Mainframe Contracts in Swindon

Mainframes
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in Swindon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 20 34
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 8 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 8.16% 0.81% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 25.81% 2.50% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £517 - -
25th Percentile £580 £819 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £838 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.36% - -
75th Percentile - £856 -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £600 £838 £669
% change year-on-year -28.36% +25.23% -

All Generic Skills
Swindon

Mainframe falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 31 40 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 31.63% 32.52% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 26
10th Percentile £312 £213 £306
25th Percentile £413 £274 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £533 £506
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% +5.19% +6.58%
75th Percentile £600 £591 £581
90th Percentile £650 £619 £744
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £550 £579
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.01% +15.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £18.69 £14.54 £60.00
% change year-on-year +28.54% -75.77% -13.11%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

Job postings citing Mainframe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Swindon.

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Swindon

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in Swindon.

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in Swindon

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mainframe in Swindon.

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in Swindon

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NonStop SQL
General
1 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Administrator
1 7 (87.50%) Security Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) EMV
3 1 (12.50%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) Security Auditing
3 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
3 5 (62.50%) Security Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C
1 1 (12.50%) C++
1 1 (12.50%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) CISSP
1 6 (75.00%) IBM Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 8583
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) RACF
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) HP