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 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 531 899 939
Rank change year-on-year +368 +40 -259
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 212 177 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.08% 0.33% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 159 101 84
10th Percentile £34,854 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £72,647 £76,650
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -5.22% +39.36%
75th Percentile £86,403 £88,283 £92,188
90th Percentile £100,064 £93,130 £109,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,351 £59,526 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.78% -11.81% +23.91%

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 19,607 53,764 56,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.83% 43.38% 44.03%
Number of salaries quoted 14,348 29,746 33,691
10th Percentile £33,250 £34,875 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% -
75th Percentile £84,056 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 4 December 2023.

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 4 December 2023. 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 +355 179 £65,351 -16.37% 28
UK excluding London +319 174 £65,351 +9.78% 24
Work from Home +236 96 £65,351 -16.37% 24
North of England +191 72 £79,632 - 12
London +248 46 £68,925 -13.84% 6
Yorkshire +117 46 £79,632 -5.03% 8
South East +177 30 £51,073 -7.14% 1
South West +105 30 £65,351 +21.02%
Scotland +78 30 £79,632 +60.06% 2
North West +122 26 £79,632 +39.76% 4
Midlands +109 8 £55,000 +22.22% 7
West Midlands +122 5 £47,500 +5.56% 6
East Midlands +38 3 £73,000 +39.05% 1
East of England +122 2 £46,800 -20.68% 1
Northern Ireland +37 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 8 (3.77%) CICS
2 1 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (0.47%) IBM Notes
2 1 (0.47%) MS Exchange
2 1 (0.47%) nginx
2 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 108 (50.94%) Azure
2 101 (47.64%) IaaS
2 101 (47.64%) SaaS
3 100 (47.17%) GCP
4 99 (46.70%) PaaS
5 66 (31.13%) AWS
6 3 (1.42%) GitHub
7 2 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.94%) CloudBees
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.47%) npm
8 1 (0.47%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.77%) Firewall
2 5 (2.36%) SMTP
2 5 (2.36%) WAN
3 4 (1.89%) DNS
3 4 (1.89%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.89%) VPN
4 3 (1.42%) LAN
4 3 (1.42%) Wireless
5 2 (0.94%) BGP
5 2 (0.94%) DHCP
5 2 (0.94%) Network Security
5 2 (0.94%) SSL
6 1 (0.47%) Broadband
6 1 (0.47%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.47%) IPsec
6 1 (0.47%) ISDN
6 1 (0.47%) MPLS
6 1 (0.47%) OSPF
6 1 (0.47%) Skype
6 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (46.70%) Data Lake
1 99 (46.70%) Data Warehouse
1 99 (46.70%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.25%) DB2
3 8 (3.77%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.36%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.42%) Easytrieve
5 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.94%) OLTP
7 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.77%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.30%) IBM UrbanCode
3 5 (2.36%) JIRA
4 4 (1.89%) Git
5 2 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.47%) Appium
6 1 (0.47%) Applitools
6 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.47%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.47%) JUnit
6 1 (0.47%) Maven
6 1 (0.47%) Mocha
6 1 (0.47%) Protractor
6 1 (0.47%) Selenium
6 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.47%) TestCafe
6 1 (0.47%) TestNG
6 1 (0.47%) TestRail
General
1 150 (70.75%) Finance
2 142 (66.98%) Banking
3 44 (20.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (20.28%) Retail
5 35 (16.51%) Marketing
6 34 (16.04%) Social Skills
7 18 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.77%) Retail Banking
9 7 (3.30%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.42%) Law
11 2 (0.94%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Legal
12 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 120 (56.60%) Architect
2 103 (48.58%) Enterprise Architect
3 41 (19.34%) Commercial Architect
4 16 (7.55%) Programmer
4 16 (7.55%) Systems Programmer
5 13 (6.13%) 3rd Line Support
6 12 (5.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 11 (5.19%) Infrastructure Architect
7 11 (5.19%) Support Engineer
7 11 (5.19%) z/OS Systems Programmer
8 10 (4.72%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 10 (4.72%) Developer
9 8 (3.77%) Senior
10 7 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.30%) Infrastructure Team Leader
10 7 (3.30%) Lead
10 7 (3.30%) Mainframe Developer
10 7 (3.30%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
10 7 (3.30%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (46.70%) OpenID
2 50 (23.58%) Kafka
3 47 (22.17%) Web Services
4 44 (20.75%) REST
5 42 (19.81%) JWT
6 12 (5.66%) Middleware
7 5 (2.36%) ISPF
8 4 (1.89%) JSON
8 4 (1.89%) XML
9 2 (0.94%) .NET
9 2 (0.94%) SOAP
9 2 (0.94%) Spring
9 2 (0.94%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.47%) Chai
10 1 (0.47%) Jest
10 1 (0.47%) LDAP
10 1 (0.47%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 101 (47.64%) Blockchain
2 50 (23.58%) Public Cloud
3 43 (20.28%) Cloud Native
4 24 (11.32%) Data Centre
5 23 (10.85%) IBM Mainframe
6 13 (6.13%) Replication
7 10 (4.72%) Robotics
8 8 (3.77%) Private Cloud
9 7 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.83%) Management Information System
11 5 (2.36%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.94%) Product Ownership
13 1 (0.47%) AS400
13 1 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.47%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 110 (51.89%) Unix
2 36 (16.98%) Linux
3 31 (14.62%) Windows
4 23 (10.85%) zOS
5 11 (5.19%) HPUX
5 11 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.19%) Solaris
6 7 (3.30%) CoreOS
7 5 (2.36%) VMS
7 5 (2.36%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.94%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (75.94%) Agile
2 118 (55.66%) Artificial Intelligence
3 115 (54.25%) Roadmaps
4 108 (50.94%) Thought Leadership
5 107 (50.47%) Cybersecurity
6 105 (49.53%) Microservices
7 103 (48.58%) Machine Learning
8 102 (48.11%) Enterprise Architecture
9 101 (47.64%) Customer Service
10 99 (46.70%) Strategic Roadmap
10 99 (46.70%) Zero Trust
11 77 (36.32%) Technology Strategy
12 57 (26.89%) Event-Driven
12 57 (26.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 53 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
14 52 (24.53%) Data Architecture
15 46 (21.70%) Data Security
16 45 (21.23%) IT Strategy
17 44 (20.75%) DevOps
18 39 (18.40%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.02%) COBOL
2 9 (4.25%) JCL
3 6 (2.83%) SQL
4 5 (2.36%) REXX
4 5 (2.36%) Shell Script
5 4 (1.89%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.89%) Python
6 3 (1.42%) Assembly Language
6 3 (1.42%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 3 (1.42%) PL/1
7 2 (0.94%) HLASM
7 2 (0.94%) Scala
8 1 (0.47%) Bash
8 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.19%) Degree
2 11 (5.19%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (1.89%) CCNA
4 4 (1.89%) CTC Cleared
5 3 (1.42%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.94%) JNCIA
6 2 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.94%) QA
3 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (4.25%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.77%) Docker
4 6 (2.83%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.36%) ACF2
5 5 (2.36%) Firmware
5 5 (2.36%) RACF
6 3 (1.42%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (23.58%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.30%) CA Endevor
2 7 (3.30%) NetBackup
2 7 (3.30%) SCCM
2 7 (3.30%) SCOM
2 7 (3.30%) SCSM
3 5 (2.36%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (0.47%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Control-M
4 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.47%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 46 (21.70%) IBM
2 16 (7.55%) HP
3 15 (7.08%) Unisys
4 11 (5.19%) Sun
5 10 (4.72%) TOWER Software
6 9 (4.25%) Google
6 9 (4.25%) Microsoft
7 7 (3.30%) Juniper
8 5 (2.36%) Veritas
9 4 (1.89%) Cisco
10 3 (1.42%) Micro Focus
11 2 (0.94%) Oracle
11 2 (0.94%) Sybase
12 1 (0.47%) F5
12 1 (0.47%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.47%) Hitachi
12 1 (0.47%) Lotus
12 1 (0.47%) SAP
12 1 (0.47%) VMware