Mainframe Contracts in South Yorkshire

Mainframes
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 16 44
Rank change year-on-year -21 +28 +4
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 11 46 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.95% 10.07% 2.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.15% 29.68% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 26 11
10th Percentile £444 £406 £463
25th Percentile £491 - £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £430 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -28.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £621
90th Percentile £619 - £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £430 £611
% change year-on-year +22.09% -29.57% +22.10%

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 135 155 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.19% 33.92% 31.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 91 108
10th Percentile £263 £356 £317
25th Percentile £376 £414 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -25.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £678
90th Percentile £650 £645 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £538
% change year-on-year - -11.63% +9.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 36
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile - £11.04 £9.80
Median hourly rate - £12.75 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year - +19.94% -44.41%
75th Percentile - £23.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £36.91 £14.63 £10.63
% change year-on-year +152.34% +37.58% -43.16%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in South Yorkshire

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in South Yorkshire

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in South Yorkshire

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in South Yorkshire

Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Sheffield -26 9 £525 +22.09% 4
Barnsley +11 1 £565 -
Mainframe
Yorkshire

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (27.27%) SAS
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DB2
1 1 (9.09%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Programmer
1 3 (27.27%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (27.27%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 2 (18.18%) Storage Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) z/OS Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (18.18%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (9.09%) LPAR
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) zOS
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Migration
1 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
2 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Hardware Maintenance
3 1 (9.09%) High Availability
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (9.09%) Manual Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (9.09%) Release Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Workflow
3 1 (9.09%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) JCL
1 7 (63.64%) REXX
2 4 (36.36%) CLIST
3 2 (18.18%) Assembly Language
4 1 (9.09%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (9.09%) ACF2
2 1 (9.09%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (9.09%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) Control-M
1 2 (18.18%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (9.09%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) BMC
2 1 (9.09%) Broadcom
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft