Mainframe Contracts in the North of England

Mainframes
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 121 182
Rank change year-on-year -5 +61 +33
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 36 56 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.10% 1.21% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.52% 4.58% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 33 22
10th Percentile £359 £413 £401
25th Percentile £380 £430 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £605
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% -26.48% +23.52%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £650
90th Percentile £626 - £673
England median daily rate £430 £475 £563
% change year-on-year -9.53% -15.56% +7.14%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 1,022 1,224 1,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 31.22% 26.52% 30.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 743 1,122
10th Percentile £213 £267 £288
25th Percentile £365 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.49% +5.79%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £609
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £535 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 157 82
10th Percentile £20.49 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.27 £16.00 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +82.94% -5.04% -9.89%
75th Percentile £56.32 £34.21 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £47.21 £66.62
England median hourly rate £33.00 £34.21 £22.49
% change year-on-year -3.54% +52.15% -15.15%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the North of England

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in the North of England

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in the North of England

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in the North of England

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 Mainframe within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 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
North West +20 19 £381 -14.86% 29
Yorkshire -16 17 £550 +27.91% 25
Mainframe
England

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 11 (30.56%) CICS
2 4 (11.11%) Confluence
3 3 (8.33%) SAS
3 3 (8.33%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.78%) CMS
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DWDM
1 1 (2.78%) SNA
1 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) DB2
2 3 (8.33%) Easytrieve
3 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
1 5 (13.89%) JIRA
2 4 (11.11%) Selenium
3 2 (5.56%) IntelliJ
3 2 (5.56%) Maven
3 2 (5.56%) SOAtest
4 1 (2.78%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.78%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.78%) Git
4 1 (2.78%) Gradle
4 1 (2.78%) HP UFT
4 1 (2.78%) JUnit
4 1 (2.78%) NetBeans
4 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.78%) Subversion
General
1 14 (38.89%) Banking
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Finance
4 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Retail Banking
6 2 (5.56%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) Legal
7 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (13.89%) Architect
1 5 (13.89%) Consultant
2 3 (8.33%) Developer
2 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (8.33%) Programmer
2 3 (8.33%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (8.33%) Tester
2 3 (8.33%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 2 (5.56%) Designer
3 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.56%) Mainframe Consultant
3 2 (5.56%) Mainframe Designer
3 2 (5.56%) Mainframe Developer
3 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
3 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.56%) Test Architect
3 2 (5.56%) z/OS Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) z/OS Specialist
4 1 (2.78%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (2.78%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) Web Services
2 5 (13.89%) ISPF
3 3 (8.33%) J2EE
4 2 (5.56%) JSON
4 2 (5.56%) REST
4 2 (5.56%) XML
5 1 (2.78%) Ajax
5 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.78%) Bootstrap
5 1 (2.78%) CSS
5 1 (2.78%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.78%) HTML
5 1 (2.78%) HTML5
5 1 (2.78%) jQuery
5 1 (2.78%) Kafka
5 1 (2.78%) Node.js
5 1 (2.78%) Spring
5 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.78%) Spring Integration
5 1 (2.78%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 9 (25.00%) VSAM
2 4 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.33%) Replication
4 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.56%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (2.78%) Clustering
5 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 11 (30.56%) zOS
2 5 (13.89%) Unix
3 4 (11.11%) Linux
4 3 (8.33%) HPUX
4 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (8.33%) Solaris
4 3 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Agile
1 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (19.44%) Migration
2 7 (19.44%) Validation
3 6 (16.67%) DevOps
3 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (11.11%) High Availability
4 4 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (11.11%) SDLC
4 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (11.11%) Test Strategy
5 3 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 3 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 3 (8.33%) Risk Management
6 2 (5.56%) Performance Management
6 2 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) JCL
2 12 (33.33%) REXX
3 11 (30.56%) COBOL
4 5 (13.89%) Java
5 4 (11.11%) CLIST
6 3 (8.33%) Assembly Language
7 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.78%) SQL
7 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) Degree
1 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (13.89%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (2.78%) ACF2
3 1 (2.78%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (2.78%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Ansible
1 2 (5.56%) CA Endevor
1 2 (5.56%) Control-M
1 2 (5.56%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (2.78%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.78%) Puppet
2 1 (2.78%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 21 (58.33%) IBM
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) Sun
2 3 (8.33%) Unisys
3 2 (5.56%) Ab Initio
3 2 (5.56%) Informatica
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Parasoft
4 1 (2.78%) Broadcom
4 1 (2.78%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.78%) Dell
4 1 (2.78%) HP