Mainframe Jobs in Edinburgh

Mainframes
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 98 116
Rank change year-on-year +28 +18 +25
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 15 6 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.72% 0.40% 1.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.95% 1.35% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 10
10th Percentile £44,820 £68,173 £50,658
25th Percentile £64,621 £75,120 £52,937
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,618 £95,000 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% +48.37% +28.06%
75th Percentile £76,840 £99,423 £71,652
90th Percentile £85,309 £111,282 -
Scotland median annual salary £70,618 £95,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year -25.67% +48.37% +3.69%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 303 445 763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 34.79% 29.61% 39.03%
Number of salaries quoted 128 334 421
10th Percentile £30,875 £31,250 £35,333
25th Percentile £45,929 £44,112 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £76,840 £73,886 £77,715
90th Percentile £111,369 £87,500 £100,000
Scotland median annual salary £51,645 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.63% -8.70% +4.55%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Edinburgh

Mainframe
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in Edinburgh

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in Edinburgh

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (20.00%) CICS
2 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SNA
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (40.00%) Banking
4 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) DB2 Programmer
1 3 (20.00%) DB2 Systems Programmer
1 3 (20.00%) Mainframe Programmer
1 3 (20.00%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
1 3 (20.00%) Programmer
1 3 (20.00%) Systems Programmer
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (6.67%) IT Support
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Mainframe Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Mainframe Support
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) ADO
1 1 (6.67%) CSS
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) zOS
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Roadmaps
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Technology Roadmap
3 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
4 4 (26.67%) Operational Stability
5 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (20.00%) Network Management
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Coaching
6 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
7 1 (6.67%) Line Management
7 1 (6.67%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) JCL
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) COBOL
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) REXX
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) CISA
1 1 (6.67%) CISSP
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) HNC
1 1 (6.67%) HND
1 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) CA Endevor
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) IBM
2 1 (6.67%) Broadcom
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk