The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM Mainframe over the 3 months to 17 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Mainframe
Rank 152 153 151
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -2
Permanent jobs citing IBM Mainframe 5 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.160% 0.029% 0.145%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.545% 0.111% 0.556%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 5
Average salary £41,000 £38,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.89% +68.88%
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £52,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
-24.03% +40.54%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
917 897 900
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 29.30% 26.08% 26.18%
Number of salaries quoted 525 625 633
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
IBM Mainframe
UK

IBM Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland IBM Mainframe Jobs Demand Trend

IBM Mainframe
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe across the Scotland region.

Scotland IBM Mainframe Salary Trend

IBM Mainframe
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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
Highlands - 3 - -
Glasgow - 2 £41,000 -
IBM Mainframe
UK

IBM Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing IBM 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 IBM Mainframe.

1 8 (100.00%) IBM
1 8 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (50.00%) UNIX
4 3 (37.50%) HP
4 3 (37.50%) EMC
4 3 (37.50%) SAN
4 3 (37.50%) CLARiiON
4 3 (37.50%) Brocade
4 3 (37.50%) Symmetrix DMX
4 3 (37.50%) SRDF
5 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (25.00%) HP SIM
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL V3
5 2 (25.00%) OMEGAMON
5 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (25.00%) SCCM
5 2 (25.00%) SCOM
5 2 (25.00%) VME
5 2 (25.00%) SAS Macro
5 2 (25.00%) Base SAS
5 2 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Statistics
5 2 (25.00%) Symmetrix
5 2 (25.00%) e-Health
5 2 (25.00%) ICL
5 2 (25.00%) NetBackup

IBM Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing IBM 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 IBM Mainframe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) ATL
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Streams
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle 9i
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (25.00%) Base SAS
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) DBA
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
1 2 (25.00%) Capacity Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Teradata DBA
2 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Server Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (37.50%) CLARiiON
2 3 (37.50%) Symmetrix DMX
3 2 (25.00%) Symmetrix
3 2 (25.00%) e-Health
3 2 (25.00%) Statistics
4 1 (12.50%) Celerra
4 1 (12.50%) Replication
4 1 (12.50%) Clustering
4 1 (12.50%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) zOS
2 2 (25.00%) VME
3 1 (12.50%) MVS
3 1 (12.50%) AIX
3 1 (12.50%) Solaris
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL V3
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (12.50%) Change Control
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JCL
1 2 (25.00%) SAS Macro
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) SRDF
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) OpenView
1 2 (25.00%) Unicenter
1 2 (25.00%) Tivoli
1 2 (25.00%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (25.00%) OMEGAMON
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
1 2 (25.00%) SCOM
1 2 (25.00%) HP SIM
2 1 (12.50%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
2 3 (37.50%) HP
2 3 (37.50%) EMC
2 3 (37.50%) Brocade
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) BMC
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) ICL
4 1 (12.50%) Veritas
4 1 (12.50%) Symantec
4 1 (12.50%) Fujitsu