Mainframe Jobs in England

Mainframes
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 710 689 984
Rank change year-on-year -21 +295 -177
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 105 242 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.26% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 0.60% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 94 106 97
10th Percentile - £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,029 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% -8.53% +14.29%
75th Percentile £96,539 £83,917 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,064 £90,051 £103,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,029 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.10% -1.49% +6.91%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29,467 40,061 60,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.72% 43.24% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 20,776 21,656 30,542
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,459 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,686 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -2 50 £55,000 -14.10% 4
London +56 31 £55,000 -15.38% 14
Yorkshire +69 26 £42,500 -30.91% 1
South East +35 23 £55,000 +32.53% 2
North West -1 21 £94,637 +36.27% 3
South West -28 13 £50,950 +33.10% 1
Midlands +4 8 £42,500 -36.57% 3
East Midlands -7 6 £42,500 - 3
North East - 3 £42,500 -
West Midlands +27 2 £43,072 -
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 10 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (9.52%) Confluence
2 6 (5.71%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.76%) Apache
4 3 (2.86%) SAS
5 1 (0.95%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.95%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 26 (24.76%) GCP
2 24 (22.86%) Azure
3 21 (20.00%) AWS
4 17 (16.19%) IaaS
4 17 (16.19%) PaaS
4 17 (16.19%) SaaS
5 12 (11.43%) Power Platform
6 10 (9.52%) dbt
7 5 (4.76%) Cloud Composer
7 5 (4.76%) Google Analytics
7 5 (4.76%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.86%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.90%) CloudBees
9 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.90%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.90%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.95%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) SAN
2 1 (0.95%) ATM
2 1 (0.95%) DWDM
2 1 (0.95%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.10%) NoSQL
1 19 (18.10%) Relational Database
2 16 (15.24%) MongoDB
2 16 (15.24%) MySQL
3 15 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 15 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (9.52%) BigQuery
4 10 (9.52%) Looker
4 10 (9.52%) Power BI
4 10 (9.52%) Tableau
5 5 (4.76%) Airbyte
5 5 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.90%) Big Data
6 2 (1.90%) OLTP
7 1 (0.95%) DB2
7 1 (0.95%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (11.43%) JIRA
2 7 (6.67%) Git
3 5 (4.76%) GitLab
3 5 (4.76%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 37 (35.24%) Finance
2 26 (24.76%) Banking
3 19 (18.10%) Manufacturing
3 19 (18.10%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.76%) Retail Banking
5 4 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.86%) Retail
7 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (22.86%) Developer
2 19 (18.10%) COBOL Developer
2 19 (18.10%) Mainframe Developer
3 18 (17.14%) Systems Engineer
4 17 (16.19%) Architect
5 15 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
6 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Lead
8 6 (5.71%) Analyst
9 5 (4.76%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Head of Engineering
9 5 (4.76%) IBM Mainframe Developer
9 5 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) Programmer
10 3 (2.86%) Python Data Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) Python Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.29%) OpenID
2 6 (5.71%) Kafka
3 5 (4.76%) Apache Beam
3 5 (4.76%) ISPF
4 4 (3.81%) .NET
5 1 (0.95%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.86%) Data Centre
2 19 (18.10%) IBM Mainframe
3 15 (14.29%) Blockchain
4 12 (11.43%) SCADA
5 7 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.76%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.90%) CCTV
8 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.95%) AS400
9 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.95%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.00%) zOS
2 20 (19.05%) Unix
3 14 (13.33%) Linux
3 14 (13.33%) Windows
4 5 (4.76%) CoreOS
5 3 (2.86%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.95%) HPUX
7 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.95%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.05%) Agile
2 25 (23.81%) Thought Leadership
3 23 (21.90%) ITIL
4 19 (18.10%) Cybersecurity
4 19 (18.10%) Microservices
4 19 (18.10%) Roadmaps
4 19 (18.10%) Service Delivery
5 18 (17.14%) Customer Service
6 17 (16.19%) Event-Driven
6 17 (16.19%) Strategic Roadmap
7 15 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 15 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
7 15 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 15 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 15 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (14.29%) Zero Trust
8 13 (12.38%) Analytics
9 12 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (11.43%) Mentoring
10 11 (10.48%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 27 (25.71%) SQL
2 22 (20.95%) COBOL
3 16 (15.24%) C#
4 10 (9.52%) Python
5 8 (7.62%) REXX
5 8 (7.62%) Shell Script
6 6 (5.71%) JCL
7 5 (4.76%) Perl
8 4 (3.81%) C
9 3 (2.86%) Assembly Language
10 2 (1.90%) HLASM
11 1 (0.95%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 30 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.10%) CTC Cleared
3 11 (10.48%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.86%) CCNA
5 3 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.90%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.90%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.90%) MCSA
6 2 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.95%) Degree
7 1 (0.95%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.90%) QA
System Software
1 6 (5.71%) Docker
2 5 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.76%) Time Sharing Option
3 3 (2.86%) ACF2
3 3 (2.86%) RACF
4 1 (0.95%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.95%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 6 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.76%) CA Endevor
3 4 (3.81%) OMEGAMON
4 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (23.81%) IBM
2 20 (19.05%) Unisys
3 16 (15.24%) Google
4 10 (9.52%) Teradata
5 4 (3.81%) Broadcom
5 4 (3.81%) Splunk
6 3 (2.86%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.90%) 3PAR
8 1 (0.95%) HP
8 1 (0.95%) Juniper
8 1 (0.95%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.95%) Sun