Mainframe Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Mainframes
South East > East Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in East Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 1.35% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £1,000 £525 £358
% change year-on-year +90.48% +46.65% -7.61%

All Generic Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18 16 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 24.32% 16.00% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 8
10th Percentile £463 - £162
25th Percentile £481 £463 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £408
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +34.97% -25.91%
75th Percentile £613 £659 £553
90th Percentile £646 £725 £716
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £12.75 - -
25th Percentile £13.13 - £50.50
Median hourly rate £14.50 - £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.11%
75th Percentile £16.13 - £51.50
90th Percentile £16.65 - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £40.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.34% -5.52% -10.53%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mainframe relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Mainframe job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Mainframe.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Mainframe

Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 16 April 2026. 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
Brighton - 1 £575 - 3
Mainframe
South East

Mainframe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management