Mainframe Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Mainframes
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 44 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.17% 0.44% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.51% 1.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - £400

All Generic Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 198 160 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 34.08% 35.09% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 74 139
10th Percentile £283 £274 £271
25th Percentile £413 £336 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.42% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £679 £575 £641
90th Percentile £800 £650 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 25 59
10th Percentile £17.59 £35.00 £42.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £47.50 £45.75
Median hourly rate £63.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +3.85% -4.41%
75th Percentile £67.25 £95.00 -
90th Percentile £76.25 £98.00 £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -31.45% -4.62% +51.64%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mainframe relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Mainframe job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Mainframe.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Mainframe

Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Mainframe.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Mainframe

Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
Mainframe
East of England

Mainframe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) CLIST
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) zSecure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM