Mainframe Contracts in Shropshire

Mainframes
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire. 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 16 61 92
Rank change year-on-year +45 +31 -
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 11 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 8.53% 0.54% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 42.31% 6.67% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £320 - £362
25th Percentile £333 £475 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £500 £368
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% +35.87% -
75th Percentile £376 £525 £447
90th Percentile £403 - £494
West Midlands median daily rate £364 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -27.20% -16.67% +20.00%

All Generic Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 26 15 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 20.16% 8.11% 24.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 101
10th Percentile £330 £159 £400
25th Percentile £358 £381 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -7.41% +31.31%
75th Percentile £505 £576 £645
90th Percentile £536 £621 £1,100
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +14.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
Median hourly rate £10.42 £55.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -81.05% +378.26% -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £25.50 £15.86
% change year-on-year -11.76% +60.78% -4.69%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Shropshire

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in Shropshire

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in Shropshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in Shropshire

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 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
Telford +47 11 £358 -28.40%
Mainframe
West Midlands

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 9 (81.82%) CICS
1 9 (81.82%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) DB2
2 9 (81.82%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Git
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
1 10 (90.91%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 10 (90.91%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) zOS
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
1 10 (90.91%) Requirements Gathering
1 10 (90.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (81.82%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Data Extraction
4 1 (9.09%) ETL
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) COBOL
2 9 (81.82%) CLIST
2 9 (81.82%) REXX
2 9 (81.82%) SELCOPY
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) IBM
2 9 (81.82%) Syncsort
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft