Mainframes
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 776 694 997
Rank change year-on-year -82 +303 -190
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 129 281 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.27% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.63% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 106 125 125
10th Percentile £40,625 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,472 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,029 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% -1.49% +6.91%
75th Percentile £97,260 £77,715 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,064 £89,852 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £60,875
% change year-on-year -6.78% -3.08% +7.74%

All Generic Skills
UK

Mainframe is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,792 44,514 72,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.79% 47.12%
Number of salaries quoted 22,937 23,970 34,175
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the UK

Mainframe
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in the UK

Mainframe
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in the UK

Mainframe
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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
UK excluding London -47 117 £55,000 -6.78% 13
England -21 105 £55,000 -14.10% 26
North of England -2 50 £55,000 -14.10% 4
Work from Home -60 50 £55,000 -17.91% 14
London +56 31 £55,000 -15.38% 14
Yorkshire +69 26 £42,500 -30.91% 1
South East +35 23 £55,000 +32.53% 2
Scotland -66 22 £95,000 +48.37% 4
North West -1 21 £94,637 +36.27% 3
South West -28 13 £50,950 +33.10% 1
Midlands +4 8 £42,500 -36.57% 2
East Midlands -7 6 £42,500 - 2
North East - 3 £42,500 -
West Midlands +27 2 £43,072 -
Wales - 1 £43,072 -

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 11 (8.53%) CICS
2 10 (7.75%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.75%) Confluence
3 6 (4.65%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.88%) Apache
5 3 (2.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.78%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 38 (29.46%) AWS
2 30 (23.26%) Azure
2 30 (23.26%) GCP
3 21 (16.28%) IaaS
3 21 (16.28%) PaaS
3 21 (16.28%) SaaS
4 12 (9.30%) Power Platform
5 10 (7.75%) dbt
6 5 (3.88%) Cloud Composer
6 5 (3.88%) Google Analytics
6 5 (3.88%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.55%) CloudBees
8 2 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.55%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.55%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.55%) SAN
2 1 (0.78%) ATM
2 1 (0.78%) DWDM
2 1 (0.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.83%) NoSQL
2 19 (14.73%) Data Lake
2 19 (14.73%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (14.73%) Relational Database
3 16 (12.40%) MongoDB
3 16 (12.40%) MySQL
4 13 (10.08%) DB2
5 10 (7.75%) BigQuery
5 10 (7.75%) Looker
5 10 (7.75%) Power BI
5 10 (7.75%) Tableau
6 5 (3.88%) Airbyte
6 5 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.55%) Big Data
7 2 (1.55%) OLTP
8 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (9.30%) JIRA
2 11 (8.53%) ChangeMan
3 7 (5.43%) Git
3 7 (5.43%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (3.88%) GitLab
5 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 56 (43.41%) Finance
2 37 (28.68%) Banking
3 20 (15.50%) Manufacturing
3 20 (15.50%) Social Skills
4 11 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (8.53%) Law
4 11 (8.53%) Marketing
5 10 (7.75%) Retail Banking
6 4 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.10%) Retail
7 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (18.60%) Developer
2 22 (17.05%) Architect
3 19 (14.73%) COBOL Developer
3 19 (14.73%) Enterprise Architect
3 19 (14.73%) Mainframe Developer
4 18 (13.95%) Systems Engineer
5 12 (9.30%) Mainframe Software Engineer
5 12 (9.30%) Software Engineer
6 10 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Lead
8 7 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Analyst
10 5 (3.88%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Head of Engineering
10 5 (3.88%) IBM Mainframe Developer
10 5 (3.88%) Lead Data Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Trainee
12 3 (2.33%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
12 3 (2.33%) Service Desk Analyst
12 3 (2.33%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.73%) OpenID
2 6 (4.65%) Kafka
3 5 (3.88%) Apache Beam
3 5 (3.88%) ISPF
4 4 (3.10%) .NET
5 2 (1.55%) Middleware
6 1 (0.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.93%) Data Centre
2 21 (16.28%) IBM Mainframe
3 19 (14.73%) Blockchain
4 12 (9.30%) SCADA
5 11 (8.53%) Reference Data
5 11 (8.53%) VSAM
6 7 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.88%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.55%) CCTV
9 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.55%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.78%) AS400
10 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.78%) LPAR
10 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.16%) Unix
2 24 (18.60%) zOS
3 18 (13.95%) Linux
4 17 (13.18%) Windows
5 7 (5.43%) CoreOS
6 4 (3.10%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.55%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.78%) HPUX
8 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.78%) Solaris
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (46.51%) Agile
2 31 (24.03%) Thought Leadership
3 30 (23.26%) Artificial Intelligence
3 30 (23.26%) Machine Learning
4 24 (18.60%) ITIL
4 24 (18.60%) Microservices
5 23 (17.83%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (17.83%) Roadmaps
6 22 (17.05%) Customer Service
7 21 (16.28%) Event-Driven
7 21 (16.28%) Strategic Roadmap
8 19 (14.73%) CI/CD
8 19 (14.73%) Domain-Driven Design
8 19 (14.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 19 (14.73%) Service Delivery
8 19 (14.73%) Zero Trust
9 17 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (12.40%) Decision-Making
11 14 (10.85%) DevOps
11 14 (10.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (26.36%) COBOL
2 27 (20.93%) SQL
3 18 (13.95%) JCL
4 16 (12.40%) C#
5 11 (8.53%) Java
6 10 (7.75%) Python
7 8 (6.20%) REXX
7 8 (6.20%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.88%) Perl
9 4 (3.10%) C
10 3 (2.33%) Assembly Language
11 2 (1.55%) HLASM
12 1 (0.78%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 31 (24.03%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.73%) CTC Cleared
3 12 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.33%) CCNA
5 3 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.55%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.55%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.55%) MCSA
6 2 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.78%) Degree
7 1 (0.78%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.55%) QA
System Software
1 16 (12.40%) Time Sharing Option
2 8 (6.20%) Docker
3 6 (4.65%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.33%) ACF2
4 3 (2.33%) RACF
5 1 (0.78%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.78%) Microcode
5 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.20%) CA Endevor
1 8 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.10%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.55%) Terraform
5 1 (0.78%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (21.71%) IBM
2 20 (15.50%) Unisys
3 18 (13.95%) Google
4 11 (8.53%) Oracle
5 10 (7.75%) Teradata
6 5 (3.88%) Splunk
7 4 (3.10%) Broadcom
7 4 (3.10%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.55%) 3PAR
8 2 (1.55%) Juniper
9 1 (0.78%) CA
9 1 (0.78%) Cisco
9 1 (0.78%) HP
9 1 (0.78%) McAfee
9 1 (0.78%) NetApp
9 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.78%) Sun
9 1 (0.78%) VMware