Mainframe Specialist Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Mainframe Specialist
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

As of 30 April 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Mainframe Specialist daily rate in South Yorkshire.

 6 months to
30 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.094% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 338 416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.05% 90.86% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 230 260
10th Percentile £351 £185 £249
25th Percentile £411 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -1.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £561 £582
90th Percentile £669 £638 £639
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £469 £475
% change year-on-year +2.35% -1.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 18
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £18.10 £12.63
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.35 £13.60
Median % change year-on-year +40.42% +34.99% -23.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £23.31
90th Percentile - £18.51 £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £21.24 £14.25
% change year-on-year +29.47% +49.05% -35.23%

Mainframe Specialist Skill Set
Top 9 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 30 April 2026, Mainframe Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Mainframe Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) CA Endevor
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC

Mainframe Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CA Endevor