Mainframe Specialist Contracts in Scotland

Mainframe Specialist
UK > Scotland

The median Mainframe Specialist daily rate in Scotland is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Specialist 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £513 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Mainframe Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Mainframe Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe Specialist in Scotland

Mainframe Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mainframe Specialist in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Mainframe Specialist in Scotland

Mainframe Specialist
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe Specialist within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh - 2 £513 -
Mainframe Specialist
UK

Mainframe Specialist Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Mainframe Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Mainframe Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) SNA
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
1 2 (100.00%) Tivoli NetView
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps

Mainframe Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SNA
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) IBM