Mainframe Contracts

Mainframes
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 525 605
Rank change year-on-year +127 +80 -92
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 195 196 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 1.00% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 109 126
10th Percentile £360 £410 £350
25th Percentile £430 £500 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £528
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +6.64% +11.05%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £690 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £600 £480
% change year-on-year -25.00% +25.13% +3.68%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £16.23
% change year-on-year - - +20.49%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,085 19,696 29,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.32% 33.30% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,418 13,533 20,480
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £678 £656
90th Percentile £798 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 902 642 725
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year +28.41% +9.64% -16.40%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the UK

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in the UK

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in the UK

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in the UK

Mainframe
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +119 154 £475 -14.80% 23
UK excluding London +116 102 £450 -25.00% 11
Work from Home +115 97 £459 -16.55% 12
North of England +55 57 £448 -25.42% 3
London +74 54 £625 +11.11% 9
Yorkshire +50 48 £430 -29.82% 1
Midlands +41 18 £378 -8.92% 2
South East +35 15 £358 -42.72% 3
West Midlands +38 14 £364 -27.20%
Scotland +45 12 £500 -4.76% 2
North West +19 8 £450 +38.46% 2
East Midlands +23 4 £445 - 2
South West +20 3 £644 -3.74% 1
Wales - 1 £450 -
North East - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £450 -

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 40 (20.51%) SAS
2 32 (16.41%) CICS
3 4 (2.05%) Confluence
3 4 (2.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.38%) AWS
2 28 (14.36%) Azure
3 15 (7.69%) GCP
4 7 (3.59%) SaaS
5 4 (2.05%) PaaS
6 2 (1.03%) IaaS
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.51%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.62%) DWDM
2 6 (3.08%) SSL
3 2 (1.03%) SAN
3 2 (1.03%) SNA
3 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.51%) Firewall
4 1 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (24.10%) DB2
2 21 (10.77%) IDMS
3 6 (3.08%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.56%) OLTP
5 4 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.05%) Big Data
6 3 (1.54%) Adabas
7 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.51%) NewSQL
7 1 (0.51%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (7.18%) Git
2 10 (5.13%) JIRA
3 1 (0.51%) CA Gen
General
1 69 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 42 (21.54%) Finance
3 26 (13.33%) Banking
4 10 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.51%) German Language
8 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (18.97%) Architect
2 25 (12.82%) Programmer
3 24 (12.31%) Systems Programmer
4 23 (11.79%) Developer
5 21 (10.77%) Consultant
5 21 (10.77%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (10.77%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 19 (9.74%) Mainframe Developer
7 15 (7.69%) z/OS Specialist
8 14 (7.18%) IBM Mainframe Developer
9 13 (6.67%) Mainframe Consultant
9 13 (6.67%) SailPoint Architect
10 10 (5.13%) Project Manager
10 10 (5.13%) z/OS Engineer
11 9 (4.62%) Mainframe Architect
12 8 (4.10%) Analyst
13 6 (3.08%) Data Consultant
13 6 (3.08%) EMC Consultant
13 6 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
14 5 (2.56%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (26.67%) ISPF
2 13 (6.67%) HTML
2 13 (6.67%) JSP
2 13 (6.67%) LDAP
2 13 (6.67%) SailPoint
2 13 (6.67%) Servlets
2 13 (6.67%) SOAP
2 13 (6.67%) SPML
2 13 (6.67%) XML
3 5 (2.56%) .NET
3 5 (2.56%) React
4 2 (1.03%) Middleware
4 2 (1.03%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (0.51%) Ajax
5 1 (0.51%) EDI
5 1 (0.51%) EntireX
5 1 (0.51%) RESTful
5 1 (0.51%) Spring
5 1 (0.51%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.87%) IBM Mainframe
2 15 (7.69%) LPAR
3 8 (4.10%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.56%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.05%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.51%) PKI
7 1 (0.51%) PMI
7 1 (0.51%) Replication
7 1 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.51%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 86 (44.10%) zOS
2 11 (5.64%) MVS
3 6 (3.08%) Windows
4 5 (2.56%) Android
4 5 (2.56%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.56%) Unix
5 4 (2.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 38 (19.49%) Agile
3 25 (12.82%) Performance Monitoring
4 19 (9.74%) Scrum
5 18 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (8.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (8.21%) Project Management
8 15 (7.69%) Architectural Design
8 15 (7.69%) Microservices
8 15 (7.69%) Migration
8 15 (7.69%) Secrets Management
9 14 (7.18%) Requirements Gathering
10 13 (6.67%) Change Management
10 13 (6.67%) RBAC
10 13 (6.67%) Technical Architecture
11 12 (6.15%) Waterfall
12 11 (5.64%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (5.13%) Roadmaps
14 9 (4.62%) Project Delivery
15 8 (4.10%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 61 (31.28%) REXX
2 52 (26.67%) JCL
3 30 (15.38%) COBOL
4 28 (14.36%) CLIST
5 25 (12.82%) SQL
6 24 (12.31%) Assembly Language
7 22 (11.28%) Java
8 13 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 13 (6.67%) SELCOPY
9 9 (4.62%) Python
10 5 (2.56%) C
11 3 (1.54%) Perl
12 2 (1.03%) Natural
13 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 37 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.05%) Degree
4 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.54%) PMP
5 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.08%) GDPR
2 2 (1.03%) QA
3 1 (0.51%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (24.62%) Time Sharing Option
2 41 (21.03%) RACF
3 34 (17.44%) ACF2
4 16 (8.21%) Active Directory
5 13 (6.67%) IAG
5 13 (6.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 13 (6.67%) Microcode
6 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (14.36%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (2.56%) CA Endevor
2 5 (2.56%) zSecure
3 1 (0.51%) Ansible
3 1 (0.51%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 84 (43.08%) IBM
2 27 (13.85%) Broadcom
3 19 (9.74%) CyberArk
3 19 (9.74%) Splunk
4 14 (7.18%) ServiceNow
4 14 (7.18%) Syncsort
5 13 (6.67%) BeyondTrust
6 12 (6.15%) CA
7 11 (5.64%) Microsoft
8 7 (3.59%) BMC
9 6 (3.08%) EMC
10 3 (1.54%) Dell
11 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.03%) Software AG
11 2 (1.03%) SunGard
12 1 (0.51%) HP
12 1 (0.51%) Oracle
12 1 (0.51%) Pegasus
12 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.51%) VMware