IBM Mainframe Contracts with Work from Home Options

IBM Mainframe
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM Mainframe over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 457 612
Rank change year-on-year +140 +155 -138
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 20 10 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.039% 0.029%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 0.12% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 3
10th Percentile £338 £353 £353
25th Percentile £358 £387 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £446 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -22.39% +9.52%
75th Percentile £500 £509 £613
90th Percentile £588 £545 £628
UK median daily rate £374 £446 £538
% change year-on-year -16.19% -16.98% +22.86%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

IBM Mainframe is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,323 8,043 13,993
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.54% 31.45% 31.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,947 5,652 9,983
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £644
90th Percentile £800 £794 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 153 224
10th Percentile £15.44 £19.00 £12.37
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.56
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +23.60% +29.93%
75th Percentile £65.03 £70.00 £57.81
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.18
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +4.05%

IBM Mainframe
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IBM Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IBM Mainframe trend for jobs with a WFH option

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IBM Mainframe.

IBM Mainframe daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IBM Mainframe over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

IBM Mainframe daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IBM Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (45.00%) CICS
1 9 (45.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) DB2
2 9 (45.00%) IDMS
3 1 (5.00%) NewSQL
3 1 (5.00%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Git
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
1 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
1 9 (45.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 9 (45.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 5 (25.00%) z/OS Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Mainframe Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) COBOL Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) ISPF
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) Spring
2 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (10.00%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) zOS
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Scrum
3 9 (45.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (25.00%) Workflow
5 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
5 2 (10.00%) Waterfall
6 1 (5.00%) Client Onboarding
6 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (5.00%) Conflict Resolution
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analytics
6 1 (5.00%) Data Extraction
6 1 (5.00%) Data Migration
6 1 (5.00%) Database Migration
6 1 (5.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (5.00%) Roadmaps
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) REXX
2 10 (50.00%) COBOL
3 9 (45.00%) CLIST
4 8 (40.00%) SELCOPY
5 5 (25.00%) JCL
6 1 (5.00%) Java
6 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) PMP
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) IBM
2 9 (45.00%) Syncsort
3 5 (25.00%) BMC
3 5 (25.00%) Broadcom
4 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.00%) HP
4 1 (5.00%) IBM Sterling