Mainframe Architect Contracts in Knutsford

Mainframe Architect
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Mainframe Architect daily rate in Knutsford is £447, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 0.68% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £447 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. 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 Knutsford with a recognized job title 125 105 138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.62% 97.22% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 97 111
10th Percentile £330 £356 £415
25th Percentile £358 £400 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -11.09% +18.28%
75th Percentile £492 £582 £620
90th Percentile £537 £619 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £456 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.20%

Mainframe Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Mainframe Architect 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 Knutsford region featuring Mainframe Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
1 1 (100.00%) General Ledger
1 1 (100.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

Mainframe Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SOAtest
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) General Ledger
1 1 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Payment
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Parasoft