Mainframe Contracts in Yorkshire

Mainframes
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 105 130
Rank change year-on-year +50 +25 -47
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 48 18 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.87% 0.79% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.26% 2.77% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 15 8
10th Percentile £407 £485 £463
25th Percentile - £532 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £611 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.57% +22.10% +42.86%
75th Percentile £588 £644 £544
90th Percentile - £665 £566
England median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 468 650 912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 27.97% 28.47% 32.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 454 667
10th Percentile £249 £213 £206
25th Percentile £400 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £528 £495
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% +6.57% +10.00%
75th Percentile £577 £601 £559
90th Percentile £625 £696 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 45 44
10th Percentile - - £10.75
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.67
Median hourly rate £14.63 £10.63 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.58% -42.54% +5.71%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £22.47
90th Percentile £23.75 £22.40 £26.50
England median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -15.15% +2.91%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 +31 46 £430 -28.33%
West Yorkshire +27 2 £450 -29.41% 2
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 20 (41.67%) SAS
2 1 (2.08%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.08%) AWS
1 1 (2.08%) Azure
1 1 (2.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.75%) DWDM
General
1 32 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Banking
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (43.75%) Programmer
2 20 (41.67%) Systems Programmer
2 20 (41.67%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 5 (10.42%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) z/OS Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Consultant
4 4 (8.33%) Hardware Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Mainframe Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) z/OS Specialist
7 1 (2.08%) Architect
7 1 (2.08%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) CICS Specialist
7 1 (2.08%) Hardware Specialist
7 1 (2.08%) IBM Storage Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) SailPoint Architect
7 1 (2.08%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (75.00%) ISPF
2 1 (2.08%) HTML
2 1 (2.08%) JSP
2 1 (2.08%) LDAP
2 1 (2.08%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.08%) Servlets
2 1 (2.08%) SOAP
2 1 (2.08%) SPML
2 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.08%) LPAR
2 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.08%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 38 (79.17%) zOS
2 7 (14.58%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (64.58%) Risk Management
2 21 (43.75%) Performance Monitoring
3 7 (14.58%) Change Management
4 3 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection
5 1 (2.08%) Project Delivery
5 1 (2.08%) Project Management
5 1 (2.08%) RBAC
5 1 (2.08%) Secrets Management
5 1 (2.08%) Storage Management
5 1 (2.08%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 37 (77.08%) JCL
2 30 (62.50%) REXX
3 16 (33.33%) Assembly Language
4 10 (20.83%) CLIST
5 1 (2.08%) Java
5 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 36 (75.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 17 (35.42%) ACF2
2 17 (35.42%) RACF
3 13 (27.08%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 13 (27.08%) Microcode
4 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.08%) IAG
Systems Management
1 21 (43.75%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 37 (77.08%) IBM
2 20 (41.67%) Broadcom
3 19 (39.58%) Splunk
4 6 (12.50%) CA
5 1 (2.08%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.08%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow