Mainframe Contracts in Leeds

Mainframes
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in Leeds. 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 55 62 92
Rank change year-on-year +7 +30 -
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 5 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.08% 0.13% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.18% 0.51% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £529 - £547
25th Percentile £553 - £571
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +36.11% -28.00% -
75th Percentile £678 - £644
90th Percentile £706 - £648
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £450 £638
% change year-on-year +16.67% -29.41% +21.43%

All Generic Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 157 197 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 33.76% 24.66% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 110 288
10th Percentile £276 £292 £400
25th Percentile £400 £403 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £638
90th Percentile £725 £619 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 32 1
10th Percentile £34.18 - -
25th Percentile £38.24 £12.15 -
Median hourly rate £65.71 £12.30 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +434.21% -28.65% -27.26%
75th Percentile £97.12 £15.19 -
90th Percentile £97.98 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £12.90 £17.24
% change year-on-year +217.83% -25.17% -7.81%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Leeds

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Mainframe Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) HPUX
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Solaris
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) COBOL
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Sun
2 2 (40.00%) Unisys
3 1 (20.00%) BMC
3 1 (20.00%) HP