Mainframe Contracts with Work from Home Options

Mainframes
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 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 Mainframe over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 362 487
Rank change year-on-year +113 +125 -112
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 97 107 133
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.41% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.19% 1.30% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 50 66
10th Percentile £360 £423 £340
25th Percentile £430 £514 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +3.77% +11.58%
75th Percentile £588 £636 £688
90th Percentile £700 £665 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 4,420 8,213 13,938
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.59% 31.44% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,978 5,776 9,926
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £430 £454 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £638
90th Percentile £800 £800 £749
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 161 230
10th Percentile £15.42 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £35.00 £20.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £63.00 £44.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.60% +42.45% +42.66%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £57.03
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.03
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £22.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +25.56% -16.67% +3.85%

Mainframe
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Mainframe trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Mainframe.

Mainframe daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Mainframe over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Mainframe daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Mainframe hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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 21 (21.65%) SAS
2 17 (17.53%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.28%) Azure
2 6 (6.19%) AWS
3 4 (4.12%) PaaS
4 3 (3.09%) GCP
5 2 (2.06%) IaaS
5 2 (2.06%) SaaS
6 1 (1.03%) BPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) DWDM
2 4 (4.12%) SSL
3 2 (2.06%) SAN
4 1 (1.03%) SNA
4 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.77%) DB2
2 13 (13.40%) IDMS
3 2 (2.06%) OLTP
3 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.03%) Adabas
4 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.03%) NewSQL
4 1 (1.03%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Git
2 1 (1.03%) CA Gen
2 1 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 36 (37.11%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.71%) Finance
3 17 (17.53%) Banking
4 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.03%) German Language
7 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (21.65%) Architect
2 12 (12.37%) Consultant
3 11 (11.34%) Developer
3 11 (11.34%) Programmer
3 11 (11.34%) Systems Programmer
3 11 (11.34%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 10 (10.31%) Mainframe Architect
4 10 (10.31%) Mainframe Consultant
4 10 (10.31%) Mainframe Developer
5 9 (9.28%) IBM Mainframe Developer
6 8 (8.25%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (8.25%) z/OS Engineer
7 7 (7.22%) z/OS Specialist
8 5 (5.15%) Security Architect
9 4 (4.12%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Hardware Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.09%) Test Architect
11 2 (2.06%) Mainframe Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (27.84%) ISPF
2 2 (2.06%) Middleware
3 1 (1.03%) HTML
3 1 (1.03%) JSP
3 1 (1.03%) LDAP
3 1 (1.03%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.03%) Servlets
3 1 (1.03%) SOAP
3 1 (1.03%) SPML
3 1 (1.03%) Spring
3 1 (1.03%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.03%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.62%) IBM Mainframe
2 9 (9.28%) LPAR
3 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.09%) VSAM
4 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.03%) iSeries
5 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (44.33%) zOS
2 11 (11.34%) MVS
3 3 (3.09%) Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.65%) Risk Management
2 18 (18.56%) Agile
3 12 (12.37%) Performance Monitoring
4 11 (11.34%) Change Management
4 11 (11.34%) Requirements Gathering
4 11 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (10.31%) Scrum
6 9 (9.28%) Microservices
7 7 (7.22%) Migration
8 6 (6.19%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (5.15%) Roadmaps
9 5 (5.15%) Security Architecture
9 5 (5.15%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (5.15%) Waterfall
9 5 (5.15%) Workflow
10 4 (4.12%) API Development
10 4 (4.12%) Architectural Design
10 4 (4.12%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (4.12%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 4 (4.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (37.11%) REXX
2 28 (28.87%) JCL
3 19 (19.59%) CLIST
4 17 (17.53%) COBOL
5 14 (14.43%) Assembly Language
6 8 (8.25%) SELCOPY
7 5 (5.15%) SQL
8 2 (2.06%) Java
8 2 (2.06%) Python
9 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.03%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.09%) Degree
4 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.06%) PMP
5 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.03%) CISSP
5 1 (1.03%) ISSAP
5 1 (1.03%) ISSEP
5 1 (1.03%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.03%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.03%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) GDPR
1 2 (2.06%) QA
2 1 (1.03%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.03%) NIST
2 1 (1.03%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (26.80%) Time Sharing Option
2 16 (16.49%) RACF
3 11 (11.34%) ACF2
4 7 (7.22%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 7 (7.22%) Microcode
5 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.03%) IAG
5 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (13.40%) OMEGAMON
2 4 (4.12%) zSecure
3 1 (1.03%) Ansible
3 1 (1.03%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 50 (51.55%) IBM
2 14 (14.43%) Broadcom
3 9 (9.28%) CA
3 9 (9.28%) Splunk
3 9 (9.28%) Syncsort
4 5 (5.15%) BMC
5 4 (4.12%) CyberArk
5 4 (4.12%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.03%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.03%) Google
6 1 (1.03%) HP
6 1 (1.03%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.03%) SunGard
6 1 (1.03%) VMware