Mainframe Contracts in Wiltshire

Mainframes
South West > Wiltshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in contract job vacancies in Wiltshire. 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 49 87 88
Rank change year-on-year +38 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Mainframe 8 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 1.78% 0.21% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.11% 0.45% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £517 - -
25th Percentile £580 £819 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £838 £669
Median % change year-on-year -28.36% +25.23% -
75th Percentile - £856 £691
90th Percentile - - £719
South West median daily rate £593 £644 £669
% change year-on-year -7.96% -3.74% +52.86%

All Generic Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 131 440 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 29.18% 46.61% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 330 273
10th Percentile £382 £463 £413
25th Percentile £502 £494 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.01% +15.80%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £675
90th Percentile £688 £700 £735
South West median daily rate £535 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -1.83% -0.91% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 4
10th Percentile £18.55 £14.40 £32.88
25th Percentile £18.60 - £50.31
Median hourly rate £18.69 £14.54 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.54% -75.77% -13.11%
75th Percentile £18.78 £17.25 £61.13
90th Percentile £18.83 £30.25 £63.15
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +11.11% +359.18% -80.30%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Mainframe in Wiltshire

Mainframe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Mainframe in Wiltshire

Mainframe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Mainframe in Wiltshire

Mainframe
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Swindon +7 8 £600 -28.36% 3
Mainframe
South West

Mainframe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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