Mainframe Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Mainframes
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 538 485
Rank change year-on-year +153 -53 +238
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 32 46 194
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.14% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 0.38% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 29 42 57
10th Percentile £25,313 - £51,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £42,139 £56,407
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £55,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.13% -17.91% -4.29%
75th Percentile £90,822 £57,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £106,625 £89,852
UK median annual salary £66,367 £55,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year +20.67% -14.10% -1.49%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,963 12,029 16,425
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.31% 35.56% 38.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,870 9,255 11,843
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Mainframe
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mainframe trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Mainframe
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Mainframe.

Mainframe salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Mainframe over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Mainframe salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (9.38%) CICS
1 3 (9.38%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) GCP
3 8 (25.00%) GitHub
4 5 (15.63%) AWS
5 3 (9.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) SNA
1 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) DB2
2 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
3 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 9 (28.13%) IBM UrbanCode
3 6 (18.75%) Git
4 4 (12.50%) JIRA
4 4 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 3 (9.38%) Postman
5 3 (9.38%) Selenium
5 3 (9.38%) SoapUI
5 3 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (3.13%) JUnit
7 1 (3.13%) Maven
7 1 (3.13%) Mockito
7 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.13%) Subversion
7 1 (3.13%) Xcode
7 1 (3.13%) XCTest
General
1 30 (93.75%) Finance
2 29 (90.63%) Banking
3 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
4 6 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (18.75%) Retail Banking
5 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Senior
2 6 (18.75%) Lead
3 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Programmer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Systems Programmer
4 3 (9.38%) DB2 Programmer
4 3 (9.38%) DB2 Systems Programmer
4 3 (9.38%) Mainframe Programmer
4 3 (9.38%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Mainframe Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) CSS
1 6 (18.75%) HTML
2 4 (12.50%) ISPF
3 3 (9.38%) Django
3 3 (9.38%) FastAPI
3 3 (9.38%) Flask
3 3 (9.38%) Playwright
3 3 (9.38%) SOAP
3 3 (9.38%) Web Services
4 2 (6.25%) JSON
4 2 (6.25%) XML
5 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.13%) Bootstrap
5 1 (3.13%) Hibernate
5 1 (3.13%) HTML5
5 1 (3.13%) J2EE
5 1 (3.13%) JPA
5 1 (3.13%) Spring
5 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.13%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Management Information System
1 6 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 5 (15.63%) Public Cloud
3 3 (9.38%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Windows
1 7 (21.88%) zOS
2 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 6 (18.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Fintech
2 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (21.88%) Agile
3 7 (21.88%) Analytics
3 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
4 6 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (18.75%) Business Continuity
4 6 (18.75%) Change Management
4 6 (18.75%) Data Management
4 6 (18.75%) Decision-Making
4 6 (18.75%) DevOps
4 6 (18.75%) Information Management
4 6 (18.75%) IT Strategy
4 6 (18.75%) Line Management
4 6 (18.75%) Mathematics
4 6 (18.75%) Programme Management
4 6 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
4 6 (18.75%) SDLC
4 6 (18.75%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) JCL
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
3 6 (18.75%) Java
3 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 6 (18.75%) Shell Script
4 5 (15.63%) Bash
4 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 4 (12.50%) Groovy
6 3 (9.38%) Python
7 2 (6.25%) COBOL
8 1 (3.13%) Assembly Language
8 1 (3.13%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) OCP
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (3.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) CA Endevor
2 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.38%) Ansible
3 3 (9.38%) Argo
3 3 (9.38%) Grafana
3 3 (9.38%) Istio
3 3 (9.38%) Progress Chef
3 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
3 3 (9.38%) Terraform
4 2 (6.25%) MAINVIEW
4 2 (6.25%) Tivoli NetView
5 1 (3.13%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) IBM
2 6 (18.75%) ServiceNow
3 4 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 3 (9.38%) Atlassian
5 2 (6.25%) BMC
6 1 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle
6 1 (3.13%) SAP
6 1 (3.13%) Splunk
6 1 (3.13%) Syncsort