Mainframe Jobs in London

Mainframes
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 517 812
Rank change year-on-year +36 +295 -235
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 28 113 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.34% 0.096%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.73% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 24 61 40
10th Percentile - - £63,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £72,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -27.78% +28.57%
75th Percentile £57,500 £88,283 £100,000
90th Percentile £74,750 £97,290 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £64,029 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.10% -8.53% +12.00%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,597 15,535 34,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.58% 46.21% 50.61%
Number of salaries quoted 6,787 10,530 15,337
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,192 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in London

Mainframe
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in London

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in London

Mainframe
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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 London - 18 £55,000 -
Central London +57 1 £115,000 +43.75%
West London - 1 £50,000 -
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) AWS
1 2 (7.14%) IaaS
1 2 (7.14%) PaaS
1 2 (7.14%) SaaS
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (64.29%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.14%) Big Data
3 1 (3.57%) DB2
3 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
General
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (64.29%) COBOL Developer
1 18 (64.29%) Developer
1 18 (64.29%) Mainframe Developer
2 4 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe Developer
3 2 (7.14%) Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Architect
3 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Head of Infrastructure
3 2 (7.14%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (3.57%) DB2 Specialist
4 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Mainframe Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Programmer
4 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Systems Programmer
4 1 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) ISPF
1 1 (3.57%) Kafka
1 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) IBM Mainframe
2 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) zOS
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) ITIL
1 18 (64.29%) Service Delivery
2 6 (21.43%) Microservices
3 4 (14.29%) Agile
4 3 (10.71%) Analytics
4 3 (10.71%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (10.71%) Information Security
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
5 2 (7.14%) Budgeting
5 2 (7.14%) Business Analytics
5 2 (7.14%) Business Strategy
5 2 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) DevSecOps
5 2 (7.14%) Event-Driven
5 2 (7.14%) IT Governance
5 2 (7.14%) Roadmaps
5 2 (7.14%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) COBOL
2 2 (7.14%) JCL
2 2 (7.14%) REXX
3 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (67.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (64.29%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
1 1 (3.57%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) Unisys
2 7 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (3.57%) Broadcom
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk