Mainframe Developer Contracts in London

Mainframe Developer
England > London

The median Mainframe Developer daily rate in London is £390, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 387 492
Rank change year-on-year +37 +105 +103
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Developer 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.024% 0.022% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.024% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £385 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £670 £475
Median % change year-on-year -41.79% +41.05% -40.44%
75th Percentile £395 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £390 £358 £398
% change year-on-year +8.94% -9.94% -36.90%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Mainframe Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe Developer in London

Mainframe Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe Developer in London

Mainframe Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
Central London +4 1 £390 -
Mainframe Developer
England

Mainframe Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Mainframe Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) COBOL
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (66.67%) JCL
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) DB2
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
2 2 (66.67%) CICS
2 2 (66.67%) zOS
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) ISPF
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Spring MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) Groovy
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5

Mainframe Developer 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 2 (66.67%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Mockito
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
1 1 (33.33%) Xcode
1 1 (33.33%) XCTest
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Bootstrap
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS3
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) ISPF
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) JPA
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Material-UI
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Spring MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) zOS
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) COBOL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JCL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
3 1 (33.33%) Groovy
3 1 (33.33%) HLASM
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
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