Mainframe Contracts in Yorkshire

Mainframes
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 56 109
Rank change year-on-year -16 +53 +23
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 17 48 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.67% 2.85% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.91% 10.28% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 15
10th Percentile £470 £407 £485
25th Percentile £500 - £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 £611
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -29.57% +22.10%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £644
90th Percentile £655 - £665
England median daily rate £474 £500 £558
% change year-on-year -5.20% -10.31% +9.31%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 346 467 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 34.09% 27.68% 28.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 252 458
10th Percentile £263 £263 £279
25th Percentile £375 £400 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -11.63% +9.97%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £618
90th Percentile £666 £644 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.45% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 70 41
10th Percentile £23.63 - -
25th Percentile £27.56 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £36.91 £14.63 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +152.34% +37.58% -43.16%
75th Percentile £82.86 £17.52 -
90th Percentile £97.60 £23.96 £22.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -16.67%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Yorkshire

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in Yorkshire

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in Yorkshire

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in Yorkshire

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 Mainframe within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -23 11 £538 +25.00% 4
West Yorkshire +17 6 £525 +16.67%
Mainframe
England

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 3 (17.65%) SAS
2 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DWDM
1 1 (5.88%) SNA
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) DB2
2 1 (5.88%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 4 (23.53%) Banking
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) Mainframe Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Programmer
3 3 (17.65%) Storage Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Systems Programmer
3 3 (17.65%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) z/OS Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) z/OS Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Mainframe Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) ISPF
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) LPAR
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) zOS
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
3 2 (11.76%) HPUX
3 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Solaris
3 2 (11.76%) Unix
3 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Migration
2 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (17.65%) High Availability
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (11.76%) Planning and Forecasting
4 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
4 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
4 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.88%) Hardware Maintenance
5 1 (5.88%) Release Automation
5 1 (5.88%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (5.88%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) JCL
1 8 (47.06%) REXX
2 4 (23.53%) CLIST
3 2 (11.76%) Assembly Language
3 2 (11.76%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (5.88%) ACF2
2 1 (5.88%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (5.88%) Microcode
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Control-M
1 2 (11.76%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (5.88%) CA Endevor
2 1 (5.88%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) IBM
2 2 (11.76%) BMC
2 2 (11.76%) Sun
2 2 (11.76%) Unisys
3 1 (5.88%) Broadcom
3 1 (5.88%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft