IBM Mainframe Contracts in Sheffield

IBM Mainframe
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.03% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - -

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 248 119 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 42.61% 29.31% 26.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 65 62
10th Percentile £318 £351 £433
25th Percentile £362 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -9.57% +5.02%
75th Percentile £522 £622 £684
90th Percentile £600 £648 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -18.27% -5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.64% - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £41.25 -
% change year-on-year -63.64% - -

IBM Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing IBM Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for IBM Mainframe in Sheffield

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing IBM Mainframe.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing IBM Mainframe

IBM Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (33.33%) CICS
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (16.67%) DWDM
1 1 (16.67%) FCoE
1 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) Multicast
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ISPF
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (33.33%) AS400
3 1 (16.67%) Clustering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (16.67%) LPAR
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) zOS
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) MVS
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Batch Scheduling
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Hardware Maintenance
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JCL
1 2 (33.33%) REXX
2 1 (16.67%) CLIST
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (16.67%) KVM
1 1 (16.67%) Microcode
1 1 (16.67%) NFS
1 1 (16.67%) SRDF
1 1 (16.67%) Time Sharing Option
1 1 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Control-M
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) NetApp
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Pure Storage
2 1 (16.67%) VMware