Mainframe Contracts in the Thames Valley

Mainframes
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 - 166
Rank change year-on-year - - -23
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 6 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.22% - 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.77% - 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £305 - £408
25th Percentile - - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £525
75th Percentile - - £600
90th Percentile £373 - -
South East median daily rate £358 £550 £350
% change year-on-year -34.91% +57.14% -26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.00
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £55.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 775 935 1,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.90% 32.50% 30.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 619 680
10th Percentile £205 £303 £226
25th Percentile £313 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £664
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 24 33
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £16.12
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £60.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.00% +204.38% -42.03%
75th Percentile £59.57 £73.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.47
South East median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the Thames Valley

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in the Thames Valley

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in the Thames Valley

Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Buckinghamshire - 6 £350 -
Mainframe
South East

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Big Data Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Mainframe Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
4 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Credit Risk
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Migration
1 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
1 1 (16.67%) Project Management
1 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JCL
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat