Mainframe Jobs in the North of England

Mainframes
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 334 425
Rank change year-on-year -44 +91 -59
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 34 89 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.17% 0.57% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.57% 1.36% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 29 35 25
10th Percentile £38,700 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,542 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £64,029 £56,456
Median % change year-on-year -33.62% +13.41% -26.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,652 £64,675
90th Percentile £111,250 £77,715 £86,400
England median annual salary £47,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -26.92% -7.14% +3.70%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,987 6,521 8,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.82% 41.50% 45.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,050 3,014 4,370
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,941 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,920 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,603 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the North of England

Mainframe
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in the North of England

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in the North of England

Mainframe
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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 West -50 16 £60,000 -8.19% 2
Yorkshire +35 15 £42,500 -27.97% 2
North East - 3 £42,500 -
Mainframe
England

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (29.41%) Confluence
2 5 (14.71%) Apache
2 5 (14.71%) Apache Spark
3 3 (8.82%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) dbt
1 10 (29.41%) GCP
1 10 (29.41%) Power Platform
2 5 (14.71%) Cloud Composer
2 5 (14.71%) Google Analytics
2 5 (14.71%) Snowflake
3 4 (11.76%) Azure
4 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.94%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) MongoDB
1 12 (35.29%) MySQL
2 10 (29.41%) BigQuery
2 10 (29.41%) Looker
2 10 (29.41%) Power BI
2 10 (29.41%) Tableau
3 5 (14.71%) Airbyte
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (11.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) JIRA
2 5 (14.71%) Git
2 5 (14.71%) GitLab
General
1 12 (35.29%) Manufacturing
2 10 (29.41%) Finance
3 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Data Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Head of Engineering
2 5 (14.71%) Lead
2 5 (14.71%) Lead Data Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Analyst
3 3 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Programmer
3 3 (8.82%) Python Data Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Python Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Service Analyst
3 3 (8.82%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (8.82%) Systems Programmer
3 3 (8.82%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 2 (5.88%) .NET Developer
4 2 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (5.88%) C# Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) Apache Beam
1 5 (14.71%) ISPF
1 5 (14.71%) Kafka
2 4 (11.76%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 15 (44.12%) Data Centre
2 12 (35.29%) SCADA
3 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
3 5 (14.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (8.82%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (5.88%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (2.94%) LPAR
6 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) zOS
2 4 (11.76%) Windows
3 3 (8.82%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.94%) HPUX
4 1 (2.94%) Linux
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.94%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Agile
2 10 (29.41%) Analytics
2 10 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (29.41%) Data Engineering
2 10 (29.41%) Data Governance
2 10 (29.41%) Data Management
2 10 (29.41%) Data Visualisation
2 10 (29.41%) Visualisation
3 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 6 (17.65%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
4 5 (14.71%) Data Architecture
4 5 (14.71%) Data Strategy
4 5 (14.71%) Data Transformation
4 5 (14.71%) Decision-Making
4 5 (14.71%) Open Source
4 5 (14.71%) Risk Management
4 5 (14.71%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (8.82%) Customer Service
5 3 (8.82%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) SQL
2 12 (35.29%) C#
3 8 (23.53%) Python
4 5 (14.71%) JCL
4 5 (14.71%) Perl
4 5 (14.71%) REXX
4 5 (14.71%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.82%) Assembly Language
6 1 (2.94%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (8.82%) ACF2
2 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.82%) RACF
3 1 (2.94%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (2.94%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Google
1 10 (29.41%) Teradata
2 8 (23.53%) IBM
3 4 (11.76%) Broadcom
3 4 (11.76%) Splunk
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.94%) HP
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) Sun
5 1 (2.94%) Unisys