Mainframe Contracts in Cheshire

Mainframes
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 55 56
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -12
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 3 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.60% 1.12% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.00% 2.42% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £325 £325
Median % change year-on-year +36.92% - -6.88%
North West median daily rate £448 £325 £480
% change year-on-year +37.69% -32.22% +37.39%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 150 248 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 30.18% 46.18% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 146 108
10th Percentile £297 £281 £182
25th Percentile £414 £350 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £450 £456
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% -1.32% +2.70%
75th Percentile £562 £575 £591
90th Percentile £606 £638 £632
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +23.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 6
10th Percentile £14.15 £21.89 £9.90
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.15 £12.18
Median hourly rate £36.50 £27.98 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.45% +34.84% +15.92%
75th Percentile £43.75 £52.88 £24.31
90th Percentile - £66.25 £26.25
North West median hourly rate £25.25 £35.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -27.86% +86.67% +4.75%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Cheshire

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in Cheshire

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in Cheshire

Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Knutsford +10 3 £445 +37.56%
Mainframe
North West

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) API Design
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) Java