The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in IT jobs advertised for the Kent 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mainframes
Rank 73 69 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 18 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 1.571% 0.422% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.714% 1.442% -
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 0
Average salary £60,000 £50,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-10.52% +18.75%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
315 208 297
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 27.49% 29.25% 27.63%
Number of salaries quoted 262 181 267
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £24,401
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £50,600 £51,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Mainframe
South East

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Mainframe Salary Trend

Mainframe
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Mainframe across the Kent region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Kent Mainframe Salary Histogram

Mainframe
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Kent region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Folkestone +13 4 - -
Chatham +7 1 £72,500 -
Mainframe
South East

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 30 (61.22%) DB2
2 28 (57.14%) ETL
3 27 (55.10%) COBOL
4 25 (51.02%) Web Services
4 25 (51.02%) MQSeries
5 24 (48.98%) CICS
5 24 (48.98%) Oracle
6 23 (46.94%) J2EE
6 23 (46.94%) SOA
7 22 (44.90%) Capacity Planning
8 20 (40.82%) FTP
9 19 (38.78%) Data Modelling
9 19 (38.78%) XML
10 17 (34.69%) XML Schema
11 16 (32.65%) B2B
11 16 (32.65%) XSLT
12 15 (30.61%) Finance
12 15 (30.61%) Oracle 11g
13 13 (26.53%) Load Balancing
13 13 (26.53%) JCL
13 13 (26.53%) Business Objects
13 13 (26.53%) Informatica
14 12 (24.49%) Cognos
14 12 (24.49%) OOA/OOD
14 12 (24.49%) CA Endevor
14 12 (24.49%) BODI
14 12 (24.49%) Marketing
15 11 (22.45%) Java
16 10 (20.41%) UML
16 10 (20.41%) QA

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 25 (51.02%) Web Services
2 23 (46.94%) J2EE
3 19 (38.78%) XML
4 17 (34.69%) XML Schema
5 16 (32.65%) XSLT
6 5 (10.20%) .NET
6 5 (10.20%) WebSphere
7 4 (8.163%) .NET Framework
7 4 (8.163%) HTML
8 3 (6.122%) ASP.NET
8 3 (6.122%) Spring
8 3 (6.122%) Hibernate
8 3 (6.122%) Java EE
9 2 (4.082%) JAX-WS
9 2 (4.082%) JSF
9 2 (4.082%) JMX
9 2 (4.082%) EJB
9 2 (4.082%) JAXB
10 1 (2.041%) Middleware
10 1 (2.041%) XML Messaging
Application Platforms
1 25 (51.02%) MQSeries
2 24 (48.98%) CICS
3 5 (10.20%) Apache
3 5 (10.20%) Tomcat
4 4 (8.163%) SAS
5 3 (6.122%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (6.122%) GlassFish
6 1 (2.041%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (2.041%) IIS
6 1 (2.041%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 1 (2.041%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.041%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 20 (40.82%) FTP
2 4 (8.163%) HTTP
3 2 (4.082%) DSL
4 1 (2.041%) SAN
4 1 (2.041%) LDAP
4 1 (2.041%) DHCP
4 1 (2.041%) DNS
4 1 (2.041%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (61.22%) DB2
2 15 (30.61%) Oracle 11g
3 12 (24.49%) BODI
4 4 (8.163%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.082%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (2.041%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.041%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.041%) MySQL
6 1 (2.041%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (6.122%) Ant
1 3 (6.122%) JUnit
1 3 (6.122%) Subversion
1 3 (6.122%) JIRA
1 3 (6.122%) Maven
1 3 (6.122%) JProfiler
1 3 (6.122%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (30.61%) Finance
2 12 (24.49%) Marketing
3 1 (2.041%) Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (57.14%) Architect
2 22 (44.90%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (28.57%) Mainframe Architect
4 11 (22.45%) Designer
5 10 (20.41%) Solutions Designer
5 10 (20.41%) Team Leader
6 2 (4.082%) Senior Design Engineer
6 2 (4.082%) Design Engineer
6 2 (4.082%) Coordinator
6 2 (4.082%) Developer
7 1 (2.041%) Audit Manager
7 1 (2.041%) J2EE Architect
7 1 (2.041%) Release Manager
7 1 (2.041%) IT Audit Manager
7 1 (2.041%) J2EE Team Leader
7 1 (2.041%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.041%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.082%) CMDB
1 2 (4.082%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.041%) HACMP
2 1 (2.041%) AS400
2 1 (2.041%) Tandem
2 1 (2.041%) DataPower
2 1 (2.041%) iSeries
2 1 (2.041%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) UNIX
2 6 (12.24%) Windows
3 1 (2.041%) VMS
3 1 (2.041%) AIX
3 1 (2.041%) HPUX
3 1 (2.041%) Solaris
3 1 (2.041%) Linux
3 1 (2.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (57.14%) ETL
2 23 (46.94%) SOA
3 22 (44.90%) Capacity Planning
4 19 (38.78%) Data Modelling
5 16 (32.65%) B2B
6 13 (26.53%) Load Balancing
7 12 (24.49%) OOA/OOD
8 10 (20.41%) UML
9 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (12.24%) Performance Management
11 5 (10.20%) Project Management
12 4 (8.163%) Configuration Management
12 4 (8.163%) Service Management
12 4 (8.163%) ITIL
13 3 (6.122%) PRINCE2
13 3 (6.122%) Validation
13 3 (6.122%) Project Planning
13 3 (6.122%) Workflow
13 3 (6.122%) AOP
14 2 (4.082%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 27 (55.10%) COBOL
2 13 (26.53%) JCL
3 11 (22.45%) Java
4 8 (16.33%) PL/1
5 3 (6.122%) C#
5 3 (6.122%) VB.NET
6 2 (4.082%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.082%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.082%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (4.082%) VMware ESX
2 1 (2.041%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.041%) NFS
2 1 (2.041%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (2.041%) XenApp
2 1 (2.041%) XenDesktop
2 1 (2.041%) OpenSSO
Systems Management
1 12 (24.49%) CA Endevor
2 3 (6.122%) BladeLogic
3 1 (2.041%) Legato
3 1 (2.041%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.041%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (48.98%) Oracle
2 13 (26.53%) Business Objects
2 13 (26.53%) Informatica
3 12 (24.49%) Cognos
4 7 (14.29%) BMC
5 4 (8.163%) Pega
5 4 (8.163%) JBoss
6 2 (4.082%) VMware
6 2 (4.082%) Citrix
6 2 (4.082%) NetApp
6 2 (4.082%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.041%) Sun
7 1 (2.041%) Adobe
7 1 (2.041%) AppSense
7 1 (2.041%) Teradata
7 1 (2.041%) Brocade
Kent, South East
Our client provides business process and outsourcing services to the insurance industry and they are looking for a Solution Architect to join their team and who will based...
Volt
Salary: £70000 - £750000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Kent, South East
Our client provides business process outsourcing services to clients across a range of industry sectors, particularly in the financial and insurance sectors.They are currently looking for a...
Volt
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013