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title: "Alternative Careers for Mainframe Developers"
description: "As demand for digital skills are growing, then many Mainframe developers are looking for best alternative career. The awesome list given here is highly useful."
url: https://srinimf.com/2013/03/28/alternative-careers-for-mainframe-developers/
date: 2013-03-28
modified: 2026-10-10
author: "Srini"
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tags: ["Career Switch ideas for Mainframe Programmers"]
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lang: en
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# Alternative Careers for Mainframe Developers

It seems Mainframe Development jobs requirement has been slow down a little bit. There are many reasons. But,still production support and migration jobs are there.

Other hand, IBM is adding newer technologies like Cloud,Big data,mobile into mainframes. You need to have now Plan-B.Since Plan-A is your present mainframe job.

1. It is always better learning RDBMS. Apart from DB2, try learning  Oracle, Java, PHP, SQL server
2. Web development technologies. For instance .Net, Java, JSP, ASP, PHP etc
3. Data warehousing tools and techniques
4. Big data analytics with SAS
5. Cloud computing especially about NoSql,Hbase,RDBMS etc

![Alternate Career tips](http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/women-reading-adhesive-notes-in-office-picture-id740521219?k=6&m=740521219&s=170667a&w=0&h=36SNujKcJ0jEBDNi0UXGOqSXchXBrsX9sy446HpEiDg=)*Image courtesy|Gettyimages.in*

Check here [IT Career Coach Link](http://www.askitcareercoach.com/the-career-path-for-mainframe-professionals/). Related articles

- [Mobile Computing on Mainframe (1 of 2)](http://srinimf.com/2013/03/16/mobile-computing-on-mainframe/) (srinimf.com)
- [What is SAAS (Software As A Service)?](http://www.workzone.com/what-is-saas-software-as-a-service/) (workzone.com)
- [A New Conversation around the IBM Mainframe](https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/5e65990a-9690-42e2-93b1-c2267be7620c/entry/a_new_conversation_around_the_ibm_mainframe3) (ibm.com)
- [IBM eyes mobile, social workloads for mainframe platform](http://r.zemanta.com/?u=http%3A//www.infoworld.com/d/computer-hardware/ibm-eyes-mobile-social-workloads-mainframe-platform-212506&a=144008195&rid=000000bc-7d96-000F-0000-0000000007d7&e=0440f67682e8da58b4dc01a04e429295) (infoworld.com)

Related[5 Top High Demand Freelance Skills](https://srinimf.com/2018/05/06/top-skills-you-never-ignore-to-become-digital-developer/)

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