Mainframe Contracts in the Midlands

Mainframes
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 160 177
Rank change year-on-year +39 +17 -56
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 18 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.66% 0.15% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 0.46% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 16
10th Percentile £327 - £358
25th Percentile £358 £475 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year -24.40% +6.67% +1.90%
75th Percentile £445 £525 £675
90th Percentile £458 - £721
England median daily rate £475 £558 £510
% change year-on-year -14.80% +9.31% +11.78%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

Mainframe is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 826 1,086 1,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.42% 32.46% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 723 1,049
10th Percentile £213 £238 £213
25th Percentile £350 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £575
90th Percentile £744 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 43 52
10th Percentile £10.47 £16.88 £12.04
25th Percentile £13.93 £18.19 £14.77
Median hourly rate £19.50 £24.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +45.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £28.88 £53.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £23.70
England median hourly rate £33.00 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +46.76% -16.66% +3.34%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the Midlands

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in the Midlands

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in the Midlands

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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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +31 14 £364 -27.20%
East Midlands +22 4 £445 - 2
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
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 9 (50.00%) CICS
1 9 (50.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (77.78%) DB2
2 9 (50.00%) IDMS
3 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) CA Gen
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) German Language
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
1 11 (61.11%) Mainframe Developer
2 10 (55.56%) IBM Mainframe Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) CA Gen Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) .NET
1 4 (22.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) IBM Mainframe
2 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (22.22%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) zOS
2 4 (22.22%) Android
2 4 (22.22%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) Requirements Gathering
2 10 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (50.00%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) API Design
4 4 (22.22%) Architectural Design
4 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 4 (22.22%) Domain-Driven Design
4 4 (22.22%) Microservices
4 4 (22.22%) Project Management
4 4 (22.22%) SDLC
4 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
5 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.56%) Change Management
6 1 (5.56%) Data Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) ETL
6 1 (5.56%) Migration
6 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) COBOL
2 9 (50.00%) CLIST
2 9 (50.00%) REXX
2 9 (50.00%) SELCOPY
3 4 (22.22%) C
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) IBM
2 9 (50.00%) Syncsort
3 1 (5.56%) CA
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft