Mainframe Contracts in the South East

Mainframes
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in the South East. 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 186 214 243
Rank change year-on-year +28 +29 -35
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 14 1 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.24% 0.018% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 0.052% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 16
10th Percentile - - £309
25th Percentile £350 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £550 £350
Median % change year-on-year -34.91% +57.14% -26.32%
75th Percentile £419 £575 £500
90th Percentile £460 - £600
England median daily rate £488 £563 £530
% change year-on-year -13.33% +6.13% +11.58%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate - - £16.23
% change year-on-year - - +20.49%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,624 1,926 2,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.23% 34.01% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 1,308 1,650
10th Percentile £210 £205 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £719 £675
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 93 117
10th Percentile £11.79 £17.82 £13.95
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £49.18
90th Percentile £75.16 £75.00 £63.25
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in the South East

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the South East 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
Buckinghamshire - 6 £350 -
Thames Valley - 6 £350 -
West Sussex - 4 £358 -
Hampshire - 3 £460 - 1
Surrey - 1 - -
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (28.57%) CICS
1 4 (28.57%) Confluence
1 4 (28.57%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Big Data
1 4 (28.57%) DB2
1 4 (28.57%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Big Data Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Mainframe Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Mainframe Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Data Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) EMC Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Mainframe Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) COBOL Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
5 1 (7.14%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Credit Risk
1 4 (28.57%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Equities
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) zOS
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Agile
1 4 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
1 4 (28.57%) Scrum
2 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
3 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
3 1 (7.14%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (7.14%) Migration
3 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2
3 1 (7.14%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (7.14%) Project Management
3 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
3 1 (7.14%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (7.14%) Supplier Management
3 1 (7.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) CLIST
1 4 (28.57%) COBOL
1 4 (28.57%) REXX
2 3 (21.43%) SELCOPY
3 1 (7.14%) JCL
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) IBM
1 4 (28.57%) Syncsort
2 2 (14.29%) EMC
3 1 (7.14%) Dell
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat