Mainframe Contracts in the UK excluding London

Mainframes
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 307 374 432
Rank change year-on-year +67 +58 -60
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 94 56 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.25% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 0.77% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 32 52
10th Percentile £350 £366 £350
25th Percentile £406 £463 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £551 £482
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +14.37% +7.11%
75th Percentile £506 £650 £547
90th Percentile £588 £667 £668
UK median daily rate £488 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North of England +21 43 £450 -25.00% 4
Yorkshire +15 35 £470 -23.01% 2
Midlands +33 25 £445 +4.71% 12
West Midlands +31 14 £364 -27.20% 2
South East +28 14 £358 -34.91% 2
Scotland +57 12 £500 +11.11% 2
East Midlands +10 11 £488 +30.00% 10
North West +17 7 £448 +11.88% 2
South West +4 3 £644 -2.83%
North East - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £450 -
Wales - 1 £450 - 1
Mainframe
UK

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 30 (31.91%) SAS
2 13 (13.83%) CICS
3 4 (4.26%) Confluence
4 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.57%) AWS
2 6 (6.38%) Azure
3 5 (5.32%) SaaS
4 1 (1.06%) GCP
4 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.32%) DWDM
2 1 (1.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.02%) DB2
2 12 (12.77%) IDMS
3 4 (4.26%) Big Data
3 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Git
2 5 (5.32%) JIRA
3 2 (2.13%) ChangeMan
4 1 (1.06%) CA Gen
4 1 (1.06%) JMeter
4 1 (1.06%) LoadRunner
General
1 28 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.47%) Finance
3 16 (17.02%) Banking
4 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) German Language
7 1 (1.06%) Law
7 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (17.02%) Consultant
1 16 (17.02%) Programmer
2 15 (15.96%) Systems Programmer
2 15 (15.96%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 14 (14.89%) Developer
4 12 (12.77%) IBM Mainframe Developer
4 12 (12.77%) Mainframe Developer
5 11 (11.70%) Mainframe Consultant
6 7 (7.45%) Analyst
6 7 (7.45%) Architect
6 7 (7.45%) z/OS Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.26%) Big Data Analyst
9 4 (4.26%) Mainframe Analyst
10 2 (2.13%) EMC Consultant
10 2 (2.13%) Operations Engineer
10 2 (2.13%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (35.11%) ISPF
2 4 (4.26%) .NET
2 4 (4.26%) React
3 3 (3.19%) Spring Batch
3 3 (3.19%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.13%) Middleware
4 2 (2.13%) REST
4 2 (2.13%) RESTful
4 2 (2.13%) Spring
4 2 (2.13%) Web Services
5 1 (1.06%) HTML
5 1 (1.06%) JSP
5 1 (1.06%) LDAP
5 1 (1.06%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.06%) Servlets
5 1 (1.06%) SOAP
5 1 (1.06%) SPML
5 1 (1.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.21%) IBM Mainframe
2 6 (6.38%) LPAR
3 4 (4.26%) Credit Risk
3 4 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.06%) Equities
5 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (48.94%) zOS
2 7 (7.45%) MVS
3 4 (4.26%) Android
3 4 (4.26%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.19%) Windows
5 2 (2.13%) Unix
5 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.60%) Agile
2 19 (20.21%) Risk Management
3 16 (17.02%) Performance Monitoring
4 13 (13.83%) Scrum
5 12 (12.77%) Requirements Gathering
5 12 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (7.45%) Change Management
6 7 (7.45%) Microservices
6 7 (7.45%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (7.45%) Project Management
7 6 (6.38%) ITIL
8 5 (5.32%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (5.32%) Waterfall
9 4 (4.26%) API Design
9 4 (4.26%) Architectural Design
9 4 (4.26%) Data Protection
9 4 (4.26%) Domain-Driven Design
9 4 (4.26%) Migration
9 4 (4.26%) SDLC
9 4 (4.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.49%) REXX
2 36 (38.30%) JCL
3 17 (18.09%) CLIST
4 14 (14.89%) Assembly Language
4 14 (14.89%) COBOL
5 10 (10.64%) SELCOPY
6 8 (8.51%) Java
7 4 (4.26%) C
8 3 (3.19%) SQL
9 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.06%) Perl
9 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.06%) Python
9 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.47%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.13%) Degree
4 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 29 (30.85%) Time Sharing Option
2 15 (15.96%) ACF2
2 15 (15.96%) RACF
3 10 (10.64%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 6 (6.38%) Microcode
5 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.06%) IAG
Systems Management
1 15 (15.96%) OMEGAMON
2 4 (4.26%) Control-M
3 1 (1.06%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 43 (45.74%) IBM
2 20 (21.28%) Broadcom
3 19 (20.21%) Splunk
4 11 (11.70%) CA
4 11 (11.70%) Syncsort
5 8 (8.51%) BMC
6 5 (5.32%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.26%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.13%) EMC
9 1 (1.06%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.06%) Dell
9 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.06%) Fujitsu
9 1 (1.06%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.06%) Netskope
9 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.06%) SAP