zOS Contracts in the West Midlands

IBM z/OS
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 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 104 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing zOS 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile £347 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £377 - -
90th Percentile £527 - -
England median daily rate £459 £585 £500
% change year-on-year -21.54% +17.00% +22.70%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 243 414 657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.58% 17.24% 18.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 280 453
10th Percentile £182 £172 £150
25th Percentile £250 £350 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £508 £405
Median % change year-on-year -16.26% +25.31% +11.72%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £515
90th Percentile £695 £694 £600
England median daily rate £463 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -10.41% +3.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 37
10th Percentile £14.66 £14.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.49 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.33 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +5.02% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.31 £20.00
90th Percentile £53.00 £22.25 £22.85
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for zOS in the West Midlands

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for zOS in the West Midlands

zOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing zOS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for zOS in the West Midlands

zOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing zOS in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for zOS in the West Midlands

zOS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the West Midlands 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
Shropshire - 9 £358 -
Birmingham - 1 £750 -
zOS
England

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 9 (90.00%) CICS
1 9 (90.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) DB2
1 9 (90.00%) IDMS
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Git
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
1 9 (90.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 9 (90.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 9 (90.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
1 9 (90.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 9 (90.00%) Scrum
1 9 (90.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (20.00%) ETL
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (10.00%) Data Security
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Key Management
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM
3 1 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) CLIST
1 9 (90.00%) COBOL
1 9 (90.00%) REXX
1 9 (90.00%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) IBM
1 9 (90.00%) Syncsort
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Qualys
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk