Mainframe Contracts in the North West

Mainframes
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 129 151
Rank change year-on-year +26 +22 +13
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 20 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.02% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.57% 0.67% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 6
10th Percentile £359 - £321
25th Percentile £379 £450 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £513 £325
Median % change year-on-year -21.56% +57.69% -32.22%
75th Percentile £447 £597 -
90th Percentile £538 £614 £363
England median daily rate £474 £500 £558
% change year-on-year -5.20% -10.31% +9.31%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 561 743 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.74% 26.76% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £362 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £658 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.45% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -16.67%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the North West

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in the North West

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in the North West over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in the North West

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in the North West

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 Mainframe within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Cheshire - 14 £402 - 1
Manchester +21 5 £452 -14.00% 1
Merseyside +3 1 £525 +16.67%
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (45.00%) CICS
2 3 (15.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (10.00%) Confluence
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) DB2
2 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.00%) Easytrieve
2 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Selenium
3 2 (10.00%) SOAtest
4 1 (5.00%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (5.00%) Gradle
4 1 (5.00%) HP UFT
4 1 (5.00%) IntelliJ
4 1 (5.00%) JUnit
4 1 (5.00%) Maven
4 1 (5.00%) NetBeans
4 1 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 10 (50.00%) Banking
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) General Ledger
4 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (15.00%) Architect
1 3 (15.00%) Consultant
2 2 (10.00%) Designer
2 2 (10.00%) Developer
2 2 (10.00%) Mainframe Consultant
2 2 (10.00%) Mainframe Designer
2 2 (10.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 2 (10.00%) Storage Consultant
2 2 (10.00%) Test Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Incident Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Senior
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Software Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Software Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Web Services
2 3 (15.00%) J2EE
3 2 (10.00%) JSON
3 2 (10.00%) REST
3 2 (10.00%) XML
4 1 (5.00%) Ajax
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) Bootstrap
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) HTML5
4 1 (5.00%) ISPF
4 1 (5.00%) jQuery
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) Spring
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Integration
4 1 (5.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Product Ownership
1 7 (35.00%) VSAM
2 2 (10.00%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
1 3 (15.00%) zOS
2 1 (5.00%) HPUX
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Solaris
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Validation
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) Migration
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) SDLC
4 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (10.00%) API Integration
5 2 (10.00%) API Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) ETL
5 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Management
5 2 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.00%) Test Planning
5 2 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) JCL
2 7 (35.00%) COBOL
3 4 (20.00%) Java
3 4 (20.00%) REXX
4 1 (5.00%) Assembly Language
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) CA Endevor
1 1 (5.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (10.00%) Ab Initio
2 2 (10.00%) BMC
2 2 (10.00%) Informatica
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Parasoft
3 1 (5.00%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (5.00%) Dell
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Sun
3 1 (5.00%) Unisys