Mainframe Architect Contracts

Mainframe Architect
UK

The median Mainframe Architect daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 713 858
Rank change year-on-year +139 +145 -172
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Architect 13 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.003% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile - - £669
25th Percentile £500 - £678
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £713
Median % change year-on-year - - +58.33%
75th Percentile £700 - £753
90th Percentile £750 - £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,554 57,501 85,863
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.56% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,500 40,089 60,302
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,611 1,615 2,125
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.25 £15.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.65 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.27 £42.26 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.17% +116.72% +2.63%

Mainframe Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Mainframe Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe Architect in the UK

Mainframe Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mainframe Architect.

Daily rate trend for Mainframe Architect in the UK

Mainframe Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe Architect over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe Architect in the UK

Mainframe Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mainframe Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe Architect in the UK

Mainframe Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
Work from Home +142 9 £700 - 1
England - 9 £700 - 1
London - 7 £700 - 1
UK excluding London - 5 £500 - 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £500 -
North West - 1 £575 -
North of England - 1 £575 -

Mainframe Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Mainframe Architect 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 featuring Mainframe Architect in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 9 (69.23%) IBM
3 6 (46.15%) COBOL
3 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
4 5 (38.46%) Data Structures
4 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
4 5 (38.46%) Azure
4 5 (38.46%) DB2
4 5 (38.46%) VSAM
4 5 (38.46%) IDMS
5 4 (30.77%) System Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Finance
5 4 (30.77%) CICS
5 4 (30.77%) Assembly Language
5 4 (30.77%) JCL
5 4 (30.77%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Batch Processing
6 3 (23.08%) Integration Testing
6 3 (23.08%) System Integration Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Security Architecture
6 3 (23.08%) zSecure
6 3 (23.08%) SSL
6 3 (23.08%) RACF
6 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
6 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
6 3 (23.08%) Migration
6 3 (23.08%) Agile
7 2 (15.38%) Banking
7 2 (15.38%) Waterfall

Mainframe Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (30.77%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) DB2
1 5 (38.46%) IDMS
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (38.46%) Data Structures
2 5 (38.46%) VSAM
3 1 (7.69%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
2 4 (30.77%) Batch Processing
2 4 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (30.77%) System Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Integration Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Security Architecture
3 3 (23.08%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.69%) API Development
5 1 (7.69%) API Integration
5 1 (7.69%) Business Process Modelling
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.69%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (7.69%) Defect Management
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Microservices
5 1 (7.69%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) COBOL
2 4 (30.77%) Assembly Language
2 4 (30.77%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
1 1 (7.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) RACF
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) zSecure
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) IBM
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) CyberArk