IBM Mainframe Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

IBM Mainframe
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.33% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - -
75th Percentile £395 - -
90th Percentile £428 - -
England median daily rate £340 £485 £725
% change year-on-year -29.90% -33.10% +81.25%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring generic IT skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 714 404 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.32% 31.69% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 250 319
10th Percentile £313 £187 £281
25th Percentile £403 £357 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +2.56% -4.88%
75th Percentile £550 £587 £587
90th Percentile £619 £700 £628
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 18
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.87 £15.07
25th Percentile £14.63 £20.13 £17.54
Median hourly rate £15.55 £32.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -52.15% +52.51% +12.16%
75th Percentile £21.30 £42.25 £22.00
90th Percentile £23.71 £60.29 £24.66
England median hourly rate £27.21 £38.54 £43.92
% change year-on-year -29.39% -12.26% +25.49%

IBM Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IBM Mainframe relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

IBM Mainframe job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing IBM Mainframe.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing IBM Mainframe

IBM Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Mainframe in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Mainframe in Yorkshire

IBM Mainframe
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing IBM Mainframe.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing IBM Mainframe

IBM Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
South Yorkshire - 4 £450 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £340 -
IBM Mainframe
England

IBM Mainframe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) CICS
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (16.67%) FCoE
1 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) Multicast
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) DB2
2 2 (33.33%) Adabas
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Adabas Natural Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (33.33%) AS400
3 1 (16.67%) Clustering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) MVS
1 1 (16.67%) Solaris
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) COBOL
1 2 (33.33%) JCL
1 2 (33.33%) Natural
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) KVM
1 1 (16.67%) NFS
1 1 (16.67%) SRDF
1 1 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) NetApp
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Pure Storage
2 1 (16.67%) VMware