Mainframe Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Mainframe Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Mainframe Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £358 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 442 491
Rank change year-on-year +61 +49 -52
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Developer 13 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.017% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.018% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £322 - £392
25th Percentile £335 - £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.03%
75th Percentile £375 - £494
90th Percentile £402 - £498
UK median daily rate £359 £398 £475
% change year-on-year -9.69% -16.32% +8.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,742 21,812 29,390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,203 20,621
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,269 1,109 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Mainframe Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Mainframe Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe Developer in the UK excluding London

Mainframe Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mainframe Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mainframe Developer in the UK excluding London

Mainframe Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe Developer in the UK excluding London

Mainframe Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mainframe Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe Developer in the UK excluding London

Mainframe Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Midlands +26 11 £358 -
West Midlands - 11 £358 -
South East - 4 £358 -
Mainframe Developer
UK

Mainframe Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Mainframe Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Mainframe Developer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) IBM
1 13 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 12 (92.31%) Agile
2 12 (92.31%) COBOL
2 12 (92.31%) DB2
2 12 (92.31%) IBM Mainframe
2 12 (92.31%) Requirements Gathering
3 11 (84.62%) IDMS
3 11 (84.62%) CLIST
3 11 (84.62%) Syncsort
3 11 (84.62%) Git
3 11 (84.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (84.62%) Scrum
3 11 (84.62%) SAS
3 11 (84.62%) CICS
3 11 (84.62%) REXX
3 11 (84.62%) zOS
4 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
4 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
4 10 (76.92%) SELCOPY
5 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Finance
7 1 (7.69%) Migration
7 1 (7.69%) Change Management
7 1 (7.69%) CA Endevor
7 1 (7.69%) ETL
7 1 (7.69%) Microsoft

Mainframe Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (84.62%) CICS
1 11 (84.62%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) DB2
2 11 (84.62%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Git
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 12 (92.31%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
1 12 (92.31%) Requirements Gathering
2 11 (84.62%) Scrum
2 11 (84.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Change Management
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Data Extraction
4 1 (7.69%) ETL
4 1 (7.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) COBOL
2 11 (84.62%) CLIST
2 11 (84.62%) REXX
3 10 (76.92%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) IBM
2 11 (84.62%) Syncsort
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft