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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 352 302
Rank change year-on-year +24 -50 +128
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 22 30 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.17% 0.16% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 0.54% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 14 26 40
10th Percentile - £34,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £25,313 £41,250 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £42,500 £64,547
Median % change year-on-year +44.12% -34.16% +14.33%
75th Percentile £76,840 £83,750 £71,652
90th Percentile £80,000 £111,250 £77,715
England median annual salary £65,000 £45,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +44.44% -30.77% -5.45%

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 4,043 5,545 5,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 30.61% 29.51% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,621 3,606 2,986
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,114 £66,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,836 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.16% -15.38% +4.00%

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 13 July 2025.

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 13 July 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
Yorkshire +38 14 £52,500 +23.53% 9
North West 0 8 £76,500 -15.00% 7
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 3 (13.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
1 4 (18.18%) GCP
2 3 (13.64%) GitHub
2 3 (13.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) DB2
1 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
1 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
1 3 (13.64%) IBM UrbanCode
1 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
1 3 (13.64%) Selenium
1 3 (13.64%) SonarQube
1 3 (13.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (77.27%) Finance
2 16 (72.73%) Banking
3 6 (27.27%) Retail Banking
4 5 (22.73%) Investment Banking
5 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
6 2 (9.09%) Marketing
6 2 (9.09%) Retail
7 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Design Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
2 3 (13.64%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (13.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Application Development Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Applications Development Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Applications Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Data Integration Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Development Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Middleware Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) IBM Storage Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Programmer
4 1 (4.55%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Django
1 3 (13.64%) FastAPI
1 3 (13.64%) Flask
1 3 (13.64%) Playwright
2 2 (9.09%) ISPF
2 2 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.55%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Decision-Making
2 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (27.27%) Business Continuity
2 6 (27.27%) Change Management
2 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (27.27%) Customer Service
2 6 (27.27%) Data Management
2 6 (27.27%) Fintech
2 6 (27.27%) Information Management
2 6 (27.27%) Line Management
2 6 (27.27%) Mathematics
3 3 (13.64%) DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (13.64%) Microservices
3 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
3 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
4 2 (9.09%) Coaching
4 2 (9.09%) Customer Experience
4 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) COBOL
2 3 (13.64%) Groovy
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) JCL
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) OCP
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (4.55%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Ansible
1 3 (13.64%) Argo
1 3 (13.64%) Grafana
1 3 (13.64%) Istio
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
1 3 (13.64%) Progress Chef
1 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) IBM
2 3 (13.64%) Atlassian
2 3 (13.64%) Dynatrace