Mainframe Job Trends in Wales

Mainframes
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mainframe in permanent job vacancies in Wales. 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 96 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Mainframe 6 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.33% - 0.049%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.34% - 0.17%
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 - -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £66,367 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.24% +20.67% -14.10%

All Generic Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 447 219 584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 24.60% 42.61% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 235 121 343
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £32,041
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,857 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +33.02% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £68,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -15.38%

Mainframe
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Mainframe job vacancy trend in Wales

Mainframe
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Mainframe.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Mainframe

Mainframe
Salary Histogram in Wales

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

Salary histogram for Mainframe in Wales

Mainframe
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mainframe within the Wales region over the 6 months to 5 June 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Wales - 6 £72,500 - 3
Mainframe
UK

Mainframe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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