IBM Mainframe Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM Mainframe
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM 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 327 380 459
Rank change year-on-year +53 +79 +48
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 9 19 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.091% 0.012%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.31% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 1
10th Percentile £479 £326 -
25th Percentile £480 £347 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £364 £330
Median % change year-on-year +48.35% +10.30% -40.00%
75th Percentile £600 £500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £480 £374 £446
% change year-on-year +28.21% -16.19% -15.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

IBM 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

IBM Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IBM Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IBM Mainframe in the UK excluding London

IBM Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM Mainframe in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IBM Mainframe in the UK excluding London

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Mainframe in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Mainframe in the UK excluding London

IBM Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM Mainframe in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IBM Mainframe in the UK excluding London

IBM Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +22 4 - -
Yorkshire +11 4 - -
Scotland +9 2 £479 -4.20%
South West - 2 £600 -
Midlands +13 1 £480 +34.08%
East Midlands - 1 £480 -
IBM Mainframe
UK

IBM Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (11.11%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DB2
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Retail
4 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Mainframe Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Security Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) CICS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Development Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Development Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Software Development Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Software Development Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Software Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Software Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) z/OS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (33.33%) Clustering
3 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (11.11%) LPAR
4 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
2 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
2 2 (22.22%) Security Auditing
2 2 (22.22%) Security Management
2 2 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (11.11%) Batch Scheduling
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) Hardware Maintenance
3 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) JCL
1 2 (22.22%) REXX
2 1 (11.11%) CLIST
2 1 (11.11%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) RACF
2 1 (11.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (11.11%) Microcode
2 1 (11.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) IBM