IBM Mainframe Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM Mainframe
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM 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 297 325 467
Rank change year-on-year +28 +142 +153
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 7 20 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.13% 0.039%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.45% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 2
10th Percentile £376 £338 £353
25th Percentile £439 £358 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £430 £446
Median % change year-on-year +39.53% -3.64% +2.00%
75th Percentile £638 £500 £509
90th Percentile £675 £588 £545
UK median daily rate £480 £374 £446
% change year-on-year +28.21% -16.19% -15.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

IBM 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

IBM Mainframe
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing IBM Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IBM Mainframe trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing IBM Mainframe over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 5 (71.43%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SNA
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Adabas
1 1 (14.29%) DB2
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Administrator
1 2 (28.57%) CICS Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Security Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Adabas Natural Developer
2 1 (14.29%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DB2 Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (28.57%) Project Management
1 2 (28.57%) Security Auditing
1 2 (28.57%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) COBOL
2 1 (14.29%) JCL
2 1 (14.29%) Natural
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) IBM Certification
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) RACF
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) IBM