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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mainframes
Rank 148 127 104
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -23
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 1 3 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.039% 0.142% 0.858%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.162% 0.451% 3.404%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 14
Average salary £35,000 £22,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+59.09% -48.23%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-10.52% +18.75%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
618 665 470
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 23.88% 31.55% 25.21%
Number of salaries quoted 487 594 393
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Mainframe
West Yorkshire

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Mainframe Salary Trend

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Business Objects
1 2 (40.00%) Teradata
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Base SAS
2 1 (20.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (20.00%) V-Model
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) MS Office
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX
2 1 (20.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) CICS
2 1 (20.00%) TestDirector

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (20.00%) SAS
1 1 (20.00%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) Base SAS
1 1 (20.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) TestDirector
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) SAS Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Environment Manager
3 1 (20.00%) MI Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
1 1 (20.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (20.00%) V-Model
1 1 (20.00%) Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) UML
1 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (20.00%) Process Management
1 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Business Objects
1 2 (40.00%) Teradata
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Lotus
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat