Mainframe Jobs in the UK excluding London

Mainframes
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 679 544
Rank change year-on-year +146 -135 +205
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 47 88 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.11% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% 0.35% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 29 63 73
10th Percentile £25,313 - £35,950
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £45,000 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +66.38% -29.72% +13.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £65,000 £71,652
90th Percentile £90,907 £98,279 £77,715
UK median annual salary £70,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +5.26%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,935 24,830 22,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.30% 31.52% 42.30%
Number of salaries quoted 6,338 15,116 10,756
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £59,800 £55,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year +8.73% -14.10% +2.45%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +46 25 £74,870 +76.16% 51
Scotland +94 14 £66,367 -30.14% 15
Yorkshire +57 14 £52,500 +23.53% 22
North West +21 11 £87,283 +45.47% 26
South East +80 6 £86,250 +56.82% 33
Midlands +54 2 £42,500 - 40
East Midlands +31 2 £42,500 - 18
Mainframe
UK

Mainframe
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 4 (8.51%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.38%) CICS
2 3 (6.38%) Confluence
3 1 (2.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.28%) Azure
2 4 (8.51%) GCP
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.38%) GitHub
3 3 (6.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (2.13%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) SNA
1 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.13%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.02%) DB2
2 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) JIRA
2 3 (6.38%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.38%) Selenium
2 3 (6.38%) SonarQube
2 3 (6.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (59.57%) Finance
2 24 (51.06%) Banking
3 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Retail Banking
5 5 (10.64%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.38%) Marketing
6 3 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.38%) Retail
7 2 (4.26%) Automotive
8 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (14.89%) Design Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) Lead
3 4 (8.51%) Programmer
3 4 (8.51%) Senior
3 4 (8.51%) Systems Programmer
4 3 (6.38%) Analyst
4 3 (6.38%) DB2 Programmer
4 3 (6.38%) DB2 Systems Programmer
4 3 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Mainframe Programmer
4 3 (6.38%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
4 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Application Development Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Applications Development Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Data Integration Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Head of IT
5 2 (4.26%) Head of Technology
5 2 (4.26%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) Django
1 3 (6.38%) FastAPI
1 3 (6.38%) Flask
1 3 (6.38%) Middleware
1 3 (6.38%) Playwright
2 2 (4.26%) ISPF
3 1 (2.13%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.51%) AS400
2 4 (8.51%) iSeries
2 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.26%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (4.26%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Windows
2 6 (12.77%) zOS
3 2 (4.26%) Linux
4 1 (2.13%) AIX
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.13%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.53%) Agile
1 12 (25.53%) Roadmaps
2 10 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (21.28%) Customer Service
2 10 (21.28%) Technology Roadmap
3 9 (19.15%) DevOps
3 9 (19.15%) Fintech
4 7 (14.89%) Change Management
4 7 (14.89%) Data Management
4 7 (14.89%) Decision-Making
4 7 (14.89%) Line Management
4 7 (14.89%) Service Delivery
4 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (12.77%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (12.77%) Business Continuity
5 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
5 6 (12.77%) Information Management
5 6 (12.77%) Mathematics
5 6 (12.77%) Service Management
6 5 (10.64%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.77%) Python
2 5 (10.64%) COBOL
2 5 (10.64%) JCL
3 4 (8.51%) RPG
4 3 (6.38%) Groovy
5 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.13%) REXX
5 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) Degree
2 3 (6.38%) OCP
2 3 (6.38%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.13%) CISA
3 1 (2.13%) CISSP
3 1 (2.13%) HNC
3 1 (2.13%) HND
3 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.13%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Docker
1 3 (6.38%) RACF
2 2 (4.26%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (2.13%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Ansible
1 4 (8.51%) Grafana
1 4 (8.51%) Terraform
2 3 (6.38%) Argo
2 3 (6.38%) Istio
2 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.38%) Progress Chef
2 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.26%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) IBM
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.38%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.38%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.13%) Broadcom
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.13%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) Splunk