IBM Mainframe Contract Job Trends in Manchester

IBM Mainframe
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.44% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £304 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - -
75th Percentile £358 - -
90th Percentile £428 - -
North West median daily rate £313 - -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 requiring generic IT skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 409 382 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.13% 33.42% 27.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 206 338
10th Percentile £299 £279 £230
25th Percentile £358 £361 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.06% -4.39%
75th Percentile £580 £582 £575
90th Percentile £650 £706 £679
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £513
% change year-on-year -8.16% -4.39% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £21.33 £28.69
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.56 £35.13
Median hourly rate £21.50 £32.50 £43.13
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% -24.64% +23.21%
75th Percentile £35.50 £43.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £60.63 £89.50 £79.13
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.88% -23.53% +68.68%

IBM Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

IBM Mainframe job vacancy trend in Manchester

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IBM Mainframe

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Mainframe in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Mainframe in Manchester

IBM Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IBM Mainframe

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

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) CICS
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 5 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 5 (100.00%) Release Management
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
2 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (80.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) CLIST
1 5 (100.00%) JCL
1 5 (100.00%) REXX
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) CA Endevor
1 5 (100.00%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft