Mainframe Job Trends in Swansea

Mainframes
West Wales > Swansea

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies in Swansea. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mainframe over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 6 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 2.15% - 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.53% - 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £38,375 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £42,139
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £43,072
75th Percentile £74,688 - £44,005
90th Percentile £77,500 - -
West Wales median annual salary £72,500 - £43,072

All Generic Skills
Swansea

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 requiring generic IT skills in Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 57 13 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 20.43% 26.00% 21.98%
Number of salaries quoted 40 7 29
10th Percentile £28,159 £34,415 £39,221
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,733 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,999 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.47% -15.00% +22.69%
75th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £55,500
90th Percentile £81,092 - £62,500
West Wales median annual salary £51,664 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.56% -15.00% +23.83%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Mainframe relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

Mainframe job vacancy trend in Swansea

Mainframe
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Mainframe.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Mainframe

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mainframe in Swansea over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Mainframe in Swansea

Mainframe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Adabas
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Newman
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
2 1 (16.67%) TestRail
2 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Node.js
1 5 (83.33%) Ruby on Rails
1 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (66.67%) React
2 4 (66.67%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
3 2 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless Framework
4 1 (16.67%) AWS SAM
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) CSS3
4 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) HTML5
4 1 (16.67%) Jest
4 1 (16.67%) Kafka
4 1 (16.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) Kanban
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) Migration
4 3 (50.00%) Observability
5 2 (33.33%) AI
5 2 (33.33%) Community of Practice
5 2 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (33.33%) OWASP
5 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) COBOL
2 1 (16.67%) Natural
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) WCAG
2 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (16.67%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) OneLogin
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle