Mainframe Contracts in Merseyside

Mainframes
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 28 32 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.60% 0.44% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.38% 3.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £402 £450 £325
% change year-on-year -10.67% +38.46% -32.22%

All Generic Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 42 32 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 25.00% 14.04% 25.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 66
10th Percentile £143 £115 £288
25th Percentile £150 £169 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £369 £450
Median % change year-on-year -41.69% -18.06% +4.65%
75th Percentile £534 £497 £626
90th Percentile £550 £540 £675
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 2
10th Percentile - £17.90 £16.53
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.09 £17.31
Median hourly rate £22.00 £32.12 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -31.50% +66.83% -41.75%
75th Percentile £23.00 £34.24 £21.81
90th Percentile - £34.32 £22.98
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Merseyside

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in Merseyside

Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +8 1 £525 +16.67%
Mainframe
North West

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC