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 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 374 437
Rank change year-on-year +20 +63 +84
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 14 18 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.095% 0.087% 0.004%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.30% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 1
10th Percentile £307 £326 -
25th Percentile £313 £347 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £364 £425
Median % change year-on-year +23.63% -14.35% -19.05%
75th Percentile £540 £500 £438
90th Percentile £600 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £427 £425
% change year-on-year +5.51% +0.35% -27.66%

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 4,984 6,028 7,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.66% 29.06% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,954 3,536 4,924
10th Percentile £225 £213 £230
25th Percentile £363 £388 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 713 345
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.15 £12.55
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.54 £18.70
Median hourly rate £31.63 £36.05 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.26% +2.99% +62.79%
75th Percentile £62.24 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.13 £72.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.81 £36.50 £27.84
% change year-on-year -15.60% +31.11% +3.19%

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 14 July 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 14 July 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 - 10 £313 - 1
Yorkshire - 6 - -
North West - 4 £313 - 1
Scotland -10 2 £479 -4.20%
South West - 2 £600 -
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 5 (35.71%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DB2
General
1 4 (28.57%) Banking
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Mainframe Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Security Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) CICS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) z/OS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) ISPF
2 3 (21.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 4 (28.57%) VSAM
3 3 (21.43%) Clustering
4 2 (14.29%) AS400
4 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
5 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (7.14%) LPAR
5 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Problem Management
2 4 (28.57%) Release Management
2 4 (28.57%) SDLC
3 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
3 3 (21.43%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 2 (14.29%) Security Auditing
4 2 (14.29%) Security Management
4 2 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (7.14%) Hardware Maintenance
5 1 (7.14%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) JCL
1 6 (42.86%) REXX
2 5 (35.71%) CLIST
3 1 (7.14%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) CISSP
1 2 (14.29%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (14.29%) RACF
3 1 (7.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (7.14%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) CA Endevor
1 4 (28.57%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft