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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 775 703 992
Rank change year-on-year -72 +289 -178
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 119 285 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.28% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% 0.66% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 97 127 132
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,275
25th Percentile £42,139 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,029 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% -1.49% +5.52%
75th Percentile £100,064 £74,683 £92,500
90th Percentile - £89,852 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £59,350
% change year-on-year -6.78% -0.59% +5.04%

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 35,071 43,122 75,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.74% 47.72%
Number of salaries quoted 23,068 23,475 33,975
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,508
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,133 £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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -44 109 £55,000 -6.78% 9
England -65 97 £55,000 -14.10% 19
Work from Home -61 46 £55,000 -17.91% 10
North of England -2 45 £57,500 -10.20% 3
London +42 28 £55,000 -15.38% 9
South East +20 23 £55,000 +32.53% 2
Yorkshire +55 21 £42,500 -27.97% 1
North West -12 21 £94,637 +36.27% 2
Scotland -66 21 £95,064 +48.47% 2
South West -42 10 £45,000 +17.56%
Midlands 0 9 £42,500 -36.57% 2
East Midlands -11 7 £42,500 - 2
North East - 3 £42,500 -
West Midlands +12 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 12 (10.08%) CICS
2 10 (8.40%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (8.40%) Confluence
3 6 (5.04%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.20%) Apache
5 3 (2.52%) SAS
6 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.84%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.84%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.84%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 33 (27.73%) AWS
2 30 (25.21%) GCP
3 24 (20.17%) Azure
4 21 (17.65%) IaaS
4 21 (17.65%) PaaS
4 21 (17.65%) SaaS
5 12 (10.08%) Power Platform
6 10 (8.40%) dbt
7 5 (4.20%) Cloud Composer
7 5 (4.20%) Google Analytics
7 5 (4.20%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.52%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.68%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.68%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.84%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) SAN
2 1 (0.84%) ATM
2 1 (0.84%) DWDM
2 1 (0.84%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.33%) NoSQL
2 19 (15.97%) Data Lake
2 19 (15.97%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (15.97%) Relational Database
3 16 (13.45%) MongoDB
3 16 (13.45%) MySQL
4 13 (10.92%) DB2
5 10 (8.40%) BigQuery
5 10 (8.40%) Looker
5 10 (8.40%) Power BI
5 10 (8.40%) Tableau
6 5 (4.20%) Airbyte
6 5 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.68%) Big Data
8 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (9.24%) ChangeMan
2 10 (8.40%) JIRA
3 5 (4.20%) Git
3 5 (4.20%) GitLab
4 1 (0.84%) Selenium
General
1 48 (40.34%) Finance
2 29 (24.37%) Banking
3 19 (15.97%) Social Skills
4 16 (13.45%) Manufacturing
5 11 (9.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (9.24%) Law
5 11 (9.24%) Marketing
6 5 (4.20%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 25 (21.01%) Architect
2 23 (19.33%) Developer
3 19 (15.97%) COBOL Developer
3 19 (15.97%) Enterprise Architect
3 19 (15.97%) Mainframe Developer
4 16 (13.45%) Systems Engineer
5 12 (10.08%) Mainframe Software Engineer
5 12 (10.08%) Software Engineer
6 10 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Lead
8 5 (4.20%) Analyst
8 5 (4.20%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Head of Engineering
8 5 (4.20%) IBM Mainframe Developer
8 5 (4.20%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Programmer
8 5 (4.20%) Systems Programmer
9 4 (3.36%) Mainframe Architect
9 4 (3.36%) z/OS Systems Programmer
10 3 (2.52%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.97%) OpenID
2 6 (5.04%) ISPF
2 6 (5.04%) Kafka
3 5 (4.20%) Apache Beam
4 4 (3.36%) .NET
5 2 (1.68%) Middleware
6 1 (0.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 19 (15.97%) Blockchain
3 17 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe
4 12 (10.08%) SCADA
5 11 (9.24%) Reference Data
5 11 (9.24%) VSAM
6 8 (6.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (4.20%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.68%) CCTV
9 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.84%) LPAR
10 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.97%) Unix
2 18 (15.13%) zOS
3 8 (6.72%) Windows
4 7 (5.88%) Linux
5 4 (3.36%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.84%) HPUX
6 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.84%) Solaris
6 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (39.50%) Agile
2 30 (25.21%) Artificial Intelligence
2 30 (25.21%) Machine Learning
3 27 (22.69%) Microservices
4 24 (20.17%) Thought Leadership
5 23 (19.33%) ITIL
5 23 (19.33%) Roadmaps
6 22 (18.49%) Customer Service
6 22 (18.49%) Cybersecurity
7 21 (17.65%) Event-Driven
7 21 (17.65%) Strategic Roadmap
8 19 (15.97%) CI/CD
8 19 (15.97%) Domain-Driven Design
8 19 (15.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 19 (15.97%) Service Delivery
8 19 (15.97%) Zero Trust
9 16 (13.45%) Decision-Making
10 13 (10.92%) Analytics
10 13 (10.92%) Performance Monitoring
10 13 (10.92%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (26.89%) COBOL
2 26 (21.85%) SQL
3 19 (15.97%) JCL
4 16 (13.45%) C#
5 11 (9.24%) Java
6 8 (6.72%) Python
7 7 (5.88%) REXX
8 6 (5.04%) Shell Script
9 5 (4.20%) Perl
10 4 (3.36%) C
11 3 (2.52%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.84%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 31 (26.05%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.97%) CTC Cleared
3 12 (10.08%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.68%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.68%) CCNA
6 2 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.68%) MCSA
6 2 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.84%) Degree
System Software
1 17 (14.29%) Time Sharing Option
2 6 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.52%) ACF2
3 3 (2.52%) RACF
4 1 (0.84%) Docker
4 1 (0.84%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.84%) Microcode
4 1 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.20%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.68%) Terraform
4 1 (0.84%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.84%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.84%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (0.84%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (21.01%) IBM
2 20 (16.81%) Unisys
3 11 (9.24%) Google
3 11 (9.24%) Oracle
4 10 (8.40%) Teradata
5 6 (5.04%) Splunk
6 5 (4.20%) Broadcom
7 4 (3.36%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.68%) 3PAR
9 1 (0.84%) CA
9 1 (0.84%) Cisco
9 1 (0.84%) HP
9 1 (0.84%) Juniper
9 1 (0.84%) McAfee
9 1 (0.84%) NetApp
9 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.84%) Sun
9 1 (0.84%) VMware