Mainframe Tester Contracts in Knutsford

Mainframe Tester
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Mainframe Tester daily rate in Knutsford is £340, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Tester 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 0.44% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £340 - -

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 206 162 111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 94.74% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 144 90
10th Percentile £317 £349 £506
25th Percentile £358 £390 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £453 £565
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% -19.87% +15.66%
75th Percentile £491 £577 £610
90th Percentile £537 £619 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £430 £475 £516
% change year-on-year -9.47% -7.95% +14.67%

Mainframe Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings that featured Mainframe Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe Tester in Knutsford

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, Mainframe Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria

Mainframe Tester 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
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle