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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mainframes
Rank 115 134 119
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -15
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 38 21 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.207% 0.608% 1.148%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.199% 2.308% 4.367%
Number of salaries quoted 21 19 36
Average salary £45,000 £44,500 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.12% +12.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,900 £23,750
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £40,250
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +18.01%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
905 910 916
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 28.76% 26.34% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 538 633 646
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 £55,300
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Mainframe
UK

Mainframe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Mainframe Salary Trend

Mainframe
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Mainframe across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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
Edinburgh +27 27 £45,000 +6.45%
Highlands - 5 - -
Glasgow -23 3 £41,000 -3.52%
Renfrewshire - 2 - -
Moray - 1 - -
Mainframe
UK

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 64 (79.01%) Finance
2 39 (48.15%) UNIX
3 33 (40.74%) Project Management
4 20 (24.69%) Linux
4 20 (24.69%) IBM
5 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
6 16 (19.75%) Windows
7 15 (18.52%) Middleware
8 14 (17.28%) SAS
8 14 (17.28%) ISEB
8 14 (17.28%) Business Analysis
9 13 (16.05%) Service Management
10 12 (14.81%) MS Excel
10 12 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (14.81%) ISEB Practitioner
10 12 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (13.58%) IBM Mainframe
11 11 (13.58%) Degree
11 11 (13.58%) VMware Infrastructure
11 11 (13.58%) AIX
11 11 (13.58%) Citrix
11 11 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (13.58%) VMware
12 10 (12.35%) SQL
12 10 (12.35%) Base SAS
12 10 (12.35%) Banking
13 9 (11.11%) Incident Management
13 9 (11.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 9 (11.11%) Service Delivery
14 8 (9.877%) zOS

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 15 (18.52%) Middleware
2 4 (4.938%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.469%) .NET
4 1 (1.235%) J2EE
4 1 (1.235%) ATL
4 1 (1.235%) Web Services
4 1 (1.235%) Oracle Streams
Application Platforms
1 14 (17.28%) SAS
2 7 (8.642%) MS Exchange
3 4 (4.938%) WebSphere Portal
3 4 (4.938%) WebSphere Process Server
3 4 (4.938%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (4.938%) MQSeries
3 4 (4.938%) IBM HTTP Server
4 3 (3.704%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.704%) Lotus Notes
4 3 (3.704%) CICS
4 3 (3.704%) Lync
5 2 (2.469%) Adobe CQ
5 2 (2.469%) Apache
6 1 (1.235%) MTS
Applications
1 12 (14.81%) MS Excel
2 3 (3.704%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.407%) Intranet
1 6 (7.407%) Internet
1 6 (7.407%) Firewall
2 5 (6.173%) HTTP
3 4 (4.938%) Network Security
3 4 (4.938%) VoIP
4 3 (3.704%) SAN
5 2 (2.469%) NAS
5 2 (2.469%) SMTP
5 2 (2.469%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.469%) SNA
5 2 (2.469%) Wireless
6 1 (1.235%) OSPF
6 1 (1.235%) BGP
6 1 (1.235%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.235%) X.500
6 1 (1.235%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (12.35%) Base SAS
3 9 (11.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 2 (2.469%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (2.469%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (2.469%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.469%) DB2
4 2 (2.469%) Oracle 9i
5 1 (1.235%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.235%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 1 (1.235%) ChangeMan
1 1 (1.235%) Oracle APEX
General
1 64 (79.01%) Finance
2 10 (12.35%) Banking
3 7 (8.642%) Retail Banking
3 7 (8.642%) Retail
4 6 (7.407%) Advertising
5 3 (3.704%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.469%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) Analyst
2 14 (17.28%) Business Analyst
2 14 (17.28%) Infrastructure Manager
3 13 (16.05%) Consultant
4 9 (11.11%) SAS Consultant
5 8 (9.877%) Architect
5 8 (9.877%) Project Manager
6 6 (7.407%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.938%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 4 (4.938%) Security Consultant
8 3 (3.704%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.704%) Senior Consultant
8 3 (3.704%) Service Manager
8 3 (3.704%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (3.704%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (3.704%) Infrastructure Services Manager
9 2 (2.469%) Designer
9 2 (2.469%) Service Desk Technician
9 2 (2.469%) Capacity Manager
9 2 (2.469%) Mainframe Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) IBM Mainframe
2 5 (6.173%) iSeries
3 4 (4.938%) Tandem
4 3 (3.704%) CLARiiON
4 3 (3.704%) Symmetrix DMX
5 2 (2.469%) Statistics
5 2 (2.469%) Computer Science
5 2 (2.469%) e-Health
5 2 (2.469%) Symmetrix
6 1 (1.235%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.235%) Clustering
6 1 (1.235%) Replication
6 1 (1.235%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.235%) PMI
6 1 (1.235%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.235%) Celerra
6 1 (1.235%) PKI
6 1 (1.235%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.235%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 39 (48.15%) UNIX
2 20 (24.69%) Linux
3 16 (19.75%) Windows
4 11 (13.58%) AIX
5 8 (9.877%) zOS
6 3 (3.704%) Windows XP
6 3 (3.704%) Solaris
6 3 (3.704%) MVS
6 3 (3.704%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.469%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (40.74%) Project Management
2 14 (17.28%) Business Analysis
3 13 (16.05%) Service Management
4 12 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
5 11 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 9 (11.11%) Service Delivery
7 8 (9.877%) PRINCE2
8 5 (6.173%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (6.173%) ITIL
8 5 (6.173%) Problem Management
9 4 (4.938%) Change Control
9 4 (4.938%) Capacity Management
9 4 (4.938%) Business Development
9 4 (4.938%) Operations Management
9 4 (4.938%) Information Security
10 3 (3.704%) Vulnerability Management
11 2 (2.469%) Metadata Management
11 2 (2.469%) Capacity Planning
11 2 (2.469%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.35%) SQL
2 4 (4.938%) Perl
3 3 (3.704%) Java
4 2 (2.469%) SAS Macro
4 2 (2.469%) REXX
4 2 (2.469%) Assembly Language
4 2 (2.469%) Python
4 2 (2.469%) Jython
4 2 (2.469%) JCL
4 2 (2.469%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (17.28%) ISEB
2 12 (14.81%) ISEB Practitioner
3 11 (13.58%) Degree
4 3 (3.704%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.704%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.469%) CISSP
5 2 (2.469%) CISA
5 2 (2.469%) CISM
6 1 (1.235%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.235%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.235%) CCIE
6 1 (1.235%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.173%) SLA
2 4 (4.938%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.235%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.235%) COBIT
System Software
1 11 (13.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (6.173%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.938%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.704%) RACF
4 3 (3.704%) SRDF
5 1 (1.235%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.235%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 4 (4.938%) SCCM
2 3 (3.704%) Unicenter
3 2 (2.469%) HP SIM
3 2 (2.469%) SCOM
3 2 (2.469%) OMEGAMON
3 2 (2.469%) OpenView
3 2 (2.469%) NetBackup
3 2 (2.469%) Tivoli
3 2 (2.469%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (1.235%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 20 (24.69%) IBM
2 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
3 11 (13.58%) Citrix
3 11 (13.58%) VMware
4 6 (7.407%) Oracle
5 5 (6.173%) HP
6 4 (4.938%) Fujitsu
6 4 (4.938%) BMC
6 4 (4.938%) Intel
7 3 (3.704%) Lotus
7 3 (3.704%) EMC
7 3 (3.704%) Brocade
8 2 (2.469%) ICL
8 2 (2.469%) Adobe
8 2 (2.469%) CA
8 2 (2.469%) Informatica
8 2 (2.469%) JBoss
8 2 (2.469%) Teradata
9 1 (1.235%) Symantec
9 1 (1.235%) Veritas
Nairn, Nairnshire
To work within a secure Data Centre providing services to clients utilising a variety of technologies including MVS, Fujitsu, HP, Tandem and other environments... Working Pattern: Full time /...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: Competitive salary & flex benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013