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Veritas
4 1 (14.29%) Symantec