Mainframe Analyst Contracts in London

Mainframe Analyst
England > London

The median Mainframe Analyst daily rate in London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 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
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 377 467
Rank change year-on-year +6 +90 -
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Analyst 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.007% 0.012% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.013% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £461 -
25th Percentile £481 £477 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £531 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £544 £564 £438
90th Percentile - £567 -
England median daily rate £513 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +13.89% +5.88% +49.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,627 15,556 23,136
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 94.23% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,544 11,070 16,949
10th Percentile £331 £343 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 228 249
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.00 £23.46
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.40 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% -13.61% +13.64%
75th Percentile £50.13 £52.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.88 £71.44 £80.00
England median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -38.84% -1.71% +70.97%

Mainframe Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe Analyst in London

Mainframe Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe Analyst in London

Mainframe Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe Analyst in London

Mainframe Analyst Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 28 July 2025, Mainframe Analyst 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 London region featuring Mainframe Analyst in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
1 1 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
1 1 (100.00%) PL/1
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding

Mainframe Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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%) SAS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (100.00%) PL/1
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) REXX