Mainframe Jobs in Halifax

Mainframes
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies in Halifax. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 20 60
Rank change year-on-year +2 +40 -35
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 10 5 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Halifax 13.33% 6.02% 5.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 22.73% 8.20% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 7
10th Percentile - - £51,833
25th Percentile £25,313 £90,191 £54,120
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,625 £95,128 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year -73.06% +48.57% +7.88%
75th Percentile £76,840 £100,064 £71,652
90th Percentile £79,003 - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £25,625 £95,128 £59,000
% change year-on-year -73.06% +61.23% +5.50%

All Generic Skills
Halifax

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 Halifax.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 44 61 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Halifax 58.67% 73.49% 62.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39 58 222
10th Percentile £25,313 £43,336 £38,999
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,172 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £70,576 £59,888
Median % change year-on-year +2.01% +17.85% -2.86%
75th Percentile £98,474 £96,539 £77,715
90th Percentile £146,300 £100,064 £89,852
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +9.09%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Halifax

Mainframe
Salary Trend in Halifax

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in Halifax

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in Halifax

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in Halifax over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in Halifax

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Halifax 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 (30.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) IBM UrbanCode
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (30.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (100.00%) Banking
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Retail Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
1 4 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
1 4 (40.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Django
1 3 (30.00%) FastAPI
1 3 (30.00%) Flask
1 3 (30.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Business Continuity
1 6 (60.00%) Change Management
1 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (60.00%) Customer Service
1 6 (60.00%) Data Management
1 6 (60.00%) Decision-Making
1 6 (60.00%) Fintech
1 6 (60.00%) Information Management
1 6 (60.00%) Line Management
1 6 (60.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Groovy
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) OCP
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Argo
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
1 3 (30.00%) Istio
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) IBM
2 3 (30.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (30.00%) Dynatrace