Mainframe Contracts in Knutsford

Mainframes
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in Knutsford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 22 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 14 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 9.59% 2.78% 3.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 22.58% 10.34% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 5
10th Percentile £361 - £321
25th Percentile £381 - £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £325
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +36.92% -
75th Percentile £405 - -
90th Percentile £447 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £402 £445 £325
% change year-on-year -9.66% +36.92% -

All Generic Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 62 29 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 42.47% 26.85% 46.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 27 54
10th Percentile £356 £390 £325
25th Percentile £358 £445 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year -26.91% -1.26% +21.09%
75th Percentile £494 £583 £586
90th Percentile £537 £606 £670
Cheshire median daily rate £467 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -8.88% +13.89% +2.27%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Knutsford

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in Knutsford

Mainframe
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 7 (50.00%) CICS
2 3 (21.43%) WebSphere
3 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) DB2
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) Easytrieve
2 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) SOAtest
4 1 (7.14%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (7.14%) Gradle
4 1 (7.14%) HP UFT
4 1 (7.14%) IntelliJ
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (7.14%) JUnit
4 1 (7.14%) Maven
4 1 (7.14%) NetBeans
4 1 (7.14%) Subversion
General
1 7 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) General Ledger
3 2 (14.29%) Retail Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Architect
1 2 (14.29%) Designer
1 2 (14.29%) Mainframe Designer
1 2 (14.29%) Test Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Incident Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Major Incident Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Management Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Software Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Software Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Web Services
2 3 (21.43%) J2EE
3 2 (14.29%) JSON
3 2 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) XML
4 1 (7.14%) Ajax
4 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
4 1 (7.14%) CSS
4 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) HTML5
4 1 (7.14%) jQuery
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) Spring
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Integration
4 1 (7.14%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Product Ownership
1 6 (42.86%) VSAM
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Unix
2 2 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Validation
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Migration
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 2 (14.29%) API Integration
4 2 (14.29%) API Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Batch Processing
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Management
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (14.29%) SDLC
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Test Planning
4 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) COBOL
1 6 (42.86%) JCL
2 4 (28.57%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) REXX
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
1 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) IBM
2 2 (14.29%) Ab Initio
2 2 (14.29%) Informatica
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Parasoft
3 1 (7.14%) CA Agile Central