Mainframe Jobs in the UK excluding London

Mainframes
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 650 594 736
Rank change year-on-year -56 +142 -98
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 109 156 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.26% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% 0.63% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 91 57 83
10th Percentile £41,250 £34,880 £32,815
25th Percentile £41,695 £41,250 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £59,350
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -0.59% +5.04%
75th Percentile £100,064 £71,652 £72,500
90th Percentile - £77,715 £86,700
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,029 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.10% -1.49% +5.52%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,020 24,581 31,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.84% 41.02% 43.79%
Number of salaries quoted 15,229 11,244 15,769
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
North of England +7 45 £57,500 -10.20% 2
South East +24 23 £55,000 +32.53% 2
Yorkshire +61 21 £42,500 -27.97%
North West -14 21 £94,637 +36.27% 2
Scotland -66 21 £95,064 +48.47% 2
South West -33 10 £45,000 +17.56%
Midlands -9 9 £42,500 -36.57% 1
East Midlands -9 7 £42,500 - 1
North East - 3 £42,500 -
West Midlands +1 2 £43,072 -
Wales - 1 £43,072 -
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 12 (11.01%) CICS
2 10 (9.17%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (9.17%) Confluence
3 5 (4.59%) Apache
3 5 (4.59%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.75%) SAS
5 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.92%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.92%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.44%) AWS
2 29 (26.61%) GCP
3 23 (21.10%) Azure
4 19 (17.43%) IaaS
4 19 (17.43%) PaaS
4 19 (17.43%) SaaS
5 12 (11.01%) Power Platform
6 10 (9.17%) dbt
7 5 (4.59%) Cloud Composer
7 5 (4.59%) Google Analytics
7 5 (4.59%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.83%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.83%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.92%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) SAN
2 1 (0.92%) DWDM
2 1 (0.92%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.10%) NoSQL
2 19 (17.43%) Data Lake
2 19 (17.43%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (17.43%) Relational Database
3 16 (14.68%) MongoDB
3 16 (14.68%) MySQL
4 12 (11.01%) DB2
5 10 (9.17%) BigQuery
5 10 (9.17%) Looker
5 10 (9.17%) Power BI
5 10 (9.17%) Tableau
6 5 (4.59%) Airbyte
6 5 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 11 (10.09%) ChangeMan
2 10 (9.17%) JIRA
3 5 (4.59%) Git
3 5 (4.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.92%) Selenium
General
1 42 (38.53%) Finance
2 25 (22.94%) Banking
3 17 (15.60%) Social Skills
4 16 (14.68%) Manufacturing
5 11 (10.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (10.09%) Law
5 11 (10.09%) Marketing
6 4 (3.67%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (21.10%) Architect
1 23 (21.10%) Developer
2 19 (17.43%) COBOL Developer
2 19 (17.43%) Enterprise Architect
2 19 (17.43%) Mainframe Developer
3 16 (14.68%) Systems Engineer
4 12 (11.01%) Mainframe Software Engineer
4 12 (11.01%) Software Engineer
5 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Lead
7 5 (4.59%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Head of Engineering
7 5 (4.59%) IBM Mainframe Developer
7 5 (4.59%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Programmer
8 4 (3.67%) Systems Programmer
9 3 (2.75%) Analyst
9 3 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) Service Analyst
9 3 (2.75%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.43%) OpenID
2 5 (4.59%) Apache Beam
2 5 (4.59%) ISPF
2 5 (4.59%) Kafka
3 4 (3.67%) .NET
4 2 (1.83%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.85%) Data Centre
2 19 (17.43%) Blockchain
3 15 (13.76%) IBM Mainframe
4 12 (11.01%) SCADA
5 11 (10.09%) Reference Data
5 11 (10.09%) VSAM
6 5 (4.59%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.83%) CCTV
8 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.92%) LPAR
9 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.43%) Unix
2 14 (12.84%) zOS
3 8 (7.34%) Windows
4 5 (4.59%) Linux
5 4 (3.67%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.92%) HPUX
6 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.92%) Solaris
6 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (39.45%) Agile
2 30 (27.52%) Artificial Intelligence
2 30 (27.52%) Machine Learning
3 24 (22.02%) Thought Leadership
4 23 (21.10%) ITIL
5 22 (20.18%) Customer Service
5 22 (20.18%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (19.27%) Microservices
6 21 (19.27%) Roadmaps
7 19 (17.43%) Domain-Driven Design
7 19 (17.43%) Event-Driven
7 19 (17.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 19 (17.43%) Service Delivery
7 19 (17.43%) Strategic Roadmap
7 19 (17.43%) Zero Trust
8 18 (16.51%) CI/CD
9 16 (14.68%) Decision-Making
10 13 (11.93%) Software Engineering
11 12 (11.01%) Performance Monitoring
12 11 (10.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.44%) COBOL
2 26 (23.85%) SQL
3 17 (15.60%) JCL
4 16 (14.68%) C#
5 11 (10.09%) Java
6 8 (7.34%) Python
7 5 (4.59%) Perl
7 5 (4.59%) REXX
7 5 (4.59%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.67%) C
9 3 (2.75%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.92%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 30 (27.52%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.43%) CTC Cleared
3 11 (10.09%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.83%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.83%) CCNA
6 2 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.83%) MCSA
6 2 (1.83%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 16 (14.68%) Time Sharing Option
2 6 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.75%) ACF2
3 3 (2.75%) RACF
4 1 (0.92%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.92%) Microcode
4 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.67%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.83%) Terraform
4 1 (0.92%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.92%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (0.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (20.18%) IBM
2 20 (18.35%) Unisys
3 11 (10.09%) Oracle
4 10 (9.17%) Google
4 10 (9.17%) Teradata
5 5 (4.59%) Splunk
6 4 (3.67%) Broadcom
6 4 (3.67%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.83%) 3PAR
8 1 (0.92%) CA
8 1 (0.92%) Cisco
8 1 (0.92%) HP
8 1 (0.92%) Juniper
8 1 (0.92%) McAfee
8 1 (0.92%) NetApp
8 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.92%) Sun
8 1 (0.92%) VMware