IBM Mainframe Contracts in England

IBM Mainframe
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 525 649
Rank change year-on-year +53 +124 +118
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 13 17 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.046% 0.008%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.15% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 2
10th Percentile £439 £323 £353
25th Percentile £463 £339 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £358 £446
Median % change year-on-year +33.87% -19.78% -15.00%
75th Percentile £570 £377 £509
90th Percentile £600 £509 £545
UK median daily rate £480 £374 £446
% change year-on-year +28.21% -16.19% -15.00%

All Generic Skills
England

IBM 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

IBM Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM Mainframe in England

IBM Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IBM Mainframe in England

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Mainframe in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Mainframe in England

IBM Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM Mainframe in England

IBM Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +22 4 - -
Yorkshire +11 4 - -
London +37 3 £459 -21.87%
South West - 2 £600 -
Midlands +13 1 £480 +34.08%
East Midlands - 1 £480 -
IBM Mainframe
UK

IBM Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (30.77%) CICS
2 1 (7.69%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) DB2
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Administrator
1 3 (23.08%) CICS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Mainframe Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Security Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Assembler Developer
3 1 (7.69%) DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Development Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Development Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Assembler Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Software Development Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Software Development Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) SQL DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) z/OS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Middleware
2 3 (23.08%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (23.08%) Clustering
3 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (7.69%) LPAR
4 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (7.69%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) zOS
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
4 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Security Auditing
4 2 (15.38%) Security Management
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Hardware Maintenance
5 1 (7.69%) High Availability
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (7.69%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (7.69%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) JCL
2 3 (23.08%) REXX
3 2 (15.38%) Assembly Language
3 2 (15.38%) COBOL
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) CLIST
4 1 (7.69%) HLASM
4 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) CISSP
1 2 (15.38%) IBM Certification
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (15.38%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 2 (15.38%) RACF
3 1 (7.69%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Syncsort