Time Sharing Option Contracts in England

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Time Sharing Option skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Time Sharing Option over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 663 754
Rank change year-on-year +175 +91 -147
Contract jobs citing Time Sharing Option 60 5 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.010% 0.037%
As % of the System Software category 1.48% 0.075% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 4 9
10th Percentile £402 £370 £421
25th Percentile £415 £429 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -5.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £508
90th Percentile £588 £523 £550
UK median daily rate £433 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -17.62% +5.00% +6.38%

All System Software Skills
England

Time Sharing Option is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,059 6,682 9,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.90% 13.18% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,812 4,843 7,163
10th Percentile £190 £204 £198
25th Percentile £319 £392 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £708
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 255 285
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.00% +163.16% -1.30%
75th Percentile £58.09 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.30 £57.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.14% +162.50% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Time Sharing Option as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Time Sharing Option in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Time Sharing Option in England.

Daily rate trend for Time Sharing Option in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Time Sharing Option in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Time Sharing Option in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Time Sharing Option in England.

Hourly rate trend for Time Sharing Option in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Time Sharing Option within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
North of England +85 54 £430 -9.47%
Yorkshire +78 54 £430 -9.47%
London +107 3 £475 -9.52% 3
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 21 (35.00%) SAS
2 2 (3.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.00%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 16 (26.67%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (71.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.33%) Banking
2 2 (3.33%) Finance
3 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (35.00%) Programmer
2 20 (33.33%) Systems Programmer
2 20 (33.33%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 16 (26.67%) Storage Manager
4 5 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) z/OS Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Hardware Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) z/OS Specialist
6 3 (5.00%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) COBOL Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Consultant
7 2 (3.33%) DB2 Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Hardware Specialist
7 2 (3.33%) IBM Storage Specialist
7 2 (3.33%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (65.00%) ISPF
2 16 (26.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (63.33%) Mainframe
2 15 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 13 (21.67%) LPAR
4 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 58 (96.67%) zOS
2 19 (31.67%) Linux
3 2 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.00%) Risk Management
2 22 (36.67%) Performance Monitoring
3 20 (33.33%) Agile
3 20 (33.33%) Storage Management
4 19 (31.67%) Problem Management
5 15 (25.00%) Project Management
6 13 (21.67%) Cost Management
6 13 (21.67%) Software Testing
6 13 (21.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (3.33%) Analytics
7 2 (3.33%) Configuration Management
7 2 (3.33%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (3.33%) Data Analytics
7 2 (3.33%) Data Extraction
7 2 (3.33%) ETL
7 2 (3.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (3.33%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (3.33%) Scrum
7 2 (3.33%) Software Engineering
8 1 (1.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 58 (96.67%) JCL
2 50 (83.33%) REXX
3 17 (28.33%) Assembly Language
4 16 (26.67%) Python
5 11 (18.33%) CLIST
6 2 (3.33%) COBOL
6 2 (3.33%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 19 (31.67%) NFS
2 15 (25.00%) ACF2
2 15 (25.00%) RACF
3 13 (21.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 13 (21.67%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 21 (35.00%) OMEGAMON
2 18 (30.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 16 (26.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 60 (100.00%) IBM
2 40 (66.67%) Broadcom
3 24 (40.00%) CA
4 20 (33.33%) Dell
5 19 (31.67%) Brocade
5 19 (31.67%) Splunk
6 2 (3.33%) ICL
6 2 (3.33%) Syncsort
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft