Mainframe Jobs in the Thames Valley

Mainframes
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 226 -
Rank change year-on-year +41 - -
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 5 19 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.15% 0.28% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 0.85% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 19 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £57,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £86,250 £55,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year +56.82% +32.53% -40.71%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,383 2,234 2,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.32% 33.21% 41.33%
Number of salaries quoted 557 1,474 1,127
10th Percentile £26,725 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £47,500 £55,332
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -14.15% -3.77%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,750 £73,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +12.24% -13.27% +2.73%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the Thames Valley

Mainframe
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Mainframe in the Thames Valley

Mainframe
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 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
Oxfordshire - 4 £87,500 - 1
Berkshire - 1 £85,000 - 2
Mainframe
South East

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (80.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Head of IT
1 2 (40.00%) Head of Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) AS400
1 4 (80.00%) iSeries
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) AIX
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) IT Strategy
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (80.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Strategic Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 3 (60.00%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) RPG
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat