Mainframe Jobs with Work from Home Options

Mainframes
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mainframe over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 471 757
Rank change year-on-year -58 +286 -204
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 46 193 104
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.48% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 1.23% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 42 55 64
10th Percentile - £51,833 £34,200
25th Percentile £42,139 £56,407 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% -4.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £57,500 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £106,625 £90,091 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,029 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.10% -1.49% +5.52%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,088 15,642 33,463
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.75% 38.55% 46.96%
Number of salaries quoted 9,258 11,441 17,056
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,294 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,556 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £109,865 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Mainframe
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Mainframe trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Mainframe.

Mainframe salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mainframe
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Mainframe over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Mainframe salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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 10 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (21.74%) Confluence
2 5 (10.87%) Apache
2 5 (10.87%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.35%) SAS
4 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.74%) dbt
1 10 (21.74%) GCP
1 10 (21.74%) Power Platform
2 5 (10.87%) Cloud Composer
2 5 (10.87%) Google Analytics
2 5 (10.87%) Snowflake
3 3 (6.52%) Azure
3 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.17%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (41.30%) Relational Database
2 10 (21.74%) BigQuery
2 10 (21.74%) Looker
2 10 (21.74%) Power BI
2 10 (21.74%) Tableau
3 5 (10.87%) Airbyte
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) JIRA
2 5 (10.87%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) GitLab
General
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (41.30%) COBOL Developer
1 19 (41.30%) Developer
1 19 (41.30%) Mainframe Developer
2 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Data Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Head of Engineering
3 5 (10.87%) IBM Mainframe Developer
3 5 (10.87%) Lead
3 5 (10.87%) Lead Data Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Python Data Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Python Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Service Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Programmer
5 2 (4.35%) Systems Programmer
5 2 (4.35%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 1 (2.17%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) Apache Beam
1 5 (10.87%) Kafka
2 3 (6.52%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) IBM Mainframe
2 10 (21.74%) Data Centre
3 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.52%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.26%) zOS
2 3 (6.52%) Windows
2 3 (6.52%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) ITIL
2 19 (41.30%) Service Delivery
3 10 (21.74%) Agile
3 10 (21.74%) Analytics
3 10 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (21.74%) Data Engineering
3 10 (21.74%) Data Governance
3 10 (21.74%) Data Management
3 10 (21.74%) Data Visualisation
3 10 (21.74%) Information Security
3 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (21.74%) Performance Monitoring
3 10 (21.74%) Visualisation
4 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
5 5 (10.87%) Data Architecture
5 5 (10.87%) Data Strategy
5 5 (10.87%) Decision-Making
5 5 (10.87%) Mentoring
5 5 (10.87%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) COBOL
2 10 (21.74%) SQL
3 8 (17.39%) Python
4 5 (10.87%) Perl
4 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.52%) JCL
5 3 (6.52%) REXX
6 2 (4.35%) Assembly Language
7 1 (2.17%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 29 (63.04%) Security Cleared
2 19 (41.30%) CTC Cleared
3 10 (21.74%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.52%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (4.35%) ACF2
2 2 (4.35%) RACF
3 1 (2.17%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (2.17%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.35%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) IBM
1 19 (41.30%) Unisys
2 10 (21.74%) Google
2 10 (21.74%) Teradata
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.35%) Broadcom
4 2 (4.35%) Splunk