Mainframe Systems Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Mainframe System Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Mainframe System Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 - 590
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Mainframe Systems Engineer 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% - 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% - 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £468 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £506 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £484 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 11,181 17,532 36,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.09% 94.47% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,004 12,268 26,403
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 389 539
10th Percentile £19.15 £17.11 £15.00
25th Percentile £24.76 £25.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £70.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £44.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year -21.35% +63.30% +36.25%

Mainframe Systems Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Mainframe Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mainframe Systems Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 10 November 2024, Mainframe Systems Engineer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Mainframe Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) JCL
2 2 (50.00%) REXX
2 2 (50.00%) zOS
2 2 (50.00%) ISPF
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Control-M
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (25.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) SAS
3 1 (25.00%) BMC
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer

Mainframe Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (25.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ISPF
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) zOS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JCL
1 2 (50.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) BMC
2 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow