IBM Mainframe Contract Job Trends in London

IBM Mainframe
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	460	379	368
Rank change year-on-year	-81	-11	+50
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe	9	2	9
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.045%	0.014%	0.057%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.11%	0.037%	0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted	5	0	4
10^th Percentile	-	-	£468
25^th Percentile	£438	-	£477
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£450	-	£486
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-25.19%
75^th Percentile	£463	-	£508
90^th Percentile	£538	-	£533
England median daily rate	£450	£340	£485
% change year-on-year	+32.35%	-29.90%	-25.38%

All Generic Skills
London

IBM 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 citing generic IT skills in London.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	8,100	5,463	5,334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	40.10%	39.18%	33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted	5,204	3,482	3,408
10^th Percentile	£358	£335	£325
25^th Percentile	£450	£438	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£575
Median % change year-on-year	-	-4.35%	-3.28%
75^th Percentile	£675	£688	£713
90^th Percentile	£775	£825	£850
England median daily rate	£525	£520	£545
% change year-on-year	+0.96%	-4.59%	-0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted	248	139	62
10^th Percentile	£17.09	£17.42	£17.28
25^th Percentile	£21.10	£20.41	£23.98
Median hourly rate	£36.00	£25.15	£34.75
Median % change year-on-year	+43.14%	-27.63%	+15.83%
75^th Percentile	£55.50	£44.47	£56.00
90^th Percentile	£81.25	£72.50	£80.75
England median hourly rate	£33.99	£27.53	£46.18
% change year-on-year	+23.47%	-40.39%	+3.78%

IBM Mainframe Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IBM Mainframe relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

IBM Mainframe Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IBM Mainframe.

IBM Mainframe Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IBM Mainframe.

IBM Mainframe Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 15 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing IBM Mainframe also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing IBM Mainframe.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	IBM	100.0%	9
2	CICS	88.9%	8
3	Problem-Solving	44.4%	4
4	Data Protection	33.3%	3
4	Workload Management	33.3%	3
4	zOS	33.3%	3
7	Batch Processing	22.2%	2
7	Db2	22.2%	2
7	MAINVIEW	22.2%	2
7	Observability	22.2%	2
7	OMEGAMON	22.2%	2
7	Project Delivery	22.2%	2
13	Batch Scheduling	11.1%	1
13	BMC	11.1%	1
13	Capacity Planning	11.1%	1
13	Change Management	11.1%	1
13	Cryptography	11.1%	1
13	Data Management	11.1%	1
13	Datadog	11.1%	1
13	Dynatrace	11.1%	1
13	ISPF	11.1%	1
13	JCL	11.1%	1
13	Migration	11.1%	1
13	MVS	11.1%	1
13	Performance Tuning	11.1%	1
13	Platform Engineering	11.1%	1
13	R	11.1%	1
13	REXX	11.1%	1
13	SQL	11.1%	1
13	SSL	11.1%	1

IBM Mainframe Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Mainframe	100.0%	9
2	Data Protection Act	33.3%	3
3	Data Centre	11.1%	1