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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 65 85
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 +18
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 5 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.07% 0.13% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.11% 0.53% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £547
25th Percentile £675 - £571
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -28.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £725 - £644
90th Percentile - - £648
West Yorkshire median daily rate £606 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +34.72% -30.77% +30.00%

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 161 190 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 34.48% 24.02% 27.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 107 266
10th Percentile £283 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £555 £594 £625
90th Percentile £634 £619 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -1.60% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 32 1
10th Percentile £36.81 - -
25th Percentile £44.81 £12.15 £20.75
Median hourly rate £62.25 £12.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +406.10% -42.79% -4.02%
75th Percentile £82.45 £15.19 £22.25
90th Percentile £92.11 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.81 £12.90 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.34% -40.00% +14.97%

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

Mainframe
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

Mainframe
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 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 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
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
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%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
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%) HP