Mainframe Contracts in Northern Ireland

Mainframes
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.70% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £508 - -
90th Percentile £521 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

Mainframe is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 39 58 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 26.35% 28.86% 39.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 34 43
10th Percentile £181 £227 £145
25th Percentile £270 £391 £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £325
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% +26.92% -24.68%
75th Percentile - £475 £474
90th Percentile £531 £612 £535
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 6
10th Percentile - £13.33 £13.89
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.46 £14.67
Median hourly rate £12.62 £13.84 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% -27.14% +80.95%
75th Percentile £23.54 £14.15 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £14.22 -
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £22.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +25.56% -16.67% +3.85%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Northern Ireland

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in Northern Ireland

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in Northern Ireland

Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 24 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
County Antrim - 4 £500 -
Mainframe
UK

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (25.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) IDMS
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Mainframe Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Test Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) COBOL
2 1 (25.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (25.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM