Mainframe Contracts in Sheffield

Mainframes
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 37 41
Rank change year-on-year +22 +4 -21
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 42 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 11.08% 2.92% 2.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 31.34% 10.92% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 7
10th Percentile £404 £463 £455
25th Percentile - £526 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +20.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £513 £621 £531
90th Percentile £588 £650 £568
South Yorkshire median daily rate £430 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -28.33% +20.00% +57.48%

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 134 119 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 35.36% 26.74% 38.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 96 122
10th Percentile £395 £415 £364
25th Percentile £429 £511 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.29% +23.53%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £584
90th Percentile £648 - £686
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -23.40% +17.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile - - £10.86
25th Percentile £10.90 £17.50 £12.00
Median hourly rate £17.63 £20.00 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% +13.38% -52.96%
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.50 £21.75
90th Percentile - - £24.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.75 £10.63 £19.12
% change year-on-year +19.94% -44.41% -9.20%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in Sheffield over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in Sheffield

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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 19 (45.24%) SAS
2 1 (2.38%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.38%) AWS
1 1 (2.38%) Azure
1 1 (2.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) DWDM
General
1 30 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Banking
2 7 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Programmer
2 17 (40.48%) Systems Programmer
2 17 (40.48%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 5 (11.90%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) z/OS Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Hardware Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) z/OS Specialist
7 1 (2.38%) Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) CICS Specialist
7 1 (2.38%) Hardware Specialist
7 1 (2.38%) Mainframe Consultant
7 1 (2.38%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) SailPoint Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (76.19%) ISPF
2 1 (2.38%) HTML
2 1 (2.38%) JSP
2 1 (2.38%) LDAP
2 1 (2.38%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.38%) Servlets
2 1 (2.38%) SOAP
2 1 (2.38%) SPML
2 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) LPAR
2 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 33 (78.57%) zOS
2 7 (16.67%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (69.05%) Risk Management
2 20 (47.62%) Performance Monitoring
3 7 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection
4 1 (2.38%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (2.38%) Project Delivery
4 1 (2.38%) Project Management
4 1 (2.38%) RBAC
4 1 (2.38%) Secrets Management
4 1 (2.38%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (76.19%) JCL
2 28 (66.67%) REXX
3 15 (35.71%) Assembly Language
4 9 (21.43%) CLIST
5 1 (2.38%) Java
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 32 (76.19%) Time Sharing Option
2 16 (38.10%) ACF2
2 16 (38.10%) RACF
3 12 (28.57%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 12 (28.57%) Microcode
4 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.38%) IAG
Systems Management
1 20 (47.62%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 32 (76.19%) IBM
2 19 (45.24%) Broadcom
3 18 (42.86%) Splunk
4 4 (9.52%) CA
5 1 (2.38%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.38%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow