Mainframe Programmer Contracts in London

Mainframe Programmer
England > London

The median Mainframe Programmer daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 392 -
Rank change year-on-year +47 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Programmer 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.011% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.012% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £456 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £544 £575 -
90th Percentile £548 - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 -
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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 11,802 16,538 23,816
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 93.75% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,993 11,885 17,371
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 321 274
10th Percentile £19.33 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.94 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £33.45 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.56 £46.48 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.38 £67.00 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.22% -9.47% +74.52%

Mainframe Programmer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe Programmer in London

Mainframe Programmer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe Programmer in London

Mainframe Programmer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe Programmer in London

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, Mainframe Programmer 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 Programmer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 5 (100.00%) Data Sharing
2 4 (80.00%) DB2
3 3 (60.00%) Runbook
3 3 (60.00%) CICS
3 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) Cost Reduction
3 3 (60.00%) Replication
4 2 (40.00%) Banking
4 2 (40.00%) Data Collection
4 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Change Data Capture
4 2 (40.00%) OMEGAMON
4 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (40.00%) RACF
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 2 (40.00%) REXX
4 2 (40.00%) zOS
5 1 (20.00%) Tivoli NetView
5 1 (20.00%) PL/1
5 1 (20.00%) IBM
5 1 (20.00%) Assembly Language
5 1 (20.00%) JCL
5 1 (20.00%) Change Management
5 1 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (20.00%) CLIST
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation

Mainframe Programmer 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 3 (60.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) DB2
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (60.00%) Replication
3 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Sharing
2 3 (60.00%) Cost Reduction
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Runbook
3 2 (40.00%) Change Data Capture
3 2 (40.00%) Data Collection
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) REXX
2 1 (20.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (20.00%) CLIST
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL
2 1 (20.00%) JCL
2 1 (20.00%) PL/1
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM