Mainframe Contracts in England

Mainframes
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 501 621
Rank change year-on-year +113 +120 -119
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 154 138 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.37% 0.86% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 89 105
10th Percentile £358 £413 £350
25th Percentile £430 £500 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £723 £700 £742
UK median daily rate £475 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -15.56% +2.27% +15.79%
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 median hourly rate - - £16.23
% change year-on-year - - +20.49%

All Generic Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,251 16,100 23,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.47% 33.72% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,318 11,239 17,150
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £415 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 835 556 608
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.21 £10.63 £17.38
Median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year +60.11% -14.78% +3.47%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.27 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +77 57 £625 +11.11% 12
North of England +51 57 £448 -25.42% 4
Yorkshire +39 49 £440 -28.19% 1
Midlands +34 18 £378 -11.06% 14
South East +24 15 £358 -34.91% 4
West Midlands +28 14 £364 -27.20% 2
North West +18 7 £448 +11.88% 3
East Midlands +6 4 £445 +18.67% 12
South West +11 2 £644 -2.83%
North East - 1 - -
Mainframe
UK

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 33 (21.43%) SAS
2 23 (14.94%) CICS
3 4 (2.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (16.23%) AWS
2 21 (13.64%) Azure
3 10 (6.49%) GCP
4 8 (5.19%) SaaS
5 3 (1.95%) PaaS
6 2 (1.30%) IaaS
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.84%) DWDM
2 6 (3.90%) SSL
3 1 (0.65%) Firewall
3 1 (0.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (20.78%) DB2
2 15 (9.74%) IDMS
3 6 (3.90%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.60%) Big Data
5 3 (1.95%) OLTP
6 2 (1.30%) Adabas
6 2 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.65%) NewSQL
7 1 (0.65%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (7.14%) Git
2 5 (3.25%) JIRA
3 1 (0.65%) CA Gen
General
1 62 (40.26%) Social Skills
2 34 (22.08%) Finance
3 23 (14.94%) Banking
4 9 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) German Language
9 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Law
9 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (21.43%) Architect
2 24 (15.58%) Programmer
3 23 (14.94%) Systems Programmer
4 21 (13.64%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 20 (12.99%) Developer
6 19 (12.34%) Consultant
7 18 (11.69%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (11.04%) Mainframe Developer
9 12 (7.79%) IBM Mainframe Developer
10 10 (6.49%) Mainframe Architect
10 10 (6.49%) Mainframe Consultant
11 9 (5.84%) Analyst
11 9 (5.84%) z/OS Specialist
12 8 (5.19%) SailPoint Architect
12 8 (5.19%) Systems Engineer
13 6 (3.90%) Data Consultant
13 6 (3.90%) EMC Consultant
13 6 (3.90%) Security Architect
13 6 (3.90%) Senior
14 5 (3.25%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (27.92%) ISPF
2 8 (5.19%) HTML
2 8 (5.19%) JSP
2 8 (5.19%) LDAP
2 8 (5.19%) SailPoint
2 8 (5.19%) Servlets
2 8 (5.19%) SOAP
2 8 (5.19%) SPML
2 8 (5.19%) XML
3 5 (3.25%) .NET
3 5 (3.25%) React
4 4 (2.60%) Middleware
5 1 (0.65%) Ajax
5 1 (0.65%) EDI
5 1 (0.65%) EntireX
5 1 (0.65%) RESTful
5 1 (0.65%) Spring
5 1 (0.65%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.04%) IBM Mainframe
2 13 (8.44%) LPAR
3 6 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.25%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.60%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.65%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.65%) Equities
7 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.65%) PMI
7 1 (0.65%) Replication
7 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.65%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 67 (43.51%) zOS
2 7 (4.55%) MVS
3 5 (3.25%) Android
3 5 (3.25%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.60%) Linux
4 4 (2.60%) Unix
4 4 (2.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (22.73%) Risk Management
2 29 (18.83%) Agile
3 23 (14.94%) Performance Monitoring
4 15 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (9.74%) Scrum
5 14 (9.09%) Microservices
5 14 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (8.44%) Architectural Design
7 12 (7.79%) Project Management
7 12 (7.79%) Requirements Gathering
8 10 (6.49%) Migration
8 10 (6.49%) Secrets Management
9 8 (5.19%) Change Management
9 8 (5.19%) RBAC
9 8 (5.19%) Technical Architecture
10 6 (3.90%) API Design
10 6 (3.90%) API Development
10 6 (3.90%) Data Protection
10 6 (3.90%) Security Architecture
10 6 (3.90%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 46 (29.87%) REXX
2 42 (27.27%) JCL
3 23 (14.94%) CLIST
4 22 (14.29%) COBOL
5 20 (12.99%) Assembly Language
6 16 (10.39%) Java
6 16 (10.39%) SQL
7 10 (6.49%) SELCOPY
8 8 (5.19%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.25%) C
10 4 (2.60%) Python
11 2 (1.30%) Natural
12 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (20.13%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.30%) Degree
4 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.65%) PMP
4 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.60%) GDPR
2 1 (0.65%) ISO 22301
2 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 39 (25.32%) Time Sharing Option
2 33 (21.43%) RACF
3 27 (17.53%) ACF2
4 13 (8.44%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 13 (8.44%) Microcode
5 10 (6.49%) Active Directory
6 8 (5.19%) IAG
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (16.88%) OMEGAMON
2 6 (3.90%) zSecure
3 4 (2.60%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.65%) Ansible
4 1 (0.65%) SafeCom
4 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 67 (43.51%) IBM
2 20 (12.99%) Broadcom
3 19 (12.34%) Splunk
4 13 (8.44%) CyberArk
5 11 (7.14%) Syncsort
6 10 (6.49%) CA
7 9 (5.84%) ServiceNow
8 8 (5.19%) BeyondTrust
8 8 (5.19%) Microsoft
9 6 (3.90%) EMC
10 3 (1.95%) Dell
11 2 (1.30%) Software AG
12 1 (0.65%) Fujitsu
12 1 (0.65%) Google
12 1 (0.65%) HP
12 1 (0.65%) IBM Sterling
12 1 (0.65%) Oracle
12 1 (0.65%) Pegasus
12 1 (0.65%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.65%) Salesforce