Mainframe Contract Job Trends in Telford

Mainframes
Shropshire > Telford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in Telford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.24% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median daily rate £513 - -

All Generic Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 176 36 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 21.44% 19.57% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 22 11
10th Percentile £420 £211 £137
25th Percentile £457 £253 £151
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £299
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +54.68% -40.20%
75th Percentile £626 £500 £307
90th Percentile £670 £539 £323
Shropshire median daily rate £500 £450 £239
% change year-on-year +11.11% +88.28% -52.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.30 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £13.32 - £23.60

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Mainframe job vacancy trend in Telford

Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Mainframe

Mainframe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SFIA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance