Mainframe Contracts in West Yorkshire

Mainframes
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 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 56 75 102
Rank change year-on-year +19 +27 +16
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 6 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.09% 0.20% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.39% 0.82% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £508 - £555
25th Percentile £509 - £592
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £638
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -29.41% +21.43%
75th Percentile £631 - £656
90th Percentile £688 - £668
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £430 £611
% change year-on-year +22.09% -29.57% +22.10%

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 177 245 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 32.30% 24.52% 28.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 138 342
10th Percentile £263 £264 £350
25th Percentile £400 £373 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £725 £625 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £538
% change year-on-year - -11.63% +9.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 34 1
10th Percentile £28.34 - -
25th Percentile £31.47 £12.15 -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.90 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +217.83% -25.17% -7.81%
75th Percentile £96.64 £15.19 -
90th Percentile £97.79 £15.23 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £36.91 £14.63 £10.63
% change year-on-year +152.34% +37.58% -43.16%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in West Yorkshire

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in West Yorkshire

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in West Yorkshire

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in West Yorkshire

Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +7 5 £613 +36.11%
Halifax - 1 £513 -
Mainframe
Yorkshire

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SNA
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Consultant
1 3 (50.00%) Mainframe Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) z/OS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) HPUX
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Solaris
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) zOS
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Planning and Forecasting
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) COBOL
1 1 (16.67%) JCL
1 1 (16.67%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Sun
2 2 (33.33%) Unisys
3 1 (16.67%) BMC
3 1 (16.67%) HP