zOS Contracts in the North West

IBM z/OS
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 - 175
Rank change year-on-year - - -35
Contract jobs citing zOS 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% - 0.075%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.13% - 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £610 - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £324
75th Percentile - - £365
90th Percentile - - £390
England median daily rate £459 £585 £500
% change year-on-year -21.54% +17.00% +22.70%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 355 548 734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.75% 17.01% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 378 518
10th Percentile £170 £173 £150
25th Percentile £285 £313 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +11.76% +17.24%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £585
90th Percentile £825 £650 £650
England median daily rate £463 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -10.19% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 48 42
10th Percentile - £14.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £10.95 £20.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.39% +62.78% +3.93%
75th Percentile £18.75 £44.56 £27.81
90th Percentile £38.90 £49.52 £43.75
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.14% +62.79% +20.99%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing zOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for zOS in the North West

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing zOS in the North West.

Daily rate trend for zOS in the North West

zOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing zOS in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for zOS in the North West

zOS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Manchester - 4 £750 -
zOS
England

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) DB2
3 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Data Hub
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Automotive
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) DBA
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Programmer
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Programmer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (25.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Key Management
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk