MVS Contract Job Trends in Central London

IBM MVS
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring MVS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MVS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.039% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
London median daily rate - - -

All Operating Systems
Central London

MVS 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 234 235 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.23% 11.79% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 163 211
10th Percentile £175 £254 £210
25th Percentile £286 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.10%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £638
90th Percentile £675 £696 £725
London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.14% -0.90% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £19.30 £20.33 £23.90
25th Percentile £19.38 £22.53 £25.06
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -3.70% -25.52%
75th Percentile £23.25 £29.13 £28.19
90th Percentile £23.70 £29.80 £28.90
London median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £23.80
% change year-on-year -16.50% +5.67% -43.22%

MVS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MVS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

MVS job vacancy trend in Central London

MVS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MVS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MVS

MVS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 August 2026. 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
City of London - 1 - -
MVS
London

MVS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (100.00%) IBM