Mainframe Contracts in the North West

Mainframes
England > North West

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 155 171
Rank change year-on-year +26 +16 -36
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 8 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.13% 0.74% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 6
10th Percentile - £321 £365
25th Percentile £445 £324 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £480
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -32.22% +37.39%
75th Percentile £519 £419 £490
90th Percentile £603 £553 £495
England median daily rate £475 £553 £510
% change year-on-year -14.03% +8.33% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.84
25th Percentile - - £12.57
Median hourly rate - - £13.79
75th Percentile - - £15.01
90th Percentile - - £15.74
England median hourly rate - - £16.23
% change year-on-year - - +20.49%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 709 1,081 1,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.18% 34.09% 34.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 723 1,059
10th Percentile £284 £300 £225
25th Percentile £413 £400 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +23.14%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £675 £663
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 43 60
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.25 £13.63
Median hourly rate £25.25 £35.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.86% +86.67% +4.75%
75th Percentile £42.19 £65.88 £34.69
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £48.58
England median hourly rate £31.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +40.09% -15.15% +1.09%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in the North West

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in the North West over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Manchester +17 3 £525 -4.55% 2
Cheshire +2 3 £445 +36.92%
Merseyside - 1 £450 -
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) DB2
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 4 (50.00%) Banking
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Android
1 3 (37.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (12.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) API Design
3 3 (37.50%) Architectural Design
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Domain-Driven Design
3 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 3 (37.50%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
5 1 (12.50%) Business Process Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared