Mainframe Contracts in the East Midlands

Mainframes
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 83
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.57% - 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% - 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £341 - -
25th Percentile £365 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - -
75th Percentile £442 - -
90th Percentile £465 - -
England median daily rate £474 £500 £558
% change year-on-year -5.20% -10.31% +9.31%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

Mainframe falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 154 196 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.06% 25.36% 27.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 134 204
10th Percentile £244 £162 £202
25th Percentile £349 £217 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £436
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -8.15% -3.22%
75th Percentile £544 £573 £541
90th Percentile £600 £625 £696
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.45% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 22
10th Percentile - £11.75 £16.80
25th Percentile - £12.28 £18.34
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.00 £21.97
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -36.26% +28.41%
75th Percentile £16.11 £18.32 £62.50
90th Percentile £24.03 £24.59 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -16.67%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in the East Midlands

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £326 -
Leicestershire - 1 £480 -
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (66.67%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Gradle
1 2 (66.67%) HP UFT
1 2 (66.67%) IntelliJ
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) NetBeans
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Development Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Development Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Software Development Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Software Development Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Software Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Ajax
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Bootstrap
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
1 2 (66.67%) J2EE
1 2 (66.67%) jQuery
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Spring MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) API Development
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
1 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
1 2 (66.67%) Responsive Web Design
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (33.33%) IBM