Mainframe Jobs in the North of England

Mainframes
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 272 425
Rank change year-on-year -66 +153 -38
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 29 106 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.82% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.62% 1.97% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 24 47 28
10th Percentile £32,325 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £55,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £65,066 £56,456
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +15.25% -26.35%
75th Percentile £92,118 £77,715 £63,294
90th Percentile £111,250 £84,056 £84,056
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% -3.70% -

All Generic Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,706 5,384 8,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 28.87% 41.48% 42.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,872 2,853 4,681
10th Percentile £28,025 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £52,839
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.09% +5.68%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,175 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £56,124 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.66% +4.00% +4.17%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the North of England

Mainframe
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in the North of England

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in the North of England

Mainframe
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Yorkshire +9 14 £42,500 -33.62% 1
North West -38 13 £90,000 +29.60% 3
North East - 2 £42,786 -
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 7 (24.14%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (24.14%) Confluence
2 3 (10.34%) SAS
3 2 (6.90%) Apache
3 2 (6.90%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) dbt
1 7 (24.14%) GCP
1 7 (24.14%) Power Platform
2 5 (17.24%) Cloud Composer
3 4 (13.79%) Azure
4 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.90%) Google Analytics
5 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.45%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) MongoDB
1 10 (34.48%) MySQL
2 7 (24.14%) BigQuery
2 7 (24.14%) Looker
2 7 (24.14%) Power BI
2 7 (24.14%) Tableau
3 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.90%) Airbyte
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) JIRA
2 5 (17.24%) Git
2 5 (17.24%) GitLab
General
1 10 (34.48%) Manufacturing
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Head of Engineering
3 4 (13.79%) Programmer
3 4 (13.79%) Systems Programmer
3 4 (13.79%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 3 (10.34%) Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Service Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.90%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (6.90%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Remote Support Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) ISPF
2 4 (13.79%) .NET
3 2 (6.90%) Apache Beam
3 2 (6.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (44.83%) Data Centre
2 10 (34.48%) SCADA
3 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
3 5 (17.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (3.45%) LPAR
5 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) zOS
2 4 (13.79%) Windows
3 3 (10.34%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.45%) HPUX
4 1 (3.45%) Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Agile
2 7 (24.14%) Analytics
2 7 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (24.14%) Data Engineering
2 7 (24.14%) Data Governance
2 7 (24.14%) Data Management
2 7 (24.14%) Data Visualisation
2 7 (24.14%) Visualisation
3 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
3 6 (20.69%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (17.24%) Data Strategy
4 5 (17.24%) Data Transformation
4 5 (17.24%) Risk Management
4 5 (17.24%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (10.34%) Customer Service
5 3 (10.34%) ITIL
5 3 (10.34%) Service Management
5 3 (10.34%) User Experience
6 2 (6.90%) Decision-Making
6 2 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) SQL
2 10 (34.48%) C#
3 5 (17.24%) JCL
3 5 (17.24%) Perl
3 5 (17.24%) Python
3 5 (17.24%) REXX
3 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
4 3 (10.34%) Assembly Language
5 1 (3.45%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (10.34%) ACF2
2 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.34%) RACF
3 1 (3.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (3.45%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) IBM
2 7 (24.14%) Google
2 7 (24.14%) Teradata
3 4 (13.79%) Broadcom
3 4 (13.79%) Splunk
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) HP
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.45%) Sun
5 1 (3.45%) Unisys