Mainframe Systems Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Mainframe System Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Mainframe System Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £456 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Systems Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.070% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £427 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 - -
75th Percentile £489 - -
90th Percentile £499 - -
England median daily rate £430 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,635 3,060 4,848
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 94.50% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,766 2,163 3,531
10th Percentile £213 £248 £210
25th Percentile £335 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +16.56%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £569
90th Percentile £675 £690 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £531
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.68% +6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 108 153
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.25
25th Percentile £14.15 £14.88 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.06 £20.55 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +14.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £38.14 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -15.26% +88.21% +11.73%

Mainframe Systems Engineer
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 Mainframe Systems Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
East Midlands - 2 £456 - 2
Mainframe Systems Engineer
England

Mainframe Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 6 June 2024, Mainframe Systems Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Mainframe Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) SAS
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) CA
1 2 (100.00%) REXX
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ISPF
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (100.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Degree

Mainframe Systems Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (100.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ISPF
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) CA
1 2 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk