Microcode Contracts in the North of England

Microcode
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Microcode skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microcode over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microcode 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% - -
As % of the System Software category 2.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £588 - -
England median daily rate £430 - -

All System Software Skills
North of England

Microcode is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 566 840 1,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.82% 14.41% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 631 760
10th Percentile £178 £178 £155
25th Percentile £275 £305 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £572 £578 £550
90th Percentile £650 £670 £638
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 36 47
10th Percentile - £14.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.06 £17.44 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.19% +52.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £18.56 £64.06 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.21 £65.38 £25.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

Microcode
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microcode in the North of England

Microcode
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Microcode in the North of England

Microcode
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 Microcode within the North of England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Yorkshire - 13 £430 -
Microcode
England

Microcode
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 9 (69.23%) DWDM
General
1 11 (84.62%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Hardware Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) z/OS Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Hardware Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) LPAR
1 13 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) JCL
2 9 (69.23%) CLIST
2 9 (69.23%) REXX
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 13 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) IBM