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 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 619 477 755
Rank change year-on-year -142 +278 -45
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 88 205 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.43% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 1.07% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 56 91 83
10th Percentile £40,625 £39,750 £35,075
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,833 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,072 £65,066 £56,456
Median % change year-on-year -33.80% +15.25% -2.66%
75th Percentile £70,825 £77,715 £68,275
90th Percentile £104,862 £84,056 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,066 £61,750
% change year-on-year -23.15% +5.37% +1.56%

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 20,220 19,230 34,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.98% 39.94% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,541 10,409 17,070
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,970
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

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 26 July 2024.

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 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
North of England -66 29 £42,500 -34.68% 4
Scotland -58 22 £95,000 +45.37%
Midlands -9 17 £42,500 -39.29% 2
East Midlands -16 15 £42,500 -41.78% 2
Yorkshire +9 14 £42,500 -33.62% 1
North West -38 13 £90,000 +29.60% 3
South East +1 12 £55,000 +32.53%
South West -28 6 £43,072 -40.58%
West Midlands -3 2 £43,072 -21.69%
Wales - 2 £54,635 -
North East - 2 £42,786 -
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 19 (21.59%) CICS
2 7 (7.95%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.95%) Confluence
2 7 (7.95%) SAS
3 2 (2.27%) Apache
3 2 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.14%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.64%) AWS
2 9 (10.23%) Power Platform
3 7 (7.95%) dbt
3 7 (7.95%) GCP
4 5 (5.68%) Cloud Composer
5 4 (4.55%) Azure
6 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.27%) Google Analytics
7 2 (2.27%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.27%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.27%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.14%) SaaS
8 1 (1.14%) Serverless
8 1 (1.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) SAN
2 1 (1.14%) DWDM
2 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.05%) MongoDB
1 15 (17.05%) MySQL
2 12 (13.64%) DB2
3 8 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.95%) BigQuery
4 7 (7.95%) Looker
4 7 (7.95%) Power BI
4 7 (7.95%) Tableau
5 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.55%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.27%) Airbyte
7 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.14%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 11 (12.50%) ChangeMan
2 7 (7.95%) JIRA
3 5 (5.68%) Git
3 5 (5.68%) GitLab
4 1 (1.14%) Selenium
General
1 20 (22.73%) Finance
2 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.05%) Manufacturing
4 12 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (12.50%) Law
5 11 (12.50%) Marketing
6 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.82%) Banking
8 4 (4.55%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (13.64%) Developer
1 12 (13.64%) Mainframe Software Engineer
1 12 (13.64%) Programmer
1 12 (13.64%) Software Engineer
1 12 (13.64%) Systems Engineer
1 12 (13.64%) Systems Programmer
2 10 (11.36%) Analyst
3 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) CICS Programmer
4 8 (9.09%) CICS Systems Programmer
4 8 (9.09%) COBOL Developer
4 8 (9.09%) Mainframe Developer
5 6 (6.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 5 (5.68%) Head of Engineering
6 5 (5.68%) IBM Mainframe Developer
7 4 (4.55%) Architect
7 4 (4.55%) Lead
7 4 (4.55%) z/OS Systems Programmer
8 3 (3.41%) Service Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) ISPF
2 5 (5.68%) .NET
3 2 (2.27%) Apache Beam
3 2 (2.27%) Kafka
3 2 (2.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 19 (21.59%) IBM Mainframe
3 11 (12.50%) Reference Data
3 11 (12.50%) SCADA
3 11 (12.50%) VSAM
4 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) CCTV
5 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.14%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.05%) zOS
2 7 (7.95%) Windows
3 5 (5.68%) Linux
4 3 (3.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.14%) HPUX
5 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.68%) Agile
2 21 (23.86%) CI/CD
3 17 (19.32%) Operational Stability
4 14 (15.91%) Software Engineering
5 13 (14.77%) Decision-Making
6 12 (13.64%) Performance Monitoring
7 11 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 11 (12.50%) ITIL
7 11 (12.50%) Machine Learning
7 11 (12.50%) SDLC
8 9 (10.23%) DevOps
8 9 (10.23%) Information Security
8 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (9.09%) Roadmaps
9 8 (9.09%) Service Delivery
10 7 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (7.95%) Data Engineering
10 7 (7.95%) Data Governance
10 7 (7.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.55%) SQL
2 24 (27.27%) JCL
3 20 (22.73%) COBOL
4 15 (17.05%) C#
5 12 (13.64%) REXX
6 11 (12.50%) Java
7 7 (7.95%) Python
8 5 (5.68%) Perl
8 5 (5.68%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.55%) C
10 3 (3.41%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.14%) Ada
11 1 (1.14%) CLIST
11 1 (1.14%) Natural
Qualifications
1 20 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) CTC Cleared
4 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.27%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.27%) CCNA
6 2 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.27%) MCSA
6 2 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (18.18%) Time Sharing Option
2 5 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.68%) RACF
3 3 (3.41%) ACF2
4 1 (1.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (1.14%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 5 (5.68%) CA Endevor
2 4 (4.55%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.27%) Ansible
4 2 (2.27%) Terraform
4 2 (2.27%) zSecure
Vendors
1 27 (30.68%) IBM
2 11 (12.50%) Oracle
3 9 (10.23%) Unisys
4 7 (7.95%) Google
4 7 (7.95%) Teradata
5 5 (5.68%) CA
6 4 (4.55%) Broadcom
6 4 (4.55%) Splunk
7 3 (3.41%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.27%) 3PAR
9 1 (1.14%) HP
9 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.14%) Sun