Mainframe Specialist Contracts in Edinburgh

Mainframe Specialist
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Mainframe Specialist daily rate in Edinburgh is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Specialist 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.32% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £513 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Mainframe Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Mainframe Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe Specialist in Edinburgh

Mainframe Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe Specialist in Edinburgh

Mainframe Specialist Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Mainframe Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Mainframe Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) SNA
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
1 2 (100.00%) Tivoli NetView
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps

Mainframe Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SNA
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) IBM