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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 777 673 1027
Rank change year-on-year -104 +354 -180
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 88 230 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.097% 0.27% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.63% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 72 107 97
10th Percentile - £41,250 £37,800
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,029 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% -8.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,683 £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 30,484 36,695 66,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.50% 43.61% 47.39%
Number of salaries quoted 20,995 20,279 30,587
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,761 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,686 £46,250
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 £110,500 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -14 38 £43,072 -30.53% 4
London +38 24 £55,000 -15.38% 11
South East +4 19 £55,000 +57.14% 4
Yorkshire +35 18 £42,500 -27.97% 1
North West -26 17 £60,000 -13.60% 3
Midlands -3 14 £42,500 -36.57% 14
East Midlands -8 12 £42,500 -36.57% 12
South West -42 7 £43,072 +12.52%
North East - 3 £42,500 -
West Midlands -13 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 (11.36%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (11.36%) Confluence
2 6 (6.82%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.68%) Apache
3 5 (5.68%) CICS
4 3 (3.41%) SAS
5 2 (2.27%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.27%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.14%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.18%) GCP
2 12 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 10 (11.36%) Azure
3 10 (11.36%) dbt
4 8 (9.09%) AWS
5 7 (7.95%) IaaS
5 7 (7.95%) PaaS
5 7 (7.95%) SaaS
6 5 (5.68%) Cloud Composer
6 5 (5.68%) Google Analytics
6 5 (5.68%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.27%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.27%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) SAN
2 1 (1.14%) ATM
2 1 (1.14%) DWDM
2 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 16 (18.18%) MySQL
2 15 (17.05%) Relational Database
3 10 (11.36%) BigQuery
3 10 (11.36%) Looker
3 10 (11.36%) Power BI
3 10 (11.36%) Tableau
4 9 (10.23%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.68%) Airbyte
5 5 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (5.68%) Data Lake
5 5 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.27%) Big Data
7 1 (1.14%) DB2
7 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (11.36%) JIRA
2 5 (5.68%) Git
2 5 (5.68%) GitLab
3 1 (1.14%) Selenium
General
1 21 (23.86%) Finance
2 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 16 (18.18%) Manufacturing
4 10 (11.36%) Banking
5 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (21.59%) Developer
2 16 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
3 15 (17.05%) COBOL Developer
3 15 (17.05%) Mainframe Developer
4 9 (10.23%) Architect
4 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) Programmer
4 9 (10.23%) Systems Programmer
5 6 (6.82%) Analyst
5 6 (6.82%) Lead
6 5 (5.68%) CICS Programmer
6 5 (5.68%) CICS Systems Programmer
6 5 (5.68%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (5.68%) Head of Engineering
6 5 (5.68%) IBM Mainframe Developer
6 5 (5.68%) Lead Data Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) z/OS Systems Programmer
8 3 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.82%) ISPF
1 6 (6.82%) Kafka
2 5 (5.68%) Apache Beam
2 5 (5.68%) OpenID
3 4 (4.55%) .NET
4 1 (1.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.41%) Data Centre
2 16 (18.18%) IBM Mainframe
3 12 (13.64%) SCADA
4 8 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.68%) Blockchain
5 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.27%) CCTV
7 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.14%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.32%) zOS
2 7 (7.95%) Windows
3 6 (6.82%) Linux
4 5 (5.68%) Unix
5 3 (3.41%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.14%) HPUX
6 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.86%) Agile
2 18 (20.45%) ITIL
3 15 (17.05%) Service Delivery
4 13 (14.77%) Analytics
5 12 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (13.64%) Performance Monitoring
6 11 (12.50%) Information Security
6 11 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (12.50%) Microservices
7 10 (11.36%) Data Engineering
7 10 (11.36%) Data Governance
7 10 (11.36%) Data Management
7 10 (11.36%) Data Visualisation
7 10 (11.36%) Thought Leadership
7 10 (11.36%) Visualisation
8 9 (10.23%) Roadmaps
9 8 (9.09%) Customer Service
9 8 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.55%) SQL
2 16 (18.18%) C#
2 16 (18.18%) COBOL
3 8 (9.09%) Python
4 7 (7.95%) JCL
4 7 (7.95%) REXX
5 6 (6.82%) Shell Script
6 5 (5.68%) Perl
7 4 (4.55%) C
8 3 (3.41%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.14%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 26 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.05%) CTC Cleared
3 11 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.27%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.27%) CCNA
6 2 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.27%) MCSA
6 2 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.14%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) Time Sharing Option
2 5 (5.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.41%) ACF2
3 3 (3.41%) RACF
4 1 (1.14%) Docker
4 1 (1.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (1.14%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 5 (5.68%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.27%) Terraform
4 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (27.27%) IBM
2 16 (18.18%) Unisys
3 11 (12.50%) Google
4 10 (11.36%) Teradata
5 5 (5.68%) Broadcom
5 5 (5.68%) Splunk
6 3 (3.41%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.27%) 3PAR
8 1 (1.14%) HP
8 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.14%) Sun