IBM Mainframe Contracts 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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Mainframe 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.47% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - -
England median daily rate £445 £374 £425
% change year-on-year +18.92% -12.00% -27.66%

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 551 442 545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.15% 28.85% 26.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 251 365
10th Percentile £303 £263 £295
25th Percentile £375 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -3.30% +6.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £617
90th Percentile £611 £665 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 50 10
10th Percentile £15.00 - £18.50
25th Percentile £15.88 £12.15 £20.89
Median hourly rate £18.51 £14.63 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.56% -32.76% +4.67%
75th Percentile £20.38 £20.43 £38.56
90th Percentile £59.78 £41.88 £49.29
England median hourly rate £30.90 £47.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -34.94% +13.10% +61.54%

IBM Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing IBM Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for IBM Mainframe in Yorkshire

IBM Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM Mainframe in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for IBM Mainframe in Yorkshire

IBM Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM Mainframe in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for IBM Mainframe in Yorkshire

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 5 August 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 - 5 - - 1
West Yorkshire - 2 £340 - 1
IBM Mainframe
England

IBM Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (14.29%) CICS
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (14.29%) DWDM
1 1 (14.29%) FCoE
1 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) Multicast
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) DB2
2 1 (14.29%) Adabas
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Adabas Natural Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ISPF
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (28.57%) AS400
3 1 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) LPAR
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) zOS
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) MVS
2 1 (14.29%) Solaris
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) High Availability
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Batch Scheduling
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (14.29%) Hardware Maintenance
2 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
2 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (14.29%) Workflow
2 1 (14.29%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JCL
2 2 (28.57%) COBOL
2 2 (28.57%) REXX
3 1 (14.29%) CLIST
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Natural
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (14.29%) KVM
1 1 (14.29%) Microcode
1 1 (14.29%) NFS
1 1 (14.29%) SRDF
1 1 (14.29%) Time Sharing Option
1 1 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Control-M
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) EMC
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) NetApp
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Pure Storage
2 1 (14.29%) VMware