Mainframe Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Mainframe Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Mainframe Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 469 621
Rank change year-on-year +136 +152 -141
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Architect 11 2 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.072% 0.008% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.008% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £500 - £669
25th Percentile £531 - £678
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £713
Median % change year-on-year - - +62.86%
75th Percentile £750 - £753
90th Percentile - - £766
UK median daily rate £700 - £713
% change year-on-year - - +58.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Mainframe Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Mainframe Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mainframe Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mainframe Architect.

Mainframe Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Mainframe Architect over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Mainframe Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Mainframe Architect in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 9 (81.82%) IBM
3 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
4 5 (45.45%) SSL
4 5 (45.45%) Security Architecture
4 5 (45.45%) zSecure
4 5 (45.45%) RACF
5 3 (27.27%) VSAM
5 3 (27.27%) System Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Azure
5 3 (27.27%) IDMS
5 3 (27.27%) Finance
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) COBOL
5 3 (27.27%) DB2
5 3 (27.27%) Data Structures
6 2 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (18.18%) CyberArk
6 2 (18.18%) Batch Processing
6 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
6 2 (18.18%) CICS
6 2 (18.18%) Assembly Language
6 2 (18.18%) JCL
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
7 1 (9.09%) Banking
7 1 (9.09%) Integration Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Open Source

Mainframe Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (18.18%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) DB2
1 3 (27.27%) IDMS
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (27.27%) Data Structures
2 3 (27.27%) VSAM
3 1 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Security Architecture
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) System Testing
2 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Batch Processing
3 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (9.09%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) ETL
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Microservices
4 1 (9.09%) Open Source
4 1 (9.09%) Secrets Management
4 1 (9.09%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) COBOL
2 2 (18.18%) Assembly Language
2 2 (18.18%) JCL
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) zSecure
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) IBM
2 2 (18.18%) CyberArk
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft