IBM Mainframe Jobs

IBM Mainframe
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited IBM Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 733 882 882
Rank change year-on-year +149 0 +367
Permanent jobs citing IBM Mainframe 6 20 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.019% 0.031%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.027% 0.056% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 27
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £42,139 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,536 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -15.39% -15.38%
75th Percentile £84,750 £57,500 £60,125
90th Percentile £86,400 - £71,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,750 £43,072 £66,500
% change year-on-year +87.48% -35.23% +2.31%

All Generic Skills
UK

IBM 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 22,018 35,406 37,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.30% 33.73% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10,503 22,490 22,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £55,000 £64,470
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% -14.69% +3.15%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £99,750 £108,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

IBM Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IBM Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IBM Mainframe in the UK

IBM Mainframe
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IBM Mainframe.

Salary trend for IBM Mainframe in the UK

IBM Mainframe
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM Mainframe over the 6 months to 9 July 2025.

Salary histogram for IBM Mainframe in the UK

IBM Mainframe
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Mainframe within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +142 6 £50,000 +7.44% 1
London +80 4 £50,000 -
UK excluding London +147 2 £80,750 +87.48% 1
Work from Home +77 2 £76,500 +77.61% 4
South East +77 1 £85,000 +54.55%
North of England +34 1 £76,500 +77.61% 1
North West +4 1 £76,500 +77.61% 1

IBM Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (16.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Mainframe Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Payments Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) zOS
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) SUSE
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Presales
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Assembly Language
1 1 (16.67%) JCL
1 1 (16.67%) REXX
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (16.67%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Syncsort