IBM Mainframe Developer Contracts

IBM Mainframe Developer
UK

The median IBM Mainframe Developer daily rate in the UK is £358 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an IBM Mainframe Developer 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £323 - -
25th Percentile £339 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £368 - -
90th Percentile £375 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £355 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

IBM Mainframe Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured IBM Mainframe Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IBM Mainframe Developer in the UK

IBM Mainframe Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM Mainframe Developer.

Daily rate trend for IBM Mainframe Developer in the UK

IBM Mainframe Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM Mainframe Developer.

Hourly rate trend for IBM Mainframe Developer in the UK

IBM Mainframe Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
UK excluding London - 12 £355 -
England - 12 £355 -
West Midlands - 10 £358 -
Midlands - 10 £358 -
Work from Home - 9 £358 -
South East - 4 £358 -

IBM Mainframe Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, IBM Mainframe Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring IBM Mainframe Developer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) COBOL
1 14 (100.00%) DB2
1 14 (100.00%) IBM
1 14 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
1 14 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 13 (92.86%) SAS
2 13 (92.86%) Syncsort
2 13 (92.86%) Git
2 13 (92.86%) IDMS
2 13 (92.86%) CLIST
2 13 (92.86%) Requirements Gathering
2 13 (92.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (92.86%) Scrum
2 13 (92.86%) CICS
2 13 (92.86%) REXX
2 13 (92.86%) zOS
3 12 (85.71%) SELCOPY
4 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
4 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
5 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 2 (14.29%) Finance
6 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
7 1 (7.14%) ETL
7 1 (7.14%) Data Extraction
7 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics
7 1 (7.14%) Analytics

IBM Mainframe Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (92.86%) CICS
1 13 (92.86%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) DB2
2 13 (92.86%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 13 (92.86%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 14 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
2 13 (92.86%) Requirements Gathering
2 13 (92.86%) Scrum
2 13 (92.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Data Extraction
4 1 (7.14%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) COBOL
2 13 (92.86%) CLIST
2 13 (92.86%) REXX
3 12 (85.71%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) IBM
2 13 (92.86%) Syncsort
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft