Mainframe Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Mainframes
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in Shropshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.33% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £499 £575 -
% change year-on-year -13.26% - -

All Generic Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 56 21 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 18.60% 18.42% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 13 9
10th Percentile £215 £164 £435
25th Percentile £358 £180 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £313 £480
Median % change year-on-year +43.77% -34.79% -4.00%
75th Percentile £500 £438 £500
90th Percentile £538 £558 £548
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.60 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £30.45 £25.80
% change year-on-year -1.48% +18.02% +35.79%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mainframe relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Mainframe job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Mainframe.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Mainframe

Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Telford - 1 - - 1
Mainframe
West Midlands

Mainframe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Structured Programming
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ICL