Mainframe Jobs in London

Mainframes
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies in London. 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 377 483 501
Rank change year-on-year +106 +18 +353
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 16 24 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.10% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.25% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9 20 61
10th Percentile - £52,250 -
25th Percentile - £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% -27.78%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £88,283
90th Percentile £54,000 £84,250 £101,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -10.71%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,640 9,664 15,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.44% 40.31% 46.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,014 6,778 10,288
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £44,142
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £76,391
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.82% +1.85%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £123,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in London

Mainframe
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in London

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Mainframe in London

Mainframe
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the London 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
West London +25 8 £50,000 - 9
Central London +26 1 £65,000 -43.48% 5
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (18.75%) CICS
2 1 (6.25%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) DB2
2 1 (6.25%) Adabas
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
2 1 (6.25%) Maven
2 1 (6.25%) Mockito
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
2 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
2 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
2 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.25%) Subversion
2 1 (6.25%) Xcode
2 1 (6.25%) XCTest
General
1 11 (68.75%) Banking
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Architect
1 11 (68.75%) Mainframe Architect
2 8 (50.00%) Payments Architect
2 8 (50.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
2 8 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Mainframe Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Mainframe Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.25%) Bootstrap
1 1 (6.25%) CSS
1 1 (6.25%) CSS3
1 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) HTML5
1 1 (6.25%) ISPF
1 1 (6.25%) J2EE
1 1 (6.25%) JPA
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) Material-UI
1 1 (6.25%) REST
1 1 (6.25%) SOAP
1 1 (6.25%) Spring
1 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
1 1 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (6.25%) Spring MVC
1 1 (6.25%) Swagger
1 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) IBM Mainframe
2 4 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) zOS
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) API Integration
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 2 (12.50%) Presales
4 2 (12.50%) Refactoring
4 2 (12.50%) Re-Platforming
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.25%) Architectural Design
5 1 (6.25%) Generative AI
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (6.25%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (6.25%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) COBOL
1 5 (31.25%) JCL
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Assembly Language
3 2 (12.50%) REXX
4 1 (6.25%) Groovy
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) Natural
4 1 (6.25%) PL/1
4 1 (6.25%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (6.25%) ACF2
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) RACF
2 1 (6.25%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (6.25%) Cincom
2 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) Syncsort