zOS Contracts in Edinburgh

IBM z/OS
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for zOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited zOS over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 114 122
Rank change year-on-year +48 +8 -15
Contract jobs citing zOS 7 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.85% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.95% 0.97% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £326
25th Percentile - - £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £335
75th Percentile - - £339
90th Percentile £673 - £339
Scotland median daily rate £500 - £335

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

zOS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 88 206 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.71% 15.87% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 148 145
10th Percentile £215 £160 £137
25th Percentile £340 £217 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £550
90th Percentile £750 £631 £595
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 9
10th Percentile £18.22 - £17.01
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.11 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.95% +75.55% +14.29%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £40.75
90th Percentile - - £54.60
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +162.50% +56.86%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing zOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for zOS in Edinburgh

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing zOS in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for zOS in Edinburgh

zOS
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing zOS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for zOS in Edinburgh

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) z/OS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) ISPF
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) IBM Mainframe
1 6 (85.71%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Data Security
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Key Management
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM
3 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JCL
1 6 (85.71%) REXX
2 2 (28.57%) Assembly Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (28.57%) ACF2
2 2 (28.57%) RACF
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) BMC
1 6 (85.71%) Broadcom
1 6 (85.71%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Qualys
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk