Time Sharing Option Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 441 506
Rank change year-on-year +105 +65 -88
Contract jobs citing Time Sharing Option 60 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.026% 0.020%
As % of the System Software category 2.48% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 6 2
10th Percentile £403 £463 £412
25th Percentile £415 £466 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £513 £453
Median % change year-on-year -16.10% +13.26% -13.81%
75th Percentile £500 £542 £495
90th Percentile £588 £547 £513
UK median daily rate £433 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -17.62% +5.00% -4.76%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,415 3,538 4,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.79% 15.08% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,631 2,553 3,250
10th Percentile £178 £181 £158
25th Percentile £285 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +7.78% +6.51%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £559
90th Percentile £650 £676 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 185 239
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.25 £13.10
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.95 £46.11 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.73% +149.22% +5.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.88
90th Percentile £77.40 £72.25 £52.15
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -2.44%

Time Sharing Option
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Time Sharing Option as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Time Sharing Option in the UK excluding London

Time Sharing Option
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Time Sharing Option in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Time Sharing Option in the UK excluding London

Time Sharing Option
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Time Sharing Option in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Time Sharing Option in the UK excluding London

Time Sharing Option
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Time Sharing Option in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Time Sharing Option in the UK excluding London

Time Sharing Option
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +81 54 £430 -9.47%
Yorkshire +71 54 £430 -9.47%
Scotland +43 6 £500 -5.88%
Time Sharing Option
UK

Time Sharing Option
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (36.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.00%) DWDM
Development Applications
1 15 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 42 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 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 9 (15.00%) z/OS Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Hardware Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Administrator
8 2 (3.33%) Consultant
9 1 (1.67%) Hardware Specialist
9 1 (1.67%) IBM Storage Specialist
9 1 (1.67%) Storage Specialist
9 1 (1.67%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (70.00%) ISPF
2 15 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (70.00%) Mainframe
2 14 (23.33%) Data Centre
3 13 (21.67%) LPAR
4 6 (10.00%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 60 (100.00%) zOS
2 18 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (51.67%) Risk Management
2 21 (35.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 18 (30.00%) Storage Management
4 17 (28.33%) Agile
4 17 (28.33%) Problem Management
5 14 (23.33%) Project Management
6 13 (21.67%) Cost Management
6 13 (21.67%) Software Testing
6 13 (21.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (6.67%) Workflow
8 2 (3.33%) Capacity Management
8 2 (3.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (3.33%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (1.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 60 (100.00%) JCL
2 51 (85.00%) REXX
3 18 (30.00%) Assembly Language
4 15 (25.00%) Python
5 10 (16.67%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 18 (30.00%) NFS
2 17 (28.33%) ACF2
2 17 (28.33%) RACF
3 13 (21.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 13 (21.67%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 20 (33.33%) OMEGAMON
2 18 (30.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 15 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 60 (100.00%) IBM
2 44 (73.33%) Broadcom
3 21 (35.00%) CA
4 19 (31.67%) Splunk
5 18 (30.00%) Brocade
5 18 (30.00%) Dell
6 6 (10.00%) BMC