Mainframe Contracts with Work from Home Options

Mainframes
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 245 357 482
Rank change year-on-year +112 +125 -94
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 96 111 133
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 0.44% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.22% 1.41% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 53 65
10th Percentile £360 £425 £313
25th Percentile £430 £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -16.45% +3.77% +11.58%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £688
90th Percentile £700 £664 £769
UK median daily rate £475 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -15.56% +7.14% +10.53%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,326 7,897 13,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.70% 31.48% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,958 5,553 9,859
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £455 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £793 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 154 221
10th Percentile £15.49 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +23.60% +28.99%
75th Percentile £66.94 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Mainframe
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mainframe trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe
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.

Mainframe daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Mainframe over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Mainframe daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Mainframe hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe
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 21 (21.88%) SAS
2 14 (14.58%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.33%) AWS
1 8 (8.33%) Azure
2 4 (4.17%) SaaS
3 3 (3.13%) GCP
3 3 (3.13%) PaaS
4 1 (1.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.29%) DWDM
2 6 (6.25%) SSL
3 2 (2.08%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.00%) DB2
2 10 (10.42%) IDMS
3 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.08%) OLTP
5 1 (1.04%) Adabas
5 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.04%) NewSQL
5 1 (1.04%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Git
2 1 (1.04%) CA Gen
2 1 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 37 (38.54%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.04%) Finance
3 19 (19.79%) Banking
4 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.04%) German Language
Job Titles
1 22 (22.92%) Architect
2 12 (12.50%) Consultant
3 11 (11.46%) Developer
3 11 (11.46%) Programmer
3 11 (11.46%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (11.46%) Systems Programmer
3 11 (11.46%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 10 (10.42%) Mainframe Consultant
4 10 (10.42%) Mainframe Developer
5 9 (9.38%) IBM Mainframe Developer
5 9 (9.38%) Mainframe Architect
6 8 (8.33%) z/OS Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) z/OS Specialist
8 6 (6.25%) Security Architect
9 4 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) Hardware Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) Project Manager
11 2 (2.08%) Administrator
11 2 (2.08%) DB2 Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (28.13%) ISPF
2 3 (3.13%) .NET
2 3 (3.13%) React
3 2 (2.08%) Middleware
4 1 (1.04%) HTML
4 1 (1.04%) JSP
4 1 (1.04%) LDAP
4 1 (1.04%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.04%) Servlets
4 1 (1.04%) SOAP
4 1 (1.04%) SPML
4 1 (1.04%) Spring
4 1 (1.04%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.83%) IBM Mainframe
2 9 (9.38%) LPAR
3 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (43.75%) zOS
2 11 (11.46%) MVS
3 3 (3.13%) Android
3 3 (3.13%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.08%) Linux
5 1 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.88%) Risk Management
2 20 (20.83%) Agile
3 12 (12.50%) Microservices
3 12 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
4 11 (11.46%) Change Management
5 10 (10.42%) Scrum
5 10 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (9.38%) Requirements Gathering
7 7 (7.29%) Architectural Design
7 7 (7.29%) Waterfall
8 6 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (6.25%) Project Management
8 6 (6.25%) Security Architecture
9 5 (5.21%) Roadmaps
9 5 (5.21%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (5.21%) Workflow
10 4 (4.17%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (4.17%) Containerisation
10 4 (4.17%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 4 (4.17%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 36 (37.50%) REXX
2 26 (27.08%) JCL
3 19 (19.79%) CLIST
4 14 (14.58%) COBOL
5 12 (12.50%) Assembly Language
6 8 (8.33%) SELCOPY
7 5 (5.21%) Java
7 5 (5.21%) SQL
8 3 (3.13%) C
9 2 (2.08%) Python
10 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.13%) Degree
4 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.08%) PMP
5 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.04%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.08%) GDPR
1 2 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 26 (27.08%) Time Sharing Option
2 17 (17.71%) RACF
3 11 (11.46%) ACF2
4 7 (7.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 7 (7.29%) Microcode
5 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.04%) IAG
5 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (13.54%) OMEGAMON
2 6 (6.25%) zSecure
3 1 (1.04%) Ansible
3 1 (1.04%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 48 (50.00%) IBM
2 14 (14.58%) Broadcom
3 9 (9.38%) CA
3 9 (9.38%) Splunk
3 9 (9.38%) Syncsort
4 5 (5.21%) BMC
5 4 (4.17%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.08%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.04%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.04%) Google
7 1 (1.04%) HP
7 1 (1.04%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle
7 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.04%) VMware