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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 57 69
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +15
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 5 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.74% 1.46% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 5.12% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 2
10th Percentile £330 - £323
25th Percentile £337 £445 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £488 £375
Median % change year-on-year -30.26% +30.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £343 £506 £413
90th Percentile £347 - £428
England median daily rate £430 £488 £563
% change year-on-year -11.85% -13.33% +7.14%

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 222 254 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 32.79% 28.54% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 170 213
10th Percentile £250 £185 £213
25th Percentile £358 £256 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.11% -
75th Percentile £537 £529 £575
90th Percentile £630 £600 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 16
10th Percentile - £11.75 £17.41
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.28 £19.75
Median hourly rate £17.31 £14.00 £23.96
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -41.57% +22.09%
75th Percentile £21.39 £20.43 £65.00
90th Percentile £25.11 £26.50 -
England median hourly rate £33.05 £36.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year -9.45% +62.33% -15.15%

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

Mainframe
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
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

Mainframe
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 19 June 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 -7 5 £340 -23.60% 6
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 3 (60.00%) CICS
2 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) DB2
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (60.00%) Eclipse
2 3 (60.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Gradle
3 2 (40.00%) HP UFT
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) JUnit
3 2 (40.00%) NetBeans
3 2 (40.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (40.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Automation Tester
1 3 (60.00%) Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Ajax
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) Bootstrap
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) J2EE
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Integration
1 2 (40.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) VSAM
2 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
3 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) COBOL
2 3 (60.00%) JCL
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft