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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 635 771
Rank change year-on-year +102 +136 -126
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 17 1 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.045% 0.002% 0.023%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.006% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 8
10th Percentile £323 - £440
25th Percentile £339 £413 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% -22.73% +20.55%
75th Percentile £377 £438 £609
90th Percentile £509 - £638
UK median daily rate £365 £425 £550
% change year-on-year -14.12% -22.73% +25.71%

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 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 16 June 2024.

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 16 June 2024. 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
Midlands +26 10 £358 -15.76%
West Midlands - 10 £358 -
South East - 4 £358 -
London - 4 £588 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
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 12 (70.59%) CICS
2 11 (64.71%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (76.47%) DB2
2 11 (64.71%) IDMS
3 1 (5.88%) NewSQL
3 1 (5.88%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Git
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Developer
1 12 (70.59%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 12 (70.59%) Mainframe Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Architect
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Architect
3 1 (5.88%) CICS Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
3 1 (5.88%) IBM Storage Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Middleware
1 1 (5.88%) Spring
1 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) zOS
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Agile
2 12 (70.59%) Requirements Gathering
2 12 (70.59%) Scrum
3 11 (64.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (5.88%) Coaching
5 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Data Extraction
5 1 (5.88%) Data Migration
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (5.88%) Microservices
5 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.88%) Project Management
5 1 (5.88%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) COBOL
2 11 (64.71%) CLIST
2 11 (64.71%) REXX
3 10 (58.82%) SELCOPY
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) JCL
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) ACF2
1 1 (5.88%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) IBM
2 11 (64.71%) Syncsort
3 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.88%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft