Mainframe Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Mainframe Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Mainframe Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £85,253 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 758 761
Rank change year-on-year +198 +3 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a Mainframe Software Engineer 2 12 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.017% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.018% 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,727 £70,097 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £71,991 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +33.32% +13.68%
75th Percentile £93,778 £73,886 £57,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £85,253 £71,991 £54,000
% change year-on-year +18.42% +33.32% +0.47%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 34,463 66,724 54,732
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.80% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,670 47,232 31,095
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Mainframe Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Mainframe Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Mainframe Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mainframe Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Mainframe Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Mainframe Software Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Yorkshire - 2 £85,253 -
North of England - 2 £85,253 -
Mainframe Software Engineer
UK

Mainframe Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Mainframe Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Mainframe Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) CICS
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
1 2 (100.00%) MAINVIEW
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ISPF
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) CA Endevor
1 2 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 2 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 2 (100.00%) Postman

Mainframe Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (100.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ISPF
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) CA Endevor
1 2 (100.00%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) IBM