IBM Mainframe Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM Mainframe
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM Mainframe over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 - 506
Rank change year-on-year - - -76
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 19 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.093% - 0.020%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% - 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 2
10th Percentile £326 - £503
25th Percentile £347 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.20%
75th Percentile £500 - £556
90th Percentile - - £568
UK median daily rate £374 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -33.51% +7.14% +20.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,968 7,613 9,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.14% 32.45% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,580 5,131 6,667
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 433 451
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £46.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

IBM Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM Mainframe in the UK excluding London

IBM Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM Mainframe in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IBM Mainframe in the UK excluding London

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Mainframe in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Mainframe in the UK excluding London

IBM Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM Mainframe in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IBM Mainframe in the UK excluding London

IBM Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Midlands - 10 £358 -
West Midlands - 10 £358 -
Scotland - 6 £500 -
South East - 4 £358 -
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
IBM Mainframe
UK

IBM Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (68.42%) SAS
2 11 (57.89%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) DB2
2 11 (57.89%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Git
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Developer
1 12 (63.16%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 12 (63.16%) Mainframe Developer
2 4 (21.05%) z/OS Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) COBOL Developer
4 1 (5.26%) IBM Storage Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Agile
1 12 (63.16%) Requirements Gathering
2 11 (57.89%) Scrum
2 11 (57.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (21.05%) Workflow
4 2 (10.53%) Capacity Management
4 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
4 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.26%) Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) Data Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) Data Extraction
5 1 (5.26%) ETL
5 1 (5.26%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) REXX
2 12 (63.16%) COBOL
3 11 (57.89%) CLIST
4 10 (52.63%) SELCOPY
5 7 (36.84%) JCL
6 2 (10.53%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) SC Cleared
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (10.53%) ACF2
2 2 (10.53%) RACF
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) IBM
2 11 (57.89%) Syncsort
3 6 (31.58%) BMC
3 6 (31.58%) Broadcom
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft