Mainframe Project Manager Contracts

Mainframe Project Manager
UK

The median Mainframe Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 692 846
Rank change year-on-year +111 +154 -147
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Project Manager 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.002% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £594 - £538
90th Percentile £598 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Mainframe Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe Project Manager in the UK

Mainframe Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mainframe Project Manager.

Daily rate trend for Mainframe Project Manager in the UK

Mainframe Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mainframe Project Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe Project Manager in the UK

Mainframe Project Manager
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
Work from Home +127 2 £575 -
England +103 1 £600 -
London +88 1 £600 -
Scotland - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - -

Mainframe Project Manager Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Mainframe Project Manager 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 Mainframe Project Manager in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) DB2
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (50.00%) LPAR
3 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (50.00%) PMP
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) zOS
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) COBOL
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (25.00%) Guidewire

Mainframe Project Manager 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (50.00%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) PMP
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Guidewire