Mainframe Jobs in England

Mainframes
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 756 665
Rank change year-on-year +116 -91 +348
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 45 87 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.092% 0.097% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.29% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 33 72 107
10th Percentile £25,313 - £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £65,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £91,164 £100,064 £97,290
UK median annual salary £66,367 £55,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year +20.67% -14.10% -1.49%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,503 30,294 38,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.79% 33.86% 44.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,514 20,923 20,470
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £35,764
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,000 £46,749
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England +36 22 £74,870 +73.82% 81
London +106 16 £50,000 -9.09% 35
Yorkshire +55 13 £39,063 -8.09% 33
North West +1 9 £87,283 +45.47% 38
South East +75 6 £86,250 +56.82% 89
Midlands +74 1 £42,500 - 67
East Midlands +36 1 £42,500 - 30
Mainframe
UK

Mainframe
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 4 (8.89%) CICS
1 4 (8.89%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.67%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) GCP
3 4 (8.89%) AWS
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.67%) GitHub
4 3 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.78%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) DB2
2 4 (8.89%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.22%) Adabas
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.11%) Git
3 4 (8.89%) IBM UrbanCode
3 4 (8.89%) JIRA
3 4 (8.89%) SonarQube
4 3 (6.67%) Selenium
4 3 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.22%) JUnit
5 1 (2.22%) Maven
5 1 (2.22%) Mockito
5 1 (2.22%) Postman
5 1 (2.22%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.22%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.22%) Subversion
5 1 (2.22%) Xcode
5 1 (2.22%) XCTest
General
1 29 (64.44%) Banking
1 29 (64.44%) Finance
2 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Retail Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.22%) Automotive
7 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Architect
2 11 (24.44%) Mainframe Architect
3 9 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (17.78%) Payments Architect
4 8 (17.78%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 7 (15.56%) Senior
6 6 (13.33%) Lead
7 4 (8.89%) Design Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Consultant
8 2 (4.44%) Data Integration Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Head of IT
8 2 (4.44%) Head of Technology
8 2 (4.44%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Mainframe Consultant
8 2 (4.44%) Mainframe Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) Django
1 3 (6.67%) FastAPI
1 3 (6.67%) Flask
1 3 (6.67%) ISPF
1 3 (6.67%) Playwright
2 2 (4.44%) Middleware
3 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.22%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.22%) CSS3
3 1 (2.22%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.22%) HTML5
3 1 (2.22%) JPA
3 1 (2.22%) Kafka
3 1 (2.22%) Material-UI
3 1 (2.22%) REST
3 1 (2.22%) Spring
3 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.22%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Spring MVC
3 1 (2.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) IBM Mainframe
2 8 (17.78%) Management Information System
3 5 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (8.89%) AS400
4 4 (8.89%) iSeries
4 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
5 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (37.78%) zOS
2 8 (17.78%) Windows
3 4 (8.89%) Linux
4 1 (2.22%) AIX
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.22%) SUSE
4 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
1 10 (22.22%) Fintech
2 8 (17.78%) API Integration
2 8 (17.78%) Decision-Making
3 7 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (13.33%) Agile
4 6 (13.33%) Business Continuity
4 6 (13.33%) Change Management
4 6 (13.33%) Customer Service
4 6 (13.33%) Data Management
4 6 (13.33%) DevOps
4 6 (13.33%) Information Management
4 6 (13.33%) Line Management
4 6 (13.33%) Mathematics
4 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 5 (11.11%) Analytics
5 5 (11.11%) IT Strategy
5 5 (11.11%) Migration
5 5 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.78%) JCL
2 7 (15.56%) COBOL
3 5 (11.11%) Python
4 4 (8.89%) Groovy
4 4 (8.89%) RPG
5 3 (6.67%) SQL
6 2 (4.44%) Assembly Language
6 2 (4.44%) REXX
7 1 (2.22%) Java
7 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.22%) Natural
7 1 (2.22%) PL/1
7 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 3 (6.67%) OCP
2 3 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (4.44%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (2.22%) ACF2
4 1 (2.22%) PowerHA
4 1 (2.22%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Ansible
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Argo
2 3 (6.67%) Grafana
2 3 (6.67%) Istio
2 3 (6.67%) Progress Chef
2 3 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 3 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (2.22%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 21 (46.67%) IBM
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.89%) Dynatrace
3 4 (8.89%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.67%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.44%) Oracle
6 1 (2.22%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.22%) Cincom
6 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.22%) SAP
6 1 (2.22%) Splunk
6 1 (2.22%) Syncsort