Microcode Contracts

Microcode
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Microcode skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microcode over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 - 847
Rank change year-on-year - - -167
Contract jobs citing Microcode 13 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% - 0.002%
As % of the System Software category 0.28% - 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - £486
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.86%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £588 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

Microcode is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,653 7,900 12,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 13.21% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 5,646 8,623
10th Percentile £197 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -5.13% +7.75% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 284 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.83 £13.21
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.35 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -52.15% +148.01% +2.06%

Microcode
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microcode as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microcode in the UK

Microcode
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microcode in the UK

Microcode
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microcode in the UK

Microcode
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microcode within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Yorkshire - 13 £430 -
England - 13 £430 - 1
UK excluding London - 13 £430 -
North of England - 13 £430 -
Work from Home - 7 £430 -

Microcode
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:

Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) DWDM
General
1 11 (84.62%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Hardware Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) z/OS Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Hardware Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) LPAR
1 13 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) JCL
2 9 (69.23%) CLIST
2 9 (69.23%) REXX
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 13 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) IBM