Mainframe Performance Analyst Contracts in England

Mainframe Performance Analyst
UK > England

The median Mainframe Performance Analyst daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 July 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
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Performance Analyst 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.004% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £544 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £513 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 25,339 31,938 43,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 92.96% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,468 21,084 30,793
10th Percentile £288 £300 £308
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,282 2,007 1,363
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.86 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.79 £19.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.84% -1.71% +70.37%
75th Percentile £55.43 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £43.00
% change year-on-year -40.16% -2.26% +67.45%

Mainframe Performance Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Mainframe Performance Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe Performance Analyst in England

Mainframe Performance Analyst
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 Mainframe Performance Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
London - 1 £513 -
Mainframe Performance Analyst
UK

Mainframe Performance Analyst Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 July 2025, Mainframe Performance Analyst 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 England region featuring Mainframe Performance Analyst in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
1 1 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
1 1 (100.00%) PL/1
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding

Mainframe Performance Analyst Skill Set
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 1 (100.00%) SAS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (100.00%) PL/1
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) REXX