Mainframe Job Trends in County Antrim

Mainframes
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies in County Antrim. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 0.55% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.44% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary - - -

All Generic Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 82 124 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 22.40% 39.24% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 31 28 77
10th Percentile £30,000 £46,713 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,625 £53,125 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £81,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% +41.30% +6.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,241 £103,250 £81,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary £50,000 £69,308 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.86% +15.51% +9.09%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Mainframe relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Mainframe job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Mainframe
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Mainframe.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Mainframe

Mainframe
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 8 January 2026. 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
Belfast - 2 - -
Mainframe
Northern Ireland

Mainframe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Product Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Human-Centred Design
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 2 (100.00%) Product Management
1 2 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Telematics
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager