Mainframe Jobs in the UK excluding London

Mainframes
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 678 599 757
Rank change year-on-year -79 +158 -111
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 97 156 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.27% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.65% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 75 57 79
10th Percentile - £34,662 £31,275
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £59,350
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -0.59% +0.59%
75th Percentile £76,318 £71,652 £71,625
90th Percentile £100,064 £77,715 £85,800
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,029 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.10% -1.49% +5.52%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,245 23,840 32,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.76% 41.04% 44.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15,258 10,953 15,965
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £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 £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in the UK excluding London

Mainframe
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +2 39 £49,036 -20.91% 5
South East +12 19 £55,000 +32.53% 2
Yorkshire +50 18 £42,500 -27.97% 3
North West -14 18 £75,000 +8.00% 2
Scotland -67 18 £95,000 +48.37% 4
Midlands +4 13 £42,500 -36.57% 9
East Midlands -6 11 £42,500 -36.57% 7
South West -42 7 £43,072 +12.52%
North East - 3 £42,500 -
West Midlands +11 2 £43,072 - 2
Wales - 1 £43,072 - 2
Mainframe
UK

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 15 (15.46%) CICS
2 10 (10.31%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (10.31%) Confluence
3 5 (5.15%) Apache
3 5 (5.15%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.09%) SAS
5 2 (2.06%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.06%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.59%) AWS
2 17 (17.53%) GCP
3 12 (12.37%) Power Platform
4 11 (11.34%) Azure
5 10 (10.31%) dbt
6 7 (7.22%) IaaS
6 7 (7.22%) PaaS
6 7 (7.22%) SaaS
7 5 (5.15%) Cloud Composer
7 5 (5.15%) Google Analytics
7 5 (5.15%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.06%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.06%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.06%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) SAN
2 1 (1.03%) DWDM
2 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.49%) MongoDB
1 16 (16.49%) MySQL
2 15 (15.46%) Relational Database
3 12 (12.37%) DB2
4 11 (11.34%) NoSQL
5 10 (10.31%) BigQuery
5 10 (10.31%) Looker
5 10 (10.31%) Power BI
5 10 (10.31%) Tableau
6 7 (7.22%) Data Lake
6 7 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (5.15%) Airbyte
7 5 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 11 (11.34%) ChangeMan
2 10 (10.31%) JIRA
3 5 (5.15%) Git
3 5 (5.15%) GitLab
4 1 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 30 (30.93%) Finance
2 17 (17.53%) Social Skills
3 16 (16.49%) Manufacturing
4 13 (13.40%) Banking
5 11 (11.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (11.34%) Law
5 11 (11.34%) Marketing
6 4 (4.12%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (19.59%) Developer
2 16 (16.49%) Systems Engineer
3 15 (15.46%) COBOL Developer
3 15 (15.46%) Mainframe Developer
4 12 (12.37%) Mainframe Software Engineer
4 12 (12.37%) Software Engineer
5 11 (11.34%) Architect
6 9 (9.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.22%) Enterprise Architect
7 7 (7.22%) Programmer
7 7 (7.22%) Systems Programmer
8 6 (6.19%) Lead
9 5 (5.15%) Data Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Head of Engineering
9 5 (5.15%) IBM Mainframe Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Analyst
10 4 (4.12%) CICS Programmer
10 4 (4.12%) CICS Systems Programmer
11 3 (3.09%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.22%) OpenID
2 5 (5.15%) Apache Beam
2 5 (5.15%) ISPF
2 5 (5.15%) Kafka
3 4 (4.12%) .NET
4 2 (2.06%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.80%) Data Centre
2 15 (15.46%) IBM Mainframe
3 12 (12.37%) SCADA
4 11 (11.34%) Reference Data
4 11 (11.34%) VSAM
5 7 (7.22%) Blockchain
6 5 (5.15%) Cloud Native
6 5 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.06%) CCTV
8 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.03%) LPAR
9 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.43%) zOS
2 8 (8.25%) Windows
3 7 (7.22%) Unix
4 6 (6.19%) Linux
5 4 (4.12%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.03%) HPUX
6 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.03%) Solaris
6 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.96%) Agile
2 19 (19.59%) ITIL
3 18 (18.56%) Artificial Intelligence
3 18 (18.56%) CI/CD
3 18 (18.56%) Machine Learning
4 16 (16.49%) Decision-Making
5 15 (15.46%) Service Delivery
6 13 (13.40%) Software Engineering
7 12 (12.37%) Performance Monitoring
7 12 (12.37%) Thought Leadership
8 11 (11.34%) Operational Stability
8 11 (11.34%) SDLC
9 10 (10.31%) Analytics
9 10 (10.31%) Customer Service
9 10 (10.31%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (10.31%) Data Engineering
9 10 (10.31%) Data Governance
9 10 (10.31%) Data Management
9 10 (10.31%) Data Visualisation
9 10 (10.31%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.84%) COBOL
2 26 (26.80%) SQL
3 17 (17.53%) JCL
4 16 (16.49%) C#
5 11 (11.34%) Java
6 8 (8.25%) Python
7 5 (5.15%) Perl
7 5 (5.15%) REXX
7 5 (5.15%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.12%) C
9 3 (3.09%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.03%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 26 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.46%) CTC Cleared
3 11 (11.34%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.06%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.06%) CCNA
6 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.06%) MCSA
6 2 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 16 (16.49%) Time Sharing Option
2 6 (6.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.09%) ACF2
3 3 (3.09%) RACF
4 1 (1.03%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (1.03%) Microcode
4 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.12%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.06%) Terraform
4 1 (1.03%) CA Endevor
4 1 (1.03%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (1.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (23.71%) IBM
2 16 (16.49%) Unisys
3 11 (11.34%) Oracle
4 10 (10.31%) Google
4 10 (10.31%) Teradata
5 5 (5.15%) Splunk
6 4 (4.12%) Broadcom
6 4 (4.12%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.06%) 3PAR
8 1 (1.03%) CA
8 1 (1.03%) Cisco
8 1 (1.03%) HP
8 1 (1.03%) Juniper
8 1 (1.03%) McAfee
8 1 (1.03%) NetApp
8 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.03%) Sun
8 1 (1.03%) VMware