Mainframe Contracts in the Midlands

Mainframes
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 149 189
Rank change year-on-year +33 +40 -42
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 25 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.85% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.84% 0.86% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 14
10th Percentile £334 £333 £379
25th Percentile £367 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -22.73% +77.42%
75th Percentile £506 £481 £675
90th Percentile £507 £508 £723
England median daily rate £488 £563 £530
% change year-on-year -13.33% +6.13% +11.58%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 879 1,047 1,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.82% 32.53% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 690 1,054
10th Percentile £213 £263 £213
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £611 £606 £575
90th Percentile £702 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 38 47
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.41 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.91 £20.22 £15.13
Median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +56.61% +9.75%
75th Percentile £28.88 £54.69 £22.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £26.37
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the Midlands

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in the Midlands

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in the Midlands

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in the Midlands

Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +31 14 £364 -27.20% 2
East Midlands +10 11 £488 +30.00% 10
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (44.00%) SAS
2 9 (36.00%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (56.00%) DB2
2 9 (36.00%) IDMS
3 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) ChangeMan
3 1 (4.00%) CA Gen
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) German Language
4 1 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Developer
1 10 (40.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 10 (40.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) CA Gen Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Mainframe Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Service Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Service Transition Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Service Transition Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Transition Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) .NET
1 4 (16.00%) ISPF
1 4 (16.00%) React
2 2 (8.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) zOS
2 4 (16.00%) Android
2 4 (16.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (12.00%) Windows
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Agile
2 11 (44.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 9 (36.00%) Scrum
5 6 (24.00%) ITIL
6 5 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (16.00%) API Design
7 4 (16.00%) Architectural Design
7 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (16.00%) Domain-Driven Design
7 4 (16.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (16.00%) Microservices
7 4 (16.00%) Project Management
7 4 (16.00%) SDLC
7 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
8 2 (8.00%) Batch Processing
8 2 (8.00%) Configuration Management
8 2 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (8.00%) Resource Management
8 2 (8.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) REXX
2 10 (40.00%) COBOL
3 9 (36.00%) CLIST
3 9 (36.00%) SELCOPY
4 4 (16.00%) C
4 4 (16.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) JCL
5 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) IBM
2 9 (36.00%) Syncsort
3 6 (24.00%) Splunk
4 5 (20.00%) CA
5 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (12.00%) CyberArk
7 2 (8.00%) BMC
8 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
8 1 (4.00%) Netskope