Mainframe Consultant Jobs

Mainframe Consultant
UK

The median Mainframe Consultant salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 July 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 737 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Mainframe Consultant 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 54,330 85,864 73,683
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.51% 94.85% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 30,016 58,065 51,514
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,000 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year - -6.10% +2.40%

Mainframe Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Mainframe Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe Consultant in the UK

Mainframe Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Mainframe Consultant in the UK

Mainframe Consultant
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
London - 2 - - 4
England - 2 - - 4

Mainframe Consultant Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 July 2025, Mainframe Consultant 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 featuring Mainframe Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) COBOL
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
1 3 (100.00%) zOS
1 3 (100.00%) JCL
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Re-Platforming
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
3 1 (33.33%) REXX
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) IMS/DB
3 1 (33.33%) CA Endevor

Mainframe Consultant Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) IMS/DB
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Refactoring
1 2 (66.67%) Re-Platforming
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) COBOL
1 3 (100.00%) JCL
2 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (33.33%) REXX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM