Mainframe Contracts in England

Mainframes
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 505 596
Rank change year-on-year +124 +91 -82
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 150 135 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 0.83% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 91 97
10th Percentile £358 £413 £350
25th Percentile £430 £500 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £510
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +10.29% +7.37%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £725 £700 £742
UK median daily rate £488 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £12.33
25th Percentile - - £13.79
Median hourly rate - - £16.23
75th Percentile - - £35.62
90th Percentile - - £47.25
UK median hourly rate - - £16.23
% change year-on-year - - +20.49%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,144 16,209 23,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.60% 33.64% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,307 11,283 17,040
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 571 628
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.16
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
North of England +59 56 £445 -25.83% 3
London +74 54 £650 +16.85% 3
Yorkshire +39 48 £430 -30.08% 1
Midlands +35 18 £378 -24.40% 5
South East +47 15 £358 -34.91% 1
West Midlands +36 14 £364 -27.20% 3
North West +22 7 £448 +23.45% 2
East Midlands +13 4 £445 - 2
South West +5 2 £644 -3.74%
North East - 1 - -
Mainframe
UK

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 32 (21.33%) SAS
2 23 (15.33%) CICS
3 4 (2.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (16.67%) AWS
2 20 (13.33%) Azure
3 10 (6.67%) GCP
4 7 (4.67%) SaaS
5 3 (2.00%) PaaS
6 2 (1.33%) IaaS
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.00%) DWDM
2 6 (4.00%) SSL
3 1 (0.67%) Firewall
3 1 (0.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (20.67%) DB2
2 15 (10.00%) IDMS
3 6 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.67%) Big Data
5 3 (2.00%) OLTP
6 2 (1.33%) Adabas
6 2 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.67%) NewSQL
7 1 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (7.33%) Git
2 6 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (0.67%) CA Gen
General
1 59 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.33%) Finance
3 19 (12.67%) Banking
4 8 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) German Language
8 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (21.33%) Architect
2 23 (15.33%) Programmer
3 22 (14.67%) Systems Programmer
4 20 (13.33%) Developer
4 20 (13.33%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 18 (12.00%) Consultant
5 18 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (11.33%) Mainframe Developer
7 12 (8.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
8 10 (6.67%) Mainframe Architect
8 10 (6.67%) Mainframe Consultant
9 9 (6.00%) z/OS Specialist
10 8 (5.33%) Analyst
10 8 (5.33%) SailPoint Architect
11 6 (4.00%) Data Consultant
11 6 (4.00%) EMC Consultant
11 6 (4.00%) Security Architect
11 6 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) z/OS Engineer
13 4 (2.67%) Big Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (28.00%) ISPF
2 8 (5.33%) HTML
2 8 (5.33%) JSP
2 8 (5.33%) LDAP
2 8 (5.33%) SailPoint
2 8 (5.33%) Servlets
2 8 (5.33%) SOAP
2 8 (5.33%) SPML
2 8 (5.33%) XML
3 5 (3.33%) .NET
3 5 (3.33%) React
4 2 (1.33%) Middleware
5 1 (0.67%) Ajax
5 1 (0.67%) EDI
5 1 (0.67%) EntireX
5 1 (0.67%) RESTful
5 1 (0.67%) Spring
5 1 (0.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.33%) IBM Mainframe
2 13 (8.67%) LPAR
3 5 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.67%) Credit Risk
4 4 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.67%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) PMI
6 1 (0.67%) Replication
6 1 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 66 (44.00%) zOS
2 7 (4.67%) MVS
3 5 (3.33%) Android
3 5 (3.33%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.33%) Unix
3 5 (3.33%) Windows
4 4 (2.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (22.67%) Risk Management
2 30 (20.00%) Agile
3 22 (14.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 16 (10.67%) Scrum
5 15 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (9.33%) Microservices
7 13 (8.67%) Architectural Design
8 12 (8.00%) Project Management
8 12 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 12 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (6.67%) Migration
9 10 (6.67%) Secrets Management
10 9 (6.00%) Change Management
11 8 (5.33%) RBAC
11 8 (5.33%) Technical Architecture
12 7 (4.67%) Project Delivery
13 6 (4.00%) API Design
13 6 (4.00%) API Development
13 6 (4.00%) Mentoring
13 6 (4.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 45 (30.00%) REXX
2 41 (27.33%) JCL
3 22 (14.67%) CLIST
3 22 (14.67%) COBOL
4 19 (12.67%) Assembly Language
5 17 (11.33%) Java
6 16 (10.67%) SQL
7 10 (6.67%) SELCOPY
8 8 (5.33%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.33%) C
10 3 (2.00%) Python
11 2 (1.33%) Natural
12 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (20.67%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.33%) Degree
4 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.67%) PMP
4 1 (0.67%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 1 (0.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.67%) GDPR
2 1 (0.67%) ISO 22301
2 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 38 (25.33%) Time Sharing Option
2 33 (22.00%) RACF
3 27 (18.00%) ACF2
4 13 (8.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 13 (8.67%) Microcode
5 11 (7.33%) Active Directory
6 8 (5.33%) IAG
7 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (16.67%) OMEGAMON
2 6 (4.00%) zSecure
3 5 (3.33%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.67%) Ansible
4 1 (0.67%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 67 (44.67%) IBM
2 20 (13.33%) Broadcom
3 19 (12.67%) Splunk
4 14 (9.33%) CyberArk
5 11 (7.33%) Syncsort
6 9 (6.00%) CA
6 9 (6.00%) ServiceNow
7 8 (5.33%) BeyondTrust
7 8 (5.33%) Microsoft
8 6 (4.00%) EMC
9 3 (2.00%) Dell
10 2 (1.33%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.33%) Software AG
11 1 (0.67%) Fujitsu
11 1 (0.67%) Google
11 1 (0.67%) HP
11 1 (0.67%) IBM Sterling
11 1 (0.67%) Oracle
11 1 (0.67%) Pegasus
11 1 (0.67%) VMware