Mainframe Jobs in Scotland

Mainframes
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 189 225
Rank change year-on-year -69 +36 -70
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 22 28 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.33% 0.59% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.68% 1.46% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 20
10th Percentile £66,250 £50,658 £21,523
25th Percentile £79,556 £52,937 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £64,029 £55,875
Median % change year-on-year +48.37% +14.59% -8.10%
75th Percentile £100,064 £71,652 £68,275
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,029 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.10% -1.49% +5.52%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,257 1,912 2,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 48.36% 40.41% 48.22%
Number of salaries quoted 853 823 1,062
10th Percentile £28,760 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,801 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £89,472 £84,056
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Scotland

Mainframe
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in Scotland

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in Scotland

Mainframe
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Glasgow - 12 £28,800 -
Edinburgh +23 10 £95,064 +48.47% 2
Mainframe
UK

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (50.00%) CICS
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) IaaS
3 4 (18.18%) PaaS
3 4 (18.18%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) DB2
2 4 (18.18%) Data Lake
2 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) ChangeMan
2 1 (4.55%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 18 (81.82%) Finance
2 11 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (50.00%) Law
2 11 (50.00%) Marketing
3 10 (45.45%) Banking
4 5 (22.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Mainframe Software Engineer
1 12 (54.55%) Software Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Head of Operations
4 2 (9.09%) Mainframe Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) OpenID
2 2 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Reference Data
1 11 (50.00%) VSAM
2 4 (18.18%) Blockchain
3 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Unix
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Windows
4 1 (4.55%) CoreOS
4 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Agile
2 15 (68.18%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (68.18%) Machine Learning
3 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
4 12 (54.55%) Software Engineering
5 11 (50.00%) Decision-Making
5 11 (50.00%) Operational Stability
5 11 (50.00%) SDLC
6 6 (27.27%) Microservices
7 5 (22.73%) Thought Leadership
8 4 (18.18%) Customer Service
8 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
8 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven
8 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
8 4 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
8 4 (18.18%) Zero Trust
9 3 (13.64%) DevOps
10 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) COBOL
1 12 (54.55%) JCL
2 11 (50.00%) Java
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) CA Endevor
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) CA
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) IBM
2 1 (4.55%) Juniper
2 1 (4.55%) McAfee
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) NetApp
2 1 (4.55%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) VMware