IBM Mainframe Contracts in the Midlands

IBM Mainframe
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM Mainframe over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 162 198
Rank change year-on-year +35 +36 -43
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 10 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.36% 0.029% 0.020%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.19% 0.091% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £318 - -
25th Percentile £330 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £330 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% - -
75th Percentile £373 - -
90th Percentile £376 - -
England median daily rate £358 £446 £525
% change year-on-year -19.78% -15.00% +20.00%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

IBM Mainframe is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 841 1,095 1,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.66% 31.66% 29.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 736 1,077
10th Percentile £218 £254 £213
25th Percentile £350 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +17.28%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 41 58
10th Percentile £10.42 £16.70 £12.27
25th Percentile £13.91 £18.13 £14.66
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £16.37
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +37.43% +2.33%
75th Percentile £28.88 £53.75 £19.94
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £22.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -15.09% +1.92%

IBM Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing IBM Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IBM Mainframe in the Midlands

IBM Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM Mainframe in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for IBM Mainframe in the Midlands

IBM Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM Mainframe in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for IBM Mainframe in the Midlands

IBM Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands - 10 £358 -
IBM Mainframe
England

IBM Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (90.00%) CICS
1 9 (90.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) DB2
2 9 (90.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
1 10 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 10 (100.00%) Mainframe Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 10 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (90.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Data Extraction
4 1 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) COBOL
2 9 (90.00%) CLIST
2 9 (90.00%) REXX
2 9 (90.00%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) IBM
2 9 (90.00%) Syncsort
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft