Mainframe Contracts in Manchester

Mainframes
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 93 117
Rank change year-on-year +19 +24 +17
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 5 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 0.20% 0.053%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 0.72% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £337 £463 -
25th Percentile £364 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +31.25% -18.20%
75th Percentile £597 £581 -
90th Percentile £704 £608 -
North West median daily rate £402 £450 £325
% change year-on-year -10.67% +38.46% -32.22%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 266 419 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.73% 27.62% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 283 435
10th Percentile £203 £300 £320
25th Percentile £382 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £602 £588 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £686
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 32 31
10th Percentile £20.75 £13.08 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.82 £20.74
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -27.86% +141.38%
75th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £65.50
90th Percentile £76.00 £62.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Manchester

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in Manchester

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in Manchester

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in Manchester

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (40.00%) CICS
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Storage Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) HPUX
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JCL
2 1 (20.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL
2 1 (20.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CA Endevor
1 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Sun
2 1 (20.00%) Unisys