Microcode Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microcode
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Microcode skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microcode over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microcode 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £588 - -
UK median daily rate £430 - £486
% change year-on-year - - +38.86%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Microcode is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,463 3,622 4,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.90% 15.13% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,652 2,629 3,319
10th Percentile £175 £180 £158
25th Percentile £275 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% +6.67% +6.51%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £563
90th Percentile £650 £680 £644
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 188 240
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.25 £12.99
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.53 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.00 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -46.25% +120.81% +2.93%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £79.80 £70.00 £50.87
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.88% +167.13% -

Microcode
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microcode in the UK excluding London

Microcode
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Microcode in the UK excluding London

Microcode
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microcode in the UK excluding London

Microcode
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 Microcode within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Yorkshire - 13 £430 -
North of England - 13 £430 -
Microcode
UK

Microcode
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:

Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) DWDM
General
1 11 (84.62%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Hardware Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) z/OS Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Hardware Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) LPAR
1 13 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) JCL
2 9 (69.23%) CLIST
2 9 (69.23%) REXX
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 13 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) IBM