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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.26% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £303 - -
25th Percentile £309 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - -
75th Percentile £354 - -
90th Percentile £426 - -
England median daily rate £450 £374 £425
% change year-on-year +20.32% -12.00% -27.66%

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 1,214 1,269 1,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.01% 27.13% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 782 738 1,071
10th Percentile £270 £263 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -3.33% +2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £606
90th Percentile £642 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 139 63
10th Percentile £17.42 £12.15 £10.63
25th Percentile £22.69 £13.50 £16.85
Median hourly rate £33.91 £16.17 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.68% -28.13% +16.13%
75th Percentile £60.94 £34.32 £45.09
90th Percentile £78.63 £50.25 £65.95
England median hourly rate £33.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.50% +14.29% +32.08%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Mainframe in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 16 July 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 - 5 - -
North West - 5 £313 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) IMS/DB
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 4 (40.00%) VSAM
3 2 (20.00%) AS400
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (10.00%) LPAR
4 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) zOS
2 1 (10.00%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (40.00%) Release Management
2 4 (40.00%) SDLC
3 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Batch Scheduling
5 1 (10.00%) Hardware Maintenance
5 1 (10.00%) High Availability
5 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (10.00%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) JCL
2 6 (60.00%) REXX
3 5 (50.00%) CLIST
4 1 (10.00%) COBOL
4 1 (10.00%) PL/1
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (10.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (10.00%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) CA Endevor
2 4 (40.00%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Syncsort