Mainframe Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Mainframe Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Mainframe Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £358 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 463 619
Rank change year-on-year +136 +156 -134
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Developer 10 4 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.066% 0.016% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.016% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £318 £330 £458
25th Percentile £338 £361 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £423 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.27% -11.05% +66.67%
75th Percentile £360 £486 £644
90th Percentile £366 £517 £737
UK median daily rate £359 £398 £636
% change year-on-year -9.69% -37.52% +74.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Mainframe Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Mainframe Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mainframe Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe Developer
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 Mainframe Developer.

Mainframe Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe Developer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Mainframe Developer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) COBOL
1 10 (100.00%) DB2
1 10 (100.00%) IBM
1 10 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 9 (90.00%) zOS
2 9 (90.00%) CICS
2 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 9 (90.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 8 (80.00%) CLIST
3 8 (80.00%) Syncsort
3 8 (80.00%) Git
3 8 (80.00%) IDMS
3 8 (80.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 8 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (80.00%) Scrum
3 8 (80.00%) REXX
3 8 (80.00%) SAS
4 7 (70.00%) SELCOPY
5 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (20.00%) Finance
8 1 (10.00%) Banking
8 1 (10.00%) ISPF
8 1 (10.00%) CA Endevor
8 1 (10.00%) Reverse Engineering
8 1 (10.00%) AWS
8 1 (10.00%) Change Data Capture

Mainframe Developer Skill Set
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 (90.00%) CICS
2 8 (80.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) DB2
2 8 (80.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 9 (90.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 8 (80.00%) Scrum
2 8 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (10.00%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) COBOL
2 8 (80.00%) CLIST
2 8 (80.00%) REXX
3 7 (70.00%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) IBM
2 8 (80.00%) Syncsort