Mainframe Contracts in England

Mainframes
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 522 621
Rank change year-on-year +135 +99 -127
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 148 141 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 0.83% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 93 84
10th Percentile £358 £326 £350
25th Percentile £430 £495 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £553 £508
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +8.87% +12.78%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £678
90th Percentile £700 £698 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £553 £525
% change year-on-year -9.50% +5.24% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.84
25th Percentile - - £12.57
Median hourly rate - - £13.79
75th Percentile - - £15.01
90th Percentile - - £15.74
UK median hourly rate - - £13.79
% change year-on-year - - +2.38%

All Generic Skills
England

Mainframe is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,373 17,010 24,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.77% 33.65% 33.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,425 11,824 17,120
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £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 818 598 643
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in England

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 Mainframe within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +74 54 £593 +5.33% 14
North of England +60 53 £450 -17.43% 4
Yorkshire +50 48 £430 -29.57% 1
West Midlands +43 14 £364 -27.20%
South East +38 14 £358 -42.72% 2
Midlands +32 14 £364 -12.29% 2
North West +12 4 £513 +57.69% 3
South West +19 3 £644 -3.74% 1
East of England +14 1 £400 -23.81%
North East - 1 - -
Mainframe
UK

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 32 (21.62%) SAS
2 26 (17.57%) CICS
3 4 (2.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.19%) AWS
2 20 (13.51%) Azure
3 11 (7.43%) GCP
4 3 (2.03%) PaaS
5 2 (1.35%) IaaS
5 2 (1.35%) SaaS
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.68%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.08%) DWDM
2 5 (3.38%) SSL
3 1 (0.68%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) SNA
3 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (21.62%) DB2
2 19 (12.84%) IDMS
3 4 (2.70%) Big Data
4 3 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.03%) OLTP
4 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.35%) Adabas
6 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.68%) NewSQL
6 1 (0.68%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (7.43%) Git
2 6 (4.05%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) CA Gen
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (38.51%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.57%) Finance
3 14 (9.46%) Banking
4 7 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (4.73%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.68%) German Language
7 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (18.24%) Architect
2 24 (16.22%) Programmer
3 23 (15.54%) Systems Programmer
4 20 (13.51%) Developer
4 20 (13.51%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 18 (12.16%) Consultant
6 17 (11.49%) Mainframe Developer
7 13 (8.78%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (8.11%) IBM Mainframe Developer
9 10 (6.76%) Mainframe Architect
9 10 (6.76%) Mainframe Consultant
9 10 (6.76%) z/OS Specialist
10 8 (5.41%) SailPoint Architect
11 7 (4.73%) Analyst
12 6 (4.05%) Data Consultant
12 6 (4.05%) EMC Consultant
12 6 (4.05%) Systems Engineer
13 5 (3.38%) z/OS Engineer
14 4 (2.70%) Big Data Analyst
14 4 (2.70%) CICS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (28.38%) ISPF
2 8 (5.41%) HTML
2 8 (5.41%) JSP
2 8 (5.41%) LDAP
2 8 (5.41%) SailPoint
2 8 (5.41%) Servlets
2 8 (5.41%) SOAP
2 8 (5.41%) SPML
2 8 (5.41%) XML
3 2 (1.35%) Middleware
4 1 (0.68%) Ajax
4 1 (0.68%) EntireX
4 1 (0.68%) RESTful
4 1 (0.68%) Spring
4 1 (0.68%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.68%) Web Services
4 1 (0.68%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.49%) IBM Mainframe
2 13 (8.78%) LPAR
3 4 (2.70%) Credit Risk
3 4 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.03%) VSAM
5 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.35%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.68%) PKI
6 1 (0.68%) PMI
6 1 (0.68%) Replication
6 1 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 68 (45.95%) zOS
2 7 (4.73%) MVS
3 6 (4.05%) Windows
4 5 (3.38%) Unix
5 4 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (22.97%) Risk Management
2 25 (16.89%) Agile
3 22 (14.86%) Performance Monitoring
4 16 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (10.81%) Scrum
5 14 (9.46%) Requirements Gathering
6 12 (8.11%) Migration
6 12 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (6.76%) Secrets Management
8 9 (6.08%) Change Management
8 9 (6.08%) Microservices
9 8 (5.41%) Architectural Design
9 8 (5.41%) RBAC
9 8 (5.41%) Technical Architecture
10 7 (4.73%) Project Delivery
11 6 (4.05%) API Development
11 6 (4.05%) Capacity Planning
11 6 (4.05%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (4.05%) Mentoring
11 6 (4.05%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (30.41%) REXX
2 43 (29.05%) JCL
3 24 (16.22%) COBOL
4 22 (14.86%) CLIST
5 21 (14.19%) Assembly Language
6 17 (11.49%) SQL
7 12 (8.11%) Java
8 10 (6.76%) SELCOPY
9 8 (5.41%) JavaScript
10 6 (4.05%) Python
11 2 (1.35%) Natural
12 1 (0.68%) Bash
12 1 (0.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 30 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.35%) Degree
4 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.68%) PMP
4 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
2 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 38 (25.68%) Time Sharing Option
2 32 (21.62%) RACF
3 27 (18.24%) ACF2
4 13 (8.78%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 13 (8.78%) Microcode
5 11 (7.43%) Active Directory
6 8 (5.41%) IAG
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (16.89%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (3.38%) CA Endevor
3 4 (2.70%) zSecure
4 1 (0.68%) Ansible
4 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 68 (45.95%) IBM
2 20 (13.51%) Broadcom
3 19 (12.84%) Splunk
4 14 (9.46%) CyberArk
5 12 (8.11%) Microsoft
6 11 (7.43%) Syncsort
7 9 (6.08%) CA
7 9 (6.08%) ServiceNow
8 8 (5.41%) BeyondTrust
9 6 (4.05%) EMC
10 3 (2.03%) Dell
11 2 (1.35%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.35%) Software AG
12 1 (0.68%) Fujitsu
12 1 (0.68%) Google
12 1 (0.68%) HP
12 1 (0.68%) IBM Sterling
12 1 (0.68%) Oracle
12 1 (0.68%) Pegasus
12 1 (0.68%) SunGard