IBM Mainframe
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IBM Mainframe over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 875 951 1189
Rank change year-on-year +76 +238 -290
Permanent jobs citing IBM Mainframe 21 19 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.018% 0.028%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.060% 0.042% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 20 16 36
10th Percentile £26,045 - £41,375
25th Percentile £42,139 £52,500 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,072 £55,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.69% -17.91% -
75th Percentile £51,875 £58,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £68,375 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,072 £63,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -31.63% -6.67% -

All Generic Skills
UK

IBM 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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
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 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

IBM Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM Mainframe in the UK

IBM Mainframe
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IBM Mainframe in the UK

IBM Mainframe
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM Mainframe over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IBM Mainframe in the UK

IBM Mainframe
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Work from Home +109 20 £43,072 -35.23%
England +114 19 £43,072 -21.69% 3
UK excluding London +28 19 £43,072 -31.63%
London +124 6 £55,000 - 3
North of England +54 5 £26,384 -56.21%
South East - 5 £55,000 -
Midlands +11 4 £43,072 -35.71%
Yorkshire +95 3 £26,384 -60.33%
South West - 3 £43,072 -
West Midlands - 2 £43,072 -
East Midlands - 2 £43,072 -
North West +12 1 £43,072 -20.24%
Scotland -63 1 £26,384 -55.66%
Wales - 1 £43,072 -
North East - 1 £43,072 -

IBM Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (4.76%) WebSphere
1 1 (4.76%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Manufacturing
3 4 (19.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) COBOL Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Mainframe Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Trainee
4 1 (4.76%) Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Payments Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 10 (47.62%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) zOS
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (47.62%) Information Security
2 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (38.10%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (23.81%) ITIL
4 5 (23.81%) Service Delivery
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) Service Management
6 1 (4.76%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 15 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) CTC Cleared
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) IBM
2 5 (23.81%) Unisys