Mainframe Contracts in the Midlands

Mainframes
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 124 161
Rank change year-on-year +15 +37 +29
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 5 14 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.51% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 1.65% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 2
10th Percentile £372 £323 £345
25th Percentile £442 £341 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £364 £415
Median % change year-on-year +38.05% -12.29% -11.47%
75th Percentile £584 £432 £476
90th Percentile £669 £464 £506
England median daily rate £474 £500 £558
% change year-on-year -5.20% -10.31% +9.31%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 584 851 1,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.56% 30.93% 32.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 554 737
10th Percentile £200 £220 £237
25th Percentile £375 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £611 £600
90th Percentile £663 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.45% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 62 41
10th Percentile - £10.47 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.93 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £30.34 £28.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -16.67%

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 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in the Midlands

Mainframe
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

Mainframe
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 30 April 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 - 3 £403 - 1
West Midlands +4 2 £613 +68.27% 1
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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Gradle
1 2 (40.00%) HP UFT
1 2 (40.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
1 2 (40.00%) Maven
1 2 (40.00%) NetBeans
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Development Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Development Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Software Development Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Software Development Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Software Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Software Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Ajax
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) Bootstrap
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) J2EE
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Integration
1 2 (40.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) API Development
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Microservices
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
1 2 (40.00%) Open Source
1 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft