Mainframe Jobs in Yorkshire

Mainframes
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 193 257
Rank change year-on-year +61 +64 +18
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 15 24 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.56% 0.42% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 1.37% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 13 19 26
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25,313 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £61,515
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -30.91% +3.65%
75th Percentile £76,840 £100,064 £71,652
90th Percentile £90,390 - £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year -9.09% -14.10% -8.53%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 879 1,753 3,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.88% 30.42% 37.64%
Number of salaries quoted 497 1,279 1,435
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £32,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £40,371
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Yorkshire

Mainframe
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in Yorkshire

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in Yorkshire

Mainframe
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
West Yorkshire +59 12 £25,625 -73.06%
South Yorkshire +47 3 £61,250 - 4
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (20.00%) CICS
1 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) GCP
2 3 (20.00%) GitHub
2 3 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) DB2
2 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (33.33%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (20.00%) JIRA
4 3 (20.00%) Selenium
4 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 3 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (13.33%) Postman
5 2 (13.33%) SoapUI
5 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (86.67%) Banking
2 12 (80.00%) Finance
3 6 (40.00%) Retail Banking
4 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Mainframe Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) DB2 Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IBM Storage Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Programmer
4 1 (6.67%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) ISPF
2 3 (20.00%) Django
2 3 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (20.00%) Flask
2 3 (20.00%) Playwright
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) SOAP
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 2 (13.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Business Continuity
1 6 (40.00%) Change Management
1 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 6 (40.00%) Data Management
1 6 (40.00%) Decision-Making
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps
1 6 (40.00%) Fintech
1 6 (40.00%) Information Management
1 6 (40.00%) Line Management
1 6 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (26.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (20.00%) Microservices
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) API Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Community of Practice
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (13.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) JCL
2 3 (20.00%) Groovy
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) OCP
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (6.67%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
1 3 (20.00%) Argo
1 3 (20.00%) Grafana
1 3 (20.00%) Istio
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) CA Endevor
2 2 (13.33%) MAINVIEW
3 1 (6.67%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) IBM
2 3 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (13.33%) BMC