Mainframe Jobs in England

Mainframes
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 738 687 1011
Rank change year-on-year -51 +324 -184
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 91 241 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.28% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 0.64% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 78 107 100
10th Percentile - £41,250 £38,700
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,029 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% -8.53% +12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,064 £97,290 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,029 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.10% -1.49% +5.52%

All Generic Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29,903 37,840 64,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.22% 43.20% 47.06%
Number of salaries quoted 20,873 20,765 30,398
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,749 £46,226
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 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in England

Mainframe
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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
North of England -5 41 £55,000 -11.29% 5
London +32 26 £55,000 -15.38% 6
South East +22 21 £55,000 +32.53% 2
Yorkshire +53 19 £42,500 -27.97% 3
North West -18 19 £90,000 +29.60% 2
Midlands -1 11 £42,500 -36.57% 7
East Midlands +2 9 £42,500 - 5
South West -30 8 £44,036 +15.04%
North East - 3 £42,500 -
West Midlands +9 2 £43,072 - 2
Mainframe
UK

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (10.99%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (10.99%) Confluence
2 6 (6.59%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.49%) Apache
4 3 (3.30%) CICS
4 3 (3.30%) SAS
5 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.98%) GCP
2 14 (15.38%) Azure
3 12 (13.19%) AWS
3 12 (13.19%) Power Platform
4 11 (12.09%) IaaS
4 11 (12.09%) PaaS
4 11 (12.09%) SaaS
5 10 (10.99%) dbt
6 5 (5.49%) Cloud Composer
6 5 (5.49%) Google Analytics
6 5 (5.49%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.30%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.20%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.20%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.10%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) SAN
2 1 (1.10%) ATM
2 1 (1.10%) DWDM
2 1 (1.10%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.68%) Relational Database
2 16 (17.58%) MongoDB
2 16 (17.58%) MySQL
3 13 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 10 (10.99%) BigQuery
4 10 (10.99%) Looker
4 10 (10.99%) Power BI
4 10 (10.99%) Tableau
5 9 (9.89%) Data Lake
5 9 (9.89%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (5.49%) Airbyte
6 5 (5.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.20%) Big Data
8 1 (1.10%) DB2
8 1 (1.10%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (10.99%) JIRA
2 5 (5.49%) Git
2 5 (5.49%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) Selenium
General
1 25 (27.47%) Finance
2 18 (19.78%) Social Skills
3 16 (17.58%) Manufacturing
4 14 (15.38%) Banking
5 2 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (23.08%) Developer
2 17 (18.68%) COBOL Developer
2 17 (18.68%) Mainframe Developer
3 16 (17.58%) Systems Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) Architect
5 9 (9.89%) Enterprise Architect
5 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Programmer
6 7 (7.69%) Systems Programmer
7 6 (6.59%) Lead
8 5 (5.49%) Analyst
8 5 (5.49%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Head of Engineering
8 5 (5.49%) IBM Mainframe Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) z/OS Systems Programmer
10 3 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Python Data Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) OpenID
2 6 (6.59%) ISPF
2 6 (6.59%) Kafka
3 5 (5.49%) Apache Beam
4 4 (4.40%) .NET
5 1 (1.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (27.47%) Data Centre
2 16 (17.58%) IBM Mainframe
3 12 (13.19%) SCADA
4 9 (9.89%) Blockchain
5 8 (8.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.20%) CCTV
8 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.10%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.68%) zOS
2 9 (9.89%) Unix
3 7 (7.69%) Windows
4 5 (5.49%) Linux
5 3 (3.30%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.10%) HPUX
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.10%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.47%) Agile
2 20 (21.98%) ITIL
3 17 (18.68%) Service Delivery
4 15 (16.48%) Microservices
5 14 (15.38%) Thought Leadership
6 13 (14.29%) Analytics
6 13 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 12 (13.19%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (13.19%) Customer Service
7 12 (13.19%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (13.19%) Performance Monitoring
8 11 (12.09%) Event-Driven
8 11 (12.09%) Information Security
8 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (12.09%) Strategic Roadmap
9 10 (10.99%) Data Engineering
9 10 (10.99%) Data Governance
9 10 (10.99%) Data Management
9 10 (10.99%) Data Visualisation
9 10 (10.99%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (28.57%) SQL
2 18 (19.78%) COBOL
3 16 (17.58%) C#
4 8 (8.79%) Python
5 7 (7.69%) JCL
5 7 (7.69%) REXX
6 6 (6.59%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.49%) Perl
8 4 (4.40%) C
9 3 (3.30%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.10%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 28 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.68%) CTC Cleared
3 11 (12.09%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.20%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.20%) CCNA
6 2 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.20%) MCSA
6 2 (2.20%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.10%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (6.59%) Time Sharing Option
2 5 (5.49%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.30%) ACF2
3 3 (3.30%) RACF
4 1 (1.10%) Docker
4 1 (1.10%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (1.10%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 5 (5.49%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.20%) Terraform
4 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (25.27%) IBM
2 18 (19.78%) Unisys
3 11 (12.09%) Google
4 10 (10.99%) Teradata
5 5 (5.49%) Broadcom
5 5 (5.49%) Splunk
6 3 (3.30%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.20%) 3PAR
8 1 (1.10%) HP
8 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.10%) Sun