Mainframe Contracts in the Thames Valley

Mainframes
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 150 165
Rank change year-on-year +12 +15 -36
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 7 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.25% 0.034% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 0.10% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile - £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -13.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £494 £394 £475
90th Percentile £600 - -
South East median daily rate £358 £544 £350
% change year-on-year -34.16% +55.36% -26.32%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 847 966 1,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 30.62% 32.54% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 637 694
10th Percentile £205 £275 £191
25th Percentile £281 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +10.99%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 21 28
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £17.42
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +67.50% -21.57%
75th Percentile £58.70 £66.21 £27.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.19 £67.72
South East median hourly rate £43.86 £45.50 £21.97
% change year-on-year -3.62% +107.10% -22.91%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 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
Buckinghamshire - 7 £350 -
Mainframe
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (57.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Big Data Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Mainframe Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Java Scrum Master
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum Master
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile
1 2 (28.57%) Burndown Charts
1 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
1 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
1 2 (28.57%) Resource Allocation
1 2 (28.57%) Scrum
1 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JCL
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce