Mainframe Contracts in the UK excluding London

Mainframes
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 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 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 295 403 441
Rank change year-on-year +108 +38 -104
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 101 44 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.69% 0.58% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 30 46
10th Percentile £350 £393 £350
25th Percentile £400 £478 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £480
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +25.13% +6.56%
75th Percentile £500 £650 £549
90th Percentile £588 £680 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -15.56% +7.14% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £12.33
25th Percentile - - £13.79
Median hourly rate - - £16.23
75th Percentile - - £35.62
90th Percentile - - £47.25
UK median hourly rate - - £16.23
% change year-on-year - - +20.49%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

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 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
North of England +59 56 £445 -25.83% 3
Yorkshire +48 48 £430 -29.82%
Midlands +48 18 £378 -24.40% 1
South East +39 15 £358 -34.91% 2
West Midlands +35 14 £364 -27.20%
Scotland +47 12 £500 -4.76% 2
North West +15 7 £448 +23.45% 3
East Midlands +24 4 £445 - 1
South West +14 3 £644 -3.74%
Wales - 1 £450 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £450 -
North East - 1 - -
Mainframe
UK

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 33 (32.67%) SAS
2 13 (12.87%) CICS
3 4 (3.96%) Confluence
4 3 (2.97%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.91%) AWS
2 5 (4.95%) Azure
3 4 (3.96%) SaaS
4 1 (0.99%) GCP
4 1 (0.99%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.91%) DWDM
2 1 (0.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.83%) DB2
2 12 (11.88%) IDMS
3 4 (3.96%) Big Data
3 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (10.89%) Git
2 10 (9.90%) JIRA
3 1 (0.99%) CA Gen
General
1 38 (37.62%) Social Skills
2 25 (24.75%) Finance
3 14 (13.86%) Banking
4 5 (4.95%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.99%) German Language
5 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (20.79%) Programmer
2 20 (19.80%) Systems Programmer
2 20 (19.80%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 16 (15.84%) Consultant
4 14 (13.86%) Developer
5 13 (12.87%) Mainframe Developer
6 12 (11.88%) IBM Mainframe Developer
7 11 (10.89%) Mainframe Consultant
8 9 (8.91%) z/OS Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Analyst
9 6 (5.94%) Architect
10 5 (4.95%) Project Manager
10 5 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.95%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Big Data Analyst
11 4 (3.96%) Hardware Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Mainframe Analyst
12 3 (2.97%) Administrator
12 3 (2.97%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
13 2 (1.98%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (41.58%) ISPF
2 4 (3.96%) .NET
2 4 (3.96%) React
3 1 (0.99%) HTML
3 1 (0.99%) JSP
3 1 (0.99%) LDAP
3 1 (0.99%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.99%) Servlets
3 1 (0.99%) SOAP
3 1 (0.99%) SPML
3 1 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.81%) IBM Mainframe
2 13 (12.87%) LPAR
3 4 (3.96%) Credit Risk
3 4 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.96%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.99%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 55 (54.46%) zOS
2 7 (6.93%) MVS
3 4 (3.96%) Android
3 4 (3.96%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.98%) Unix
4 2 (1.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (30.69%) Risk Management
2 24 (23.76%) Agile
3 21 (20.79%) Performance Monitoring
4 13 (12.87%) Scrum
5 12 (11.88%) Requirements Gathering
5 12 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (9.90%) Project Management
7 8 (7.92%) Change Management
7 8 (7.92%) Waterfall
8 5 (4.95%) Microservices
9 4 (3.96%) API Design
9 4 (3.96%) Architectural Design
9 4 (3.96%) Containerisation
9 4 (3.96%) Domain-Driven Design
9 4 (3.96%) Migration
9 4 (3.96%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (3.96%) Roadmaps
9 4 (3.96%) SDLC
9 4 (3.96%) Workflow
10 3 (2.97%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 47 (46.53%) REXX
2 45 (44.55%) JCL
3 21 (20.79%) CLIST
4 18 (17.82%) Assembly Language
5 15 (14.85%) COBOL
6 10 (9.90%) SELCOPY
7 7 (6.93%) Java
8 4 (3.96%) C
9 3 (2.97%) Perl
9 3 (2.97%) Python
9 3 (2.97%) SQL
10 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (23.76%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.99%) Degree
System Software
1 42 (41.58%) Time Sharing Option
2 19 (18.81%) ACF2
2 19 (18.81%) RACF
3 13 (12.87%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 13 (12.87%) Microcode
4 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.99%) IAG
Systems Management
1 21 (20.79%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (0.99%) CA Endevor
2 1 (0.99%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 58 (57.43%) IBM
2 26 (25.74%) Broadcom
3 19 (18.81%) Splunk
4 11 (10.89%) Syncsort
5 7 (6.93%) CA
6 6 (5.94%) BMC
7 2 (1.98%) EMC
7 2 (1.98%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.99%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.99%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.99%) Dell
8 1 (0.99%) Fujitsu
8 1 (0.99%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.99%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow