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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mainframes
Rank - - 75
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford - - 0.125%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - 0.383%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £40,250
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +18.01%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
431 202 261
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 41.72% 31.86% 32.63%
Number of salaries quoted 360 167 233
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Mainframe
Oxfordshire

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Mainframe Salary Trend

Mainframe
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Compuware
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) QuickTest Pro
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Compuware
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle