zOS Contract Job Trends in Bradford

IBM z/OS
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bradford requiring zOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing zOS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 1.03% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £513 £625
% change year-on-year +2.44% -18.00% -

All Operating Systems
Bradford

zOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 9 1 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 9.28% 4.35% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £394 - -
25th Percentile £413 £178 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £185 £300
Median % change year-on-year +129.73% -38.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £438 £193 -
90th Percentile £538 - £408
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.56 - £14.52
% change year-on-year - - -18.06%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing zOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford.

zOS job vacancy trend in Bradford

zOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Support
1 1 (100.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL