Mainframe Tester Contracts in the Midlands

Mainframe Tester
England > Midlands

The median Mainframe Tester daily rate in the Midlands is £340, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Tester 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.046% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - -
England median daily rate £340 - £300

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,966 2,743 3,068
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.85% 92.26% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,280 1,809 2,160
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £350 £338 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £596
90th Percentile £638 £675 £694
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 243 112
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.83 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.06 £14.88
Median hourly rate £22.05 £19.00 £20.65
Median % change year-on-year +16.05% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.78 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £45.00
% change year-on-year -27.31% -12.11% +85.22%

Mainframe Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe Tester in the Midlands

Mainframe Tester
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe Tester within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
East Midlands - 1 £340 - 4
Mainframe Tester
England

Mainframe Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 17 June 2025, Mainframe Tester 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 Midlands region featuring Mainframe Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria

Mainframe Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle