South East IBM Mainframe Jobs

This section looks at the demand for IBM Mainframe skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM Mainframe over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barnsley Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Folkestone Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Salford Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Sussex Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	447	440
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching permanent IT job ads	36	87
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	0.512 %	1.012 %
Salaries quoted	28	57
Average minimum salary	£37,517	£32,526
Average salary	£38,776	£33,886
% change on same period last year	+14.43 %
Average maximum salary	£40,034	£35,246
UK excluding London average salary	£40,376	£38,718
% change on same period last year	+4.28 %
Miscellaneous South East
Matching permanent IT job ads	7038	8593
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.715 %	3.519 %
Salaries quoted	5777	6782
Average minimum salary	£36,041	£36,886
Average salary	£39,488	£40,059
% change on same period last year	-1.42 %
Average maximum salary	£42,935	£43,232
UK excluding London average salary	£38,014	£39,235
% change on same period last year	-3.11 %
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IBM Mainframe
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

IBM Mainframe
Salary Trend

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

IBM Mainframe
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe across the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe within the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Buckinghamshire	+20	12	£36,300	+24.52 %
Hampshire	-30	11	£40,056	-0.23 %
Kent	-	3	£33,750	-
Berkshire	+31	2	£66,250	+100.25 %
Sussex	+12	2	-	-
West Sussex	-	1	£38,000	-
Surrey	+5	1	£30,000	-1.33 %
East Sussex	-	1	£23,000	-

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IBM Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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 83 (100.00 %) IBM 1 83 (100.00 %) Mainframe 2 50 (60.24 %) DB2 3 31 (37.35 %) CICS 4 30 (36.14 %) COBOL 5 25 (30.12 %) Windows 6 24 (28.92 %) UNIX 7 17 (20.48 %) Java 8 15 (18.07 %) Oracle 9 14 (16.87 %) C++ 10 13 (15.66 %) Windows NT 10 13 (15.66 %) Finance 11 12 (14.46 %) Thunderhead 11 12 (14.46 %) Papyrus 11 12 (14.46 %) StreamWeaver

11 12 (14.46 %) DOC1 11 12 (14.46 %) MVS 11 12 (14.46 %) Documentum 11 12 (14.46 %) PHP 11 12 (14.46 %) PrintSoft PReS 12 11 (13.25 %) SOA 12 11 (13.25 %) Insurance 13 10 (12.05 %) Client/Server 13 10 (12.05 %) Data Modelling 14 9 (10.84 %) C 14 9 (10.84 %) Test Scripting 15 8 (9.639 %) JCL 15 8 (9.639 %) SQL 15 8 (9.639 %) Informix 15 8 (9.639 %) Sybase

IBM Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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 6 (7.229 %) .NET 2 4 (4.819 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (4.819 %) HTML 3 3 (3.614 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 31 (37.35 %) CICS 2 12 (14.46 %) Papyrus 2 12 (14.46 %) StreamWeaver 2 12 (14.46 %) Documentum 3 3 (3.614 %) JBoss 3 3 (3.614 %) Apache 4 2 (2.410 %) SAS 5 1 (1.205 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 12 (14.46 %) DOC1 1 12 (14.46 %) PrintSoft PReS 2 5 (6.024 %) MS Project 2 5 (6.024 %) MS Excel 2 5 (6.024 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (1.205 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 5 (6.024 %) SMS 2 3 (3.614 %) WAN 2 3 (3.614 %) IPX 2 3 (3.614 %) SNA 2 3 (3.614 %) SAN 2 3 (3.614 %) 802.11 2 3 (3.614 %) MPLS 2 3 (3.614 %) OSPF 2 3 (3.614 %) BGP 2 3 (3.614 %) TACACS 2 3 (3.614 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 50 (60.24 %) DB2 2 8 (9.639 %) Informix 2 8 (9.639 %) Ingres 2 8 (9.639 %) RDBMS 3 2 (2.410 %) SQL Server 3 2 (2.410 %) Base SAS 3 2 (2.410 %) ETL 3 2 (2.410 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (1.205 %) BusinessObjects 4 1 (1.205 %) IDMS
Development Applications 1 1 (1.205 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (1.205 %) VisualAge 1 1 (1.205 %) Eclipse 1 1 (1.205 %) WinRunner 1 1 (1.205 %) TestDirector 1 1 (1.205 %) SilkTest 1 1 (1.205 %) VisualAge Generator	General 1 13 (15.66 %) Finance 2 11 (13.25 %) Insurance 3 7 (8.434 %) Telecoms 4 6 (7.229 %) Pensions 5 5 (6.024 %) Retail 6 4 (4.819 %) Billing 7 3 (3.614 %) Education 8 2 (2.410 %) Health 8 2 (2.410 %) Banking 8 2 (2.410 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 32 (38.55 %) Analyst 2 12 (14.46 %) Developer 3 11 (13.25 %) Systems Analyst 4 9 (10.84 %) Lead Designer 5 5 (6.024 %) Project Leader 5 5 (6.024 %) Technical Specialist 5 5 (6.024 %) Technical Project Leader 5 5 (6.024 %) Developer Analyst 5 5 (6.024 %) Mainframe Project Leader 6 4 (4.819 %) Programmer 7 3 (3.614 %) Network Engineer 7 3 (3.614 %) Computer Operator 7 3 (3.614 %) Architect 7 3 (3.614 %) Trainer 7 3 (3.614 %) Analyst Programmer 7 3 (3.614 %) Senior Analyst 7 3 (3.614 %) COBOL Developer 7 3 (3.614 %) COBOL Analyst 7 3 (3.614 %) Mainframe Developer 8 2 (2.410 %) Design Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 83 (100.00 %) Mainframe 2 10 (12.05 %) Client/Server 3 4 (4.819 %) Management Information System 4 3 (3.614 %) E-Learning 4 3 (3.614 %) e-Health 4 3 (3.614 %) French Language 4 3 (3.614 %) German Language 4 3 (3.614 %) Italian Language 4 3 (3.614 %) Spanish Language 5 1 (1.205 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 25 (30.12 %) Windows 2 24 (28.92 %) UNIX 3 13 (15.66 %) Windows NT 4 12 (14.46 %) MVS 5 6 (7.229 %) AIX 6 4 (4.819 %) zOS 7 3 (3.614 %) Solaris 8 1 (1.205 %) Linux 8 1 (1.205 %) Windows 2000 8 1 (1.205 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (13.25 %) SOA 2 10 (12.05 %) Data Modelling 3 9 (10.84 %) Test Scripting 4 7 (8.434 %) Project Management 4 7 (8.434 %) SSADM 5 5 (6.024 %) PRINCE2 6 4 (4.819 %) E-Commerce 6 4 (4.819 %) Configuration Management 7 3 (3.614 %) UML 8 2 (2.410 %) Business Intelligence 8 2 (2.410 %) BPR 8 2 (2.410 %) Systems Analysis 8 2 (2.410 %) Performance Management 9 1 (1.205 %) Software Testing 9 1 (1.205 %) Problem Management 9 1 (1.205 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 1 (1.205 %) Agile Software Development 9 1 (1.205 %) Automated Testing 9 1 (1.205 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 30 (36.14 %) COBOL 2 17 (20.48 %) Java 3 14 (16.87 %) C++ 4 12 (14.46 %) PHP 5 9 (10.84 %) C 6 8 (9.639 %) SQL 6 8 (9.639 %) JCL 7 5 (6.024 %) VBScript 8 3 (3.614 %) REXX 9 2 (2.410 %) SAS Macro 10 1 (1.205 %) C# 10 1 (1.205 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 3 (3.614 %) CCNP 1 3 (3.614 %) Cisco Certification 1 3 (3.614 %) Degree
System Software 1 1 (1.205 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 5 (6.024 %) MOM 2 4 (4.819 %) AllFusion Endevor 3 3 (3.614 %) OpenView 3 3 (3.614 %) CiscoWorks
Vendors 1 83 (100.00 %) IBM 2 15 (18.07 %) Oracle 3 12 (14.46 %) Thunderhead 4 8 (9.639 %) Sybase 5 5 (6.024 %) HP 6 3 (3.614 %) Microsoft 6 3 (3.614 %) SAP 6 3 (3.614 %) Cisco 6 3 (3.614 %) Concord 7 2 (2.410 %) EMC 7 2 (2.410 %) Sun 8 1 (1.205 %) Dell 8 1 (1.205 %) Business Objects 8 1 (1.205 %) Citrix 8 1 (1.205 %) NetApp 8 1 (1.205 %) Remedy 8 1 (1.205 %) VMware