IBM Mainframe Jobs with Work from Home Options

IBM Mainframe
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM Mainframe in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited IBM 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 586 627 876
Rank change year-on-year +41 +249 -276
Permanent jobs citing IBM Mainframe 16 6 25
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.045% 0.016% 0.033%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.041% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 15 6 25
10th Percentile - £62,125 £39,000
25th Percentile £42,139 £64,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,072 £67,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +3.08% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £72,188 £77,500
90th Percentile - £94,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £43,072 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -21.69% -15.38% -10.34%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

IBM 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,386 14,549 35,885
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.84% 38.82% 47.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,322 10,904 17,354
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £49,364 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,977 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £109,531 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

IBM Mainframe
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IBM Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IBM Mainframe trend for jobs with a WFH option

IBM Mainframe
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IBM Mainframe.

IBM Mainframe salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

IBM Mainframe
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IBM Mainframe over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

IBM Mainframe salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IBM Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.25%) WebSphere
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Relational Database
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) COBOL Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 10 (62.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) zOS
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Information Security
1 10 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) ITIL
3 5 (31.25%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) CTC Cleared
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) IBM
2 5 (31.25%) Unisys