Mainframe Jobs in England

Mainframes
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 777 654 1009
Rank change year-on-year -123 +355 -152
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 86 245 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.090% 0.30% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.68% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 66 123 104
10th Percentile - £41,250 £36,900
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £51,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,357 £92,500
90th Percentile £104,862 £97,290 £107,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +1.56% +3.90%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 31,616 35,808 68,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.08% 43.63% 47.75%
Number of salaries quoted 21,236 20,076 30,814
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,125 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,872 £46,000
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 £87,419 £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 12 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 12 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 -44 34 £42,500 -33.62% 4
London +11 23 £55,000 -15.38% 7
South East -20 18 £55,000 +57.14% 2
Midlands -25 18 £42,500 -36.57% 12
East Midlands -16 16 £42,500 -39.29% 10
North West -50 16 £60,000 -8.19% 2
Yorkshire +35 15 £42,500 -27.97% 2
South West -58 6 £43,072 -34.09%
North East - 3 £42,500 -
West Midlands -10 2 £43,072 -21.69% 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 (11.63%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (11.63%) Confluence
2 8 (9.30%) CICS
3 6 (6.98%) Apache Spark
4 5 (5.81%) Apache
5 3 (3.49%) SAS
6 2 (2.33%) WebSphere
6 2 (2.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.16%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.95%) Power Platform
2 11 (12.79%) GCP
3 10 (11.63%) dbt
4 5 (5.81%) Azure
4 5 (5.81%) Cloud Composer
4 5 (5.81%) Google Analytics
4 5 (5.81%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.49%) AWS
5 3 (3.49%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.33%) IaaS
6 2 (2.33%) PaaS
6 2 (2.33%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.33%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.33%) SaaS
6 2 (2.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) SAN
2 1 (1.16%) ATM
2 1 (1.16%) DWDM
2 1 (1.16%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.77%) MongoDB
1 17 (19.77%) MySQL
2 14 (16.28%) Relational Database
3 10 (11.63%) BigQuery
3 10 (11.63%) Looker
3 10 (11.63%) Power BI
3 10 (11.63%) Tableau
4 5 (5.81%) Airbyte
4 5 (5.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (5.81%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.33%) Big Data
6 1 (1.16%) DB2
6 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (11.63%) JIRA
2 5 (5.81%) Git
2 5 (5.81%) GitLab
3 1 (1.16%) Selenium
General
1 18 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.77%) Manufacturing
3 16 (18.60%) Finance
4 5 (5.81%) Banking
5 2 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (20.93%) Developer
2 16 (18.60%) Systems Engineer
3 14 (16.28%) COBOL Developer
3 14 (16.28%) Mainframe Developer
4 12 (13.95%) Programmer
4 12 (13.95%) Systems Programmer
5 9 (10.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) CICS Programmer
6 8 (9.30%) CICS Systems Programmer
7 6 (6.98%) Analyst
7 6 (6.98%) Lead
8 5 (5.81%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Head of Engineering
8 5 (5.81%) IBM Mainframe Developer
8 5 (5.81%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Architect
9 4 (4.65%) z/OS Systems Programmer
10 3 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Service Analyst
10 3 (3.49%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.98%) ISPF
1 6 (6.98%) Kafka
2 5 (5.81%) .NET
2 5 (5.81%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.16%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.07%) Data Centre
2 16 (18.60%) IBM Mainframe
3 13 (15.12%) SCADA
4 8 (9.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.81%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.33%) CCTV
7 2 (2.33%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.16%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.77%) zOS
2 7 (8.14%) Windows
3 6 (6.98%) Linux
4 3 (3.49%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.16%) HPUX
5 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (19.77%) ITIL
2 16 (18.60%) Agile
3 14 (16.28%) Service Delivery
4 13 (15.12%) Analytics
5 12 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (13.95%) Performance Monitoring
6 11 (12.79%) Information Security
6 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (11.63%) Data Engineering
7 10 (11.63%) Data Governance
7 10 (11.63%) Data Management
7 10 (11.63%) Data Visualisation
7 10 (11.63%) Visualisation
8 8 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (9.30%) Risk Management
9 6 (6.98%) CI/CD
9 6 (6.98%) Mentoring
9 6 (6.98%) Microservices
10 5 (5.81%) Data Strategy
10 5 (5.81%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 27 (31.40%) SQL
2 17 (19.77%) C#
3 15 (17.44%) COBOL
4 8 (9.30%) Python
5 7 (8.14%) JCL
5 7 (8.14%) REXX
6 6 (6.98%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.81%) Perl
8 4 (4.65%) C
9 3 (3.49%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.16%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 25 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.28%) CTC Cleared
3 11 (12.79%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.33%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.33%) CCNA
6 2 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.33%) MCSA
6 2 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.16%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (6.98%) Time Sharing Option
2 5 (5.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.49%) ACF2
3 3 (3.49%) RACF
4 1 (1.16%) Docker
4 1 (1.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (1.16%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 5 (5.81%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.33%) Terraform
4 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (27.91%) IBM
2 15 (17.44%) Unisys
3 11 (12.79%) Google
4 10 (11.63%) Teradata
5 5 (5.81%) Broadcom
5 5 (5.81%) Splunk
6 3 (3.49%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.33%) 3PAR
8 1 (1.16%) HP
8 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.16%) Sun