IBM Mainframe Contract Job Trends in the North West

IBM Mainframe
England > North West

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.25% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £304 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - -
75th Percentile £358 - -
90th Percentile £428 - -
England median daily rate £340 £485 £650
% change year-on-year -29.90% -25.38% +23.81%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 839 679 801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.00% 28.69% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 355 559
10th Percentile £256 £291 £254
25th Percentile £360 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -6.86% +3.03%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £594
90th Percentile £650 £675 £651
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 27 39
10th Percentile £15.75 £17.56 £16.20
25th Percentile £20.61 £21.05 £25.18
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.65% -27.06% +95.13%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.84 £48.44
90th Percentile £74.26 £89.70 £65.15
England median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% +5.56% +66.79%

IBM Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IBM Mainframe relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

IBM Mainframe job vacancy trend in the North West

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IBM Mainframe.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IBM Mainframe

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Mainframe in the North West over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Mainframe in the North West

IBM Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IBM Mainframe.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IBM Mainframe

IBM Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Manchester - 5 £313 - 1
Lancashire - 1 - - 1
IBM Mainframe
England

IBM Mainframe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
1 1 (16.67%) IMS/DB
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (83.33%) VSAM
3 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) zOS
2 1 (16.67%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
1 5 (83.33%) Release Management
1 5 (83.33%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 4 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JCL
2 5 (83.33%) CLIST
2 5 (83.33%) REXX
3 1 (16.67%) PL/1
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) CA Endevor
2 5 (83.33%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Syncsort