Mainframe Architect Jobs in England

Mainframe Architect
UK > England

The median Mainframe Architect salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 663 833 916
Rank change year-on-year +170 +83 +241
Permanent jobs requiring a Mainframe Architect 12 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.025% 0.002% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.002% 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £82,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% - -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £93,750 -
% change year-on-year -46.67% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,182 81,825 80,489
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.87% 94.55% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,287 60,848 51,240
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Mainframe Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Mainframe Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe Architect in England

Mainframe Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Mainframe Architect in England

Mainframe Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
London +128 12 £50,000 -39.39% 5
Mainframe Architect
UK

Mainframe Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Mainframe Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Mainframe Architect in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) zOS
1 12 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 11 (91.67%) Finance
2 11 (91.67%) Banking
3 10 (83.33%) IBM
4 9 (75.00%) ATM
4 9 (75.00%) API Integration
4 9 (75.00%) IBM Mainframe
4 9 (75.00%) Postilion
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) JCL
5 3 (25.00%) COBOL
5 3 (25.00%) DB2
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Azure
6 2 (16.67%) AWS
6 2 (16.67%) Re-Platforming
6 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
6 2 (16.67%) Refactoring
6 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (16.67%) GCP
7 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
7 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
7 1 (8.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (8.33%) High Availability
7 1 (8.33%) Capacity Management
7 1 (8.33%) ACF2
7 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning

Mainframe Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (8.33%) CICS
Business Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (8.33%) Adabas
General
1 11 (91.67%) Banking
1 11 (91.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 9 (75.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) API Integration
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Refactoring
3 2 (16.67%) Re-Platforming
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Capacity Management
4 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
4 1 (8.33%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) COBOL
1 3 (25.00%) JCL
2 1 (8.33%) Natural
2 1 (8.33%) PL/1
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) ACF2
1 1 (8.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (8.33%) RACF
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Cincom