Mainframe Jobs in Cheshire

Mainframes
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.76% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,500 - -
75th Percentile £84,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £87,283 £60,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +45.47% -13.60% +42.46%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

Mainframe falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 288 481 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 36.69% 28.94% 41.67%
Number of salaries quoted 38 324 171
10th Percentile £23,925 £23,125 £25,420
25th Percentile £36,875 £27,459 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -22.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £74,338
90th Percentile £84,825 £85,000 £96,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Cheshire

Mainframe
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in Cheshire

Mainframe
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 2025. 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
Knutsford - 4 £76,500 - 3
Chester - 2 - - 10
Mainframe
North West

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) DB2
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Design Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Integration Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Middleware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) COBOL
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IBM