Mainframe Jobs

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 cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 594 715 745
Rank change year-on-year +121 +30 +240
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 76 134 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 0.40% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 51 111 120
10th Percentile £25,313 £28,800 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £54,145 £64,515
Median % change year-on-year +20.05% -16.07% +0.80%
75th Percentile £90,822 £96,539 £81,813
90th Percentile £93,778 £100,064 £89,852
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,870 £54,145 £59,000
% change year-on-year +38.28% -8.23% -1.67%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 17,991 33,196 48,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.60% 35.83% 43.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9,424 22,433 25,064
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in the UK

Mainframe
Top 12 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 2 April 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 +94 48 £50,000 -1.86% 68
UK excluding London +105 43 £74,870 +38.28% 39
Work from Home +145 31 £74,870 +36.13% 40
London +71 23 £50,000 -9.09% 38
North of England +61 19 £74,870 +52.68% 16
Scotland +118 18 £85,253 -10.26% 7
Yorkshire +56 13 £47,813 +12.50% 8
North West +28 6 £87,283 -8.25% 8
South East +78 3 £85,000 +54.55% 7
Midlands +57 3 £32,500 -23.53% 5
West Midlands +31 2 £32,500 -24.54% 3
East Midlands +45 1 £42,500 - 2

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 9 (11.84%) CICS
2 3 (3.95%) Confluence
3 1 (1.32%) SAS
3 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (9.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (21.05%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.05%) Azure
2 10 (13.16%) GCP
3 8 (10.53%) GitHub
4 7 (9.21%) AWS
5 3 (3.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.05%) ATM
2 2 (2.63%) Firewall
2 2 (2.63%) Network Security
2 2 (2.63%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.63%) SNA
2 2 (2.63%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.63%) VPN
2 2 (2.63%) WAN
3 1 (1.32%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.42%) DB2
2 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.95%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.32%) Adabas
4 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (18.42%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.84%) IBM UrbanCode
3 7 (9.21%) Git
4 4 (5.26%) JIRA
4 4 (5.26%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.95%) Postman
5 3 (3.95%) Selenium
5 3 (3.95%) SoapUI
5 3 (3.95%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.32%) GitLab
7 1 (1.32%) JUnit
7 1 (1.32%) Maven
7 1 (1.32%) Mockito
7 1 (1.32%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.32%) Subversion
7 1 (1.32%) Xcode
7 1 (1.32%) XCTest
General
1 57 (75.00%) Finance
2 47 (61.84%) Banking
3 14 (18.42%) Social Skills
4 12 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (13.16%) Marketing
6 6 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (7.89%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.63%) Retail
8 1 (1.32%) Automotive
8 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.32%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (22.37%) Architect
1 17 (22.37%) Mainframe Architect
2 16 (21.05%) Payments Architect
2 16 (21.05%) Payments Solutions Architect
2 16 (21.05%) Solutions Architect
3 13 (17.11%) Senior
4 10 (13.16%) EMEA Sales Director
4 10 (13.16%) Sales Director
5 9 (11.84%) Lead
6 5 (6.58%) Analyst
6 5 (6.58%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) DB2 Programmer
8 3 (3.95%) DB2 Systems Programmer
8 3 (3.95%) Mainframe Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Mainframe Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Mainframe Programmer
8 3 (3.95%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) CSS
1 6 (7.89%) HTML
2 4 (5.26%) ISPF
3 3 (3.95%) Django
3 3 (3.95%) FastAPI
3 3 (3.95%) Flask
3 3 (3.95%) Playwright
3 3 (3.95%) SOAP
3 3 (3.95%) Web Services
4 2 (2.63%) JSON
4 2 (2.63%) XML
5 1 (1.32%) CSS3
5 1 (1.32%) HTML5
5 1 (1.32%) JPA
5 1 (1.32%) Material-UI
5 1 (1.32%) REST
5 1 (1.32%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.32%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Spring MVC
5 1 (1.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (27.63%) IBM Mainframe
2 6 (7.89%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.58%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.32%) AS400
5 1 (1.32%) DataPower
5 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) iSeries
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.32%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 29 (38.16%) zOS
2 9 (11.84%) Linux
3 8 (10.53%) Windows
4 6 (7.89%) Unix
5 1 (1.32%) AIX
5 1 (1.32%) MVS
5 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.32%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.05%) Agile
1 16 (21.05%) API Integration
2 15 (19.74%) DevOps
3 12 (15.79%) Fintech
4 11 (14.47%) Customer Service
5 10 (13.16%) Business Enablement
5 10 (13.16%) Business Forecasting
5 10 (13.16%) Marketing Strategy
5 10 (13.16%) Matrix Organization
5 10 (13.16%) Roadmaps
5 10 (13.16%) Software Engineering
5 10 (13.16%) Technology Enablement
6 9 (11.84%) Analytics
6 9 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (10.53%) Mentoring
7 8 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (10.53%) Technology Roadmap
8 7 (9.21%) CI/CD
8 7 (9.21%) Decision-Making
8 7 (9.21%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.05%) JCL
2 9 (11.84%) SQL
3 7 (9.21%) COBOL
3 7 (9.21%) Python
4 6 (7.89%) Java
4 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.89%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.58%) Bash
5 5 (6.58%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.26%) Groovy
7 3 (3.95%) Assembly Language
7 3 (3.95%) REXX
8 2 (2.63%) PL/1
9 1 (1.32%) Natural
9 1 (1.32%) RPG
Qualifications
1 10 (13.16%) Degree
2 3 (3.95%) OCP
2 3 (3.95%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (2.63%) CCNA
3 2 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.32%) PMO
2 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.26%) Docker
1 4 (5.26%) RACF
2 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.63%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 2 (2.63%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.32%) ACF2
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) CA Endevor
2 4 (5.26%) Ansible
2 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.95%) Argo
3 3 (3.95%) Grafana
3 3 (3.95%) Istio
3 3 (3.95%) Progress Chef
3 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.95%) Terraform
4 2 (2.63%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.63%) MAINVIEW
4 2 (2.63%) Tivoli NetView
5 1 (1.32%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 33 (43.42%) IBM
2 10 (13.16%) Broadcom
2 10 (13.16%) YouTube
3 6 (7.89%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.95%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.63%) BMC
6 2 (2.63%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.63%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.63%) Oracle
6 2 (2.63%) VMware
7 1 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.32%) Cincom
7 1 (1.32%) Hitachi
7 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.32%) SAP
7 1 (1.32%) Splunk
7 1 (1.32%) Syncsort