z/OS Engineer Contracts in England

IBM z/OS Engineer
UK > England

The median IBM z/OS Engineer daily rate in England is £430 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 - 773
Rank change year-on-year - - -154
Contract jobs requiring a z/OS Engineer 10 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.027% - 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
75th Percentile £464 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £459 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,367 47,420 67,920
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,815 33,680 48,307
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,403 1,897
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

z/OS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured z/OS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for z/OS Engineer in England

z/OS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing z/OS Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for z/OS Engineer in England

z/OS Engineer
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 z/OS Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
London - 5 £459 -
Yorkshire - 5 £430 -
North of England - 5 £430 -
z/OS Engineer
UK

z/OS Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, z/OS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring z/OS Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) zOS
2 5 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 5 (50.00%) JCL
2 5 (50.00%) IBM
2 5 (50.00%) ISPF
2 5 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 5 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Microcode
3 4 (40.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 4 (40.00%) REXX
3 4 (40.00%) LPAR
4 3 (30.00%) DWDM
4 3 (30.00%) CLIST
5 1 (10.00%) OMEGAMON
5 1 (10.00%) RACF
5 1 (10.00%) SAS
5 1 (10.00%) Assembly Language
5 1 (10.00%) Splunk
5 1 (10.00%) Broadcom
5 1 (10.00%) ACF2
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring

z/OS Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (10.00%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DWDM
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 4 (40.00%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) JCL
2 4 (40.00%) REXX
3 3 (30.00%) CLIST
4 1 (10.00%) Assembly Language
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 4 (40.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 4 (40.00%) Microcode
3 1 (10.00%) ACF2
3 1 (10.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk