IBM Mainframe Contracts in the North of England

IBM Mainframe
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM 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 162 184 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.021% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.077% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £479 £358 £446
% change year-on-year +33.87% -19.78% -15.00%

All Generic Skills
North of England

IBM 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

IBM Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing IBM Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for IBM Mainframe in the North of England

IBM Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM Mainframe in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for IBM Mainframe in the North of England

IBM Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM Mainframe in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for IBM Mainframe in the North of England

IBM Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +11 4 - -
IBM Mainframe
England

IBM Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) z/OS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ISPF
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) LPAR
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Batch Scheduling
1 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Hardware Maintenance
1 1 (25.00%) High Availability
1 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (25.00%) Workflow
1 1 (25.00%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JCL
1 2 (50.00%) REXX
2 1 (25.00%) CLIST
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (25.00%) Microcode
1 1 (25.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM